Big Brother Alive and Well: AP "Exclusive" on Chimperor Bike King

[Octafish]

Notice the spin? This article on Chimp's latest bike adventure sums up the captive press. It's like Stalin all over again. The Little Turd from Crawford needs Corporate McPravda to maintain his image of superman. Only thing is, no matter how much they try, the presstitutes can't make a leader out of a turd.

AP Exclusive: Bush the mountain-biker rides hard, shrugs off crash

SCOTT LINDLAW, Associated Press Writer Monday, July 26, 2004

(07-26) 15:52 PDT CRAWFORD, Texas (AP) --

President Bush charged up punishing climbs and down steep dirt paths on his high-performance bike Monday, at one point landing flat on his back.

The president dusted himself off from his fall on a treacherous descent, waved his medics away and kept rolling, a small cut on his knee and dirt on his back the only signs he had wrecked. He allowed that he was a bit shaken up.

Bush's new hobby is a way to get his heart rate up and spend time outdoors without aggravating his achy knees. With an Associated Press reporter riding with him, Bush pedaled to remote corners of his 1,600-acre ranch.

Bush has been riding the knobby-tired bikes since February, and he rides with abandon.

CONTINUED...

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/07/26/politics1616EDT0665.DTL

[No Mandate Here.]

1. Oh, Swoon. Mah Hero. Aaahhhhh. <Big Sarcasm> <nt>

[Octafish]

17. There's something for everyone, in a menacing kind of way, with the Chimp.

Victor Ashe sees him differently, perhaps....



Then, there's the laying on of the hands...



A fine drunk, sometimes in need of some balance.

[seemslikeadream]

34. Oh that Big Brother!

[Octafish]

45. Thirty-five years later and that record STILL sounds like new.

On every level.



Lot of good people, then, too.

[jdj]

51. Found this quote while looking for another:

Gen Doug. MacArthur: "One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda."

Ain't that the truth.

[Dover]

2. I suggest he take up swimming......

A boo-boo in that sport can be fatal.

Blub-blub....

[Octafish]

20. Hadn't realized that he never swims on vacation...

... It can be 100 degrees in the Crawford shade and the Little Turd from Crawford won't go near the stuff. Gee. Even when he's fishing (and the Secret Service scuba guys are putting the catch on the hook), he's got his super-de-duper life vest on. He's such uh brave man. Stays away from horsies, too.

IDET: tippo

[seemslikeadream]

33. Did you see the bike he was on?

[DAGDA56]

3. So why isn't the headline...

...un-coordinated MORON falls off his bike...AGAIN!

[Gin]

5. he's competing with kerry and all the sports he can do well ..bet he

bought the bike when kerry's pictures came out with him on his bike.

He can't do anything but copy...not an original idea in that empty head.

[Octafish]

23. If the press fulfilled its Constitutional obligation, it would.

The only business mentioned by name in the Constitution is the Press, and the First Amendment spells out how Congress shall make no law prohibiting freedom of speech and of the Press. Why? Only with an informed electorate can Democracy survive. Then, again, you knew that DAGDA56!


Courtesy of the Bartcop Collection

[blm]

4. OHMYEFFIN"GAWD!!!

DISGUSTINGLYSYCOPHANTIC!

The reporter should just blow him and get it over with.

[Octafish]

24. They don't call them "Presstitutes" for nothing.

And it's no stretch to hear Dulles
calling for the Mighty Whorelitzer
to pipe up from beyond the invisible veil,
whenever the poll numbers go down
for the beard of the War Party.



"Is this the car?"

[depakid]

6. Maybe he should take up swimming

Aside from the obvious, mountain biking isn't exactly easy on the knees-

This quote is particulaly laughable: "He takes on dangerous sections that would give veterans pause. He keeps a cramp-inducing pace on long uphill sections, panting hard by the time he reaches each peak, backing off a little to recover and then attacking the next hill."

