George W. Bush on night of 9/11 "THAT'S RIGHT-- WE GOT A LAUGH OUT OF IT!"

[elehhhhna]

GEORGE AND LAURA ON 9/11 -- A BARREL OF LAUGHS!

The following is an interview with the First Couple from the current issue of one of my favorite magazines, Ladies Home Journal (Oct. '03). They are asked about what September 11, 2001, was like for them personally, and, although over 3,000 people had just perished, George W. was able to find some humor by the end of that day:

Peggy Noonan (the interviewer): You were separated on September 11th. What was it like when you saw each other again?

Laura Bush: Well, we just hugged. I think there was a certain amount of security in being with each other than being apart.

George W. Bush: But the day ended on a relatively humorous note. The agents said, "you'll be sleeping downstairs. Washington's still a dangerous place." And I said no, I can't sleep down there, the bed didn't look comfortable. I was really tired, Laura was tired, we like our own bed. We like our own routine. You know, kind of a nester. I knew I had to deal with the issue the next day and provide strength and comfort to the country, and so I needed rest in order to be mentally prepared. So I told the agent we're going upstairs, and he reluctantly said okay. Laura wears contacts, and she was sound asleep. Barney was there. And the agent comes running up and says, "We're under attack. We need you downstairs," and so there we go. I'm in my running shorts and my T-shirt, and I'm barefooted. Got the dog in one hand, Laura had a cat, I'm holding Laura --

Laura Bush: I don't have my contacts in , and I'm in my fuzzy house slippers --

George W. Bush: And this guy's out of breath, and we're heading straight down to the basement because there's an incoming unidentified airplane, which is coming toward the White House. Then the guy says it's a friendly airplane. And we hustle all the way back up stairs and go to bed.

Mrs. Bush: And we just lay there thinking about the way we must have looked.

Peggy Noonan (interviewer): So the day starts in tragedy and ends in Marx Brothers.

George W. Bush: THAT'S RIGHT-- WE GOT A LAUGH OUT OF IT!

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[Lost4words]

1. How nice for them.

What a typical couple, its nice they were even able to sleep, I couldn't for several days.

these PIGS have no heart.

[gauguin57]

17. Wow ... I remember that ... I couldn't sleep well for a couple of MONTHS

after 9/11, and I didn't even know anyone who lost anyone. And Georgie and Pickles just slip right back into their comfy bed and their fuzzy slippers and their "routine." And just have a good ole laugh about it all.

Damn them to H-E-double hockey stick.

[LiberalinNC]

2. So glad he and Laura had a laugh that day, while thousands of families

were destoryed! :mad:

[QuettaKid]

5. embellishment....

sounds like he was lying....just like he was lying about watching Karla Tucker on TV and then he made up his story about mocking her.

[sickinohio]

30. They're probably having a good ole laugh

tonight too, while many people are dead an many homeless because of them. Gawd I hate them!!

[Zynx]

3. What the hell?

[berner59]

4. wow...

I don't even know what to think - but this gives some god damn insight...I would use this as the ultimate proof that he should be impeached for the most incompentent president ever... Most Americans cried themselves to sleep that night...

[Courtesy Flush]

18. Or didn't sleep at all n/t

[blondeatlast]

6. So, W compromised national security in order to sleep in his "nest" and

it's a joke?

He just admitted to endangering the country YET AGAIN.

[melnjones]

7. No, I'm actually gonna defend them on this one...

Sometimes finding humor in the small things in a crisis is one of the few things that keeps you going. They had obviously just thought that their lives were in danger (hence bringing the dog and cat...I doubt they carry them around the house normally) and then are told, oh, nevermind. This response is normal, maybe even healthy. There are plenty of reasons to be upset with Bush, but I'm not seeing how this is one of them.

[elehhhhna]

15. ARE YOU KIDDING? I hope so. BTW, he carries that dog everywhere--

just like Paris Hilton.

I cried myself to sleep and I'm not the damn President.

[Retrograde]

42. that cause someone told him a teddy bear wasn't presidential (n/t)

[Old Mouse]

36. You're right

Gallows humor is common.

