The Colbert Report: The Family Issues That Led To The Bush Tragedy
By Logan Murphy Tuesday Feb 05, 2008 8:06am
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Last night on The Colbert Report, Steven sat down with Jacob Weisberg, author of the book The Bush Tragedy. The premise of Weisberg's book is that President Bush spent the first part of his life trying to be just like his father -- being a pilot, playing baseball, being a businessman, failing miserably at all -- but later in life decided he wanted to be the opposite of his father, i.e. raising taxes and leaving Saddam Hussein in power.
As we all know, history will say Junior went too far in that endeavor, but Colbert heartily defends him, saying Bush Sr. shouldn't have left Saddam in power;
Colbert:"That is true. He should have driven all the way to Baghdad, taken Saddam out, then we wouldn't have the situation we have right now. We would have the situation we have right now....but eight years older."
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Yes I can
Bushed Like Me.
Shouldn't that piece of crap be in prison (Bush) before all these experts make more money off him? Everyone knows how governments work. You find out the entire truth about them years after the fact.
It's all about Dubya's reliance on a "Higher Father!"
dan @ 1:
Firtht?
ConcernedCanuck @ 4:
The truth comes out at the cost of twenty five to thirty dollars per book too. Not everyone can afford to learn the truth at that cost.
All this talk about "Henry V", this is what isthe most fitting quote from that play:
Overwhelmed by the enemy and desperate to escape, Henry pleads:
Hilary will win.
McCain will win.
We can choose between war and war because democrats are cowards and hypocrits and republicans are warmongers and crooks.
And the american people shouldn't have the right to vote.
My freedom was trampled by a horse's ass.
Well, the book is aptly named, that's for sure.
Bush is: An Embarrassment for America, A failure as a President and a Danger to the world.
No friggin wonder they were so hell bent to put in place a totally conservative Supreme Court, other wise we might have seen trials already.
ConcernedCanuck @ 4:
Bush is just like Hitler in that regard. No one knew the full extent of Hitler's crimes either until he was beaten.
Couldn't make it all the way through Colbert last night. That's one show that can't get by without writers.
I'll give him A for effort -- 'cause it's painfully obvious he's trying to be funny.
Back when some Bush flack made the 'we're creating our own reality, and while you're reporting on that, we'll be off creating another reality' quote, I likened it to a frat boy saying 'we're having a party, gonna get blotto drunk and barf all over, and while you're busy cleaning that up, we'll be off having another party ...'
It seems I was right.
Maybe his Fratulence thinks his tax rebate is the equivalent of letting us keep the cleaning deposit ...
Mugsy @ 8:
Wasn't that Richard II?
Umm...Not Henry V.
Richard III.
Boohoo @ 15:
I almost got it right. Thanks for the correction
During Hillary and Obama's speeches last night, they both mentioned the victims of the tornadoes in the South last night. I don't remember hearing any of the Republicans do that or did I just miss it?
bookworm @ 14:
For bush it would Mr ED. (he hears voices too.)
SassySandy @ 17:
They didn't want to embarrass W. by mentioning it first.
Check back in 3-4 days.
All of this blood and treasure just so he could show his daddy that his dick is bigger. And I don't mean Cheney.
Has anyone considered the possibility of Huckabee and his followers splintering off from the Repub party and starting a whole new "Jeebus" Party? Can there legally be a political party based on religion?
Indigowatcher @ 21:
I think what is happening is that the REAL republicans got sick and tired of the extremist Right (NeoCon) and the Religious Right evangelicals taking over their party and screwing everything up.
So now they have embraced McCain because he is a moderate, and they want to turn more to the center.
Bangkok Bob @ 18:
Francis The Talking Mule?
Indigowatcher @ 21:
Not sure you could stop them. Not sure you'd want to.
If the Jeezoids want to move out of the GOP's "big tent" and into their own little wacko revival tent, well, god bless 'em.
Hold on.
Didn't Dick Cheney say Bush Sr. did the right thing by not going into Bagdad in pursuit of Saddam
IMO, Junior takes after his mom, especially in the compassion department.
As i see it, the tragedy is that all this mire that we pretty much have to spend the rest of our lives trying to fix is all due to a spoiled rich clown who has issues with his ego and his father; or maybe the real tragedy is how we have allowed this to happen?
