People Getting Wise to Bush Lies on Katrina, Iraq, and Other Disasters

[Bozita]

This fits into my MUST READ category.

http://www.niagarafallsreporter.com/gallagher254.html

PEOPLE GETTING WISE TO BUSH LIES ON KATRINA, IRAQ, OTHER DISASTERS
By Bill Gallagher

DETROIT -- The president of the United States is inept, a frightening reality for the American people and our neighbors around the world. It is chilling for someone with the responsibilities and powers of the president to lack the fitness, aptitude and sense to carry out the duties of that office.

Bubble-Boy's bubble has burst. His failed policies and rampant incompetence now only enjoy unflinching support from the lockstep confines of GOP partisans, the Busheviks' corporate sponsors and their Amen chorus found on right-wing shout radio, the Fox News Channel and the editorial pages of the Wall Street Journal.

The mainstream American media, which long ignored or supported President George Bush's string of disasters, are finally catching on to what a growing majority of American people know: This frat-boy slacker, selected president because of his name and big-bucks supporters, this media-made Churchillian figure standing in the rubble of the Twin Towers, has been out of touch -- and often out of sight -- for every major national crisis before and since.

Bush, the great leader and commander, the protector of his people, is a myth. His now-dwindling support was built on the manufactured consent of fear, and now a majority rejects his handling of his hallmark issue. A Bloomberg-Los Angeles Times poll shows 54 percent of Americans disapprove of Bush's handling of terrorism. Hallelujah! The biggest lie of our times, that Bush makes us safer, is crumbling.

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Bill Gallagher, a Peabody Award winner, is a former Niagara Falls city councilman who now covers Detroit for Fox2 News. His e-mail address is [e-mail].

Niagara Falls Reporter www.niagarafallsreporter.com March 7 2006

[tuvor]

1. "Wise," nuthin'. It's all about paying attention.

Like the fine, fine folks at DU.

[Skittles]

2. YES - I knew he was incompetent the first year he was governor

stupid, lazy incompetent piece of SHIT and if the g.d. media had done their jobs there is no WAY that evil bastard could EVER have been considered a viable candidate for president.

[Jane Austin]

3. Amen to that!

We tried to tell our out-of-state friends what a fraud he was, but without ANY corroboration from the media and press, we were just spittin' into the wind.

Where the hell was the press?

I guess they think John Wayne is a real cowboy, too. Note to media: John Wayne was an ACTOR!

[Sadie5]

4. When it started to affect them

then the masses paid a lot of attention to Bush's lies.

[Jane Austin]

5. When it started to affect them personally, they realized he was lying.

I think before that, they couldn't believe anyone - - not even the Republican party - - would lie to them on that scale.

Most people have never had a fraud of this magnitude perpetrated on them before, and when a few Texans tried to sound warnings, they assumed we had an axe to grind.

Honestly, I don't think most people had an frame of reference to understand what was being done to the electorate.

For one example, I take a friend from a solid red state. He's a doctor who specializes in public health, pulmonary issues like asthma and pneumonia, and has served many veterans. His wife is a healer, who also has a PhD in neurology and physiology and has taught in the state's medical school.

He is one of the most decent, honest, and generous people I've ever known. He's also politically naive, and when a political ad came on the television where we were eating pizza, I editorialized about it's inaccuracies, slant and venality.

He just blinked and said that it had to be true or they couldn't put it on TV.

Honestly, he really said that, and I am sure he really believed it. I don't know what he thinks when he sees the opposite from the other side; but in this case, the claims were so outrageous and said with such confidence, that he couldn't believe they would have either the nerve or "permission" to put it on TV.

And that, friends, is how Con artists attain success, and why people are always amazed when they are unmasked. They paint a picture so convincing and deliver it with such sincereity, that we think to ourselves "He wouldn't say that if it weren't true. He could get caught."

That's the way people with a conscience would do it, but con artists just lie about the unmasking, too. They never admit anything, and normal people believe them.

So, yes, people don't see Bush and his policies for what they are until it affects them personally, but not necessarily in a selfish way, like "Hey, that's MY money!"

I think it's more like they have little frame of reference to understand that the policies are venal and that they are being lied to until they see it with their own eyes, or if it happens to them.

[cliss]

6. Here's the most chilling revelation for the 'Believers'

Bush never had any allegiance to the moderates, the conservative Repubs, or the Christians.

He used them. He took advantage of their loyalty. he used their jargon, used quotes out of the Bible, prayed and had photos taken of himself with a halo behind him.

Like a snake that hides in the foliage of the jungle, he hid his dark plans from his Faithful Followers.

Bush used THEM much more than he did us. We on the Left never cut him any slack, so he never tried any of that crap on us.

Beware the False Prophet indeed.

[Ben Ceremos]

7. America,

A Nation of Chumps?

[classysassy]

8. A nation of chumps

ruled by a chimp.