Shamelss propaganda- I'm surprised that the Chron would even publish such BS. After all, the hills around the Bay Area gave birth to the sport- And I guarantee that any "veteran" mountain biker would laugh at the Bush's ride.

[Octafish]

46. Yeh. I got family in Fremont and around there...

... California is hilly and beautiful and it would be a challenge. Those who enjoy riding would be considered "working" by the likes of Bush, a man who's never worked a day in his life.

The reason the paper published the article is that it's an Associated Press story, "Hot off the wire." The Big Lie is obvious to those trained to look out for it. For the great majority it is not so easy, and they become easy prey.

Here are the words of Karen Hughes' role model:

"It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion." -- Josef Goebbels

[Selwynn]

7. What spin?

It is actually possible that it wasn't a big deal?

[JNelson6563]

11. You may have noticed the literary

blow job. Let us count the flattering words/terms just in the opening sentence, shall we?

President Bush charged up punishing climbs and down steep dirt paths on his high-performance bike

*swoon* What a manly-man!!!! Certainly no girley-man unlike the Democrats (like Ahhnooold said).

It looks pretty clear to me, I don't know how you could miss it. But then again, you not only quote yourself in your sig-line but you place your own words above a couple of greats. Quite revealing.

Julie

[Selwynn]

15. Think you're bias makes you read way too much into that.

Oh I saw it, but I've also seen that kind of righting about Lance Armstrong, and hell - I've heard those kind of adjectives to describe average joes. Think this one is a bit of a stretch.

But if course when you become obsessed with anything your mind filters everything else out and you'll pretty much see whatever you want wherever you look.

[JNelson6563]

49. You seem to speak as an authority

on the inability of certain minds to grasp rather obvious points.

To your expertise! :toast:

Julie

[Mika]

42. Try this one

President Bush charged up punishing climbs and down steep dirt paths on his high-performance bike


Looks pretty clear to me.. the reporter is telling us that w* was stoned. :-)

[Octafish]

12. The spin that says the guy is an adventurous, hearty fellow.

The spin that implies that he fell because he was trying a "treacherous descent."

The spin that says he "waved off his medics" after ending up on his back.

The spin that implies heroicism by peddling to "remote corners" of his 1,600-acre rance a Texas in July.

The spin that shows a man concerned about the "mind-clearing" benefits of exercise.

The spin that ignores the connections to his other episodes of falling, from biking to pretzling.

There are more examples. Those are all I can stomach to re-spin for now.

[Selwynn]

19. Medics always come when a president cracks a fingernail...

They are absolutely going to freak out and come flying when a president falls off a bike. And you have no idea how serious the incline was. Maybe it was weenie. But maybe not. I know where I take my mountain bike it can get pretty hairy.

It's a pretty weak stretch to act like the sentance that talks about Bush wanting to get his heart going by riding is trying to imply any kind of "heroism."

I don't see how there is "spining" of the facts to not mention that the president choked on a pretzel. I do see the stupidity of acting like choking on a pretzel (I woke up last night and realized I was choking on my own heartburn! Pretty gross, but no indication of anything to do with me or who I am) is something that matters.

[Octafish]

48. Bush can’t use a Segway. How’s he gonna ride a bike?

I'm not arguing the facts of the case. I'm arguing the shaping of the content, what millions of people will read -- a prime feature article of the Associated Press.

Even without a team of coders working the midnight Content Analysis with me, it seems clear to me that the article is slanted pro-Bush. Don’t you find it odd, Selwynn, how the AP got an “exclusive” that plays up the commander-in-thief as a stout-fellow-well-met, though prone than most to the even odder accident just hours after the guy suffered a wipe out?

Oh yeah. Maybe it’s all the coverage “Big Wave” surfing has gotten of late. Nightline and 60 minutes discovered surfing, of all things, this week.

Not trying to tell you what to think. That's what someone else is doing.

