George H.W. Bush hates bloggers!

There has been quite the discussion in the Virginia blogosphere among other bloggers about blogging itself, most notably on Not Larry Sabato, Shaun Kenney's blog, Ward Smythe's site, J's notes, and even official Allen campaign blogger Jon Henke wrote about it.

Given all this talk about the blogosphere, I found former president George H.W. Bush's comments last week blaming bloggers for an "ugly political climate" particularly interesting. Here is a brief transcript from the former presidents interview with Fox News' Greta Van Susteran last week:

GRETA: Why do you think it’s gotten so adversarial? Tonight is literacy. Everybody comes in from all different sides and wants to help. It seems like oftentimes in Washington, you know, on something we all want to work towards it’s not necessarily so civilized. It’s not so pleasant.

H.W. BUSH: It’s true but that’s not new really. I mean, you go back in history and you’ll find that there was always adversarial politics. There was always gut fighting. And it’s probably a little worse now given the electronic media and the bloggers and all these kinds of things. But I don’t despair about it. I think things — there is a pendulum at work at times so you swing away from the incivility back to more normal climate.

Uhmm..why? Because the truth about your parties ethics is coming out more and more these days thanks to electronic media and bloggers?

You can view more of the transcript and watch a clip from the interview here.