11:15 AM EST — Bush News Conference, Thread 2

[prolesunited]

I hope this is OK the other one was taking too long to load.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=187358&mesg_id=187358

[diplomats]

1. Thanks for doing this

Thread 1 was getting too long.

[streakr]

17. Chimpie sounds like...

a used car salesman trying to sell an '81 chevette. What a crock!!!

Streakr

[prolesunited]

24. I agree

Welcome to DU, streakr! :hi: Glad you found us.

[prolesunited]

2. "We're arming

raising money to wage a campaign."

Any doubt that they have declared war on us?

Says it is an open forum and people are welcome to attend. Yeah, right! :eyes:

[glarius]

3. It is SO comforting to know that Bush has made the world "freer and safer"

He actuall said that with a straight face!

[prolesunited]

7. I know!

He said that would be his campaign platform. I think we need to begin NOW to start constructing arguments about how and why the world is NOT safer and more free.

[thebigidea]

4. is he actually attempting to claim that he's not campaigning yet?

what an evil liar.

[Neutrino]

55. Bush Fundraising from Call Center in India--

wonder why none of the Democratic candidates hasn't picked up on
this fact. When Bush is asked about jobs leaving the U.S.
Something very unAmerican about doing that--for a President.
Another new low.

[Davis_X_Machina]

60. Possible urban legend...

...as much as we would like it to be so.

[Ilsa]

5. "You're not invited to lunch."

Typical Barbara Bush nastiness and spitefulness revealed in the Chimpy McFlightsuit.

[Corgigal]

9. I thought Bush

telling the reporter it depends on what youre question is, if he can join him for lunch was the only honest answer in this whole thing.

[theivoryqueen]

10. Yay!!!

even in crap-ass times, I love the laughs I get here at DU - Chimpy McFlightsuit is wonderful!

[JM]

42. It's a good thing I wasn't there...

...I would have responded "Good! I don't like PB&J"

Later,
JM

[tedzbear]

49. That's code for "if you ask me something relevant, you're fired."

The reporters don't want to be ostracized like Helen Thomas or even worse, be reassigned to Siberia.

[Ilsa]

6. Obviously more concerned with Iraq's economy, schools,

prosperity, etc. than ours. Why can't people see through him?

[glarius]

8. Wouldn't you love someone to THROW A COW FLAP (shit) in his face?

That would make my day!!!!

[dweller]

19. that's a waste of good fertilizer, since

he's obviously has it running outa his mouth already.
dp

[MUAD_DIB]

25. I'd settle for an egg or a pie...

just for the comic relief.

Road apples would come after that.

[jus_the_facts]

36. Yeah a COW PIE in the face.....

....afterall he IS pure TEXAS COW SHIT thru and thru anyway! :freak:

:hi: *PAUL* ;-)

[meti57b]

11. a "gathering" danger? I thought he was supposed to be an imminent danger.

[prolesunited]

14. Nice for him to explain things

for us in such simple terms. You could tell he was giving us the explanation that was given to him.

[Brotherjohn]

34. No, see, he never actually "said" it was imminent. Oh, he implied...

... the HELL out of it, but he never actually SAID it. So he can SAY now that he always just MEANT a "gathering" threat... you know, in say, 10 or 50 or 1000 years the threat will "gather" up enough strength to harm us.

Just like saying "Iraq WAS a threat" (which he forcefully stated during the press conference). He just left out the words "very small". "Iraq was a very small threat" just doesn't have the same "ooomph!".

Pathetic. When he said "gathering", he even made some reference to "that's the word", making it transparently obvious that he's been coached to use certain words and has little to no understanding of what's going on. He's done the same thing in other press conferences, and he did the same thing at another point in this one... something about "we call it 'cassus belli'... cause for war". The condescending little twerp doesn't realize that just because Condi and Dick have taught him a few words, it doesn't mean he can speak down to the Washington Press Corps. They are 100 times more informed than him on these issues.

[phirili]

50. New switch - From imminent danger to gathering danger/threat

Look out for Fukx to start using "gathering" often when referring to Saddam.

[TacticalPeek]

57. The shallow reporters ALWAYS fubar the 'imminent' question,

with Shrub, Cheney, Rumdum, Condi, whoever trots it out.

misAdmin: "We never said there was an imminent threat. Check the transcripts."

press: "Then if the threat was not imminent, why are we at war? Why are people being killed?"

:shrug:

[Corgigal]

12. Asked if he was surprise that no WMD

were found. I listened and I have no idea if he answered it. I heard a whole bunch of names and numbers but no answer. Maybe someone better in Bush speak then I can figure it out.