Hmmm, presidential administration as Shakespearean plays...interesting.
I'll go with Macbeth for the Clintons:
Fair is foul, and foul is fair.
Stars, hide your fires!
Let not light see my black and deep desires.
Come, you spirits
That tend on mortal thoughts! unsex me here,
And fill me from the crown to the toe, top-full
Of direst cruelty; make thick my blood,
Stop up the access and passage to remorse,
That no compunctious visitings of nature
Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between
The effect and it! Come to my woman's breasts,
And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers,
Wherever in your sightless substances
You wait on nature's mischief!
Look like the innocent flower,
But be the serpent under it.
I have no spur
To prick the sides of my intent, but only
Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself
And falls on the other.
To show an unfelt sorrow is an office
Which the false man does easy.
Nought's had, all's spent
Where our desire is got without content.
'Tis safer to be that which we destroy
Than, by destruction, dwell in doubtful joy.
Those he commands move only in command,
Nothing in love: now does he feel his title
Hang loose about him, like a giant's robe
Upon a dwarfish thief.
And the winner is..........
Out, damned spot! out, I say!
Mugsy @ 8:
Uhm, that was Richard III...
>During Hillary and Obama’s speeches last night, they both mentioned the victims of the tornadoes in the South last night. I don’t remember hearing any of the Republicans do that or did I just miss it?
Cause to them tornadoes are just God doing neighborhood improvement ...
Couldn't happen without spineless, lying(she swore to defend and protect the constitution) cowardly Nancy Pelosi his enabler. And before someone claims there aren't enough votes to remove what the hell part of the constitution has that wording in it ?
My copy reads shall ....
Colbert ROCKS !!
Wow!
Steven is learnid!
Actually Maureen Down has been writing about the Bush son/father thing in her NYTimes columns for years. So this isn't a new idea.
IB222 @ 34:
Sorry, Maureen Dowd. My bad typing!
OK @ 26:
Ole' Ma "Babs-Barker" Bush is a real piece of work. She produced a progeny of sociopathic/psychopathic aristocratic fascists, who learned to use their power and privilege for one thing, and one thing only, their own personal greed!!
On a tangent note.
If you haven't seen it suggest getting / renting a copy of Kenneth Branagh's adaptation of Henry V He took a play often used to stir war passion and made it a very anti-war piece by showing it's true and ugly face.
Even the original has a line that brings Bush to mind:
Shall we shog?
And would that make Cheney, Falstaff?
Its nice to know that the good ole USofA was here at his disposal. Anytime, Boosh...you fuckin bastard.
Bush is not worthy of the Bard. He's barely worthy for the writers of Robot Chicken.
And on a completely unrelated note... Is the writer's strike over?
George Bush once said that the Social Security trust fund was nothing but "a bunch of IOUs".
Well, that is EXACTLY how he is funding his glorious stimulus package tax rebate.
At least the SS trust fund has actual money in it.
"At least the SS trust fund has actual money in it."
But, only to the extent that U. S.Government Securities qualify as money.
Bobby Corcoran @ 43:
But, but...it's backed by the full faith and credit of the United States of China?!?!
bush jr. is just an incompetent failure.
he is spoiled and useless. he has visited his stupidity on America
and is leaving the American citizens a legacy of corruption, arrogance and shame.
I wish we could get the clip of TEd Kennedy asking Mukasey if he would consider waterboarding torture if it was done to him. Mukasey responded .. it would feel like torture.
Man, after talking so much shit about Colbert and Stewart being scabs and not showing clips form their show you ought to pull this clip! Nothing pisses me off more than F-ing Hypocrites.
I used to like Steven Colbert, but he's just getting more and more annoying.
His father was an elected president. George wasn't.
Colbert's guest should have been able to write this book by sitting in front of the TV watching W's speeches over the years...really that's all you need to do to see that he's trying to outdo Dad. He's just such a totally arrogant, stupid man.
Without his dad's friend, James Baker, going down to FLA to fix the election for him, he would be doing what 2 of his useless brothers are doing...working for Arab holding companies. If Dad's friends weren't willing to employ the family, they'd have to live off the interest on their trust funds. God, that would be awful.
Scorn @ 48:
Is that why there haven't been any Daily Show clips lately? I've been wondering about that for a while now.
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