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Bush Reaching Out To Press

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in General Politics, Media

Looks like he’s “mending fences.”

Several correspondents confirmed to E&P either participating in such meetings or being invited to them, noting that at least two have been held in the past week, with one scheduled for Tuesday. Most have lasted more than an hour and at least one took place in Bush’s private residence.

“It was very pleasant, he seemed very thoughtful and frank,” said Stephan Dinan, a Washington Times reporter and one of about six reporters who took part in a session Monday afternoon. “It was on a wide range of stuff.”

Monday’s gathering also included reporters from the Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, and Cox Newspapers, according to sources.

Heh. The Washington Times? I bet that’s a tough crowd…

And looks like Bush is really just trying to play buddy-buddy with the press. Well, it’s worked for him in the past because I do think the President is most likely a genuinely nice guy, but somehow I think the press is over the back-slapping phase.

A scribe who attended a session last Thursday called it “a little surreal….He wants to chew the fat,” the reporter said. “He asked about our backgrounds, our families. He wanted to be informal, but it couldn’t be, because of who he is.”

At the end of the day, the only thing that’s going to make the press stand up and take notice is consensus building and reaching across the aisle to create stronger unity throughout Congress. Bush has a chance to do this, but he’s going to have to do it soon.

By the way, the picture of Will Ferrell is from a pretty funny video made pre-election where he talked about mending fences, etc. If Bush has been anything in these past 5 1/2 years, he’s been good for a laugh.

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One Response to “Bush Reaching Out To Press”

GN Says:
March 29th, 2006 at 9:14 pm
OK, no one else is touching this one, so I will. If I were a member of the press, and Bush “reached out to me” I would duck.

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