Bush Makes His Return

Most you have probably seen the bumper sticker or a picture of the billboard that said, "Miss Me Yet?" with a picture of George W. Bush, and most of us would more than likely reply with No. Just because the current president sucks doesn't mean the last one made America any better off. However, he was the still president so he does command a certain amount of respect. He has finished his book of memoirs, and it will be a bestseller which is understandable because he's lived a life that not very many people get to live. However, in this book he is also doing a bit of explaining and defending some topics and controversies of his time as president. We have already seen him go some talk shows to discuss the book, and to talk about some of these controversies. I've seen a couple of these interviews, and they are a bit interesting and entertaining. I didn't see him on Oprah, but I'm sure that had to be very interesting. I saw the Matt Lauer interview in its entirety, and then I watched Bush on Hannity. Of course Hannity gets an interview because he has defended and still defends Bush and his policies more than anybody else despite saying that Republicans lost their way which would have been Bush's way. That's beside the point because Hannity isn't in the business of making sense, and you can listen to his radio show or watch his TV show to see this. I don't expect Bush to recant on water boarding or Iraq, but nonetheless when he goes on some of these shows he will be put on the spot about these issues. On Lauer Bush defends his beliefs, but at the same time you know that he is avoiding getting into the topic too deep because he knows that certain things weren't popular and to most are morally wrong. The Hannity interview was a bit different. Bush didn't have to do to much avoiding because Hannity did that for him. He knows that his buddy, the former president, made a lot of not good decisions, so he did his best to avoid asking potentially damaging questions. It was sort of humorous there was one part in the interview where Hannity asked a questioned where it led to Bush ending up talking about something controversial, but then instead of Hannity making him answer for the things he did he told him, "Nevermind, you don't need to talk about that." So much for Hannity being a hard-hitting journalist. I don't understand why Hannity and other people get upset and talk about other networks being too liberal by giving Obama and other Democrats a pass by not asking hard hitting or the tough questions because they do the same for people on the other side of the aisle. The only way Fox News is fair and balanced is by balancing out the other side, and giving bias to conservatives/Republicans. Also, almost more people watch Fox than watch CNN and MSNBC combined, so I don't know why they care what those channels do. Anyway back to the Hannity interview, I can't remember what topic it was exactly that made Hannity withdraw the question, but I think he had something to do with either Katrina or possibly WMDs. I can't remember exactly, and I don't really want to watch the whole interview again. I'm sorry, but I'm sure most of you can understand this. My main point is that it was interesting to see the difference in the interviewers. Every TV journalists out there wants the chance to interview a former president. It is a very big deal. The wars and some other issues will go down as major events in American history, and it's good to see these top politicians put on the spot to answer for the things they did. Who knows maybe later on we'll be going to the theater to see Lauer/Bush.

Here is some of the Hannity/Bush interview. I'm not sure which part of the interview had Hannity take back his "tough" question. I would encourage you to watch both Bush on Hannity and Lauer in addition to the other places Bush will go and look at the difference in the interviews.