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Originally posted by khazadman:
Well Mopery, they ran up to greet him because they actually like and respect the man. Which is more than can be said for the last occupant of the White House. Oh, since you obviously didn't pay attention to the news, Bush did fly the Viking. He just didn't land it.
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A. The first sentence on this thread is "I don't get a whole lot of American Media these days". And the media here has spent very little time on the "photo triumph" issue. We've had the Sars media circus and local terrorism to deal with, not to mention local corruption and dealing with Bush's on-again/off-again style of foreign diplomacy.
B. If Bush did fly the plane then at least he learned something useful while dodging Vietnam.
C. From what everyone's said about U.S. news, especially Fox, I'm not sorry. Occasionally I'll watch CNN over here but it's not fantastic. Even BBC world tends to belabour everything and miss out on reporting a lot of other, worthy news. I get the feeling that 24-hour news channels have a tough time programming 'cause they have to CONSTANTLY update. These channels are one big update, which leaves little room for any news unless somebody has died or something has exploded.
Maybe it's gratuitous, but I think they should maintain 2 channels: one to cover the updates (basically what they've got now) and one to actually report some WORLD news.
D. Please don't take this as a bash, Khazadman, 'cause I don't mean it to be, but unless you were on that carrier, you can't say for sure why the men did what they did. At the end of the day, whatever Bush's reasons for going there, the whole affair was a carefully arranged P.R. stunt and you can bet that there was some...encouragement...that the men run up and congratulate the Pres.