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Welcome to BushWorld, an Orwellian nightmare of epic proportions. As has been so astutely pointed out, facts have a liberal bias, so the press conference that Bush held yesterday was completely devoid of any liberal bias. As Keith Olbermann says:
1984 had new-speak. We have Bush-speak. Rhetoric designed to obfuscate reality and to quell dissent. [..] The country was treated to a full 45 minute dosage of it this morning. The President holding a news conference to once again reiterate his own version of events: the surge in Iraq is working, the Iraqi government is making progress, America is not heading towards a recession, and of course, Democrats are trying to kill us all by not giving telecom companies immunity.
Watch how truly bizarre the press conference was to anyone who has two braincells to rub together. Note too that while Bill Plante and David Gregory asked the kind of questions we should see from a press corps, few–if any–media outlets took the time that Olbermann did to show how contradictory and without substance the President’s words were.
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I’m surprised he didn’t bring up Mr. Obama’s lack of flag pin use.
Listening to Bush make a speech is like watching the aftermath of car wreck. You really don’t want to watch, but you’re compelled to do so. The fact Bush had no idea that gas prices could climb to $4 a gallon was pathetic. And don’t forget the immunity for his telecom pals. Christ, I can’t wait till he gets out of office.
WHY does the press still give this mentally-challenged fucktard the kid gloves treatment?
Just got done reading 1984 for the first time. Tough to make it through, acutally…
plus he criticized Obama for wanting to meet with “tyrants” when in fact Bush himself has met with and appeased more tyrants than anyone in history
quit calling him an idiot…it makes you an idiot. he is not an idiot…he is doing his job, which is to suppress democracy, promote never ending war, and torturing and and killing brown people.
anyone would want to be membered as a great president, a history maker. but that is not his role.
the cabal of corporate and military leaders that rule this world are very satisfied with him and they will be satisfied with barack, who will continue to kill and torture people and spend 500 billion a year on defense.
Dr. Acula @ 3:
Because they’re a bunch of kiss asses scared of being told not to come back. Those people, with the exception of Helen Thimas, are only interested in status, not the best interests of the American people. If I was the next President I wouldn’t allow any of these fucksticks back in the White House and tell them all to FUCK OFF for sucking off that reatrded fucking Chimp and never challenging him on ANYTHING!!!
ohdave @ 5:
The hell you talking about? Bush is a tyrant.
Why have there been no Vietnam-style demonstrations against wiretapping? What happened to our supposed collective love of freedom as a nation?
The thinking in the MSM appears to be: “If we pierce the bubble, the boy inside will cry.”
Nobody wants to be the one to make to make the grown man-child cry.
lemmywinks @ 4:
it’s a short simple beautiful work of art. i bet your loving you public high school education.
Doublethink is a form of trained, willful intellectual blindness to contradictions in a belief system. Doublethink differs from ordinary hypocrisy in that the “doublethinking” person deliberately had to forget the contradiction between his two opposing beliefs — and then deliberately forget that he had forgotten the contradiction. He then had to forget the forgetting of the forgetting, and so on; this intentional forgetting, once begun, continues indefinitely. In the novel’s notes, Orwell describes it as “controlled insanity”.
telco immunity=bushco immunity. Any questions? There will be a test next monday!
RueMorgue @ 8:
The demonstrators got side tracked at a McD’s when they heard Bill C was in having a Big Mac attack. Then when done, they started marching but noticed Walmart had a gigantic sale on Chinese toys. True story.
P.D. @ 2:
My understanding was that this news conference was about the economy - yet most of it was about the Telecomm Companies having retroactive immunity. I was also stunned by his surprise about the $4.00 a gallon possibility. I doubt if he has any idea how the middle class is suffering at the moment.
Dr. Acula @ 3:
Do we really have to answer this? It’s because if they ask him a hard question they don’t get invited back into the press “corps”. IE they are co-opted completely.
The only way we’d get real questions is if the press corps decided that they were all going to ask hard questions at the same time. And that won’t happen because they’re a bunch of losers.
RueMorgue @ 8:
Speaking of ‘Nam demonstrations, I nominate this the theme for Mr. Bush’s last year of presidency:
When the truth is found
To be lies
And all the joy
Within you dies
Don’t you want somebody to love?
Don’t you need somebody to love?
Wouldn’t you love somebody to love?
You’d better find somebody to love…
RueMorgue @ 8:
as far as reality is concerned, Bush is absolutely clueless.
his legacy as the WORST President ever is locked in tight.
I haven’t been able to watch this clown for years now. I just can’t do it.I have to either change the channel,or leave the room.
Can anyone explain how this (insert insulting remark here) came to be President?
No, seriously I know about Jeb/Katharine, the supreme court,all the fiddles he and his cronies got up to, but how comes so many voted for him in the first place ie put his cabal in with the chance of stealing it?
Oh, and on Gasoline rising to $4 per gallon, are you people over there aware that here in the UK the price is the equivalent of $10 per gallon.
ConcernedCanuck @ 12:
Oh, come now. If the Filipinos can do it, then so can we, by God.
