Daddy Bush Complains Media Is "Something Short of Fair and Balanced" [View All]

The former president appeared to fight back tears as he complained about media coverage of the younger Bush that he called "something short of fair and balanced."

It is "deeply offensive and contemptible" to hear "elites and intellectuals on the campaign trail" dismiss progress in Iraq since last year's overthrow of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, the elder Bush said in a speech to the National Petrochemical and Refiners Association annual convention.

"There is something ignorant in the way they dismiss the overthrow of a brutal dictator and the sowing of the seeds of basic human freedom in that troubled part of the world," he said.

"Iraq is moving forward in hope and not sliding back into despair and terrorism," he said.

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