[Fuzz]

8. Remember the pretzel explanation?

He was so fit, that when the pretzel got stuck, it hit a nerve and his great low heart rate ended up going too low and he passed out?

[Octafish]

26. Yeh. Too much explaining for something that seems extraneous.

The crazy monkey's got a slow heart. I'm sorry, but, we all gotta play the hand we're dealt. Just think of the tens of millions of people living broken lives in America's deteriorating inner cities. Most are of very limited means, as well as possess a very limited education. Yet almost all know enough not to get in a state where they can't walk without falling down and hitting their head.



Remember the William Holden "Drinking Helmet?" The great actor fell and broke his skull on the corner of a table. Unlike Smirko, no one was around to help him.



Maybe Pickles got him one of these
for his birthday, by "accident."

[Bluebear]

9. He fell AGAIN? <hic!>

[Octafish]

27. Only one skull known to man is tough enough to take such abuse.

Courtesy of the Bartcop Collection.

[snippy]

10. They may be learning. These lies are not as easily disproved as the lies

about the heavy rains (which did not occur) causing his last mishap without training wheels.

[Octafish]

37. The scales should be falling from the eyes of all Americans, snippy!

"These lies are not as easily disproved as the lies about the heavy rains (which did not occur) causing his last mishap withhout training wheels."

In order to protect the ignorami, the exact same professional spin is given to the official 9-11 explanation:

GroupThink.
No coordinating national intel czar.
FBI and CIA didn't communicate.
Clinton didn't do anything.
Yada yada to generate bulk.

With each lie spun, a sizable fraction of the populace becomes enthralled. By the time Karen Hughes is done, there are are just a few left unhypnotized. More than a few of them are on DU.

[Eurobabe]

WTF??

[DoYouEverWonder]

They says his knees are so bad he can't jog anymore

so instead he's bashing the crap out of them, crashing around on his mountain bike.

Yeah, sure, whatever.

[Octafish]

47. Could be he's like Tony Soprano: PANIC ATTACKS or he's a Fainting Goat.

Something scares him and he passes out.
It's no wonder he's a coward.
The problem's genetic, like with the
Tennessee Fainting Goat.



Poor George. He can't help passing out.

http://www.centralpets.com/pages/critterpages/mammals/goats/GOT5072.shtml

[Eurobabe]

13. * thinks he's Lance Armstrong!

what a moron.

maybe he'll do us all a favor and crack his skull?

[Octafish]

55. It's too thick. Besides, there's nothing in there...

... other than a collection of pornographic images,
empty fifths of Jack Daniels,
a few dim flashes of nose candy
and his numbered Swiss trust fund.
Other than that, it's empty.



Warrr-er-rrr Par-tee!

[hippiegranny]

14. with abandon?

just like he runs the country? like who the cheney cares, let's just GO FOR IT!

[Octafish]

54. He's always riht.

Everyone else is always rowng.

Gen. Patton said: "If everyone is thinking alike, no one is doing any thinking." OTOH, Bush won't allow dissent. Once he's made up his mind, that's it. Look out world...

[wellstone_democrat]

16. Crawford ain't THAT hilly folks

Not when you have biked in Oregon or New Hampshire or Northern California. My husband was laughing hysterically about this---he's raced competitively and has ridden all over central Texas.

"Punishing climbs!" (that's what he is walking around saying now and then laughing hard) According to him: *I* could take that ride with ease and I'm out of shape and virtually never ride anymore. Must be one wussy ride....

[frylock]

22. i had to go to dallas once for a job..

and one of the kids I was working with was from Houston. He told me that Dallas was considered hilly. I told him he needed to check out the coastal range in California if he wanted to see hills. I didn't see a peak over 200' while I was out there!

[Philostopher]

66. Yanno, I was wondering about that, WD.

I've been to Killeen (which, I hear, isn't that far from Crawford), and while it ain't flat as a pancake, they must have built a bike path for him to get anything too grueling. It's no hillier than where I learned to ride a bike when I was a kid, in southern Ohio. Feh -- if they're gonna tell 'Babe the Blue Ox' tall tales about 'Glorious Leader,' guess they figure they might as well tell really tall ones.

