Video - Bush is asked question about journalist being fired in US Press

[dzika]

Video - Bush is asked question about journalist being fired in US Press - 2/24

At a press conference with Putin, a foreign journalist asks a question about freedom of the press and individuals that have been fired in the U.S. press. Bush doesn't give a straight answer.



Video in Real Media format (3 minutes):
http://www.edwardsdavid.com/BushVideos/cnn_bush_press_question_050224-01.rm


Here is a related article from Reuters:

Russian Press Ask Bush: Who Says We're Not Free?
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=7731576

[MelissaB]

1. Thanks!

Watch this one, folks. It's well worth the 3 minutes.

[Up2Late]

2. WOW, how would you like to be the guy that has to translate that?

3 minutes to say absolutely nothing.:freak:

[zann725]

40. The more he talked, the deeper he dug himself in. What double-speak!

Clearly he has such trouble being articulate...which he's fully aware of, and usually prefers to "keep it short." But when he REALLY is confronted with the Truth, and desparately needs to lie his way out...he keeps talking, and talking, and talking.

This reminds me of a few interviews he gave AFTER 9/11...in which he similarly felt the need to keep talking, and talking, and talking... to explain exactly why he just happened to be in Florida on the day 9/11 occurred. I would've believed it was purely chance, IF he hadn't felt the need to explain, explain, explain.

There's a pattern here we should note, and watch for in the future (i.e., with Gannongate)!

[Oreo]

3. What a fucknut

good non-answer you shit.

He says I don't know what reporter you're talking about? Do all of you still have your jobs?

"A free press is an important part of any Democracy"
For once Georgie gets it right... too bad we don't have one.

Lots and lots of stammering... he's definitely reaching on this.

[CottonBear]

4. That was painful to watch.

Notice that the question was about the US press and Shrub twisted around the answer to make some sort of inane comment about how the reporter is comfortable (WTF?) with the Russian press.

[MelissaB]

13. Yeah, I noticed

that, too.

[zann725]

41. Wonder if the question was a "plant" by Putin to put Shrub on-the-spot?

Did you see Putin's non-verbal during Shrub's answer? Clearly he was annoyed...for sure.

[november3rd]

5. he's senile

he's delusional, he means well, but he's a phony.

The whole world knows it, too, except a slim majority of American voters.

[demo dutch]

7. What a buffoon!

[ailsagirl]

33. I can't agree that he means well... he's a

sadistic, vicious SOB.

(no offense, november3rd)

:eyes:

[zann725]

42. He's not delusional. He knows EXACTLY how much he's silencing the Press.

His father did so before him. He's just honing it down...until there's no REAL Press left at all. Just pure Faux Propaganda.

[Helga Scow Stern]

6. He looked really stressed out,

and "Vlad" looked mad.

I kept waiting for * to break into a whine of "it's hard, it's hard work, ruining a democracy..."

[BlueEyedSon]

8. Oy, soooooo painful to watch.

[helderheid]

10. that's what I felt

Ooooooouuuuch!

[i miss america]

11. That's exactly how I feel. The creep is simply too revolting to watch.

[Applepie]

17. Very

I am both sad and ashamed that he represents us. How did this ever happen? I hope that one of these mornings when I wake up I will discover that this was all just a bad dream. It just doesn't seem like such a fool could really be our president.

[EFerrari]

20. Welcome to DU Applepie!

:hi:

[Applepie]

22. Thanks

I'm not as new as it appears. Just a little shy.

[EFerrari]

24. Gets really easy :)

[pacalo]

9. Liars often overexplain when they're hiding something.

[Bucky]

15. More like the ignorant over explain

More like the ignorant over explain what they *do* know when asked about something that they don't know about. The topic was press freedom in Russia, which Bush's people took a stand on, but which Bush himself only accepted as an article of faith without actually knowing any facts to back up the official US position when cornered by the people he'd been indicting.

[zann725]

44. Exactly! And Shrub's done it OFTEN before.

And when he's caught off-guard, he doesn't have the smarts to hide his uneasiness with the Truth.

He HAS an Achilles Heel. Let's remember it for the future...and those Impeachment Hearings!

[0007]

49. .....junior was getting kind of racy.

and we wonder why the world hates us.

[MelissaB]

12. Please recommend topic for greatest page

so that other will see this. :)

[EFerrari]

14. Oh, man! I REALLY could have used this image yesterday

when my column was turned in:

". . . .As I write this, Bush is in Europe. The worst thing
about knowing Bush is on a "good will tour" is knowing
that at some point, he will open his mouth."

lmao!!!!!!!

[sickinohio]

16. I tried to watch the idiot

but just couldn't. Had to exit out.

:puke:

[grumpy old fart]

18. Jesus, could we have a more inarticulate, unintelligent idiot for a Prez?

What a fucking embarassment..aside from being Satan's spawn, he's just a bumbling asshole in public. I guess we should be grateful at some level. Imagine if someone smooth, like Clinton, had the evil agenda of this chimp......

[Darkhawk32]

50. OMG! That WOULD be scary. n/t

[Darkhawk32]

51. OMG! That WOULD be scary. n/t

[MellowOne]

19. Not only is he an embarrassment to our country

He comes across as a smarta$$ in his poor attempt at humor.

