Media Spotlight II

McCain a 'true conservative,' Bush says (National)

I found this article particularly newsworthy that was about an interview Chris Wallace had with President George W. Bush at the Camp David presidential retreat . The reason why is because it is one of the only interviews that a reporter asked Bush some very controversial questions and actually received a answers from Bush that were related to them.

I admit the answers were still controversial and sometimes waved off by Bush as being “psychobabble“, but they were answers.

It started off as what looked like an endorsement for GOP candidate John McCain for president, but Bush later said that was not his intention.

He answered questions later in the same interview that moved away from McCain and were on subjects like the economy, the legality of waterboarding, or how long we were going to be in Iraq. The president usually changes the subject or dismisses questions on these issues by telling the reporter that the question is “ridicules” or commenting that it is “an absurd insinuation.”

This interview, Bush at least makes some effort to answer the question being asked of him.

What is amazing is that I did not really hear too many quotes come from this interview in the stories or articles that followed unless it was about his original comments on McCain.

Ironically this article , “McCain a 'true conservative,' Bush says,” is the one quote that has been mentioned in the few articles, like this one, that I did find.