[frylock]

18. charged up punishing climbs and down steep dirt paths..

I ride trails, and I've seen aerial photos of shrub's pig farm, and there isn't anything even remotely close to a "steep dirt path". Maybe I'm spoiled out here in Cali where we actually have mountains. I would consider a steep incline at about 600' +/- per mile. And he landed "flat on his back"?! How in the hell does one land flat on their back after crashing on a descent??! What a maroon.

[frylock]

21. check out these "punishing climbs"..

http://www.photostogo.com/store/FullPreview.asp?SearchStr=%23528114&Maxhits=1&P=1&dept_id=101&parentdept_id=100&Pagemode=&VolumeID=836&eVolidT=EjEu%7DQKP5gMC&VolidT=836&ImageNumber=528114&SecNum=bMfLYTwT2BU0b%7E4%7El2ABy%7DDET&Caption=Aerial+of+George+W+Bush+Ranch%2C+Crawford%2C+Texas&Height=92&Width=138&basket_id=&basket_name=&PhotogName=893&keywords=10+332+719+898+1071+1106+1657+1693+2324+2354+2413+2547+2646+2777+2892+3278+3763+3813+5781+5833&from=chubby

what a joke!

[Octafish]

36. If Bush thinks he's living on a mountain...

...the joke is on him.

Great pictures, frylock! Thanks for the birds-eye view on a pea-sized brain.



Meanwhile, back at the ranch: A 10-gallon hat sits on a half-pint head.

[mopaul]

25. a major mental midget of monumental, mammoth dimensions

soon he will be synonymous with klutziness and stupidity.

[Octafish]

38. You've captured the look of a happy sadomasochist at work.

Remarkable stuff, that.
Tagging the guy as the stupid klutz
does have a nice ring to it.



Then, that's what the Truth does.

[MisterP]

28. "In one remote section, cattle stare back at him as he rides

a path littered with cow dung."
"He takes on dangerous sections that would give veterans pause. He keeps a cramp-inducing pace on long uphill sections, panting hard by the time he reaches each peak, backing off a little to recover and then attacking the next hill. He pants hard, emitting low 'hrrr, hrrr, hrrr' grunts with each stroke of the pedals, his shoulders bobbing up and down."
he's a case for Jane Goodall!

[Octafish]

40. Whew! I thought the writer was the pornographer Lynn Cheney.

U.S. vice-president's wife stops reissue of sexy novel she wrote in 1981

NEW YORK (AP) - A publisher has cancelled plans to reissue a racy novel by Lynne Cheney, wife of U.S. Vice-President Dick Cheney, after she said the book did not represent "her best work."

New American Library, an imprint of Penguin Group (U.S.A.), was going to reprint Sisters, an historical romance published in 1981 that includes brothels, attempted rapes and a lesbian love affair.

"We felt interest was growing because it was an election year and we decided it could be a timely book," Liz Perl, executive director of publicity at New American Library, said Friday.

But Cheney's lawyer, Robert Barnett, said she did not even know about the reissue plans until receiving calls last week from the news media. Barnett then contacted the publisher, which agreed this week to pull the novel.

CONTINUED...

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2004/04/02/406533-ap.html

Gee. What was IN that book?

[Doctor_J]

29. you think Rove writes those himself,

or just signs off on them?

[Octafish]

41. Bush's brain, the NAZI Karl Rove, tells Karen Hughes what to do.

D`?=ss up with the plan. Then little sub-turds, like David Frum, actually turn the phrases, using the alchemy perfected by Herr Doktor Josef Goebels.



Then, Bush reads his lines or listens to his earphone.

As to why the Little Turd from Crawford is prone to fall of the bike,
perhaps the expression should name "wagon."

