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| Source:Jim Heath- U.S. Vice President George H.W. Bush (Republican, Texas) on the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather, in 1988. |
"From 1988, a live interview showdown between CBS anchor Dan Rather and Vice President George Bush."
From Jim Heath
When Vice President George H.W. Bush went on the CBS Evening News in the winter of 1987/88 when it wasn't a certainty that Vice President Bush was going to win the 1988 Republican presidential nomination. , he used this opportunity to try to convince Conservative Republicans that he wasn't a wimp 9as Newsweek called him just 3-4 years later) and that he was willing and would take on what right-wingers call the "liberal media" and Dan Rather was one of their biggest targets.
When Vice President George H.W. Bush went on the CBS Evening News in the winter of 1987/88 when it wasn't a certainty that Vice President Bush was going to win the 1988 Republican presidential nomination. , he used this opportunity to try to convince Conservative Republicans that he wasn't a wimp 9as Newsweek called him just 3-4 years later) and that he was willing and would take on what right-wingers call the "liberal media" and Dan Rather was one of their biggest targets.
The right-wing of the Republican Party has always seen Dan Rather as a closet Liberal Democrat who was out to bring down or at least make Republicans look bad. The right-wing has pretty much hated Dan Rather and perhaps CBS News in general, since the Nixon presidency and their coverage of the Watergate scandal. And saw it as unfair or whatever and what Vice President Bush was doing with this interview with Dan Rather, who at the time was the anchor of the CBS Evening News, was an attempt to convince Republicans that he was tough enough to take on what they call the "liberal media", as well as Democrats.
Iran-Contra was still a big deal in late 1987 and early 1988 and as Vice President, George Bush was clearly involved in this situation and had knowledge of it. He was President Reagan's top deputy, his Chief Counselor on Policy and perhaps even his Chief Operating Officer.
Iran-Contra was still a big deal in late 1987 and early 1988 and as Vice President, George Bush was clearly involved in this situation and had knowledge of it. He was President Reagan's top deputy, his Chief Counselor on Policy and perhaps even his Chief Operating Officer.
Even if Vice President Bush didn't have much knowledge of this situation (which I doubt) then that would mean as number two ranking officer in the Federal Government, that he was out of the loop in perhaps the most important political scandal of the Reagan Administration.
Whether Iran-Contra was or wasn't what this interview was supposed to be about with Dan Rather, thats why Rather wanted to talk about it. And Bush knew this and used it as an opportunity to fight back against again what right-wingers view as the "liberal media".