[ClusterFreak]

40. I understand the concept of humour in a crisis....

....but how about the monkey faces he was making in front of the camera before going live with his address to the nation regarding the just begun invasion of Iraq? (As shown in F-911)

[melnjones]

45. That was probably in poor taste...

I agree. Still, I think there are better things we could be angry with Bush about.

[MADem]

46. I've (edit: no, not mo) NO problem with your assertion, however

...if you think, for one solid second, that the article was PRINTED AS DICTATED, you are either in grave error, and perhaps you are not, or the administration does not GIVE A FUCK what people think--maybe the latter is indeed the case. That was massively insensitive, and did not make the couple seem human, it made them seem like privileged beasts.

I have been in a position where I have 'fluffed' articles for high ranking folk, and what happens, usually, is if it is a Q and A thing, someone does a rough printed transcript of the Q's and A's, sends it to the puke who is a subordinate to the big cheese being interviewed who checks these things, and the puke (me, at the time) rewrites the answers to make the respondent appear halfway intelligent (takes out all the uhs, the duhs and any politically incorrect language), and then sends the mess up the chain for approval. Once the boss goes from clown to god, the thing is sent back...and published as we wrote it. No shit.

With color articles, same deal. You call the reporter if you do not like the advance draft, and squawk. Ninety nine times out of a hundred, and I am not kidding you, they back down and make your changes down to the fucking commas and exclamation points.

Mind you, this applies to glossies, not newspapers--if it publishes once, twice or four times a month, the interviewEE usually gets his or her way.

Been there, done that...and have been on occasion, a bit disgusted.

[melnjones]

48. I agree that you're quite possibly right,

that Bush may have said far worse things than what was shown. One of my best friends has had to interview people and write stories and the like, and she's been through the same thing. What people will say is scary and hilarious all at the same time, but usually mostly scary. I just think that given that this is all the info on the situation that we have, there are a lot more important things we could be talking about in regards to Bush than this. But your point is well taken, and thank you for it:-)

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

8. He's a "nester" all right.

[Sydnie]

9. Let's not miss the other message buried in that story

THEY TOOK THEIR PETS WITH THEM! When they thought they were in danger, they also thought that their pets were in danger and didn't leave until they gathered them up to go with them.

Why should the residents of NO be treated any differently?

[melnjones]

11. Now that is an EXCELLENT observation. nt

[Tom_Foolery]

25. That's the first thing that jumped out at me...

other than that, it just shows that these people don't live in the same world as we do.

[understandinglife]

33. Yes. And, beyond that, the scale of their detachment is beyond ..

... comprehension. Most of my friends and colleagues didn't sleep much that night, and we certainly weren't laughing, and none of us were the President of the United States.

Ah, that's it!! I finally get it.

The only difference between us and Bush is that he slept and laughed since we all know he isn't the President, either.


Peace.

[ClusterFreak]

41. Excellent point!

[UTUSN]

10. NOONER's Trading RAYGUN's Foot for Shrub's Two?

[11 Bravo]

29. Your top row of pictures could be titled (at least from my perspective)

"Women I would not be interested in after serving 30 years in a federal penitentiary."

[Iris]

34. those sure are some sexy ladies!

[Qibing Zero]

12. Oh man. I was a self-absorbed kid at the time...

..and I don't remember finding anything funny for at least the next few days. I wasn't sleeping much if at all at the time anyhow, so I dunno how it actually affected me in that sense. =P

[soup]

13. "all in all, a FANTASTIC year."

Can't remember the specifics, only the quote, around Christmas time that year - this was said during another interview. Oh, and there was a big discussion about some damn rug.

They're so freaking disconnected from reality - wish they'd pay their phone bill and get in touch with the real world.

[leftofthedial]

14. ha ha ha . . . the way we must have looked

ha ha ha

fucking narcissistic sociopathic wannabe king piece of crap

[Courtesy Flush]

16. Now we understand all the vacations

"I needed rest in order to be mentally prepared"

Just how much rest will it take?

