Bush Blames Media For Hyping `March To War' Before Iraq

[Nambe]

WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)

Casting about for new events to blame for the sluggish performance of the economy so far in his administration, President George W. Bush Friday blamed news organizations for hyping the prospects of the war with Iraq.

During a brief interchange with reporters following a meeting with his cabinet, Bush was asked if he was surprised that three large tax cuts and 12 rate cuts by the Federal Reserve hadn't done more to get the economy on track. ---

"And then, as you may remember,... we had... a steady drumbeat to war. As I mentioned in my press conference the other day, on our TV screens there was... - on some TV screens there was a constant reminder of the American people - 'March to war.' Now war is not a very pleasant subject in people's minds. It's not conducive for the investment of capital," Bush said.

[pbeal]

1. Breaking news: Pot Calls Kettle Black

I swear he is trying to make my head explode.

[Maple]

2. OOOoooh bad move!

NEVER blame the media.

They get very cross about it.

[Bandit]

3. and 33% of the people are going ~ Ya I remember that he's right

:crazy: It was the medias fault. Bush* tried everything in his power to stop the mean old media from starting a war.

[Sequoia]

9. Maybe Clear Channel

will stop supporting this bastard now that he's blaming them. What a complete fruit basket. No, I like fruit. What a complete jerk.

[damnraddem]

47. Maybe Faux News will get pissed at him -- they were ...

the most blatant beaters of the war drum.

Oh wait, I forgot! Faux News loves to be whipped by Dubya -- it's the only way they can get their kicks.

[qb]

4. Biiiiiiig boo boo, George

Lapdogs tend to stop adoring you if you smack them on the nose.

[CO Liberal]

5. Wait a Minute - Didn't He Accept the Blame Two Days Ago????

Yet another example of right-wing hypocricy.

[HFishbine]

6. Ummmm

Who was marching us to war?

[Aristus]

7. The idjit said "Ah won' minshin which wun done it"

It was FOX NEWS, you asshole! Your biggest ass-kissers! They won't like being blamed for the war and the economy!

[phillybri]

8. Jon Stewart ripped him up on this....

Jon: "Maybe if we didn't have an asshole marching us to war!!!!"

[arcane1]

15. lol, Jon slew last night!

I may have to tape that segment this evening during the rerun...

[osaMABUSh]

63. Jon Stewart videos online - catch *'s 9th SOLO Press Conference

http://www.comedycentral.com/tv_shows/thedailyshowwithjonstewart/videos.jhtml

Click on "Beat the Press" for the *'s Press Conference. Wroks great with broadband. Jon said that in press conferences up that point in their terms Bush I had over 60, Clinton over 30, and * 9 solo Conferences.

Plus the rest of the Press Con bashing - "March to War by some a**hole!"

[OldCurmudgeon]

10. so that's the talking points now?

That Shrub got pushed into war because the press was agitating for it? "Don't forget the Maine"?

What a pack of lying spin weasels.


"The buck doesn't stop here...it stops, oh, way over there somewhere. You can almost see it from here."

[short bus president]

11. indeed - our press

is a whole different kind of yellow.

[ElementaryPenguin]

12. Well, if the media was covering the Chimp - "WAR!" wasTHE ONLY THING OUT

THAT CAME OUT OF HIS FUCKING MOUTH FOR A GOOD 9 MONTHS!!! Look it up! Try to find ANY fucking speech where war with Iraq - the terrible, imminent threat of Saddam's WMD, was NOT the focus of that speech!! There isn't one!! Pissing off/blaming the C.I.A. - and now the press?? WTF?? These guys are really banking on their ability to rig the next election, aren't they??!!!

[caledesi]

34. Amen!

[dave29]

13. Expect Faux News Mea Culpa

"Maybe it wan't a good idea of us to hype the war, and then during it, show images of bombs exploding in Baghdad set to Inspirational Music".

