Been Dover'ed ... and back
The "Dover Rule" is an offshoot of the Dover Test (see below) for TV - showing the President juxtaposed with military transports flying into Dover AFB with casualties.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dover_test
A rough history:
George HW Bush is showed by CNN (the only news network at the time) laughing it up in the Press Room while a plane lands at Dover with casualties from the first Gulf War.
--OH THE OUTRAGE from the rightwing punditry "Disrespectful....war hero President...paid the ultimate sacrifice" and so on.
CNN agrees not to do that again.
Clinton
Since the Dover Rule is in effect there is no footage of the casualties from Mogadishu ("Black Hawk Down"
--OH THE OUTRAGE from the rightwing punditry "Disrespectful....draft dodging President...paid the ultimate sacrifice" and so on.
Dover Rule is reversed by the Clinton White House
W
Dover Rule goes back into effect, I think, before the wars start.
Military contractor loses her job for sending pictures of flag draped coffins in transport planes from Kuwait
"...now watch my drive"
"Mission Accomplished"
2004 RNC Convention held in NYC - dancing on the graves of 9/11 victims.
No outrage. "With us or against us.... can't let the terr'ists win" and so on.
Obama
Picture of him smiling after making a statement on the brutal murder of an American journalist juxtaposed on the NY Daily News with the journalist's parents grieving
--OH THE OUTRAGE from the rightwing and mainstream punditry "Disrespectful....out of touch...disengaged" and so on.
Give me a f'ing break. It doesn't matter if he had spent the day in a dark room - for that they would be saying his is "overburdened" or some other BS - there HAS to be a negative, some useless controversy and drama.
ON EDIT - Obama is even being criticized for trying to save the journalist and others, or at least for letting anyone know about it. He is "disengaged" and "plays too much golf" you know.
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