"He looked like he was going to cry,"

[gatorboy]

http://www.attytood.com/archives/003709.html

George W. Bush is a man on a mission today: To remind the American people how they felt five years ago, when the public was understandably frightened by the killing of nearly 3,000 fellow citizens, and when the president briefly gained acceptance as a bullhorn-wielding leader.

Of course, the truth was anything but. Even on Day One, some of us -- too gently, in hindsight -- wondered about Bush's strange behavior on the actual 9/11, flying from remote airbase to remote airbase while Dick Cheney was running the show. Quickly, it because clear that any doubts about our commander-in-chief were flat-out forbidden. At least two journalists were fired for writing such stories. For example:

Tom Gutting, city editor for the Texas City Sun was fired in September 2001 after writing a column in which referred to President Bush as a "scared child seeking refuge in his mother's bed after having a nightmare" for not returning to Washington DC immediately after hearing about the attacks on September 11th.

<snip>

For a puzzling seven minutes, the youngsters read aloud from the story "The Pet Goat" while the shaken president followed along in front of the class, trying to come to grips with what he had been told - that a second plane had just hit the World Trade Center and the nation was under terrorist attack.

"He looked like he was going to cry," said Natalia Jones-Pinkney, now 12.

[Avalux]

I bet he forces himself to cry tonite.

He'll stand there and start sniffing pretending to fucking care. x(

[Bluebear]

1. "I thought, personally, he had to go to the bathroom."

[Warpy]

2. A slightly more observant child said

he looked like he needed to go to the bathroom.

They just played it again on National Geographic. He knew it was coming. He expected it.

He just sat there.

[lonestarnot]

8. He knew it was coming alright, the rat bastard.

[panader0]

3. Natalia Jones-Pinkney..... Look out!!!

[Cocoa]

4. and Michael Moore was the first to dare show the video

I remember the video being online before F-911, but that when it became known that Moore was using this footage it was a big story, a lot of people knew nothing until then about what our president actually did at the time of his beloved 9/11.

[BrklynLiberal]

6. and it was not until Moore showed the protests during Dimson's

"Inauguration" that many of us ever got to see the reality of what happened then...

[gatorboy]

9. One thing Moore did wrong was not showing the footage in it's entirety

By skipping through the footage, I can see where some might believe that Moore over-exaggerated the situation.

If anything, Moore should've shown the 7 minutes in its entirety with a split screen of what was going on in real time at that moment. He might've thought that this would drag down the pace of the film. I think this would've given a better example of just how inept Bush was at the time.

[Kazak]

10. Totally!

:thumbsup:

[Cocoa]

11. interesting standard for Moore

no other mainstream outlet even fucking showed the fucking footage of our fucking president when he fucking found out about fucking 9/11.

Moore shows it, and his methods are picked apart.

The fucking's are not aimed at you, they are only expressing my perplexity at the standard Moore is held to.

[gatorboy]

13. No problem!

I'm surprised no one has made a split screen video of the events on 9/11 with the My Pet Goat video set beside one another. It would give people a good idea of just how long 7 minutescan be when compared to the events of that day.


Anyone want to suggest some free video editing software to do this with?

[savemefromdumbya]

5. no he didn't look like he was crying

[Synnical]

7. Oh, cripes I thought this was about Jon Stewart!

After viewing this, as I did today:

(VIDEO) Post-9/11 Daily Show. Heartbreaking

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=2108063&mesg_id=2108063

[DinahMoeHum]

12. (sigh!) ". . .Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings. . ."

:evilgrin:

[gully]

14. That makes two of us. I've been crying since the asshole stole our

highest office.