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This post, written by Matt Corley, originally appeared on Think Progress
Fox News Sunday launched a new series this week called "American Leaders" that seeks to engage "prominent business, cultural and social figures in candid discussion." The first "leader" featured by Fox was former President George H.W. Bush, who gave the network an exclusive interview at his Presidential Library.
In his interview this morning, the former president returned the praise, saying that when he watches TV news, he watches Fox News:
I used to pick up that paper, and turn on the Fox and listen to the news, and say "listen to this, look at this so-and-so, why's he saying that?" I don't do that anymore.
Bush also said that he would like to see another generation of Bushes in public office. "I've got a grandson that would make a wonderfully able public servant if he ran, George P.," said Bush. "And Pierce, Neil's son. They have an interest in politics."
Bush's love of Fox News echoes that of Vice President Dick Cheney, who requires that all televisions in his hotel room be tuned to Fox News whenever he travels. In 2004, Cheney also told "a conference call" of "tens of thousands of Republicans" that he ends up "spending a lot of time watching Fox News."
If the next generation of Bushes were to enter public office, it would likely be more of the same politics put forth by the current president:
- George P. Bush, the son of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, has been actively involved in his family's political fortunes since 1988, when he spoke at the Republican National Convention as a 12 year old. He was also heavily involved in his uncle's 2000 and 2004 campaigns, working on outreach to the Latino community.
- Pierce Bush, the son of high-priced consultant Neil Bush, worked on his Uncle's 2004 campaign, telling Larry King that "George W.'s done a great job." He also shares some of his uncle's frat boy "folksiness."
For someone to consider another generation of Bushes in public office a good idea, they'd probably have to be watching nothing but Fox News.
Tagged as: fox news, bush 41, george h.w.bush
Matt Corley is a Research Associate for The Progress Report and ThinkProgress.org at the Center for American Progress.
1 comment:
SILENCE AFTER DEATH
So it may be you choose to live
Believing "all men lie,"
Better your own self to forgive:
Believe it then--not I.
So you may say, "it´s politics,
And all of them, like George,
Engage in vile and dirty tricks,
Nor none can hope to purge
Such nasty Willie Horton ads
And such from the arena"--
But following the common fads
I´ll not say makes you cleaner.
George Herbert Walker Bush was praised
Because he was a slugger,
Yet mud he slung yet still gets raised,
Uniquely loathsome bugger.
He lives today with that old hag,
An ugly soul´s companion,
And in retirement he may brag
His life as one Grand Canyon.
Elderly now, so you may feel
That he has earned respect
From likes of you--I say let peal
Laughter not genuflect.
Life squandered ignominiously
Although it outward seems
To pass stress, strain and trouble free,
But only in your dreams
Might augur for the health of soul:
So fiercely I dispute it
The world must shake from pole to pole
And heaven would refute it.
When old George is at last laid down
Midst ceremonious pomp,
Then I will neither mourn nor clown,
On grave nor dance nor stomp.
When dead he will be given then
That measure of respect:
Silence--as is befitting men
When death doth souls collect.
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