Amazing to watch a myth being created right before our eyes.

[BurtWorm]

If someone you had an argument with said something to you like what Bush said about the federal response to Katrina yesterday, would you consider it an apology? Would you say he'd "taken responsibility" for what he'd done to create the conflict? Would you refer to what he'd said as "The Apology?"

[Beetwasher]

1. Yup, 100% Pure Media Creation and Rovian Spin

"Bush apologized, can we just get over it now?"

[BurtWorm]

2. Funny how quickly that big bold media is falling into line with this one.

Into party line, I might add.

[movonne]

6. It sounds more like Karen Hughes spin...

[livetohike]

3. He did not apologize. Apologizing means saying "I'm sorry".

That didn't happen and it probably took Rove and company a lot of pushing to get him to say what he did say. He is so unaccustomed to taking responsibility for anything.

He was clearly uncomfortable in doing so yesterday.

[BurtWorm]

5. Clearly! So why are the media referring to it as an "apology?"

What happened to the brass-balls media that was allegedly reborn three weeks ago?

[livetohike]

8. Back to drinking the kool aid

:shrug:

[leveymg]

4. I'd call it an admissible confession

to additional counts of Negligent Homicide.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. It's all about FRAMING the debate.

[BurtWorm]

11. Democrats should not participate in the Rovian frame.

Bush did not apologize. He merely claimed responsibility far too late for a process he should have taken responsibility for automatically. To call it an "apology" is to attribute to Bush something he is constitutionally incapable of offering.

[FredStembottom]

9. Watch the video of the "apology"....

He nearly chokes on his gum trying to say it. Complete with the most revealing body language I have ever seen outside of a cartoon. He turns his entire body away from the mic and mumbles the "apology" to the floor.

Simply forced to say it. Not meaning a word of it.

[gratuitous]

13. I saw the clip, and I agree

I've seen folks having a tooth extracted who looked more comfortable than Chimpy did as he stumbled through those two or three sentences. Clearly not something he's accustomed to doing, but should be.

In any event, let's disregard the semantic niceties, shall we? It's easy enough and true enough to say Bush is responsible for the Katrina cock-up. He said so himself. Let the Republicans parse the sentences and argue over what the meaning of "responsible" is.

For us, we just have to use Bush's own statement and say without fear of contradiction that Bush is responsible for the failures of his government to respond appropriately to the Katrina disaster.

Don't worry over whether he was sincere, or believed what he was saying, or how the media might be spinning it. Just say it over and over, Bush is the person responsible for the magnitude of the suffering sustained by the victims of Hurricane Katrina.

Pretty soon, even the most brain-dead of his supporters will get the message.

[FredStembottom]

16. Great point!

He said it. That's all that counts from our viewpoint.

Thanks for making that clear to me.

:toast:

[stellanoir]

10. It was no apology

He merely stated the obvious as if it was some monumental revelation.

Of course Georgie dear, the president is responsible for the failures of the federal government under his watch.

No go along and play.

[BurtWorm]

12. It's an update of the Reagan Syndrome.

When an incompetent performs something he never does poorly, he is applauded for performing it at all, as though no one has ever performed it half as magnificently.

[Search Party]

14. I'm firing off an e-mail to Jack Cafferty and Anderson

on this very subject.

[peekaloo]

15. BBC nailed him yesterday. Taking "responsibility" does not mean taking

the blame.

It was a too late admission of his own impotence in truly governing.

Only the true deludinoids heard an apology.

He's still a small but dangerous man.