Brit Hume and Tony Snow will resign. Bill O'Reilly will quit in disgust at his own dastardly deeds. Sean Hannity will reverse course and become a Peace loving Environmentalist.

Hell will freeze over

[jamesinca]

67. Don't forget this one

The Minnisota Vikings will win the Super Bowl! green Bay fan here can you tell. Maybe after all this happens Bush will actually take credit for his actions.

[peterh]

14. Dow Jones was very balanced in this item…

They presented shrubs rant and then shoved it back in his face…I don’t see that too often out of them….but then, DJ is kinda of a big player in the industry.

[Redleg]

16. Bush thinks the "investment of capital" is the most important thing

in the macro-economy. The problem is not that we lack investment but that aggregate demand for goods and services has fallen and that businesses are over-capacity in their ability to provide goods and services. Investment will not do those businesses a whole lot of good. Investment may help new businesses get a good start but those new businesses will still need consumers to buy their goods and services.

[skip fox]

17. No gaff!

the duffer did it two days running!

(Yesterday W. said the same thing at his press conference.)

[w13rd0]

18. WHERE

Is the damned PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY? Why do these sacks of shit try blaming EVERYONE ELSE for EVERYTHING that happens? Cowards...

[JackSwift]

19. Gotta admire the chutzpah

even without Ari telling the official bullshit, the Shrub is able to tell some really obvious whoppers all on his own. March to Oil, er I mean War, indeed.

[NickDanger]

45. Unbelievable chutzpah

Possibly the most stunning of stunningly absurd remarks to come out of the man's mouth.

What next, footage of Bush standing stoned on a roof-- a la 'Almost Famous'--stating "I am a Golden God"?

[Wonder]

52. chutzpah or idiocy...

The anti-christ or the son of god? Is it him or his spin meisters and image consultant? With a whole lot of time spent running lines in front of the vanity. Seems the speechwriters are spinning the rhetoric for to play to prophesy and ideologically foot tappers and flag wavers. I tend to think bushie is generally out of the loop... remember the goat story?

[Cha]

61. bush is arrogant as all shit but I think his Stupidity surpasses

that. So this rant about the media was just Blank Stupidity.

[Lisa]

76. he already did that on the aircraft carrier!

Sort of. With his lunchbag wadded up and stuffed into his flight suit.


But yeah, "absurd" pretty well sums it up, Nick. There is no need for me to write any satire on this, since George seems to be doing fine lampooning himself.

[colorado_ufo]

62. Speaking of Ari -

I'll bet the guy is buying lottery tickets by the dozen, after seeing how lucky he was to time his exit when he did.

[Wonder]

20. Nothing admirable or brilliant about this.

Their manipulative deceitful game was pretty much transparent from the start. Machevellian strategies and playing on the anxieties of an uninformed populace, kept uninformed by bought out and corporatized media outlets. No accountability, passing the buck, pointing the finger outward. It's not me it's the media, I didn't know about the falsified intelligence it was Tenet. Yeah and Ollie masterminded Irancontra. And it ain't a play that hasn't been played before since bay or pigs. Methodical mind controll. Manufactured consent.


Just goes to prove the many get pulled down by the LCD.

[robbedvoter]

21. Damn you liberal media! And France! and Clinton! and. and

George Tenet and....I wanna go to Craaaawford!!!!!

[Iris]

75. my thoughts exactly.

For the record, I find Sponge Bob to be very scarey!

[StandWatie]

22. my mouth hit the floor when I heard him say that

then I just laughed my ass off, he's the one telling campfire stories every chance he gets about how Hussein and his friend bin Ladin are working feverishly night and day to nuke every last one of us and then he blames the media for covering him and pretending it's serious.

[underpants]

27. FOX News highlighted W's biting the hand that feeds him

It must have done well with the focus groups.

Look if the "media" had done half of its job/duty he would have been out of the race after N.Hampshire let alone having any chance in the general election. They SAVED him on 9/11 and continue to repeatedly proclaim how popular he is ( a self serving cycle if there ever was one) and are already giving him the next election on a platter.

