See the Chimp alienate the Irish people with his ignorance and arrogance!

[veggiemama]

He nearly loses it a couple of times with interviewer Carole Coleman, who obviously wasn't coached by either Karl or Karen. She actually presses him to answer here questions and gets smirked in return:

http://www.rte.ie/news/2004/0624/primetime/primetime56_1c.smil

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[Systematic Chaos]

1. Thanks for your post!

Gawd, what a joke * is. :(

[Manix]

2. ...Gaawwdd!! .....What an asshole.

[mhr]

3. What About The Lack Of Hope In The Us

Unemployed 4 years.

There's only hope for * and his clan.

[mhr]

4. She Really Dislikes Him, Watch Her Body Language

eom

[Systematic Chaos]

5. I think it was all she could do to avoid lunging outta that chair.

It just cracked me up the way * kept cutting the interviewer off with statements like "Just let me finish! You can follow up when I'm done answering, okay?", and yet every time she tried to get a cohesive answer out of him it was just more of the same megalomaniacal BS.

[the Kelly Gang]

6. he's the first US President I am embarrassed to watch

[leftchick]

21. I dunno...

I found poppy pretty embarassing too. Junior* is worse by miles though.

[Art_from_Ark]

26. Reagan was an idiot, too

But Junior is the worst

[the Kelly Gang]

55. at least Reagen had good delivery..junior is..well uninteligble !

[Eurobabe]

34. Bu$h is a pandemic!

God, what a fucknut!

[TLDHOME99]

36. surprised he knows what pandemic means . . .

have they been giving him lessons at the WH?

[calimary]

54. They probably try to feed him a new vocabulary word every week.

"Pandemic" was the latest choice.

[TLDHOME99]

65. LOL!

:P

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. What a patronising jerk

You can tell he's not used to an interviewer who doesn't accept bullshit. At first he's talking down to her as if she's a ten year old. When it becomes obvious she wants real answers, he keeps on accusing her of interrupting - in fact, his sentences tail off so she asks the next question, and then he realises he hasn't said what he wanted to, so he claims she interrupted him. The last person I saw do that so much was Thatcher, and it was infuriating then too.

[TahitiNut]

59. He's an arrogant, condescending, narcissistic sociopath.

Q: Why are you committing crimes against humanity?
A: Saddam was evil. He tried to kill my daddy. {smirk}
Q: Why are you so arrogant?
A: I have Saddam's pistol and the world is better off. {smirk}
Q: How is the world be better off with terrorist attacks happening daily?
A: Saddam was evil. Watch my drive. {smirk}

[veggiemama]

8. So glad y'all appreciated the clip! Now I'm off to Dublin to protest!

If anyone's going to be in Dublin today, I'll be outside the Teachers Club in Parnell Square for the SWP meeting at 4:00 pm. Just look for the 'Murican!

[Scairp]

17. Wish I could

I miss Ireland.

[CBHagman]

61. Godspeed, veggiemama.

I'm there in spirit. Hope to see you on TV!

(Though the suck-up Washington Post will probably ignore the story totally)

[aquart]

9. He has such bad manners.

Was he raised in a stye?

This bragging about how wonderful America is and how much it does for everyone and how great he is...........

Well-bred people are more circumspect. A well-bred person might have spent some time praising, I dunno, IRELAND?

I can't believe we call Bush trash "patricians."

[thecrow]

Please, please let me rant some more....!

[thecrow]

10. Please, please let me rant some more....!

What a jerk!
I, too am embarrassed by his lack of interpersonal skills.
She should have asked him, "have you made any mistakes?"
That would have shut him up.....
or ask him to pronounce Abu Ghraib or nuclear.

arrrrrggggggghhhhh!!! the SMIRK!
The arrogance of interrupting an interviewer for another round of
B*shit... he just had to get all his memorized talking points said.

Do you think he had an earpiece wired to VP Fuck.... er whatshisname?

[0007]

11. .......the world's a safer place......let me ...please let me finish

....the world's a much safer place......please let me finish if you will...just ask your neighbor Tony Blair......let me finish please and then you can follow up on what I said.......

How can any sane person in the world say, "I support my president"?

[dbt]

30. SMOOTH move, George!

Yeah, tell the Irish to go ask the ENGLISH about something. Oh, that'll work---NOT.

Damn, Junior. MOST people would bother to learn a little something about the country they were visiting. But not YOU. You HATE learning, don't you?

