George H. W. Bush Strikes Out at the Media

It’s always nice to have your father stick up for you, even when you’re 60 years old.

Such was the case when former President George H. W. Bush spoke at a recent reception for a journalism scholarship. As reported by Reuters (emphasis mine throughout, h/t Drudge):

President George W. Bush's father accused the news media of "personal animosity" toward his son and said he found the criticism so unrelenting he sometimes talked back to his television set.

"It's one thing to have an adversarial ... relationship -- hard-hitting journalism -- it's another when the journalists' rhetoric goes beyond skepticism and goes over the line into overt, unrelenting hostility and personal animosity," former President George Bush said.

It’s safe to assume most NewsBusters readers agree with these sentiments, and will the following:

"I won't get too personal here -- but this antipathy got worse after the 43rd president took office," the former president said…"And so bad in fact that I found myself doing what I never should have done -- I talk back to the television set. And I said things that my mother wouldn't necessarily approve of," Bush's father said, according to a transcript of his remarks.

So do many of us, Mr. President. Trust me.