[DS1]

19. notice he doesn't know WHAT cat, or its NAME, just a cat

The man is completely brain-dead

[Loge23]

20. we're not amused

Thousands of kids went to bed that night wondering where their parent(s) were. Spouses didn't sleep at all, holding out hope that their loved ones would soon return. Almost half of the victims remains have never been positively identified to this day.
Even thousands of miles away, most of us dealt with a dull, sick feeling in our stomachs - no smiles, no laughter, no fuzzy slippers, no madcap bedtime hijinks.
This administration continues that awful nightmare. It has to end - it has to end soon.
What is particularly disturbing about this - and the verbal response by this family in recent days - is their incredible hubris. I mean, even if this happened, why would they want to tell us?? Do they think that this is funny?? That they are somehow more human that this actually happened??
- incredibly callous individuals.

[incapsulated]

39. Exactly, it shows the depths of their pathology

Again and again these people, this family, say the most incredibly inappropriate things and actually think they are sounding "human" or "compassionate". They are so removed from their own humanity and have so little compassion that they are very much like sociopaths trying to mimic how they think normal people would react. Of course, they fall flat on their face and just wind up confirming their obvious lack of human empathy, because they've spent most of their lives in the company of people who are the same way.

Really, at least Nixon was obvious in his mental and emotional illness, very human if dangerous in a position of authority. Behavior like this is just frightening, period. "Let them eat cake", truly. We are the disposable little people in their world and they wouldn't bother their beautiful minds about us if they weren't inconvenienced with the remaining trappings of our so-called democracy that forces them to try to act as if they care, on occasion.

[NJCher]

47. that is it, exactly

...they wouldn't bother their beautiful minds about us if they weren't inconvenienced with the remaining trappings of our so-called democracy that forces them to try to act as if they care, on occasion.

Nurse Karen told them that cutsey little stories like this would endear them to the American people. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if Nurse Karen spun this homely little fantasy up on her own. And, as you point out, the stories are inappropriate because they hang out with sociopaths like themselves. They have no reference point for what appropriate behavior might be like.




Cher

[Crankie Avalon]

21. I was working four blocks north of the World Trade Center that day...

...and witnessed much of what happened by looking right out of my office window before ultimately evacuating. Every time I closed my eyes for days after that, my mind's eye would see the fireball coming out of the South Tower as the second plane went into it from the south side.

At this point, I'll only say I'll never understand this person and his wife's reaction.

[SpiralHawk]

22. Eewwwwwwwww !

Gotta take a shower now. I feel so unclean after reading that.

[Roland99]

23. I remember that.

[imperialismispasse]

24. "Mentally prepared"? Ha ha ha ha ha!

[gizmonic]

26. Glad YOU "got a laugh out of it" -- ya fucking bastards!

:sarcasm:

I was stranded in Florida, watching the horror unfold on tv in my hotel, wondering how the fuck I was going to get back to my husband in Ohio.

20-hours of driving and I'm home. Then my dad ends up hospitalized with a bloodclot because of the stress...(he's ok)

So thanks for the barrel of laughs, ya fuckwads :grr:

edited for clarity

[Infomaniac]

27. That would be the apex of gallows humor.

A lot of people will remember how they spent that first awful night after the attack. My husband and I cowered in our bed while F-16s flew all around the NY metro area. Not much sleep and no chuckles for us as I recall. There were quite a few tears for the friends we lost though. And I still look if I hear a plane overhead.

[SeattleGirl]

28. Hey Dipshits, nice you had a good time

I didn't smile or laugh for a long time after 9/11.

[Iris]

The past 2 weeks must have been a real laugh riot for those crazy kids.

Jeez.

Just when I think I can't hate him anymore than I already do.

[latebloomer]

31. sociopaths

Just one more example of how they are incapable of empathy.

[glitch]

35. They are certainly well-suited to each other.

Bush offspring, past and present, don't seem to get much of a chance to grow up human.

[louis-t]

32. I lay awake and shook all night

The BIG planes from the AFB near me were flying in circles all night. Sort of made me feel safer, but kept reminding me awake.

edit: Glad the fuckwad and his trollop had a good laugh. Fuckers.

[Sewsojm]

37. Typical response

from the * crime family, may they all Rot In Hell, Fucking Bastards each and every one of them!!

