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There goes the presidency.

Who you calling “hegemonistic”, pal? It wasn't my plan to preemptively invade Iraq, and I've got lots of Americans standing beside me.

We have to listen to an anti-semite pipsqueak like Ahmadinejad, with a dose
of a socialist narcissist like Chavez as a chaser, with hyperbolic hysteria
that should infuriate every American interested in our stature around the world. After all, there is life after the Republicans, which hopefully begins after November. GET OUT THE VOTE, people.

Radio live today from 6-7 p.m. eastern – 3-4 p.m. pacific. All sorts of things
to discuss. First up: can you disapprove of President Bush while being insulted by the thugs he's elevated to international stardom? In a word, YES.

Front and center will be the fact that this is what the United States presidency
has been reduced to in the era of George W. Bush. But who gets blamed? Democrats
and progressives, of course. Today on his show, Rush Limbaugh compared Aghmadinejad
and Chavez to John Kerry and Harry Reid, saying the former is saying what the
latter has already said.

The elevation of both Ahmadinejad and Chavez is a result of Bush's reactionary
rhetoric, which began when our president decided to put Iran in the “Axis
of Evil” club, complete with State of the Union kleig lights. Bush has
elevated these thugs so that they actually feel obliged to disgrace the presidency
and the United States because no one in the world is willing to back Bush anymore.
Few in America will either.

As for what the press has to say, Eric Boehlert says it all.

…just as disturbing, is the categorical refusal by the press to put Bush's consistently dreadful poll numbers into any kind of historical context. The fact that Bush has been bogged down for much of this year with poll numbers in the 30's is nothing short of astonishing. In the last half-century, the only other comparable second-term collapse belonged to Richard Nixon, whose fall, of course, was fueled by the revelation that a criminal enterprise had been operating from inside the Oval Office. Yet Bush's second-term performance is rarely mentioned in the same breath as Nixon's. Quite the contrary, despite historic dissatisfaction with Bush, the press continues to depict him as the central, charging force in American politics, while setting aside all sorts of time and energy trying to document Bush's (we're told) inevitable rebound. The White House's recently orchestrated 9-11 PR blitz, a calculated effort to elevate the issues of national security for the Republicans' midterm elections, simply illustrated the unfortunate trend. Just look at Thursday's Page 1 Wall Street Journal piece. Headline: “Bush Gets a Lift From Emphasis On Terror, Iraq.” … Buyer's remorse: The Bush story the press won't tell

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Hope you can join me today, 6-7 p.m. eastern – 3-4 p.m. pacific.