What do you think of *'s back drop for today? - pics

[Kadie]

President Bush arrives to speak about comprehensive immigration reform in Irvine, Calif., Monday, April 24, 2006. As Congress headed back Monday from a two-week recess, President Bush was in the country's most immigrant-rich state to push a stalled bill that would allow more foreigners to work legally in the United States. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)



U.S. President George W. Bush makes remarks about his plan for comprehensive immigration reform while at the Hyatt Regency Irvine in Irvine, California, April 24, 2006. REUTERS/Larry Downing

[OldLeftieLawyer]

1. America is so impressed

by this blatant and manipulative bullshit, his poll numbers will drop even lower.

How come the murderous little fucker isn't in the White House doing his job?

[Binka]

71. He Has A Job? Wow I Guess Nobody Told Him!

That hand picked Irvine crowd sure looks enthralled. Orange County is so disgustingly fascist I'm surprised he wasn't getting a blow job on stage. I smell 28% by the end of the week.

edit: oops

[XNASA]

2. I think he must be using the same Graphics company as the Colbert Report.

[maddezmom]

12. I thought they looked familar

:D

[Theres-a]

40. Exactly my thoughts

Especially the eagle....

[chemenger]

68. I'd sure like to know what the eagle is thinking ...

"You do not represent me, dumbass!" maybe????

Photoshop anyone? (I don't know the first thing about Photoshop).

[knitter4democracy]

3. How ironic.

Does he even know the poem on the Statue of Liberty? Does he have any idea what he's doing?

Btw, who did the backdrop--Colbert's people?

[IChing]

15. I thought it looked very Colbert very Truthinessistic

That was my first impression it reminded me of the beginning of his show.

Sorta looks truthinessistic

(sorry Steven by I just had got the copyright on that new word)

[DS1]

4. Kind of ironic to have that Lady Liberty chick back there, what with

her hippie liberal "Send us your teeming masses" crap while his party wants them all kicked out, no?

:sarcasm:

[rkc3]

18. At least he didn't put a hood over her head.

[Chimichurri]

5. Stephen Colbert would be proud.

It looks like Lady Liberty is crying in the 2nd one - it's understandable why.

[katty]

53. bush should prance out wrapped in an American Flag

[Vincardog]

6. He can wrap himself in the flag. But as long as he wipes his a$$ with

our Constitution he is still a Traitor.

[FSogol]

7. Bah, can anyone find out how much that propaganda is costing US taxpayers

Calling Rep. Waxman.

[babylonsister]

8. That image of the Statue of Liberty is incorrect, more like this:

[wordpix]

24. nice graphic

[Joe Fields]

65. Priceless!

[Missy M]

9. If they don't stop with those back drops soon I will have to be...

committed to an institution because they are driving me absolutely crazy. In the first photo where Bush is walking on stage he looks like a game show host for 'Wheel of Fortune'. Enough is enough!!!!!

[Goblinmonger]

25. That last picture looks like

"Big bucks, no whammies."

[Joe Fields]

66. And it also looks like a game show audience from the '50's.

[bdamomma]

58. they throw stones at Hollywood

these thugs are no better, they blame everyone else except themselves. We are marching towards fascism.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

10. The images he walked in between even look like twin towers.

Thanks. I was about to get some lunch. Now no appetite.

[dogday]

11. NO, they had to change the backdrop at the last minute!!!

Original Backdrop

[Tanuki]

13. Doesn't that qualify

as flag desecration? I wonder how they plan to get rid of the props after the show without burning or trashing a flag.

[CrazyOrangeCat]

14. iconic revolutionary images.

very small, stupid, mean, man strutting in front of them.

[npincus]

16. suggestion for new * backdrop:

this is more appropriate.

[dchill]

17. Personally, I think the eagle...

has a LOT more to cry about now than it did on 9/11/01. Now it's being used as a backdrop for the cowboy has caused it all. That, my friends, is why the eagle cries.

[Goblinmonger]

23. I was hoping

the second eagle picture would have it pecking Bush's eyes out. That would have been sweet.

[dchill]

33. It DID show that...

but it was Photoshopped out of the picture. The eagle is PISSED.

[sam sarrha]

19. Fascists are Addicted to those big F's displays.. next it'll be his photo

[Redstone]

20. How much is this shit costing in OUR TAX DOLLARS?

Large-format color printing like that usually goes for about five bucks a square foot, and there's a new one every fucking day!

Redstone

[moc]

28. My question exactly. I swear, the only thing * knows how to do

is campaign. He's clueless when it comes to actual governing. Between these ridiculous backdrops and the cost of fuel, how much is it costing the taxpayers every time he goes on one of these little jaunts?

I'd love to see some journalist dig up the figures and publish them for all the world to see. While Mr. Common Man is struggling to put gas in his car to go to work, Little Lord Fauntleroy is jetsetting around the country with nary a care in the world.

[Redstone]

21. Any further questions that we're turning into Soviet Russia?

What's next, a Fourth of July Parade in Washington, with tanks and missiles?

Redstone

[Rufus T. Firefly]

56. Or a pre-Soviet Russian idea: Potemkin Villages.

Except they're put up to make the masses think everything's okay, rather than just the monarch.

[wicket]

22. Stephen Colbert would be proud

;)

[Atman]

26. This is why it's so hard to parody these assclowns

Like Rush...how can you parody a walking parody? Bush is the same thing...a walking parody. Colbert tries to do it with the brazillion flags and eagles, and in the end it is exactly what BushCo does anyway. Colbert's show has already ceased to become parody...now it's just scary, because he's so dead-on accurate, and the right doesn't even know it. I've heard of some of them who think he's serious and one of them.

