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Article: the blog house; Stymied in Iraq, Bush wages war against media.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- March 25, 2006
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Byline: Tim O'Brien; Staff Writer
If you can't beat Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, declare war on Helen Thomas. That seems to be the new White House strategy in selling the public on the Iraq war, which this week entered its fourth year. Who are you going to believe: Me or your lying eyes?
In repeated appearances this week President Bush, while being careful never to blame the media for the public's tumbling opinion of the war and his handling of it, blamed the media for the public's tumbling opinion of the war and his handling of it. See, in the president's eyes, the media only cover the troops killed by IEDs and the Iraqis killed by car bombs. And he has a ...