Take the Bull by the Horns
Looking back on the soon-to-end Bush presidency, I think the single biggest mistake the president made was one of strategy rather than policy. He correctly recognized that the media was biased and would not give him fair treatment. It was a big strategic error, however, to not engage them at all.
It is a given that a certain number of news stories and commentaries will be written about a president and his policies. So a president can either engage the media effectively and have some influence on the stories or he can let the media run wild and give in to their leftwing fantasies. President Bush chose to ignore them and has paid a steep price.
He really should have taken the bull by the horns and wrestled it into a corner. In failing to do so he let the bull run free and shit all over the place. And unfortunately there has been a lot of it spread everywhere.