Until yesterday, WH exploited bully pulpit so well it was easy to forget there were other pulpits

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Until yesterday, WH exploited bully pulpit so well it was easy to forget there were other pulpits

WP: Facing the Ugly Truth
By Dan Froomkin
Special to washingtonpost.com
Thursday, December 7, 2006

For six years, President Bush and his aides have so brilliantly exploited the bully pulpit of the White House that it was easy to forget that there were any other pulpits at all in this town.

That allowed the president to proselytize his world view, repeatedly and without effective objection, even when it didn't conform with reality.

Yesterday's blazing hot media focus elsewhere -- on the highly critical bipartisan Iraq Study Group -- marked a restoration of reality in Washington.

And that, combined with a resurgent Democratic Party, bodes ill for Bush's ability to keep avoiding some ugly truths....

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/04/11/LI2005041100879.html

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