Eejit.
Feckin' Eejit.
Wanker.
Bollocks.

:evilgrin:
dbt

[Jacobin]

33. I wonder if the idiot is even aware of

"the troubles" between Ireland and England. What a clueless fool

[Tripmann]

12. Bush protest

Theres a 10 mile long ring of steel around Bush for his visit here later. Make no doubt about it guys, Irelands skin is crawling at the thoughts of this genocidal moron prancing around on our soil, being protected with Irish taxpayers money.

One third of the countrys police force is being deployed to Shannon and we are expecting petty criminals (and war criminals of course) to have an absolute field day.

Our government got a hammering in the European elections two weeks ago, their refusal to retract their invitation to Bush is only going to damage them further.

I'll be protesting in Dublin too, we'll give it loads fellow DUrs.

Tripmann

[Manix]

13. .....bring it on!

[MaineDem]

24. Thank you! Thank you!

I would love to be there. I hate to see the soles of his feet tarnish the soil of my beloved Ireland. Thank you for letting your voice be heard in protest.

We can't stand him here in the US either. I'd say "keep him" but I wouldn't wish that on the Irish people by a long shot.

[cybildisobedience]

38. don't worry

His feet are not allowed to come in contact with actual dirt. His advance team has walkways built so that the soles of his feet are sullied by soil.

[Demonaut]

60. Please hope and pray that his feet do not come into contact

with Irish soil, everything he touches turns to shit...the potato famine will be mild compared to the disaster he may cause.

[myrna minx]

46. Welcome to the Underground, Tripmann!

:hi: Give that little weasle hell. :bounce:

[calimary]

56. Bless your heart! Wish I could join you.

I'm sorry you guys have to go through this. I'm sorry any one of us has had to endure the acid-reflux effects of this bastard. bush just causes discord and wreckage wherever he goes. So YOU get to see his famous Reverse Midas Touch in person, for a few galling hours.

At least in your case, though, he'll blight your country only briefly before LEAVING. He lives in ours, and once he leaves he'll eventually wind up back here. YECCCHH!

[Kimber Scott]

14. Let's just pretend for a minute Bush is/was right, is good, is the Savior

or, whatever. Even if he is/was, he is completely ineffective as a president of this country. He cannot represent us. He cannot lead us. He has hurt us. He has diminished us. He has divided us. He has become nothing.

[izzie]

15. He leaves no room . Believe what he tells you or else.

I love him talking down to this women. He just does not hear the question and talks his talk. Odd. His mind is made up and he is right. End of the talk.In to the valley rode the 400---------and so we have.

[Scairp]

16. What a horrible interview

Oh yeah, the Irish are reeeaaally gonna love him now.:eyes:

[dand]

18. Painful to watch, painful to listen to,

I was hoping she would slap him in the kisser. This clown is an embarrassment to our country. I hope we see more of Carole Coleman, she was not the least bit intimidated.

[DoctorWeird]

19. He Can't Even Get A Clear Idea Across!

"People join terrorist organizations because there's no hope...there's no chance to raise their families in a peaceful world where there is no freedom"

Brilliant. Simply Brilliant.

[Kinkistyle]

20. He makes a good point

Clearly he is talking about the situation in Iraq at the moment.

[DoctorWeird]

76. Yes because the Iraqi

people want to live in a peaceful world with NO freedom.

[leftchick]

22. omg... CNN played a short clip of this this AM...

Too fucking funny. Or rather sad when I remember his job. Carol Costello asked the reporter covering if the contentious interview may make his visit in Ireland a little worse for him rather than help. Gee Carol, ya think?!? :eyes:

[GoBlue]

49. Gotta hand it to Carol though

She's got the media whore look down pat.

[MaineDem]

53. Carol Costello, right?

She looks terrible lately. Granted, I can't stand to watch that inane drivel they call news when she's on the air.

[leftchick]

58. could her cheekbones be any sharper?

She is beginning to look anorexic.

[happynewyear]

23. We've helped the Irish people

Oh have you now *? What exactly have you done for the Irish people except allow them to immigrate (is this still happening?) and once they are here they break their backs doing all of the shyte jobs out there.

This woman questioning * is laying some heavy questions on * and he sure cannot answer most of them. He needs to whip that sick smirk off of his sick face. :grr:

[MaineDem]

25. OMG, he's disgusting!!!

The US media should be this tough with him!

I'm going to scream! He's linking Iraq and 9/11 again!!!

