Where Bush Was Bashed, Obama Gets Free Pass

GOP faithful can't fathom why press goes so easy on new president
By Harry Kimball,  Newser Staff
Posted Oct 27, 2009 2:35 PM CDT
Where Bush Was Bashed, Obama Gets Free Pass
Former President George W. Bush.   (AP Photo)

Supporters of George Bush are miffed about the passes the media has given President Obama for trespasses the former president would likely have been excoriated for. “We have a joke about it. We’re going to start a website: IfBushHadDoneThat.com,” former Bush counselor Ed Gillespie tells Politico. Some examples of perceived media bias:

  • Cutting off Fox News: "Had I said about MSNBC what the Obama White House said about Fox," says Ari Fleischer, "the media uproar would still be going on."
  • Politicizing the White House: Gibbs and Axelrod sat in on an Afghan strategy meeting. "Oh, the howling and screaming that would have happened if Karl Rove was sitting in on even a deputies-level meeting," a Bush aide says.
  • Secret business: Bush and co. were called to task for talking behind closed doors with the oil industry. Is the Obama administration's dealings with Big Pharma on health care that different?
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