This is probably a move to resell the "liberal media" lie and to pre-emptively attack them before he goes on vacation ( :eyes: ) and the WMD lies will be the stories of news dead August (with plenty of Kobe and child hoax thrown in).

[underpants]

29. FOX News highlighted W's biting the hand that feeds him

It must have done well with the focus groups.

Look if the "media" had done half of its job/duty he would have been out of the race after N.Hampshire let alone having any chance in the general election. They SAVED him on 9/11 and continue to repeatedly proclaim how popular he is ( a self serving cycle if there ever was one) and are already giving him the next election on a platter.

This is probably a move to resell the "liberal media" lie and to pre-emptively attack them before he goes on vacation ( :eyes: ) and the WMD lies will be the stories of news dead August (with plenty of Kobe and child hoax thrown in).

[Wonder]

30. Yes scourges the likes of Hitler a threat to the ENTIRE WORLD.

$$$ in the pocket of oil moguls and planetary world dominance.

what is there really to add. People are sheep?

[PurityOfEssence]

23. first, I'll blame the intelligence community, then I'll slag the press...

Now if he can just blame Evangelical Christians and Corporate Thuggery, we might just be able to pry this barnacle from the ship of state.

[w13rd0]

He tried blaming corporate thugery...

...for the economy already. Although he implied that it was medias COVERAGE of corporate thugery that destroyed investment. If we just would have barked a few empty platitudes and then ignored it, like him, his tax cuts really would have restored our economy...yep, right...

[Wonder]

32. Why not. No one is demanding any accountability!

He can start setting up manditory quarantine in this country and have the national guard doing goosestep drills on the WH lawn and the pack of sheep will sing AMERIKA THE BEAUTIFUL!

[ElsewheresDaughter]

24. i saw and i couldn't believe my phucking ears!!! the man is insane!!!!

parallel universe...somebody slap me please ...i must wake from this hellhole

[OldCurmudgeon]

25. and if blaming the press doesn't work?

...go after the trial lawyers.

"They were going to sue us for 9/11! So we had to invade Iraq to ...um...err...pass a big tax cut!...oh, wait...mmm...make the terrorists pay for their crime! Yeah, that's it! It's all the trial lawyers fault!"

[schultzee]

26. The only thing out of bu$h's mouth was "I wanna a war with Iraq,"

every single day. It was his mantra.

[underpants]

31. Yes did he give ONE speech since last summer where HE didn't mention it?

Remember the "boxgate" speech in St.Louis about manufacturing

WMD
Immediate threat
Links to terrorism

every speech he has given no matter the supposed subject

WMD
Immediate threat
Links to terrorism

[gasperc]

28. Bush sends Powell to UN, Bush demands Hussein leave Iraq

Fuck you, it was Iraq 24/7, war resolution, then badgering the UN, then force the weapons inspectors and then I top of all that troops were sent over WEEKLY AND THE FUCKING SHIT WITH TURKEY, I mean give one big fucking break!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:mad:

[leesa]

33. EXCELLENT!!

Bush betrays his media whores!! Now maybe they will finally do their jobs. Of course I agree that O'Reilly, and the Faux crew, CNN, MSRNC and the rest of the whores should be tried for treason and war crimes. It just warms the cockles of my heart to see Bush blame them for his executive order. They deserve it.

[caledesi]

35. Excuse me, but what about "September being the best time to

sell a product?" - Karl Rove......These f*cking thugs!

[placton]

36. BLAZING SADDLES!

Bush is just like the black sheriff taking himself hostage with his own gun, hollering "Somebody Hep Me!"

[tom_paine]

37. What a Stalinist Joke!

"Comrade Stalin Blames Pravda for mistakenly reporting the non-aggression between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. The Hitlerites are now and always have been our mortal enemies and Enemies of the State!"

