Maybe I wasn't looking or listening hard enough...
...or looking or listening at all, but so far the only place I've seen or heard that Bush's approval numbers have jumped up is at powerline.com.
One would think that a jump to 57% approval from 51% last month would have joined the small crowd of items that get repeated ad infinitum throughout the media on any given day. Considering that the media loves "bad news," and certainly considers higher numbers for Bush as the signal of a national emergency, you would think that regular programming would have been interrupted to report this terrible political tragedy. Perhaps the editors and producers are too depressed from covering John Kerry's latest appearances, during which he declares his losing presidential campaign a tremendous success, to report news that is even more difficult for them to bear.
Powerline.com attributes the big uptick for Bush to the "successful election in Iraq and the State of the Union speech," and I would agree.
One would think that a jump to 57% approval from 51% last month would have joined the small crowd of items that get repeated ad infinitum throughout the media on any given day. Considering that the media loves "bad news," and certainly considers higher numbers for Bush as the signal of a national emergency, you would think that regular programming would have been interrupted to report this terrible political tragedy. Perhaps the editors and producers are too depressed from covering John Kerry's latest appearances, during which he declares his losing presidential campaign a tremendous success, to report news that is even more difficult for them to bear.
Powerline.com attributes the big uptick for Bush to the "successful election in Iraq and the State of the Union speech," and I would agree.
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