American Entropy: Bush to speak to America, not answer questions

27 June 2005

Bush to speak to America, not answer questions

I like David Corn's (via Atrios) thoughts on the bush ~~press conf.~~ speech tommorrow:

...the problem is the war, not the rhetoric. Don't expect Bush to address that reality. A "mostly rhetorical" shift will gain him little. Americans can see the bad news out of Iraq, and a few finely crafted buzz phrases from Bush won't do much to convince them otherwise. I usually blast the broadcast networks when they do not air presidential addresses. But this time around I would find it tough to insist that they displace their usual assortment of sleazy reality shows and loaded-with-gross-details crime dramas for the latest White House word games.

Atrios agrees here:

...I agree with David Corn that it'd be pretty silly for the networks to show Bush's speech. I also agree with him that usually I'd be annoyed if they didn't. But, there's no actual event prompting this speech other than his declining poll numbers, and somehow that doesn't really seem like a good enough reason. Press conference, yes. Speech alone, no.

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