1st time in history WH address preceded by warnings it was "fictionalized"

[dajoki]

Slate
http://www.slate.com/id/2149365

The Path Not Taken
Five years later, we still don't have a 9/11 president.

By Bruce Reed
Posted Monday, Sept. 11, 2006, at 1:49 PM ET
Monday, Sept. 11, 2006

The Mother of Invention: For all the partisan suspicions about tonight's prime-time presidential address, the timing couldn't be more perfect. On ABC, the speech will run smack in the middle of the Bush episode of the network's crockumentary, "The Path to 9/11." That means that for the first time in history, an Oval Office address will be preceded by repeated viewer warnings that it has been "fictionalized" for "dramatic and narrative purposes."

All these years, we may have been judging the administration by the wrong standard. For a democracy, the Bush White House makes a lot of stuff up – but they prefer to think of themselves more as a docudrama.

In a brief talk at the World Trade Center last night, the president sounded the themes he no doubt will return to tonight. He spoke of approaching 9/11 "with a heavy heart." He called it a day of remembrance, healing, and renewed resolve: "It just reminded me that there's still an enemy out there that would like to inflict the same kind of damage again."

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Unresolved: For five years, George Bush has delivered the same, numbing message: "all resolve, all the time." The White House long ago chose to stress character over results. The president and his advisers believe that the more they tout their resolve, the fewer problems they actually have to resolve.

If Bush had his way, he would change the back of the one-dollar bill to drop "Novus Ordo Seclorum" – the Latin inspiration for his father's "New World Order" – and replace it with his own national security motto, "Wibli Vibrant Non Cadunt": "Weebles Wobble, But They Don't Fall Down."

[Berry Cool]

1. This is so true. I saw the "this has been fictionalized" warning.

Keith Olbermann gave it to us right before the speech began on MSNBC!

[DeSwiss]

2. The Decryder's whole life has been a fiction....

...but until he became a politician, most of us were spared. Now, unfortunately, we've all been cast into the story too.

Its a sort of like your most surreal nightmare. -- Only stupider and with more insanity. And fart jokes...

[dajoki]

3. and a whole lot of suffering n/t