Pat Buchanan on The Imus Show this morning...

[kentuck]

said that media are pulling Bush down. He thought after a few days it would lighten up a bit but it's been going on for three weeks, he said. He was critical that no one told Bush what was going on down in New Orleans. Since Bush does not read newspapers or watch TV, he had no idea how serious the disaster really was - and Imus pointed out that he was more out of touch than the average American...

[sabra]

1. is this the same Buchanan that declared that Bush should be impeached?

[calico1]

2. Since when is it the responsibility of others

to keep bush informed of everything that is going on? Is he that insulated that he doesn't even know when a hurricane happens? Buchannan needs to stop making excuses for him. It makes bush look even more stupid when people defend him by saying he didn't know what the hell was going on and nobody told him.

[madokie]

4. that is keeping in mind that buccannan is pretty stupid anyway, right

[sasha031]

3. Imus has a point here

I don't trust Imus, do you know he has been ranting for days that Saddam kicked the inspectors out. Is he that dumb or is he covering for the adm spreading disinformation.

[calico1]

5. Imus goes in whatever direction the wind is blowing. n/t

[FightingIrish]

6. It's almost fun watching the conservative pundits try to

decide whom to pander to. They sense that Bush is toast but they recognize that there a comatose base of supporters that refuse to wake up.

[grasswire]

7. bogus

1. Are we to believe that aides don't brief him on such matters? Does he wait for the news to hit the media, be filtered through aides, and delivered to him the next day? If North Korea launches a ballistic missile at us, does he get that news a day later?

This is a laughable and disgusting ruse. LAURA reads the paper, for crying out loud, but this kind of news should be delivered within the hour.

WHAT'S the SITUATION ROOM FOR??

[Verve]

9. He's the Goddam President! He should be informed, period!

What a lame ass excuse!

[Missy M]

8. Was Buchanan being serious? I can't believe he would make a....

statement as stupid as "bush does not read newspapers or watch TV so he had no idea how serious the disaster really was". Then he wonders why the media won't lighten up on bush. There is something seriously wrong with bush when he doesn't even know what is going on in this country. Don't his aides talk to him? A president who doesn't read or listen, that is unheard of.

[warrens]

10. I saw something he wrote over the weekend

What the fuck is wrong with him? If the staff was terrified to tell him bad news, that's the giggling murderer's fault for being, as someone put it yesterday "a mean, ignorant cocksucker." He has no defense. This is his fault and no one else's. Others may share the blame, but ultimately it is his ignorant cronyism, his disinterest in anything that doesn't directly or indirectly bring his family and friends wads of cash, his contempt for anyone who doesn't share his upbringing or ideology, and his lifelong incompetence that are to blame for this crap.

He's the ultimate arrogant fuckwad with nothing to be arrogant about other than winning the birth lottery.

[halobeam]

11. Well said.

I take note on another post here:

A president who doesn't read or listen.

Just read that sentence twice.

It's beyond surreal.

[PurityOfEssence]

12. "Officer, it's not my fault I hit that car; I don't know how to drive."

The very fucking idea that the President of the United States thinks it's just fine to never watch the news, read a paper or stick his head out of his hidey-hole occasionally to hear what the rest of the country hears is breathtaking. He'd just rather watch a ball game and turn in early.

One should have a knee-buckling and humbling awe at the power entrusted to one when accepting that office, and one should literally work oneself to death out of sheer duty to one's fellow man.

What lame-ass patrician fecklessness to take vacations and snivel about how hard it all is. Americans will eat a mile of shit just to hang out with the rich and famous, and along with his vaunted cowboy decisiveness (which was revealed as a lie in NO) this is his only appeal.

Imus has a masculinity deficiency just like most Republicans, so he needs to twist his lips and get all folksy to prove himself. Buchanan is smart, fairly honest, sexist, racist, virulently religious, somewhat personable and meaner'n a snake. The fact that he looks passingly like Joe McCarthy just proves that there really is such a thing as structuralism.

[indepat]

13. How great the danger in having an incurious/ignorant prez who is told by

a bunch of sickophants only what they want to tell him/what he wants to hear. America is paying dearly for the luxury of having all levers of powers held by a group of extreme ideologues whose idea of government is foreign to the principles upon which this nation was founded and has largely prospered. God save this Republic which is ebbing away.

[Lexingtonian]

14. blowhard vs windbag

Pat is being Wacko Pat again. He's gone over to magical thinking that there's a Silent Majority out there that will just snap out of this rejection of Bush and the Good Old Days of 2003 will suddenly return.

He's simply a guy who knows the real polling numbers, knows that they and then trend line say the Nixon era is on its deathbed. The Culture War is lost, the GOP is utterly corrupted and beyond recovery, the Administration has dealt itself a losing hand in everything. There's only one thing left to do if you're Pat Buchanan and emotionally can't accept that the game is almost up, and that's blame Democrats and the media.

[elehhhhna]

15. BOO FRICKEDY HOO.

[EstimatedProphet]

16. God knows it can't be Bush's performance pulling him down!

Idjit.

[KharmaTrain]

17. Pat's Clueless

He's stuck on the wrong side with too many groups on too many issues. He's tried to find some kinda "third rail"...and doing it in a real goofy way.

One week he's the biggest Iraq invasion critic and calls for the asshat's head...and here on DU, he's "seen the light". Nah, it's just Pat's quiet admiration for Saddam...they have a quiet anti-semetic mutual admiration society going.

Next week, he's blaming Nagin and Blanco for the fiasco in New Orleans...all but felating this regime and blaming the victim...the "refugees". But then doesn't this fit in Pat's racist and sexist nature?

Now, he's onto the spending jag...yep all that tax money and he and his buddies aren't gonna get any of it. Then NOBODY gets it. Not boooosh and not them "refugees". They put those houses in that soup bowl...they knew the risks...let them deal with it. Yep, Pat's a real work...