[Th1onein]

30. Isn't it ironic that Bush has medics on the spot to attend to a bike fall

and millions of Americans don't have a shred of health insurance. How nice for him!

[Octafish]

44. Great observation, Th1onein. Irony is more "Goldy."

C-SPAN is running some presidential convention acceptance speeches. I heard Harry S Truman at the 1948 DNC mention national healthcare. He blamed the do-nothing 80th Congress for derailing the Democratic plan. Can't say that any of the Congresses since then have done much -- beside creating Medicare and Medicaid during the Great Society. Largely since then, money has trumped people.

Look! It's a tax cut!

[Ducks In A Row]

31. Any pictures of the "treacherous descent"

because I'm thinking it's anything but.

[Octafish]

56. Dante pictured it well for the likes of Bush...

What might await the BFEE*:



The Structure of
Dante's Inferno

The sinners in the nine circles of hell are guilty of one of three types of sin:

Incontinence: Evil action arises from losing control of natural appetites and desires

Brutishness: Evil action arises from attraction to things which repulse the healthy soul

Malice / Vice: Evil action arises from abuse of reason, a human's most god-like quality

SOURCE with all the details (heh heh heh):

http://www.atsweb.neu.edu/uc/s.cassavant/DanteOut.html

*Personally, I hope it's worse.

[seemslikeadream]

32. "Take the training wheels off"

[Octafish]

57. The man is disturbed. Very disturbed.

Will Rehnquist, Scalia, Kenne(!)y, O'Connor and Thomas be there
to catch him the next time he falls?

[progressivebydesign]

35. He's a lumberjack and he's okay.... etc. N/T

[Octafish]

58. Hieronymus Bosch knew what these crooks need.

Open-air brain surgery to remove the stone of madness.

[VOX]

39. "He keeps a cramp-inducing pace on long uphill sections, panting hard..."

"...emitting low "hrrr, hrrr, hrrr" grunts with each stroke of the pedals, his shoulders bobbing up and down..."

Well, now we know what a sweaty night with * in the sack is like. No wonder Pickles' face permanently looks like The Joker.

[Generic Other]

50. That was an image which will be difficult to erase. Thanks.

:puke: :puke: :puke:

[DemBones DemBones]

43. Now that he knows John Kerry has an $8,000 bike,

how long do you think it will be before W gets a new ride?

[Octafish]

59. Thing would probably last a week.

"Crash" moron would then go crying to Poppy to steal him a new one.

[legin]

52. The article reads like one long alibi

He fell off his bike, and there are loads of witnesses to prove it, as is mentioned at every posible oppotunity in the article.

[Octafish]

61. LOL!

"Never mind the character, stick to the alleybi." -- Dickens

[seemslikeadream]

62. Mountain Biking New Pastime for Bush

A reflector snapped off the bike and was left as a warning marker for next time. Bush straightened the handlebars, threw a leg over the bike and kept rolling.

"We've got thrills, spills - you name it," he said.


http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/32-07272004-337922.html

[goclark]

53. Landing On His Back???

Are you telling me that the good doctor knew that his knees are bad,there are a few weeks until the convention and he lands on his BACK?

What the hell does the good doctor do? Let's Georgie dust off and keep on going?! What doctor would let that happen?

It would seem that at the speed he was allowing us to believe he was going,his back could be in big trouble. His legs too.

No mention of x-rays for the President of the United States?

Please spare me from the Chimp's physician!

It's all lies folks,big big lies and big cover up.
The boy king is mental or drunk.

Again, where are the photos? If they are trying to prove that he is Lance Armstrong, we want to see him ride! If they can fake a turkey and hay on the ranch,let's see the fake ride.

[Mr.Green93]

60. mountain bikes destroy the environment

[drdigi420]

63. no they dont

[Mr.Green93]

64. sorry

guess all my reading and observation were incorrect.

[aden_nak]

65. If Kerry fell off a bike, it'd be proof that he is "stiff" and "robotic".