[canichelouis]

21. Could not

finish watching all of this. Cringe!!!Cringe!!!

[BrightKnight]

23. Junior doesn't have the credibility to press the issue.

Junior was trying to squirm out of the confrontation. We really needed someone with credibility and diplomatic skills. He is in way over his head. He has always known this and he does not give a damn.

Every time he screws up the media should be screaming bloody murder.

His list of ways American journalists are fired was not reassuring.

[zann725]

45. I wonder how many other questions he was asked that they didn't tape?

This was clearly the end of the Press Conference. My guess is there was plenty more of the same.

[kcwayne]

25. This guy has been in the 7th grade for the last 40 years

What a stupid man.

[kohodog]

26. Awhooobaaah, Awhooobaaah

ALERT!! ALERT!! Democracy in the USA is dead.


Fuck Mainstream Media. Fuck Bush and his minions.

[dalloway]

27. the day I realized the Russian press was both more free

and SMARTER than our MSM---when this story ran in Pravda:

Eulogy for America
11/08/2004 16:49
David R. Hoffman, Legal Editor PRAVDA.RU

The epitaph reads:
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Born July 4, 1776 - Died November 2, 2004

Ladies and gentlemen, we gather here today to mourn the passing of the United States of America, a nation that once stood as a beacon light of hope for the world.

America was betrayed and murdered on November 2, 2004. Also killed during this time of madness were the following virtues: truth, justice, integrity, freedom, compassion, brotherhood, tolerance, faith, hope, charity, peace, and respect for other cultures and nations. These virtues are survived by their antitheses--deceit, injustice, hypocrisy, fascism, selfishness, hatred, fear, hopelessness, greed, perpetual warfare and arrogant hegemony.

<snip>

Amazing, isn't it, when PRAVDA is the place to get the TRUTH about America? The whole article is brilliant--I highly recommend you read the unedited version here:

http://english.pravda.ru/mailbox/22/101/399/14555_euology.html

[AuntiBush]

28. Best Photo-Shot of him yet!

Jeez! Look at that mouth, because I can't stomach it.

[AuntiBush]

29. Run that picture again and ask Du to mimic what he's saying...

It's bound to make the Greatest... just try to imagine what the Oaf is saying.

[AuntiBush]

30. Good lines...

"What is that lack of freedom all about?" a reporter from the Russian news agency Interfax asked the U.S. president." (Yet), Before Bush could answer, the reporter then turned on Putin and demanded to know why he was not sticking up for Russian reporters by talking about violations of the rights of American journalists."

"A startled (No Mike in Ear) Bush then replied (stumbled) that Putin had brought up (blamed Putin) the subject of journalists getting fired recently in the United States." "People do get fired in the American press (and quick, less they're MEDIA OWNED WHORES). They don't get fired by the government, (no) however, they get fired by their editors," (pressured by Rovie) Bush said.

:crazy:

[Blue_In_AK]

31. That was painful.........

[Blue_In_AK]

32. What fired reporter are they talking about? Guckert? n/t

[librechik]

47. Maybe Rather or Eason Jordan

and Bush is being disingenuous to claim he had nothing to do with it. He says get em and his jackals go and do it.

[Blue_In_AK]

53. Oh, right...

...I had forgotten about those two. (How could I??)

[GardeningGal]

34. Wow - that was ugly....

I also really noticed what some have been saying for some time about the droopy left side of his mouth. For some reason, I really noticed it it this clip.

[no_vote_no_count]

35. What a fucking embarrassment! He even

called Putin by his first name, Vladimir, instead of addressing him as "Mr. Putin".

I can't think of one other world leader that would call * "George".

What a stupid moran.

[BrightKnight]

55. First names to keep the conversation simple

He uses first names in an effort to keep the conversation on a kindergarten level. He does not want to use formal language because he is incapable of thinking and speaking like a world leader. Telling Jacque Chirac that he would make a good cowboy was a plea to dumb down the discussion. He is an idiot and he lacks moral authority.

Some one should tell him the hard truth. His performance was unacceptable. He should resign for the good of the country.

[AtLiberty]

36. He needs needs that bulge on his back --

His entourage must be slacking off on this trip.

[seventythree]

37. yah, and why do we never see a back shot anymore?

[MadisonProgressive]

38. Did Putin refer to him as 'George' during the press conference?

[CottonBear]

52. Yes, he called him George.

I heard this on the NTV Russian news broadcast on C-Span.

[Bouncy Ball]

39. He lectures people.

And yet, doesn't manage to say a fucking thing.

And if his face gets any worse, I swear I'm going to call him "Droopy." I mean no disrespect to any stroke victim, but we've never been told what's wrong with him, despite the fact that it is clearer and clearer all the time that SOMETHING is wrong with him. Medically, not just mentally.

[fooj]

43. "Droopy, Turd Blossom and Bulldog" Hey BB- it's another trifecta!

:hi:

[Al-CIAda]

46. As always thanks Dzika! damn, what an IDIOT! eom

[argyl]

48. Compared to his explanation of tribal sovereignty this was a masterful

performance.

[KansDem]

54. I still haven't figured out why people laugh at his "jokes..."

I used to think sycophantic reporters were simply simpering in order to get in the front row at press conferences...

Now I think they're just laughing at him...