[karlschneider]

SEPT 11, SADDAM BAD...BLA BLA

What a disgusting piece of shit. :grr:

[Lori Price CLG]

21. Great assessment of the Idiot Usurper, karlschneider!

WHY won't the US media whores *ask* actual questions? Halliburton, HELLO???? :grr:

-Lori Price

New Tactics Discussion Group Formed.
CLG_Revolution_Tactics
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CLG_Revolution_Tactics/

[heidiho]

13. We enforcedUN Resolution 1441

What good are resolutions if they are not enforced!!!

HELLO

[thebigidea]

15. "credibility is when you say something is going to happen and it does."

so that means uh, he has no credibility on the WMD thing, yes?

[markses]

16. Now Press Corps taking Latin lessons from Georgie the Imbecile

Causus belli that means, uh, that mean....it's a....cause for war...

O Captain, My Captain, intone the pathetic press corps fascisti.

[karlschneider]

67. Maybe next time he can translate non compos mentis...

:eyes:

[maxrandb]

69. OR

"Illegitime non carboredum" something like that.

[prolesunited]

18. It certainly will be interesting

to see the media coverage on this having seen the live conference.

[thebigidea]

20. some NPR moron is going on about Bush being "sober"

"he just had a little bit of trouble getting to his point."

[prolesunited]

How the hell can they vouch

for his sobriety?!?! He looked pretty drugged to me. Did you catch his eyes?

[thebigidea]

32. slurred words and a blank stare

lets play GUESS THE DRUG! I'm guessing big handfuls of prescription pills, a whole spectrum of shit...

[MUAD_DIB]

56. Just like a DUer to harsh the chimp's buzz.

Where do you think Rush's stash went to?

[dweller]

what? Russert? 'amurka will stay the course'

now back to your reg. sched. prog.

dp

[truth2power]

22. Ya know. . .

tapes of his press conferences could be used to torture terror suspects. Just play it over and over. They'd talk for sure.

It's actually painful to watch. Thank goodness it's over! Whew!

[underpants]

30. Actually you only need one tape they are all the same

Terror
9/11
Terror
Doing better

[Corgigal]

23. CNN/John King

is now trying to answer WHY Bush came out today to chat with the Press. Mentioned might not have had much on the calendar today and wanted to clear us some issues.

Gee, next thing you know John King will set up a psychic hotline.

[proud patriot]

26. I'm dissappointed there wasn't a Q about Plame and the leaker

:shrug:

[MaineDem]

31. There was

His answer to why he hasn't asked his staff to sign affadavits stating each wasn't the "leaker" was to say that's best left to the pros at Justice. People will believe it if it comes from Justice, or something like that.

[proud patriot]

53. oh okay ...I missed that..Woo Hoo

The reporters really hit all the important issues than

:bounce: :bounce:

[tedzbear]

41. Me too. That omission is outrageous!

The Fortune 500 who control the media are trying to get that swept under the carpet. They won't allow the reporters to do their job.
I guess our CEO's are sticking with their illegally appointed president because Clark and Dean scare them more. They know Clark and Dean won't be robots under their control like the pathetic Texas rich boy is.
:puke:

[jus_the_facts]

27. As soon as the CBS feed went off.....they had an EMERGENCY TEST.....

....for the Emergency Broadcasting System on my local station...freaked me OUT!! :scared:

[prolesunited]

37. I'm sure that was just a coincidence

Do you remember the terror alerts. The constant reminders of Sept. 11. They want us to be afraid. It is a mechanism for control.

[jus_the_facts]

46. wouldn't put it past this loco local station using it as a *terra tool*...

....in this instance...the f'n WHORES!! :eyes:

[onehandle]

28. Somebody pin him down on Traitorgate...

"Mr. President, Will you go into election season with a Traitor in your midst?"

[Magleetis]

29. More of the same

* talked a lot and said nothing. Just once i wish a reporter would ask, how many innocent people have we killed in Iraq? he always seems to get off easy. When is judgment day for *

[eek]

35. rats - i missed it

is there or will there be a vid stream anywher ya think?

[eek]

39. Oh! Cspan has it already 12:17 est

n/t

[NoKingGeorge]

40. Prime time press conference?

Has he ever had a press conference in prime time? I suspect they schedule them in the afternoon so no one will see them, except us and concerned home keepers. How do we get past this kind of manipulation?
Can we somehow embarras the media into showing this incompetence.? We are talking about the future of the greatest country on earth here.We are Americans, we should be able to find a way to save our Country. How do we out this cabal?
Most of the folks posting here seem intelligent and passionate. The only thing I have been able to do is email some talking heads who I think I see have some balls, What can we do?

