NYT: Bush Guitar Pics Circulated On Blogs Implying He Fiddled Like NERO!!!

[DistressedAmerican]

For any that question the value of the images we circulate in the blogosphere:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/02/politics/02bush.html

Just got this from my mother-in-law. She suspected that it was a reference to one of mine. There were tons floating around. So most likely not. But just goes to show that graphics are powerful image makers. All images since this happened have shown him as the scared, inexperienced NATIONAL DISASTER that he is!

Here is the screen cap she sent me and a couple of mine.

The Nero Image Is Gonna Hurt Ladies And Gents!



He is going to be vilified. We have said as much for a long time.

I would like to collect as many as possible to repost to the DA website!

Please post others you have seen!!!

My Efforts:

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[LunaSea]

1. ...

[DistressedAmerican]

2. Sweet! Yours?

[jsamuel]

3. awesome

[Davros]

4. Bush is a punk...

and here is the proof....

[DistressedAmerican]

5. Funny! I Was A Proper Punk Rock Kid. He Makes Me Ill.

I'd Have slammed him roght out of the mosh pit!

"No Future" Is Quite Nice!

[leveymg]

6. Damn NYT editorial board. They didn't repost the picture I sent them.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4544710&mesg_id=4544710

Emperor Nero Croons, "Before the Deluge"


Live from the Atlantis Room in beautiful, downtown New Orleans, Emperor Nero Sings "Before the Deluge" (with apologies to Jackson Browne):

Some of them were dreamers
And some of them were fools
Who were making plans and thinking of the future
With the energy of the innocent
They were gathering tools
They would need to make their journey back to nature
While the sand slipped through the opening
And their heads reached for the golden ring
With their hearts turned to each other's heart for refuge
In the troubled years that came before the deluge

Some of them knew pleasure
And some of them knew pain
And for some of them it was only the moment that mattered
And on the brave and crazy winds of youth
They went flying around in the rain
And their feathers, once so fine grew torn and tattered
And in the end they traded their tired wings
For the resignation that living brings
And exchanged love's bright and fragile glow
For the glitter and the rouge
And in the moment they were swept before the deluge

Now let the music keep our spirits high
And let the buildings keep our children dry
Let creation reveal it's secrets by and by
By and by--\When the light that's lost within us reaches the sky

Some of them were angry
At the watch the earth was abused
By the men who learned how to forge her beauty into power
And they struggled to protect her from them
Only to be confused
By the magnitude and fury in the final hour

And when the sand was gone and the time arrived
In the naked dawn only a few survived
And in attempts to understand a thing so simple and so huge
Believed that they were meant to live after the deluge

Now let the music keep our spirits high
And let the buildings keep our children dry
Let creation build it's secrets by and by
By and by--\When the light that's lost within us reaches the sky





Emperor Nero Croons, "Before the Deluge" leveymg Sep-01-05 06:21 AM #0

[DistressedAmerican]

11. Mind If I Do?

[leveymg]

16. Please, do.

[Generic Other]

7. Can't even PLAY a G chord

What a phony.

[Poiuyt]

31. He looks like he's giving us the finger!

[elehhhhna]

8. My Pet Goat -- The Musical

[MrBenchley]

9. Operation Cover Chimpy's Ass in full swing....

"Bloggers also circulated a picture of Mr. Bush playing a guitar at an event in California on Tuesday to imply that he was fiddling while New Orleans drowned. In fact, the picture was taken when the country singer Mark Wills presented Mr. Bush with a guitar backstage at North Island Naval Air Station in Coronado, Calif., after Mr. Bush gave a speech marking the 60th anniversary of the Japanese surrender in World War II."

Yeah, and just look at how solemn and restrained the sumbitch is on the occasion, too...

?x=380&y=325&sig=xlaGyc1Muc3K7iAJg1KmkA--

[maine_raptor]

29. That event was Aug 30

and did happen a few days AFTER the levees broke in NO.

No if, ands, or buts about it.

And besides "marking the 60th anniversary of the Japanese surrender in World War II"...WTF!!!! Japan surrendered on Sept 2, 1945, not Aug 30..........what a moron!!!!

[DistressedAmerican]

10. Does Anyone Have The Swamp Rat "Bush Strummed" Graphic Or Link?

Can't find it with advanced search turned off.

[DistressedAmerican]

20. Another Posted By Swamprat. Again Not His Guitar Pic. But, World Class

[DistressedAmerican]

22. Damn. Bandwidth Nazis. Still Looking For The Strumming Graphic!

[Sapphire Blue]

32. Here's one...

[DistressedAmerican]

33. Yeah! Thanks!

Great one from a talented artist with a great reason to be pissed off!

[Sapphire Blue]

34. Here's another image posted by DUer dicksteele... Got Cake?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4527092&mesg_id=4536517

[dweller]

12. this one passed thru this morning

:D
dp

[DistressedAmerican]

14. That Is UBER HYSTERICAL!!! Bravo!!!

:applause:

[zalinda]

15. This one is probably the real pic

the other was just photo shopped.

zalinda

[DistressedAmerican]

13. Pulled From Bartcop!

[DistressedAmerican]

17. Gatorboy Is AWESOME. Not Nero But Still Needs Collected With These...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=4543622

[Imagevision]

18. Bush plays guitar while people die in NO. - despicable!!

http://downingstreetmemo.com/

[Stephanie]

19. Whore Bumiller writes "in fact" as if the she's correcting the story -

WHAT? In fact, George was presented with a guitar on Tuesday, AND IN FACT, PEOPLE WERE DROWNING AT THE SAME TIME.

[DemBones DemBones]

26. It made no sense. Yeah, he made a speech on Tuesday,

was given the guitar, and posed with it. On Tuesday people were dying in New Orleans. That's what we said. He was screwing around, doing nothing, while people were dying in NO.

[milkyway]

21. Nero fiddled while Rome burned. Bush strummed while New Orleans was

submerged.

[thereismore]

23. What do they mean by "In fact, this picture was taken..."

Are they saying that the bloggers got it wrong or what.

[DistressedAmerican]

24. A Little Odd I Admit. I Bit Dismissive.

[txindy]

25. I took it to mean the picture was a fact and not photoshopped.

:shrug: That Junior really was fooling around and giving unrelated speeches while Americans died on American soil through gov't. negligence.

[DistressedAmerican]

30. Yeah Maybe.

Hard to say for sure.

[DemBones DemBones]

27. No, she's trying to excuse his not doing anything about NO

for days. Well, he had to make this speech, see. . . Bullshit! Speeches can be canceled when there's a crisis in the country.

[Cleita]

28. Even Randi Rhodes has one on her website. n/t

[gulliver]

35. It's not that he is playing the guitar so much as he is ...

... yukking it up ... on Tuesday ... after the levees had broken. He is a caricature. His presidency is authentic as his G chord.

[girl gone mad]

36. Here is Bush comforting the victims..

on Bourbon street:

[DistressedAmerican]

37. Wonder If He Has A Hat Under There For Tips?

Great one!

[Eurobabe]

38. Fuckin' awesome Distressed!