:scared:

[wicket]

31. I've seen occasional posts on here about Freeps taking Colbert seriously

And I'm with you about it being down right scary! :scared:

[warrens]

27. Looks like he borrowed Pigboy's old TV audience

Fat white men in cheap suits. God, that looks like performance art.

[partylessinOhio]

29. Cheney shoots Eagles doesn't he?

The Statue of Liberty dwarfs the chimp.

[laruemtt]

30. in that first pic, how about

lady liberty bangs the fool's head with her torch. :rofl:

[Kadie]

34. That would be great!

I'd love to see that.

[Nostradammit]

32. Just look at the unbridled joy radiating from that crowd -

This must be the happiest day of their life.

You know how obvious Hitler's propaganda seems to us now? Nobody in the future is going to believe that anybody could be dumb enough to fall for this man's schtick. He's a one-man freak show.

[WinkyDink]

35. Was there EVER a cockier fool??

That ridiculous strut is so risible.

[Binka]

70. Brave Sir Robin? "he was brave he was brave..."

[mtnsnake]

36. May giant California red fire ants knaw thru the floor where he's standing

and you know what!!

[uppityperson]

37. bald eagle is a scavenger, yes eats salmon but also garbage

that is a good place to find eagles when visiting Juneau, out near the dump. Hey Mr.bush, it isn't working any more. Give it up. Time to have your actions speak louder than your feeble attempts at distraction.

[Tyler Durden]

38. Where are the Swastikas? The Flaming Torches?

All he needs is a natty uniform and a mustache.

These people must be really insane.

[underpants]

42. W was in Ca. but they had a parallel demonstration in Michigan

Members of the National Socialist Movement, protected by chain link fence and Michigan State troopers, rally at the state Capitol in Lansing, Mich., Saturday, April 22, 2006. The white supremacists said they were taking a stand against illegal immigration, but their appearance was met by boos from counterprotesters. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

[Tyler Durden]

48. Hey, forgot all about that.

Best thing to do in dealing wish Nazis and NeoNazis like Bush.

[Warpy]

39. Dunno, doesn't look like that overdressed audience

is buying the snake oil he's selling.

As for the projected backdrops, they're both over the top and utterly cheesy.

[Rocknrule]

41. More "Bush = America" propaganda

[DUHandle]

43. Lady Liberty used to be a helluva of a lot taller.

[DinahMoeHum]

44. Well, methinks this is Lady Liberty's reply. . .

"YOU'RE REALLY PISSING ME OFF, GEORGE!"

http://stickeremporium.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=LS&Category_Code=LS0047

:patriot:

[Flubadubya]

45. Why don't they sew him a 3-piece flag suit...

and be done with it. It's the only thing missing that I can see to complete the jingoist's charade.

It's just a shame to see the icons of our once great nation set as backdrop for its destroyer. :grr::argh::mad:cry:

[electron_blue]

46. Looks like he's walking onstage to a gameshow.

[sinkingfeeling]

47. I will compare it to Hitler's. Ultra nationalistic crap.

[Hubert Flottz]

49. All that money for a background and they always put a big turd

in the foreground! It just proves the GOP is out of any real ideas about making the world of the future, a better place to live...

[cliss]

50. Look at photo #2.

Doesn't he look like a complete Court Jester? All that's missing is that funny hat that splits in two.

He looks pretty crusty on the last photo. Tired, George? "Yeah, from those damn protesters at Stanford. They wrecked my forward momentum, you know".

Stupid buffoon.

[Ganja Ninja]

51. A real leader who's competent and honest doesn't need to use

props and codpieces and backgrounds to try and fool the masses that he's a man a leader and a patriot. Only a weak, cowardly, dishonest, snake oil salesman uses these kind of tactics.

[enigmatic]

52. It looks like

He watched "The Colbert Report" one night and said, "THAT'S A REAL AMERICAN! Get me a duplicate of his set!":)

[BurtWorm]

54. It's not going to help. (That's a lot of whiteness in that audience.)

:patriot:

[bdamomma]

55. fascism is here

http://ellensplace.net/fascism.html

no. 1 of the 14 points of fascism
bush is so transparent, this is just smoke and mirrors.


Powerful and continuing expressions of nationalism

From the prominent displays of flags and bunting to the ubiquitous lapel pins, the fervor to show patriotic nationalism, both on the part of the regime itself and of citizens caught up in its frenzy, was always obvious. Catchy slogans, pride in the military, and demands for unity were common themes in expressing this nationalism. It was usually coupled with a suspicion of things foreign that often bordered on xenophobia.

[Maddy McCall]

57. I think that eagle wants to peck him on the head.

[0007]

59. The eagle nailed this prick a long time ago!

[MH1]

60. He's desperate. nt

[Mnemosyne]

61. Photo #4 - Ohh baby, BALD! n/t

[Neil Lisst]

62. What is that guy ON?!!

[Skittles]

63. whatever it is, I don't want any

:o

[Joe Fields]

64. What a freaking insult and mockery to the American people.

[DemonFighterLives]

67. Miss Liberty stands quietly by

While little miss liberty wannabe struts by.
:argh:

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

69. When he's eventually put on trial, shouldn't there be a backdrop of dead

babies from Iraq and Afghanistan? Pics of coffins of American soldiers? Pics of Katrina? Pics of DU victims etc etc etc... I think that would be a fine idea.