Originally Posted by Ustwo

Lets pretend I was of a left wing bent and wanted to make a name for myself. What a better way to do it than asking 'tough' questions about whatever and being an asshole to the president of the United States, whom I disagree with. The president doesn't know everything about anything. You could quite easily ask specific questions on purpose to make someone look bad, unfairly. You do recall the world leader question and Bush in the 2000 election I'm sure, in 2004 in one of the silly democrat candidate debates they asked them the same question. No one was willing to answer then either, but at the time the 'surprise' Bush question was used to make him look stupid.

And you are correct, we DO have respect for the presidential office. This is the United States, not some third world protectorate. He is the democratically elected leader of our republican government, and as such you don't interrupt him when he is speaking. This doesn't mean you can't question or criticize his actions, but what you don't do is be an ass to him. After he is out of office, have at him, but even then we have a respect for our leaders, even Carter. This is why Clinton had so much backlash, it wasn't what he did per say but that he cheapened the office of the presidency with juvenile antics and pursuit of personal legacy.

Of course this really has little to nothing to do with left wing media bias, but its an interesting tangent.