Remember when obvious transparent lies such as these weren't told, because our leaders had more respect for the intelligence and "bullshit detection" of the American People.

But here in Imperial Amerika, "bullshit detection" is an art going out of style, and is rapidly falling to become the equal of Soviet Bullshit Detection, circa 1940 (not 1980, the Soviet Citizens were far too savvy and distrustful of Commie Lies by then).

Sad.

War is Peace
Slavery is Freedom
Ignorance is Strength

[dbt]

38. Hello? CNN? Focks? NBC?

You nest a whores awake yet? Howja like getting pimped-slapped in public by the mock daddy you've been turning tricks for since well before the 2000 "election?"

Did it getcha all hot and tingly? Does that black eye look preversely sexy when surrounded by a little extra mascara?

And, best of all, howja like having to carry your own denunciation LIVE?

:argh:
dbt

[samsingh]

39. shrub is bitchslapping the media now

will the whores wake up

[Wonder]

51. pentagon bullhorn and rupert murdock

who else has these outlets in their back pocket? I know perle has the main switch at Jpost. I am not sure that is what you were alluding to but that is what is brought to mind.

[Cha]

60. LOL! YOu Are Funny!!

[RapidCreek]

74. They don't care DBT

as long as the checks in the mail. I'm sure they'll be crying crocodile tears all the way to the bank.

RC

[frogczar]

40. Has anyone else read this damning interview!??

http://truthout.org/docs_03/062603B.shtml

Wow, I hope this guy is for real! This is the kind of whistleblower type interview we need!

[NYC]

53. It seems we need a whole chorus of whistles blowing at once.

Welcome to DU, frogczar. :hi:

[colorado_ufo]

66. Hi frogczar!

Welcome to DU and thanks for a dynamite link. I think a lot is about to hit the fan in Washington.

[PurityOfEssence]

41. So...the media should deliberately downplay wars of conquest?

Is that what he's saying here? It's the media's job to skew the news so people will feel warm, fuzzy and entrepreneurially bold?

Can someone please pick up on this? It's the duty of the media to report only that which will benefit the making of fucking piles of money by Americans? Is that not just ugly beyond belief?

This is a really important point: it's the duty of the media to cheerlead whatever rampaging folly the king sees fit, and deliberately not cover untidy little Imperialistic Bloodlusts when a few ungrateful foreigners impede our greed by being impaled on the cowcatcher of the gravy train?

Is this a megasickfuck or what?

[0007]

42. da big daddy has now speakth

he walks he talks he crawls on his belly he gots a hot line with da big god -

How does junior convince folks that he's doing a great job?

[samsingh]

43. even shrub admits

that the media was pro-war

[laruemtt]

44. well folks, me thinks we now have our proof

that chimpy's snortin' and/or drinkin' again - he's working with fewer brain cells everyday. did y'all hear him say he's got his "buzz on" for crawford?!?!?!?!?

[damnraddem]

46. So, it would appear that the Invasion was bad public policy.

On whom will Dubya blame that policy decision? Hey, maybe he can make the case that Joe Lieberman pushed the U.S. into invading Iraq! ;-)

[Resistance Is Futile]

68. Directive #45210

Everything that goes wrong is Clinton's fault.

[TEXASYANKEE]

48. Yeah right.

Being unemployed isn't conducive to the investment of capital either, you airhead!

[symbolman]

49. Maybe they can promote this then as well

ARMY OF ONE http://www.takebackthemedia.com/onearmy.html turn up your speakers - tell a friend..

[are_we_united_yet]

50. W remind me

Who's the president again?

[Emillereid]

54. I think this guy has alzheimers -- how else could he forget

that he was the one beating the drum! Holy Mother of God, help us through this twilight zone.

[peterh]

55. the same way he could blurt out…with Kofi Annan sitting next to him…

that Saddam wouldn’t let the inspectors back in when in fact they were there until the eve of the war…..truly unfuckingbelievable

[Fovea]

56. This guy is dumber than lutefisk.

I would not be reminding people of the White House's dragging millions of American's into a war they were protesting against... they tend to get pissed off and vote.

