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Last updated on June 6th, 2017 at 02:23 am

Former Melbourne Age editor Michael Gawenda, now based in the US, talks Bush down:

… the President, despite his clear if narrow victory in November, has a 43 per cent approval rating, the lowest for any re-elected president in the past 60 years …

Wrong. Bush’s disapproval is running at 43%; his approval is somewhat higher.

1. 1.  One expects a journalist to be a newshound, but maybe that�s just a prejudice.  Does it really matter that Gawenda is out of touch with that crystal ball which we call the World of Facts?

   2. Okay, so Gawenda screwed up. But what about the bigger Gawenda-picture?  Perhaps his error, on the bright side, represents an improvement over some sort of past mega-errors committed by him as an editor.  But nobody wants to look for the bright side any more.  �Leave the bright side for the dimwits,� they snicker guffaw chortle.

   Posted by ForNow on 2005 01 18 at 03:21 PM • permalink

1. It doesn’t matter if the facts are wrong, what matters here is the important issues raised by those lies!

   Posted by Aaron – Free Will on 2005 01 18 at 03:27 PM • permalink

1. OT, but Latham’s just stepped down. Health reasons?

   Posted by andrewf on 2005 01 18 at 04:02 PM • permalink

1. It’s not the nature of the evidence, but the seriousness of the charge that matters.  Ask any moonbat.

   Posted by yojimbo on 2005 01 18 at 05:11 PM • permalink

1. The Age factor just won’t wash off. It’s not the story, it’s how you tell it that matters.

   Posted by blogstrop on 2005 01 18 at 05:17 PM • permalink

1. It’s The Age fergawdzakes, they have different truths.

   Posted by slatts on 2005 01 18 at 05:21 PM • permalink

1. And we mustn’t discrtiminate against the differently-truthed.

   Posted by Evil Pundit on 2005 01 18 at 05:44 PM • permalink

1. And we mustn’t discrtiminate against the differently-truthed.

   Ah yes, legions of the differently-truthed will be in evidence in DC tommorow. (or later today, for those on the other side of the International Date Line…)

   Posted by Spiny Norman on 2005 01 18 at 06:04 PM • permalink

1. Does this come under “fake but accurate” rules?

   Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 2005 01 18 at 06:38 PM • permalink

1. But of course, Pedro. Any erroneous claim/analysis/prediction can be made to fit.

   :^)

   Posted by Spiny Norman on 2005 01 18 at 06:45 PM • permalink

1. His approval rating has climbed to 53% according to latest Time poll.

   Posted by Abu Qa’Qa on 2005 01 19 at 12:54 AM • permalink

1. Critical mass of such foolishness approaches ever closer.

   It occurs to me that George W. Bush will be (is) the rock upon which the International Left and their media travellers will break themselves.

   Posted by druu222 on 2005 01 19 at 01:15 AM • pe