
George W. Bush was a pro-media president. You wouldn’t think so, from the way that he head-locked the press, cherry-picked crowds for public events, and limited his press conferences to near-zero for years.
He was a figure though, that media wags could sink their teeth into, sometimes literally. The functionally-illiterate speakifying style, the gaffes great and small, and the thin skin that roasted under the broiler that was Stephen Colbert at a press dinner made “W” a guy with traction. Read the rest of this entry »
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