[US_Blues]

57. Up is down, down is up

Looks like Karl is checking to see how well the mass reprogramming is going in advance of the coming election...

...or maybe its just the logical follow up to the last 2.5 years of policy "shock and awe" (which in "wa on terra" years feels like about 20.5 years).

Enough, please...STOP IT! Your crass ambiguity towards the lost lives of soldiers you sent off to war makes me want to wretch.

[concord]

58. Same "drumbeat to war" phrase twice in one week

This is not bush; it's Rove's machine responding to the bad press in the two weeks before the "killing" of the sons. I've noticed an increased mention of the term "liberal media" lately, a well proven method to discount any valid news being reported. Discount the news, discount the intelligence, and what the sheeple are left with is our *honest* *folksy* resident.

I am still surprised at the stupidity of the majority following this hypnotic performance.

[Cha]

59. This is from the Jon Stewert "Daily Show" last night!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=109&topic_id=499&mesg_id=499#503

<snip> He said that when Bush blamed cable news for the bad economy, he said that hmm who was the asshole who was leading us to war? He made fun of it being only the 9th solo conference for Bush and he point out the we're all sinners quote about homosexuality. At the end when Bush said he wouldn't stop working until everyone who wanted jubs had them he showed the headline of Bush leaving for his month-long vacation. So good! <snip>




:kick:

[David Zephyr]

64. Well, Bush Finally Told The Truth: The Media Did Hype The War

Just as he and Cheney begged them to do.

[dbt]

71. He didn't have to beg the media!

They were already hot to go. They had their 'March To War' graphics and special theme music ready around Labor Day, I'll bet.

The Murkin Whore Media wanted the war's ratings as badly as Chee-Knee wanted those "rebuilding" contracts for Halliburton!

:grr:
dbt

BTW, has anyone heard any of the networks taking issue with bu$h's 'March' remarks??

[BadGimp]

65. Please God

TAKE ME NOW!!!!!!!!!

OMFG I can't summon the words to express my sense of outrage and at the same time I am consumed by a sense of confusion like a cloud of stink.

I need a friggin drink....

[Generic Other]

69. And the voices of the millions of protestors?

Restricted to illegal free speech zones while Bush subjected us to a daily parade of bloody warmongers with erections pounding their chests in a frenzy of bloodlust?

Well, now they have their pound of flesh. The blood is on their hands, not mine or all the others who raised our voices to try and prevent the madness. I took to the streets. I wrote. I called my congressman and senators every day for a month. Then the Repubs told me I was unpatriotic. They targetted anyone who dared speak out. They seemed pretty proud of their actions then. In fact all the way up until the day the looting started, Bush and many Americans (the majority we were told over and over again)puffed with false pride thumped each other on the backs and engaged in an orgy of jingoistic victory celebrations culminating with the flight deck triumphal antics of the fearless sockmonkey leader.

Bush is right. The media led the drumbeat to war. But they were marching right behind a smirking ass waving a flag and a badge he took from a dead hero's mother.

Bush's revisionist history, his lies, distortions and incredible gall convince me that he truly is mentally disabled. A normal man would feel the need to blush. The fact that he doesn't speaks volumes.

[TruthTeller]

73. Remember...the 10's of thousands of protesters were just a...

foucs group. Maybe the "press" should have asked us first????

help us all--please!

[rman]

70. now what? "The media made me do it"?

.

[Rex]

72. Can it be? Does Shep on Faux have that much power???

Just who sends our men and women off to fight in wars? Is it our docile Congress? Mr. Flightsuit in Charge of the Sock Drawer? Oh I know...the MEDIA authorizes who we go to war with!! Dam, I should have figured that one out a long time ago.

So its (in this order);

1. FauxNews
2. Commander Pop-N-Jay
3. Useless Congress