[ClusterFreak]

38. Yeah.....gotta * keep * your * sense * of humour....

...in.....times....of....tragedy. Ha ha ha ha.......ha.:wtf:

[indepat]

43. 2001 was a very good year for Laura and me (or something like that)

[randr]

44. You know, you really have to feel some sympathy for them

These are seriously emotionally challenged people. Their lack of empathy and obvious missing social propriety bespeaks their sheltered upbringing.
Never have they had to pick up the silver spoon they dropped. Never have they been subjected to any reality that would have be spoiled their beautiful minds.
They are just like poor Innocent babes lost in the big world.

Yeah right--------fuck them both.

[dxstone]

49. Y'know what woulda been even FUNNIER?

If it WASN'T a friendly airplane...

Yeah, I know, I have a strange sense of humor, too...
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[gate of the sun]

50. while the rest of ended our day in shock

they ended theirs in laughs....they don't really care these people they shame us that they reside in the white house.

[Peace Patriot]

51. The story may be entirely made up. Who knows--in BushWorld?

My working hypothesis is that, whatever Bushites say, think of the exact opposite, and you're probably close to the truth. They are NEVER telling the truth. They are ALWAYS lying. And, when they go out of their way to plant a story like this in the "news," they have something they're trying to cover up. It is misdirection.

The story has a very weird feel, probably written by Karen Hughes. For instance, consider the phrase "You know, kind of a nester." That's women's language. Men don't use that word--"nester." Least of all a dimwitted, callous blusterer--"all hat, no cattle"--like Bush. He simply wouldn't pick up on a word like that from current lingo. It's a new usage--in fact a "Lady's Home Journal" kind of word. That's why I think a woman wrote it. Think of that "Vampira" (Hughes) in HER nest, on the night of 9/11, cozying in with her hot cocoa and her cat, and thinking of all the blood she's going to be able to suck over the next few years.

"I knew I had to deal with the issue the next day." The issue? 9/11 is an "issue"? Well, that's how the venomous brain of a Bush Cartel propagandist might think of it. How do we we deal with this "issue"? How do we spin it to our advantage? Ah, by the presinitwit projecting an image of "strength and comfort to the country." They may have been drilling Bush with that phrase. (I think they have coaching sessions with him, in which they try to make some simple ideas stick in his mind--similar to brainwashing.)

Oct. '03. Hm-m. Invasion of Iraq in March '03. Spring/summer hunt for WMDs. No WMDs. Opposition to the war back up to nearly 60% in opinion polls. Bad shit just went down, that will require more coverup--big risk of treason charges against many Bushites. The outing of Valerie Plame, in July '03, is the context in which this "interview" was scripted. It's my guess that the "good" CIA, the ones working in our interest, and the Brits chief weapons expert, David Kelly--who was likely "suicided" also in July '03--may have foiled a Bush Cartel plot to plant WMDs in Iraq. The Bushites had Judith Miller all set up and in position to "find" these phony WMDs and to "get the scoop," possibly as a reward to her for all she'd done for them. I don't think the Bushites were just sitting around idly, hoping she would find some. I think they had a plan to plant them, and, given what all happened next, that Plame (outed) and Kelly (suicided) were somehow involved in Judith Miller coming up empty-handed.

I'm trying to think when Tenet quit and passed the Plame outing onto a prosecutor. I think it was a bit later (spring '04?), but it was in the wind (who would take blame for no WMDs being found). Also, I believe Oct. '03 was when the torture scandal began to threaten the regime.

So the purpose of this phony interview of George and Laura may have been merely to take us back to 9/11, to reemphasize it--as part of the overall PR campaign to keep emphasizing it whenever any crap about Iraq came up. Its purpose is obviously, also, to associate 9/11, war and terror with images of "nesting," comfort, ordinary life. A little bit of domestic humor. Ozzie and Harriet. The bad bogeymen cannot ruffle this cozy American couple. He's got a full day at the office the next day. She's in her fluffy slippers and just a little bit of a scatterbrain who can't find her contacts. (How did she find her slippers?). Manhattan in ruins. The Pentagon still smoking. Thousands dead. Not to worry. The presidential bed is occupied, at least for part of the night.