[lanlady]

27. what an insufferable, arrogant prick he is

that's all I've got to say after watching that interview.

[UpInArms]

28. I wonder if he'll talk about Bernadette Devlin?

http://www.counterpunch.org/flanders02222003.html

February 22, 2003

Security Threat?

Bernadette Devlin McAliskey Barred Entry to the United States

By LAURA FLANDERS

Irish activist and former Member of Parliament, Bernadette Devlin McAliskey was detained by immigration officials in Chicago, February 21, and denied entry into the United States allegedly on "national security" grounds.

According to her daughter, Deidre, two INS officers threatened to arrest, jail, and even shoot the legendary civil rights campaigner when she arrived at Chicago's O'Hare airport. McAliskey (56) was then photographed, finger-printed and returned to Ireland against her will on the grounds that the State Department had declared that she "poses a serious threat to the security of the United States."

"Mommy was this close to being locked up," said Deidre, Saturday in New York. The two were traveling together from Ireland to the US to attend a christening,

According to daughter Deirdre (27) the McAliskeys cleared US immigration in Ireland prior to boarding, and received routine permission to travel, but upon their arrival they were stopped at baggage claim. Detained by two INS officers, they were told that the order to bar Bernadette McAliskey came from US officials in Dublin.

During the dispute that followed, Deirdre says one INS officer used "very thinly veiled threats" against her mother, including, "if you interrupt me one more time I'm going to slam the cuffs on you and haul your ass to jail."

...more...

[Maeve]

29. Thank you for this link

Painful tho it is to listen to--patronizing, lying, ignorant POS! He stops and interupts when it's obvious that she doesn't accept his platitudes.

Fortunately, the Irish know Americans generally aren't like THAT and they will forgive us (provded we turn the idjit out of office!)

[Malva Zebrina]

31. good for her, although I did not catch her name

that is what real journalism is. The prick was talking down , not only to her, but also to the Irish people who "do not understand" and "do not know" and "should know" That oughta make the Irish people love him more.

If anything, this bumble minded, stuttering, arrogant prick is showing how insane he really is.

He is insane.

This is proof.

He keeps spoouting off lies, one after the other, and expressing delusions, one after the other apparently oblivious (and maybe not) of the nature of a lie or a delusion and she keeps trying to point that out.

If I were her, I would have taken off my shoe and thrown it at his face. (Off subject a little, she was beautifully and neatly dressed for the interview.)

He also loves to tell stories of the macbre and seems to delight in telling those types of stories. He seems obssessed with the suffering image, believing perhaps people who listen will sharply intake their breath and say how awful it is.

Notice how he avoids the "god speaks to me" question.

He is insane.

on edit

I see her name is Carol Coleman--

[Mace]

35. her name

Carol Coleman

The guy at the beginning says her name.

found this on googlenews
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Politics/ap20040624_2262.html
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&tab=wn&newsclusterurl=http://news.bostonherald.com/international/view.bg%3Farticleid%3D33328

[Paradise]

32. From what I hear about his visit,

* will be facing the "Wild-Eyed Irish Coalition"!

[obietiger]

37. Interrupting throws him off

Thanks for the link. He made it very obvious that every time he said "let me finish" that her speaking during his recital threw him off and he wanted to finish his prepared standard talking points.

[DoYouEverWonder]

39. I am so sick of W's rudeness and arrogance

It is appalling how this so called christian treats other people. What an ass.

[SammyWinstonJack]

40. I tried to watch the video, I really did try

:puke: I don't have the stomach for anything *!

[Jack Rabbit]

41. I wish American reporters would ask Bush questions like Ms. Coleman does

She handed him the rope and let the Frat Boy hang himself.

[janx]

63. Ms Coleman is a very thorough journalist.

And I agree--wish more American journalists would ask real questions.

[llmart]

42. Maybe this isn't the right place to do this........

but it's my only forum for it. At this time, I would like to tell the Irish that I'm an American and I'm truly, truly sorry that this embarassing idiot of a person represents MY country. I/we are doing everything we possibly can to throw his ass out of the office his daddy stole for him so that we can earn the respect of the rest of the world that he and his cohorts have lost for us in just 3-1/2 years. Please do not hate Americans - some of us are actually educated and care about people of other countries.

[hlthe2b]

45. I think any Irish or other Non-American on this forum, knows how we (DUers

feel about this moron.... No one who comes here is likely to believe that all Americans are like this or support Bush*. Thank God for DU-- a forum that allows the world to know that we are not all insane!

