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I think the press likes the Obama administration the same way they liked the Bush administration at the start.

Yes, indeed. The press is generally favorable to the group in power, at least since Reagan (I don't remember much before him). Even when much of the press was anti-Bush, much of what they reported toed the administration line. It's easy; it's good for the career -- why wouldn't they be pro-power?



Nixon and the press had a really bad relationship. Kennedy and the press, however, was something to behold.


Dude, the press hated Reagan, disliked Bush, and loathed George W. Bush...


Who is "the" press? I think who hates and loves whom is pretty predictable.


Easy to think that looking from 2009 backwards, but at this point in his administration he was just as fawned over from the media as Obama is today.



but evidence doesn't always cut it with emotional debates now does it...


Well, not so much right after his first election, but there was a time right after 9/11 where he was extremely popular.


I found it very easy to come to hate George W. Bush even without the help of the press.




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