Jenna Bush sticks tongue out at media.
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| Wed, 07-21-2004 - 1:43pm |

"The apple doesn't fall far from the tree".
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/news/strange/072104_ap_sn_bush.html
First-daughter Jenna Bush has tongues wagging -- and it started with her own.
President Bush's twin daughters Jenna and Barbara are campaigning with their father. Yesterday, during a stop in St. Louis, Jenna Bush stuck her tongue out at the media. She was sitting in the back seat of the presidential limo next to her father. The 22-year-old graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, started smiling through the window at reporters and photographers and that is when she stuck out her tongue and began to laugh. Before their first campaign swing with dad, first lady Laura Bush says she told her daughters to stand up straight and keep their hair out of their eyes. But Mrs. Bush apparently skipped the tongue thing.


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Not to mention that it gives the impression to general public that it's acceptable to belittle someone else to make oneself look bigger/better.
Sadly enough it's a classic sign of low self-esteem. Does that mean the people we elect to office don't think too much of themselves, or that their campaign managers don't?
alfreda
No, I think it is a matter of lets do whatever it takes to win, even if that means deflecting the publics attention and attacking our opponents loved ones, friends and supporters. Although I don't see that it was campaign managers that directed photographers to take a pic of jenna sticking her tongue out. News media will do whatever it takes to make a story and sell a paper.
I don't know about you but I am think it is horrid and demoralizing all the hateful rhetoric and personal attacks in this campaign (not taking sides or pointing fingers towards particular individuals or parties).
alfie
I was thinking more along the lines of political ads where they pretty much call each other cheats and liars repeatedly. That sort of thing frustrates me.....
Yes, I did notice that it was not your posts that were attacking Jenna Bush, but I also wanted everyone reading these posts to see that it work both ways. Not just to you specifically, but to everyone. Whining about Bush's attack ads and then attacking him and his family at the same time seems a little hypocritical (again, not you personally).
Edited 7/22/2004 5:21 pm ET ET by luvbug4me2
Edited 7/22/2004 5:23 pm ET ET by luvbug4me2
alfreda
I can tell you that I can't show you an article that bashes either Laura Bush or Theresa Kerry because I don't particularly enjoy reading articles that are clearly written with one bias or another. I don't personally get my news from Rush Limbaugh, so his opinion of Chelsea Clinton is just that. When I talked about the bashing, I was referring to this message board exclusively, which does seem to lean toward the liberal side.
As for Chelsea Clinton, I think part of the reason she was attacked so much by the media is because the Clinton's tried so hard to keep her out of the media. The more the media is limited, the harder they try to get a story, no matter how stupid or mean. Again, not saying this is justified, but I think that it is the same with celebrities that try to keep their private life private, it just keeps the public more interested and assuming they are hiding something. The Bush twins were normal college students with issues like drinking that unfortunately isn't as intriguing as being the seemingly perfect daughter of the country's biggest philanderer. I think the perfect status just made the media try harder to find something on her. I have always felt sorry for her for the way she was treated.
As a Repulican myself, I can say that while I believe in many of the Republican political stands, I do not necessarily believe every single word or share every single opinion of every person out there claiming to be a Republican. I personally don't agree with gay marraige but could care less whether they get the right to marry or adopt children, because quite frankly they can't do much worse than all the heterosexual couples out there.
Having said this, I would hope that the views and words of Whoopi Goldberg and other rude, outspoken democrats do not represent to views of every single Democrat. Ideally, we could have a nice, quiet political race, but since their seems to be extremists on both sides, we can just hope for the best.
Whether we rate it as wrong vs a little wrong, both sides are wrong. It reminds when my kids are in the back seat hitting each other and one thinks he's justified because he thinks the other hit him harder. A hit is a hit and wrong is wrong.
When I talked about the bashing, I was referring to this message board exclusively, which does seem to lean toward the liberal side.
While I can't speak for others, I don't feel that anyone here was 'bashing' Jenna.
Everyone does things and says things they are sorry for, first lady Laura Bush observes. And she's not necessarily talking about plain-speaking Teresa Heinz Kerry.
"I think I had a little girl who stuck her tongue out at the press last week. I shouldn't have brought it up, but it happens," Bush said Wednesday on CBS' "The Early Show."
Daughter Jenna, 22, laughed and stuck out her tongue at news media July 20 during a campaign trip to St. Louis, Missouri, with her father. Photographers caught the waggish pose as Jenna sat in the presidential limousine.
"I didn't actually know about it," her mother said. "I was hiking in Glacier National Park with no news, no telephones. So when I got off my hike, I called her, and she sort of went on about it like she was sure I knew about it, which I didn't."
Her advice to her daughter? "Maybe you should work on your issues of impulsiveness or something," she recalled.
More........
http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/08/04/bush.daughter.ap/index.html
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