{"id":11611,"date":"2007-07-27T14:00:07","date_gmt":"2007-07-27T18:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/11611.html"},"modified":"2007-07-27T14:00:07","modified_gmt":"2007-07-27T18:00:07","slug":"bush-fatigue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/bush-fatigue\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush fatigue"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been wondering about this myself for quite a while, but Atrios went ahead and checked Nexis to get the answer<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Number of times the term “Clinton fatigue” appeared, according to a Nexis search, in major papers during July of 1999: 27.<\/p>\n

Clinton Gallup poll approval rating in July of 1999: 64<\/p>\n

Number of times the term “Bush fatigue” has appeared, so far, in July of 2007: 1, courtesy of Byron York’s hair.<\/p>\n

Bush Gallup poll approval rating in July of 2007: 31.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now, perhaps conservatives will say the comparison isn’t fair because July 2007 isn’t over yet. Maybe, they’d argue, there will be a rash of “Bush fatigue” references in the remaining four days that would show something closer to parity.<\/p>\n

With that in mind, I went ahead and checked June 1999 to June 2007. Eight years ago, there were 29 references to “Clinton fatigue” in the major newspapers. Last month, there was just one reference to “Bush fatigue.”<\/p>\n

Because I’m a big geek, and it’s a relatively slow news day, I kept digging to take this comparison even further.
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\nTry this one on for size — last month, June 2007, there was one story in a major newspaper that referenced “Bush fatigue,” but there were two references to “Clinton fatigue.” Yes, just last month, “Clinton fatigue” references still<\/i> outnumbered “Bush fatigue” references, despite the fact that Clinton left office seven years ago.<\/p>\n

Better yet, so far, for all of 2007 to date, “Bush fatigue” has garnered 21 references. “Clinton fatigue” so far in 2007? 35.<\/p>\n

Eight years ago, the major papers set a pretty high standard. In August 1999, “Clinton fatigue” references climbed to 44. In September 1999, it reached 99. By October 1999, it was 106. (Remember, these are major newspapers; Fox News isn’t included in the mix.)<\/p>\n

Given the recent scandals and Bush’s abysmal public standing, the “liberal” media really needs to pick up the pace on highlighting “Bush fatigue” — which is far more real than “Clinton fatigue” ever was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been wondering about this myself for quite a while, but Atrios went ahead and checked Nexis to get the answer. Number of times the term “Clinton fatigue” appeared, according to a Nexis search, in major papers during July of 1999: 27. Clinton Gallup poll approval rating in July of 1999: 64 Number of times […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}