What Bush was really doing is anybody's guess. To savvy readers, this precious little cameo is hardly comforting. In fact, it sends chills down one's spine to think how difficult his handlers have made it to get at anything even close to the truth.

There is also a more subtle psyops aspect to the story. One of the goals of the rightwing coup that we have suffered--it seems to me--is to reverse the "Vietnam syndrome" (the American peoples' revulsion at unjust war, and tendency toward fairness and justice), and also to reverse the "New Deal" mentality (75 years of social progress--workers rights, etc.) by inuring people to torture and mass slaughter (coarsening our sensibilities), and by forcing us to accept rule by the rich, in its rawest, ugliest form. I'm think of moments like Bush looking under the Oval Office rug for WMDs--making a joke of the slaughter of over 100,000 people--and addressing a dinner of fat cats by saying that these "have's" are his "base." And, more recently, his eating birthday cake with John McCain while New Orleans was wiped off the map and thousands of people were dying. All recorded, all on camera. Not hidden. (These are not arbitrary images or messages--they have a point.)

This utter callousness drives us crazy on the left. That may be one of its intentions--to inflame us, while of course rendering us increasingly powerless and literally disenfranchised (for instance, by their gaining control of the election system--Bushite companies counting all the votes with SECRET, PROPRIETARY programming code--I mean, how audacious can you get?).

If you are in a constant state of rage at this ugly Bush image--and at the radically altered and very ugly image of America that is thereby projected to all of us and to the world--and can't do anything about it, then you are a slave. Constant rage. No way out. Constantly provoked--provoked beyond endurance. Yet you have no say, no power, no way to fight back.

George and Laura having an endearing little humorous moment on the night of 9/11 may have been consciously intended to, a) penetrate the minds of the uninformed, the non-savvy, with the notion that thousands of Americans falling to their deaths or being incinerated is not such a big deal (just another yawn in our fat and happy lives as consumers--an "issue" that the powerful will "deal with"); and b) to provoke, enrage and disempower the better informed, the more savvy (which in my opinion is the majority of Americans) (--based on study of a range of opinion polls over the last year, which utterly contradict the stereotype of Americans as having moved to the right, politically, or as lazy, stupid and gullible.)

The latter group--the vast majority of Americans (60% to 70% disapproval of every major Bush policy, foreign and domestic)--has been a real problem for the Bush Cartel and the rightwing "think tanks." That's why they had to gain direct control over vote tabulation--and why they have to make up shit, like this George/Laura "interview." But I have great faith that the American people will ultimately triumph over this Cartel, because of its essential emptiness. The bottom line of the Cartel is greed. They have no beliefs--and, really, no interest in governing, just in looting. The looting that they had in mind is so massive, that they had to use psyops and tricks, and employ "think tanks" and neo-cons, to pull it off. It is THOSE operations that we are beginning to see more clearly--the image-making, the attempted brainwashing. But it is all just window dressing for callous, cold-hearted and murderous theft. The rightwing "think tanks" may have had a grand plan for transforming American society (a la Hitler's "Mein Kampf"--the "Project for a New American Century" and all that). But I don't think the real powers behind all this do. What THEY are doing is creating opportunities for grand theft--theft on a scale the world has never seen before--such as they just did in New Orleans. (--billions and billions more of our tax dollars to Halliburton, Bechtel, Fluor, et al).

[ignatius 2]

52. Gag, who in their right mind worried about getting a good nights

sleep on 9-11, who could sleep,as a matter of fact? He knew he had to provide strength and comfort to the country..who the fuck talks like that? He is like a little robot they wind up and tell to say this or that..Maybe he needs a full nights sleep because that is when they program him.

The wee boy king and his band of maniacs make me hurl.

[lonestarnot]

53. Glad they had a good night's sleep while the rest of the country spent

weeks without sleep. A nice laugh out of it too...how charming and worried about how they must have looked...

[ComerPerro]

54. Yeah, I remember that article

"So the day starts in tragedy and ends in Marx Brothers"

Lets see, a horrific terror attack, that apparently no one could have seen coming, hits the US, and Bush is laying in bed that very night laughing at how stupid he must have looked while running and hiding?

What a great, compassionate leader.