Nine years later, NYT still waiting for an interview with Bush.
Nine years later, NYT still waiting for an interview with Bush.
During the presidential primary campaign in 1999-2000, New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger asked then-Texas governor George Bush when he would agree to an interview with the paper. Bush demurred, citing scheduling difficulties. Nine years later, Bush has still not done a single interview with the NYT. In a recent online chat, NYT reporter Sheryl Gay Stolberg noted:
The New York Times, for instance, has had a standing request to interview President Bush since well before I came on this beat in May 2006. So far, no interview — and the reason why is hardly a secret. White House officials are quite open about the fact that we have not gotten an interview because they don’t like our coverage. I get e-mails to that effect from them all the time. But the request still stands, and we are hoping for an interview before Mr. Bush leaves office.
Of course, Bush has done many interviews with Fox News. He has also called in to Rush Limbaugh’s radio show.
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Yeah, well, the NYT would throw ROCKS – instead of marshmallows.
November 12th, 2008 at 2:09 pm.
We all know how Fascists shun “Liberal rags”, NO?
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November 12th, 2008 at 2:13 pmBush doesnt want interviews he wants tonguebaths. NYTimes isnt going to accommodate
November 12th, 2008 at 2:13 pmFree press ain’t free.
November 12th, 2008 at 2:13 pmwow…the nytimes is in the tank for the neocons…remember it was their reports that convinced the american morons to go for the war in iraq…
November 12th, 2008 at 2:16 pmBush prefers to be interviewed by male hookers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aypMFARJW84
November 12th, 2008 at 2:16 pmThankfully, it looks like the right-wing Echo Chamber media strategy is beginning to backfire. People now recognize that Bush (and Cheney, and Palin and on and on) will only subject themselves to interviews that they know will be favorable.
They are starting to marginalize themselves and their “librul media” myth-making.
November 12th, 2008 at 2:17 pmsorry to butt in, but this caught my attention:
Obama asks Albright to meet delegations at G20
Reuters – 1 hour ago
CHICAGO (Reuters) – President-elect Barack Obama has tapped former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and a former Republican congressman to meet foreign delegations at the global financial summit in Washington this weekend.
Obama Sending Albright, Leach to Economic Summit (Update1) Bloomberg
Obama taps bipartisan team for economic summit The Associated Press
New York Times – AFP – The Washington Independent – Quad City Times
all 79 news articles »
http://news.google.com/?ncl=1269604298&hl=en&topic=n
i’m glad he’s representing himself…
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oh yea – the bushies ALL think the NYT is the bad guy…
November 12th, 2008 at 2:17 pm‘cept when their gall was lying for them…
Well, I say that the NYT should be honored.
November 12th, 2008 at 2:18 pmChimpy would be willing to let the NYT interview him….providing the interviewer is Jeff Gannon.
That LIBERAL MEDIA is SO MEAN.
November 12th, 2008 at 2:20 pmArthur will never see an interview but one person at NYTimes has. David Brooks’s column on the Op-Ed page of The New York Times started in September 2003. David has been spreading Bush Propaganda and did get an intereview which he published in the NYTimes. David was so excited he soiled his pants and like a woman in love he still holds on to the moment. Bush never will give an interview to a real Journalist. Most educated fair/balanced Journalist will now get to interview a President with the education to hold the office and run it.
November 12th, 2008 at 2:20 pmHe just doesn’t want to risk being exposed with his lies about 9/11 and his pretenses that misled the nation to the criminal invasion of Iraq.
November 12th, 2008 at 2:21 pmBush snubs the NYT? I thought it was the NYT with their policy against publishing the Sunday Funnies…
November 12th, 2008 at 2:22 pmToo much ed-jew-ma-ca-tion for Bushie’s IQ so he doesn’t trust ‘em
November 12th, 2008 at 2:25 pmBush/Chenney have to be interviewed face to face with a procecutor in an international court! Hague 2009!
November 12th, 2008 at 2:26 pmJust for the sake of contrast, does anybody have any info about past presidents being interviewed by the NYT? Which presidents have agreed to be interviewed? Which ones (besides Dubya) haven’t? And which president has been interviewed the most?
November 12th, 2008 at 2:28 pmBush goes on Fox and Rush’s radio program, i.e., the cheerleaders of the Fourth Reich. There they get shelter from the storm. They avoid the harsh light of other media outlets like cockroaches. Has there ever been an administration as secretive as this one? In my memory, no.
November 12th, 2008 at 2:39 pmIt’s kinda hard to schedule or stick to a schedule when you’re drunk or stoned these past eight years.
November 12th, 2008 at 2:43 pmYou think Bush would be grateful. Without the NYT pushing front-page stories about nonexistent weapons of mass destruction, Bush could never have invaded Iraq. On second thought, perhaps that’s nothing to be grateful for!
November 12th, 2008 at 2:46 pmThe only way the NYT will get an interview with GW is if he’s sitting behind bars. I figure it will be about two years.
November 12th, 2008 at 2:55 pmYeah, they still hire Kristol out of “fairness”.
November 12th, 2008 at 2:56 pm9 Years later the NYT is till waiting for an interview with Bush …. WHY?
November 12th, 2008 at 3:00 pmAfter taking in Bill Kristol , they should know Bush’s opinions are well enough represented in their paper . Why ask the dummy when his ventriloquist is on the payroll ?
Maybe he would grant a interview from his jail cell here real soon.
November 12th, 2008 at 3:02 pmThe times should have left an article space empty for nine years once a week filled with only these words, “the president of the united states refused an interview for this space”.
November 12th, 2008 at 3:43 pmThey could have Kristol interview Bush.
Question 1: Why are you so awesome?
OK never mind, I can see why that would be a pointless exercise.
November 12th, 2008 at 3:53 pmW merely disremembered what strategery he would have abused while being interroragated by a realistical jornalistarian. It was just a miscontrudian errorism on his particle, and he is verifiabically contritional.
November 12th, 2008 at 4:45 pmExpect the dumbass Privacy Center any moment…
November 12th, 2008 at 5:12 pmI can’t believe this can possibly be true in a modern democracy. It can’t be considered flattering to Bush, in any case. However, he probably thinks he put one over on us (again).
Fool me four times (or more)…
November 12th, 2008 at 5:25 pmHow about this:
No interviews – no book deals – no special public speaking deals – no NOTHING!!!!!
Just let him go to Texas and clear brush – that seems to be about the only thing he’s wanted to do anyhow – and lord knows he’s spent enough time doing it in the past 8 years!
November 12th, 2008 at 8:13 pmI guess I’m lucky. It’s only been three years since I asked for George W. Bush to explain his omissions from the Hurricane Katrina Lessons Learned report. The hospital with the largest patient death toll warranted not one mention in his robust investigation:
LifeCare Hospitals-24 patient deaths. LifeCare is an affiliate of The Carlyle Group, which is legendary for its political connections.
Tenet Healthcare owned Memorial Hospital. LifeCare rented a floor of the facility. Tenet lost another 10 or so patients. Senator Bob Kerry (D) is on the Tenet Board of Directors and Governor Jeb Bush just joined him at the Board table.
So NYT, you’re not alone!
November 13th, 2008 at 10:19 am