THE White House lashed out against the media Saturday, arguing that those who deride US President George W. Bush’s most recent verbal gaffes were “discordant with the American people”. “They don’t care what you think about his grammar, they care about what he’s going to do that affects their lives,” White House counsellor Mary Matalin said. She went on to upbraid journalists for emphasizing style over substance in their analysis of Bush’s remarks during his first press conference as president last Thursday. “And to parse it and pick it apart in the way that it is discordant with the American people, not your ears, but the American people,” she said. Bush is no stranger to grammatical flops. During the election he as quoted as portraying himself as a “compassionated” conservative anxious to “get to the bottom of the answer.” – AFP
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