While Gallup’s most recent poll… [1] and the “reporting” thereof… centered on the idea that Hillary Clinton has passed Oprah Winfrey as the most admired woman…. (Nobody asked me…) Ron Coleman over at Right Wing News reports [2]there’s a little mentioned other side to the report…
Gallup reports [1] — utterly buried in an article about how Hillary Clinton is America’s most admired woman (not the subject of this post) — that none other than President George W. Bush is America’s most admired man. (Via Instapundit [3].)
That is the same George W. Bush who lives on Pennsylvania Avenue. Not his father, the mythical super-president invoked by Bill Clinton and others, who used to live there. No; it is that fellow who is such a poor extemporaneous speaker; who is so inclined to cronysim [4]; who has done such a poor job of marketing to the American public his one historic and courageous policy, the Iraq War — that same one.
So, while for the last cycle or so we were inundated with the news that Hillary Clinton had passed Oprah Winfrey in the popularity department, all our press utterly ignored the idea that George W Bush was more popular than either of them. Now, why do you suppose that would be?
Also, the timing strikes me as interesting, as is the comparison of Hillary Clinton and Oprah Winfrey, in light of the latter’s tossing her support behind Hillary Clinton’s biggest rival for the Democrat party nomination for POTUS.
Bias? Nah… couldn’t be.
The links are already piling up at Memeorandum.