Media Not Reporting President Bush's Recent Accomplishments
Paul Weyrich
Saturday, Aug. 5, 2006

Some media, especially talk radio, is sympathetic to conservatives. However, much important news is unreported. For example, President George W. Bush during the month of July did many things which pleased social conservatives.

For example, the White House managed to get through both houses of Congress the Broadcast Decency Act. The president held a ceremony at the White House when the bill was signed.

It took courage to push this bill through. The broadcasters, large and small, were against it. The bill greatly increases the fines for obscenity, for frontal nudity and all sorts of things that offend a decency standard. This bill has far-reaching implications. It should have been a weeklong topic on talk radio and its content should have been explained on newscasts. For the most part, that didn't happen.

Then President Bush welcomed the so-called Snowflake children (children born from embryos) as well as adult stem-cell patients to the East Room of the White House. Again, where was talk radio? I heard this mentioned only once on a network newscast.

President Bush issued a very strong statement supporting the effort of Republican Representative Duncan Hunter of California to prevent the tearing down of the cross on Mount Soledad, near San Diego. Again, perfect fodder for talk radio, but instead we are hearing nonstop commentary about war in the Middle East and about the United Nations. Such topics, which deserve much attention, are simply passed over.

The one issue discussed was the proposed Federal Marriage Amendment. The House considered the Amendment. Pundits of all stripes said it was a waste of time to debate the measure because it already had been defeated in the Senate. Moreover, one after the other, states are upholding the constitutionality of their amendments which forbid same-sex marriage.

President Bush also held a meeting and an Oval Office signing for the protection of the flag in housing communities. Then, as the issue came to the floor of the House, the administration came down on the right and strongly supported the Flag Protection Amendment.

One issue which did receive a small amount of coverage was the administration's strong stance in favor of the Adam Walsh Child Exploitation Bill. After the bill passed, President Bush held a Rose Garden ceremony for signing of the bill.

While this bill had widespread bipartisan support, nevertheless it should be a topic for talk radio and television because parents need to know what is in the law. It is named after 6-year old Adam Walsh, whose father found him dead in the gutter, murdered by a sex offender. The elder Walsh [John Walsh of "America's Most Wanted"] had worked for years to get this bill passed.

President Bush again sent the nomination of John Bolton to be ambassador to the United Nations. The president gave him a recess appointment a year ago when the Democrats intended to filibuster. Bolton had problems with Senator George V. Voinovich, who last year did not support him. The senior senator from Ohio now has reversed himself and is supporting Bolton, so it would appear that Bolton now has sufficient votes to get out of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

The Democrats are trying to figure out what to do. Some in their ranks think Bolton is doing a credible job, even though they may end up voting against him. The president has backed Bolton in every one of his so-called controversial statements and actions.

The president is pushing hard for the line-item veto. He has held several events. Personally, while I very much want to bring spending under control, I am reluctant to give the president that power, simply because I have lived through the Johnson, Carter and Clinton administrations. Many were the times that we were able to improve a weapons system or initiate a new one because we attached these programs to legislation that these presidents had to have.

If the president had the line-item veto, the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) would have been killed if Clinton were president. Thank God it was not. It was always hidden in the defense appropriations bill. If Clinton had been looking to save money, that would have been a convenient target. Look at SDI now. We are hoping and praying that it works in the event that North Korea sends a missile our way.

The issue should have been debated far and wide. It was not. The president has also proposed a major new school choice/voucher program. I must admit, as closely as I follow such things, his school choice initiative completely escaped me. There is a topic made for talk radio if there ever was one. Passions run high on both sides of the issue.

While all of this was happening, the president nominated 16 new federal judges, a number of them to the all-important appellate courts. Ninety-eight percent of appealed cases end up in the appellate courts. The president is pushing hard to have more of his judges confirmed in this Congress.

Finally, President Bush issued new welfare-reform regulations stressing work and family. This is a major step forward, but the country has no idea what was done or why.

If you are one of those voters who are angry because you think nothing is happening, you might want to look again. And while you are at it, call your local radio talk show host and urge him or her to discuss some of these worthwhile things the president has done, which I have outlined.

Paul M. Weyrich is Chairman and CEO of the Free Congress Foundation

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I read about all of those issues in the newspaper. I don't watch television news, so I wouldn't be able to say whether they were reported by networks. The Daily Show also mocked at least half of the issues mentioned.

Frankly, all of those issues were less "positive" and more "President Bush's intrusive policies."

God, I hate what that man does.

I agree. Frankly, I wish those issues were getting more attention so that they'd receive the proper public debate they deserve.

Not only do I disagree with most of these actions taken by Bush, many of those are the primary reasons for my disapproval of Bush in the first place. If the media focused more attention on these things, I would be pleased, for people could become more informed on these issues.

George Bush Jr. has appointed numerous felons

George Bush Jr. has appointed numerous felons and others from the Iran Contra scandal to prominent positions in his current administration.
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Nazification attempt on the United States!

So tell us what you all have done to support our troops in the last few weeks or months. I'm interested as i'm sure a lot of others are.

Hopefully he and everyone else has supported our troops by writing our representatives to bring them home from Bush's unjustified war against Iraq. Iraq had NO connection to 9/11.

I have wished them good fortune, paid their salaries with my tax dollars, and worked to protect their freedoms. Should I have done more than this?

I sent supporting letters from my Cub Scouts, a box with some requested items, and some other things not requested but useful....

We recived replys to our letters and will be writing back and restocking him on his requested items later this month (he should be home soon for a bit, don't want to over lap)

Him being Tadpole, our resident freedom fighter.......

That is not supporting the troops. The troops are doing their job. What are you doing to support the troops in their job? The war is on terrorism. The liberal attempt at putting Iraq into your little labeled box doesn't work. There is a world-wide war going on.

Do you want them to be successful at their job? If not, you are not supporting the troops.