[CBHagman]

45. There is alway EXTREMELY short notice.

I think we had less than an hour's notice this time. I kid you not.

[Mari333]

33. Stay the fucking course???

and US military families all over the US are tearing their hair out wondering whats next for their kids..
what utter BS this whole thing was..the never ending war on Terra will destroy us all..our kids, our economy, our future, and all because of a handful of blackhearted bastards who reap the profits off of our kids blood and deaths
add to that not ONE question on why the Dover Air Force base is OFF LIMITS and blacked out from the press.
Lying sack of shit.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

48. "Stay the course"...isn't that what the Captain of the Titanic said,...

...while he had his crew (Cheney, Delay, Hastert, Frist, Rumsfeld, Ridge, etc.) rearranging the deck chairs?

Iceberg? What iceberg?

[CBHagman]

38. I hope this kills off the "nice guy" myth for good.

Bush just oozed hostility, vindictiveness, and testiness today. His humor is invariably veiled hostility -- or not so veiled, as in the "face for radio" comment and the withdrawn invitation to lunch. If he were a woman, we'd all be saying, "What a bitch!"

[Media_Lies_Daily]

43. He is Cheney's...

..."bitch", isn't he?

[TacticalPeek]

47. Words out of my mouth's preprocessor.

:)

[tedzbear]

44. Maybe he was hung over...

He is such a loser.

[soothsayer]

51. lol! when some freepers said he looked subdued and depressed

others were quick to jump in with "He looks HUMBLE"

then alot biblical stuff about humbling yerself before men

yeesh

[Faygo Kid]

54. He was an IDIOT, and they know it

They, as ignorant as they are, know that he was a confused idiot on this press conference.

[MUAD_DIB]

59. The Freeper Rosetta stone of logic...

Drunk = Under the weather

Depressed = Introspective

Subdued = Humbled

Hostile = Bill Clinton's Penis, Damn LibRul media!

Insane = Need to refer to Mein Kampf for translation...

[SoFlaJets]

61. Soothsayer

is this the same guy as the sothie on jetsInsider?

[Blue_Roses]

52. that had to be the worst

news conference he has done. I'm glad the reporters were asking some of the questions they did, but by his response it just goes to show he has no idea what he is doing.

He keeps saying 9-11, 9-11, 9-11, but why doesn't anyone remind him that we also had a horrible terroist attack in '95 called "Okalhoma City" and that was done by a deranged American soldier. Bush acts like 9-11 was the first terroist attact the US has ever had and now he must reconfigure the whole world to make us safe. This is preposterous.

Let's get to the real tough questions shall we and not these scripted one.

[grasswire]

62. somebody needs to market...

...a talking Bush doll that just says

9-11
gathering danger
weapons program
dead or alive

etc.

[DemonFighterLives]

58. All he did

Was reinforce the sheeples beliefs that 9/11 and Iraq and endless war are all connected. And the unstickers and do-gooders are making progress.
How long does our population have to be told lies and watch the usurpers go on as though everything is cool?

[0007]

63. In 70 years of living I've yet to witness

anything as funny as this press conference. Words can't adequately describe how it tickled my funny bone.

[shamanstar]

64. terrorist strategy

"The terrorists rely on the death of innocent people to create the conditions of fear that, therefore, will cause people to lose their will. That's their strategy. "
their strategy? sounds like US strat to me.

[tableturner]

65. Video of press conference on CSPAN site

Go to:

http://www.c-span.org/

Look right down the left-middle under "Latest Video" for the link.

[coldwatercyn]

66. Condi Rice is the unsticker?

I think Condi's rice is stuck. :crazy:

[Imalittleteapot]

68. Bush looks like a whipped puppy.

I viewed the c-span replay without sound while on the phone.
No leader demeanor there.

[miguel_fr]

70. Someone was telling Bush what to say

Hi there,

If you watch the press conference Bush gave today, you'll see that he makes obvious, long pauses in the middle of his sentences. He ends phrases frequently, pauses for a few seconds, before restarting talking immediately to finish the sentence.

In some instances, he interrups himself every five seconds, as if listening, before restarting to talk.

Notice also that he has a microphone in his ear. I suspect a lot that someone is dictating him what to say.

Even the jokes against the journalists were told in the same monotone tone, exactly as if he was repeating text from someone else.

Another point: when he names journalists, he often doesn't point to them, just cites their names and actually avoids looking at them before they start asking their question.

Did anyone else get the impression he was repeating what he was being told ?