[Maeve]

66. My e-mail to RTE newsonline

Thank you for web-casting the interview Carole Coleman had with George W. Bush. She is a fine journalist and I wish the American press would ask the same sort of questions. Not that he would answer with anything but patronizing platitudes, as he did with Ms Coleman, but it might wake some Americans up.

We'll do our best to get someone smarter for her to interview next year.

[enough]

43. Makes me ashamed

in so many ways.

That we have a "President" like this.

That we do NOT have reporters like this.

That the people of the US are willing to sit back and listen to this kind of drivel day after day, month after month, and seem to consider it to be perfectly acceptable.

And once again, for all the misery and suffering we have allowed this idiot to bring to the world, all the while pontificating about his own generosity piety, and strength.

[Longhorn]

44. I'm sorry but I just can't stand to listen to the whole thing.

It's just too upsetting to hear him go on like that. He's an embarrassment to this country and I just hope the Irish don't judge the rest of Americans by him!

[skooooo]

47. kick

[RaRa]

48. God, I'd love to view this - link to not working for me eom

[RaRa]

52. Got it now.

It is MINDBOGGLING. I am so ashamed for us. Even if I don't vote for him. It is DISGUSTING. This thing we call President.

[GoBlue]

50. Can't connect to server

Hope that means its very busy. Hate to have it yanked. But I really don't need any more from Bush to piss me off. Stick a fork in the pig he's done.

[kskiska]

51. When traveling, * is the gift that keeps on giving

Expect some great moments from this trip. He's bound to be cranky and jet-lagged, even with his own pillow along.

[playahata1]

72. Maybe he will

:puke: at a state dinner. Just like his Daddy did in Japan.

[PaDUer]

57. He's been told to run the clock

just like the rest of his goons..To keep BS'ing his way through, repeating himself, & ALWAYS stress that he wants to explain himself, let me answer, etc!!

[TahitiNut]

62. The Chimp: "You've got a democracy in Pakistan."

Now we see what his definition of 'democracy' is. :puke:

What an incredible fucking abomination of a human being!

[muriel_volestrangler]

70. I missed that lie the first time round

maybe I was distracted by this other lie that followed it shortly:
"I'm the first president to ever have called for a Palestinian state"

Which is bollocks: Clinton's speech, Jan 7 2001:

First, I think there can be no genuine resolution to the conflict without a sovereign, viable, Palestinian state that accommodates Israeli's security requirements and the demographic realities.

That suggests Palestinian sovereignty over Gaza, the vast majority of the West Bank, the incorporation into Israel of settlement blocks, with the goal of maximizing the number of settlers in Israel while minimizing the land annex for Palestine to be viable must be a geographically contiguous state.

http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/Peace/clintplan.html

[Rose Siding]

64. She's a saint

"my job is to do my job" He sure is rude for a nincompoop.

[bushisanidiot]

67. "Mah job is ta do mah job!" -F'ing BRILLIANT!

NOT..

WHAT AN EMBARRASMENT TO THE CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES

[Cheswick2.0]

69. apparently his job is to embarrass the crap out of american citizens

he does it so well.

[Cheswick2.0]

68. Nice of him to tell her "that doesn't make me a better person than you"

I loved that part, he tells her he isn't a better person than her because he has a personal relationship with God. LOL....does he even know what her religion is if any? He is just an amazing embarrasment.

[TLDHOME99]

71. did you notice his quick segue after he mentioned "torture rooms?"

"Saddam had torture rooms . . ."

He realized immediately that he had screwed up and went off on a different tangent.

The Iraqis are probably saying, "Who cares if it is Bush or Saddam? They both like to torture us."

Made a complete ass of himself, I was cringing the whole time I watched it. Thanks for a great post.

[robbedvoter]

73. "I don't think I am better than you. Now, STFU!

"Of course I'll look him in the face and say the world is better - this used car is brand new" Chilling

[FizzFuzz]

74. My computer won't play the clip

dammitdammitdammit--I constantly have trouble with RealPlayer and all the other video player things too.

dammit, no fair

Mr Fuzz is a computer expert, but he's too busy right now. And sometimes this video problem is beyond even him. Drat.

On edit; if only if only if only the media here wasn't owned by the Evil Ones--then we could get some real info out there in sound bites that the folks who don't read can understand.

[Barrett808]

75. Pathetic. n/t

[IA_Seth]

77. Anyone have a link to transcript?

Thanks!