How long is this Canonisation HW going to take,,,,l

[Cryptoad]

Im 70 so I live thru all this shit the MSM are trying to rewrite,,,, Dont' remember any miracles but i do remember lots of suffering by poor folk thats still going on!

A`Ho

[Baltimike]

1. at least until his body is interred, and not one minute sooner, so buckle up. nt

[violetpastille]

2. I feel your pain

I haven't turned on the television since the death was announced.

Well that's not really true. I watched some English cooking shows on Netflix. Check out "A Cook Abroad"!

[snowybirdie]

3. Try the minor tv stations

Lots of good old reruns from the 60s and 70s.

[SoCalDem]

17. BBC ....Deutsche-Welle.... or France 24

and if that fails. TCM has a LOT of good movies ..I've watched a LOT of them lately..


and I DVR everything on MSNBC so I can fast forward thru the Poppy stuff and Trump stuff..

I can watch Mika & Joe in less than 45 minutes

[malaise]

20. Game Show Network

[The Genealogist]

4. He was a mediocre leader

Not the worst, certainly not the best. He was just sort a placeholder, I always thought. Not someone I would think eligible for any kind of canonization.

[rurallib]

5. Had the good fortune to listen to John Fugelsang's show on Sirius today

they gave a truly honest assessment of HW. It was so refreshing. To say the least there were no tears in that studio.

[NewJeffCT]

6. how long

did it go on for Reagan and Ford?

somewhere in between those two lengths of time

[DavidDvorkin]

7. It already seems endless.

[MineralMan]

8. You Can Find "Gilligan's Island" Reruns on MeTV

If it's available in your area. It is here in the Twin Cities of MN. I recommend that if you get bored with the GHWB stories.

[LenaBaby61]

9. My friend's daughter told her Mom that while on her way to work ...

This morning, she was listening to NPR, and some Bush lover/clown on there was saying that Bill Clinton owed the great economic success that he had for his 2 terms TO Bush Sr. Didn't he have trouble understand how a supermarket food scanner worked? My friend's kid told her Mom that she's swearing off of NPR for a good long time if not forever with what she heard about Saint G.H.W. Bush. He, along with Ray Gun's tax cuts for the rich and gutting of Unions and working folks left the economy in shambles, yet Bush is responsible for the 2 terms of Clinton's robust economy

Yes OP, the canonization of Papa Bush continues.

Like I said in a post this morning around here, I'm VERY sure that Bill Clinton nor Jimmy Carter will receive as much POSITIVE re-writing of history that Bush Sr.'s getting, nor nearly in the HEAVY doses he's getting it. The mostly corporate media will be interviewing Monica Lewinsky and talking about how flawed Clinton was. Pres. Carter may get some Camp David Accord love and Habitat for Humanity love, and he may be talked about as being a 'real' Christian, but little more. He'll be bashed for losing as badly as he did to Reagan (Even though we know what Reagan DID to win the election), and for being ineffective as a president Yet, we've heard little about Iran Contra. The Drug Wars, about him voting against the Civil Rights Bill or about the other extremely less flattering things about Bush as POTUS, unless it's being told by the more liberal and fair-minded folks on alternative networks/stations.

[diva77]

10. Democracynow.org had interesting segment today about GHWB

Mehdi Hasan on George H.W. Bush’s Ignored Legacy: War Crimes, Racism and Obstruction of Justice

https://www.democracynow.org/2018/12/3/mehdi_hasan_on_george_hw_bushs

snip
the headlines have largely glossed over and ignored other parts of Bush’s legacy. We look at the 1991 Gulf War, Bush’s pardoning of six Reagan officials involved in the Iran-Contra scandal and how a racist election ad helped him become president.
snip

[Tipperary]

11. And how many posts complaining about the coverage?

This is what happens when an ex-president dies. You must know that.

Turn the channel, go outside, read a book.

[Sherman A1]

12. Turn off the TV

and it won't matter.

[PufPuf23]

13. The only canonization GHWB deserves is being processed into cat food

to sell as a Bush remainder at Winco.

The sole item I find displeasing about Michelle Obama is her supposed friendship with GWB.

What's with some folks at DU to be positive towards GHWB?

Better to be silent and grit one's teeth as another corrupt and evil asshat leaves the Earth's domain.

[Solly Mack]

14. I knew it would happen, as usual. I'm watching The West Wing instead.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

15. The funeral service with eulogies should be far shorter than Aretha Franklin's.

There won't be as many long-winded ministers speaking. There might be a speech by the big dawg, so get popcorn ready.

[BlueWI]

16. It's a packed news cycle this week.

Republicans undermining democracy in Wisconsin and Michigan.

Cohen and Putin, Trump Tower and Mueller.

The climate assessment and the Green New Deal.

Lots of emerging stories worth a look.

Whitewashing can't last forever. The truth will out, even if you have to read about it in a Howard Zinn book.

[DeminPennswoods]

18. Rubin and Pierce went at it on Hardball last night

Charlie Pierce wasn't having any of Jennifer Rubin lionizing Bush. He was really pushing back on Bush's Iran-Contra pardons and what he knew about the whole affair. Rubin had said that Bush's foreign policy expertise and knowledge were unparalleled, then Pierce threw that back asking that if he knew so much, why didn't Bush have any idea about Iran-Contra?

But then everyone's a saint after they're gone.

[PatSeg]

19. It was even worse when Reagan died

It was like a saint had passed away.