PRESIDENT-STATESMAN

AMERICANS HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO WITNESS A TRUE STATESMAN IN ACTION WHEN PRESIDENT BUSH WAS ASSAULTED BY THE FREE PRESS SUBSEQUENT TO HIS PREPARED REMARKS ON MONDAY DEC. 19, 2005. A RATIONAL RANT, ALBEIT AN OXYMORON, AGAINST THE PATHETICALLY BIASED MEDIA IS DIFFICULT FOR ME. HERE GOES.

PRESIDENT BUSH SPOKE FROM THE POSITION OF PRISONER OF THE PRESS. THE MEDIA HOLDS THE POWER TO EXPOSE HIM TO THE AMERICAN PUBLIC VIA THE AIRWAYS. THE MEDIA POSSESSES THE ABILITY TO SKEW PUBLIC POLLS. THE MEDIA HAD TO BE TREATED COURTEOUSLY, DIPLOMACY ON PRESIDENT BUSH'S PART WAS REQUIRED, THOUGH NONE WAS RECIPROCATED.

WHAT A SHOW ! THE PRESIDENT WAS ACCUSED OF RACISM, ACCUSED OF CONDUCTING AN "UNCONTROLLED PRESIDENCY," ACCUSED OF CURTAILING CITIZENS' CIVIL LIBERTIES AND ACCUSED BY REPORTERS OF ILLEGITIMATE ACTIONS. THE REPORTERS DID NOT BLUR THE LINES BETWEEN LEGITIMATE QUESTIONINGS, CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE AND TREASON. THEY OBLITERATED THEM. THEY SPEWED THE PURITY - IF SUCH IS POSSIBLE - OF HATE FOR OUR PRESIDENT, FOR HIS ADMINISTRATION AND, BY EXTENSION, FOR OUR COUNTRY. NOT A SINGLE POSITIVE STATMENT WAS MADE BY THE PRESS.

WHEN ANSWERING QUESTIONS SUCH AS THE ONE REQUESTING SPECIFIC EXAMPLES OF DOMESTIC SPYING WHICH WOULD REVEAL SECRETS THAT PROTECT OUR CITIZENS, WHAT DID OUR STATESMAN DO? HE PRESENTED HIMSELF WITH INTEGRITY AND DIGNITY UNDER FIRE. HE ANSWERED AS CLEARLY AND ACCURATELY AS POSSIBLE BUT, THE LORD KNOWS, THE REPORTERS TWISTED HIS WORDS INSIDE THEIR HEADS INTO LIES AND NATURALLY REGARDED HIM AS A BUFFOON.

WE MAY ASK AT THIS SPECIAL TIME OF CHRISTMAS HOW TRUTHS TOLD BY A MAN ARE SUSTAINED IN SPITE OF A SMALL, RADICAL SEGMENT OF SOCIETY THAT CONTINUALLY QUESTIONS, CRITICIZES AND REBUKES HIM. WELL, THINK OF ANOTHER MAN, A MAN WHO SIMPLY WAS WHAT HE WAS AND LEFT THE WORLD TO JUDGE.