I saw a few seconds of Bush’s press conference and then just turned the channel to something else. Why anyone can sit through even more of Bush’s lies is beyond me. I can understand why Bush is doing what he is doing though. He is still trying to polish up the turds he has created during his terms and only a very few people are buying it. Only failed leaders do this.
What we are seeing now is the same thing we saw in 2003 with the run up to the Iraq war. We all remember the sense of urgency and the lies that followed to get us into that disaster. Now we are seeing Bush put Iraq in rosy terms. Make no mistake, nothing has changed in Iraq. Bush bought some time with money and cease fires (I.E. Al Sadr) but all the players remain in place and nothing is going to change that.
Bush will never understand what it is like to be middle class. He was a failed business man surrounded by political hacks whose only goal was to capture the White House. With thier Rovian tactics and Americans intellectual laziness, Bush and his cronies have basicly destroyed our countrys foundation. Now we have a quagmire it will take years, if not decades, to surpass. I hope for a better 2008.
Russ Mason UK @ 19:
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I got your answer. He bribed them to vote for him. He promised them tax cuts if he was elected and the greed factor made lots of people pull the lever for him. Now McCain is doing the same thing by promising to make the tax cuts permanent. Sadly, the greed factor is still hanging around in some parts of our country.
Awww…look how cute he is…standing there playing President.
What a nice BOY.
Good job Keith, your interjections are the only thing that make Bush speeches worth listening too.
Most Americans understand that to fight terrorism, our business communications need to be monitored by approved corporations, so that the Terrorists don’t call the US and give people important information.
Isn’t this obvious to anyone who’s suffered brain damage from drug abuse?
George Bush = Herbert Hoover
I felt like I was watching some kind of parody from The Onion.
P.D. @ 22:
There’s no hope for a better 2008. 2009, possibly.
Remember when the only viable government job that a chimp could hold was astronaut.
This President is way over his head when it comes to even the most rudimentary aspects of his job. Dubyah has completely failed at his job. The clown is only comfortable when he is hanging with the jocks laughing and joking on the White House lawn. He tries to bullshit us like a nine year old who thinks adults are stupid.
America will pay for her lack of vision!
RueMorgue @ 8:
People are too worried about they’re pocketbooks. You know, the American people get what they fucking deserve for they’re willfull ignorance. A nation of reatrds only interested in American Idol and the cost of gas. Most people don’t give a shit unless it hits them in they’re wallet.
You know what I’d love to see? Even if Barack Obama is wiping the floor with McCain he should just say “fuck you all, you want to see how bad things can get, here, I’ll concede the Presidency to McCain and you can all have a nice life fucko’s!”.
Someone needs to check the batteries in that thingy on his back under his coat.
He was quick to say he wasn’t going to get into talking about the republican candidates for president, but each time Obama’s name was mentioned he was happy to chide whatever Obama was quoted to have said.
After he was shocked and awed by the possible future price of gas, he later said he hadn’t had time to do something because he had been dealing with the price of gas. Can’t have it both ways.
I complement the media on their decorum and self control. I mean…I couldn’t start there and listen to this moron and keep a straight face.
stand, not start…sorry
She’s no prize package…but really….Laura SLEEPS with this idiot?!?
fwffavvg @ 33:
Sadly, I agree. I almost want Bush to rig the election for McCain, just to see how bad things can really get before America wakes the fuck up. I have no doubt that Obama will be able to begin to heal the nation, but I fear that it might be nothing more than a band-aid over a wound where only a tourniquet will do. This nation needs to hit the bottom to crawl her way back up.
Is the Bush Presidential Library going to host puppet shows on Wednesdays?
After seven plus years…it’s official…You really CAN’T fix stupid.
fwffavvg @ 33:
So your not happy with how horrible things are, you want them to get much worse? Are you one of the people that have some kind of fantasy that if things get so bad suddenly Americans will turn to some Green party candidate or maybe Ralph Nader? Give me a BREAK.
Weaseldog @ 26:
You are joking right? Or are you really that fucking stoopid?
RayC @ 42:
Then let me ask you this: how much more will it take to force Americans to the streets?
The ONLY bright spot is that Bush’s dream of being vindicated by history is shot to hell due the fact that all these videos of him speaking will be around for a long time for everyone to see. I’m pretty sure the universal opinion is that he’ll be seen as a dangerously incompetent man. His BEST hope is that some how miraculously everything suddenly turns out well, in which case he may be judged as ‘lucky’
Note: Everything suddenly turning out well would include WMD’s being found in Iraq, and the hundreds of thousands of innocents killed so far in Iraq, would have to come back to life.
Liberal AND Proud @ 38:
Dr. Acula @ 3:
Interestingly enough, about 10 years ago I had a college instructor that had an interesting theory that he laid out in one of his lectures that fits Laura and George. In it, he stated that all nations recruit, train, and then send off to war their most qualified, physically fit, and mentally capable men. Many end up getting killed and so what males are left for women to breed with back home? The only males left usually tend to be the rejects with a whole host of problems. Now this is obviously not always the case but it sure does look like Laura was stuck with one those males.
I was having trouble getting the video to play, but it finally did. I had to laugh when I saw that Keith caught what I was talking about in my comment number 35. Even bush doesn’t listen to his own words.