Laura Bush Tells O'Reilly That Media Has Moved From Reporting To Opinion

[DrFunkenstein]

WASHINGTON - First lady Laura Bush thinks the news media is increasingly filled with opinions instead of facts, and suggested Tuesday that journalists are contributing to the polarization of the country.

"I think there are a lot of reasons to be critical of the media in America," she said in an interview Tuesday with Fox News Channel's "The O'Reilly Factor."

"I think that a lot of times the media sensationalize or magnify things that aren't _that really shouldn't be," she said.

"I do think there's a big move away from actual reporting, trying to report facts," the first lady said. "It's in newspapers and everything you read — that a lot more is opinion."

When her interviewer suggested that journalists were out of sync with most of the country, she said with a laugh: "You just gave me a really great idea. Maybe it is the media that has us divided."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=544&e=17&u=/ap/laura_bush_media

The best part is that O'Reilly merely suggests that the media has the wrong opinion.

[DaveinMD]

1. check out

www.sweetjesusihatebilloreilly.com

As Al Franken said, its an organization of hope.

[KurtNYC]

6. Liked it

[iconoclastic cat]

2. No kidding, Dick Tracy.

[Brotherjohn]

3. My first thought: "of course she'd say that. The MEDIA has divided us...

... NOT Bush!"

The she comes right out and SAYS so! "...she said with a laugh: 'You just gave me a really great idea. Maybe it is the media that has us divided.'"

It's an implicit admission that Bush has divided the country, an admission by HIS OWN WIFE!

It's also yet another sign of Republican desperation.

[zbdent]

4. You know, she gets it honestly

by injection.

Remember, W said he "loves teachers so much" he married one.

That explains what happened to her smarts . . .

[Still_Loves_John]

5. Is this, in a weird way, a response to Teresa?

In all the articles about Teresa, they seem to throw in about how attacking the media never hurts you. Is this a kinder, gentler "shove it" from Laura?

[UrbScotty]

7. WOW! She's the first Bush to get something right since Hubby said...

"If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure."