Comments on: Get over it http://prairieprogressive.com/2007/08/25/get-over-it/ thoughts while vastly outnumbered on the northern great plains Sun, 12 Oct 2008 11:48:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Doug Wiken http://prairieprogressive.com/2007/08/25/get-over-it/#comment-4375 Doug Wiken Tue, 28 Aug 2007 16:04:42 +0000 http://prairieprogressive.com/?p=1093#comment-4375 Some of those just oh so terribly appalled and concerned that Johnson staff has "lied" to them about not giving press access still haven't gotten around to writing dismayed columns or expressing their outrage that Junior Bush has lied about reasons for going to war against Iraq. I don't see that we South Dakotans missed anything not knowing minute-by-minute breathless reports of Johnson's condition, but 3500 Americans have died because Bush lied. This seems to be a case of mountains and molehills viewed with remarkably skewed perspectives. Some of those just oh so terribly appalled and concerned that Johnson staff has “lied” to them about not giving press access still haven’t gotten around to writing dismayed columns or expressing their outrage that Junior Bush has lied about reasons for going to war against Iraq. I don’t see that we South Dakotans missed anything not knowing minute-by-minute breathless reports of Johnson’s condition, but 3500 Americans have died because Bush lied.

This seems to be a case of mountains and molehills viewed with remarkably skewed perspectives.

]]> By: Bob Schwartz http://prairieprogressive.com/2007/08/25/get-over-it/#comment-4363 Bob Schwartz Sat, 25 Aug 2007 16:40:46 +0000 http://prairieprogressive.com/?p=1093#comment-4363 Tim, I think at least on my end the problem has more to do with the talking out of both sides of their mouth approach by Johnson's staff. I understand the Woodruff thing but the SDMSM has a point in that during the 2 month's that Woodruff was documenting Johnson's recovery, Fischer was telling the SD media that Johnson wasn't doing any interviews. It Johnson does indeed want to run for re-election, the trust of the local media will be necessary and at the moment that trust has been strained. Big deal? Of course not but all of this could have been avoided if Johnson's staff had been forthcoming from the start. Tim, I think at least on my end the problem has more to do with the talking out of both sides of their mouth approach by Johnson’s staff. I understand the Woodruff thing but the SDMSM has a point in that during the 2 month’s that Woodruff was documenting Johnson’s recovery, Fischer was telling the SD media that Johnson wasn’t doing any interviews.

It Johnson does indeed want to run for re-election, the trust of the local media will be necessary and at the moment that trust has been strained. Big deal? Of course not but all of this could have been avoided if Johnson’s staff had been forthcoming from the start.

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