TV Viewers Offered Choice: 'Fear Factor' or Bush - WP

Tom Shales on Tonight's Preformance:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53329-2004May24.html

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Old Blue Tie was back, but not exactly in top form. The official topic of George W. Bush's speech last night was his grand plan for rebuilding Iraq, but the address may have been prompted more by a political crisis than by foreign policy: A new poll showed Bush receiving his lowest public approval rating ever for his handling of the war he started.

It is doubtful Bush changed millions of minds with last night's speech, which was delivered in the extremely friendly surroundings of the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pa., but without much energy or urgency. Bush didn't look terribly convinced by his own argument that the situation in Iraq is improving, nor did he appear all that thrilled by his five-point plan to bring about "Iraqi freedom" in the future.

"We're makin' progress," Bush said in his colloquial way. "You're makin' speeches," a skeptic might justifiably have retorted.

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The speech was so bland that even the usual suspects had a hard time working up much indignation or exaltation over it.
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between Detroit and Indiana. I don't feel the least bit guilty for missing Fear Factor or Bush.

Then I watched Deadwood and the Sopranos.

ahem uninspired, to say the least

Been trying to teach my kid not to tell lies. Bush would be a bad influence.

That Bush and fear factor are not one in the same?