Is this how Snow, Rove, Bartlett, Card, and other White House handlers secretly talk about Dubya behind his back?
The White House faces simultaneous sudden meltdowns of PR images of superior "family values" and "national security" competence for Republicans.
Obviously rattled by a "perfect storm" of House Predatorgate and "State of Denial", WH Press Secretary Tony Snow made at least two apparent Freudian slips in Monday's White House Press Briefing.
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(1) The first I saw came in response to a question about Snow's very flippant remark about Predatorgate over the weekend:
From
http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/001653.php :
'White House: Foley Scandal Nothing More Than "Naughty Emails"; By Paul Kiel - October 2, 2006, 11:16 AM
White House spokesman Tony Snow on CNN this morning:
"there have been other scandals, as you know, that have been more than simply naughty e-mails.'
Snow deferred questions about details of Pretatorgate to Speaker Hastert, said something like, "WE HAVE TO FIND OUT HOW THEY DID IT--I mean, we have to see the documents".
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(2) The second Freudian slip was in response to a question that made it seem as though Dubya relied mightily on Saudi Prince Bandar for foreign policy advice. Snow replied, "THIS IS NOT A PRESIDENT WHO JUST FELL OFF A TURNIP TRUCK". This is a very odd comment. Did Snow just make it up on the spur of the moment, the way Senator George Allen maintains he just spontaneously thought up the word "macaca"?
I suspect Snow may have used this phrase many times before, but never in front of the "White House Press Corpse" before today.
Is this how Snow, Rove, Bartlett, Card, and other White House handlers talk about Dubya behind his back? The phrase brings to mind the end of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers", where one of the pods that take over people while they sleep and turn them into alien zombies falls off a truck, verifying actor Kevin McCarthy's unforgettably wild saga his psychiatrists are finding impossible to believe.
IMO director Don Siegel's 1956 "pod people" are perfect metaphors for Dubya and the millions of "anti-terra" zombie replicants his 9-11 hysteria has spawned. 9-11 provides our leaders with an unquestionable rationale for slow destruction of our Constitutional rights, and for making violence and escalation our country's answer to every one of many manufactured threats.
At the next WH press gaggle, IMO somebody should ask Snow,
"What did you mean Monday when you said, "This is not a President who just fell off a turnup truck">
"Have you seen director Don Siegel's 1956 film, "Invasion of the Body Snatchers?"
"Is this the way you and your friends secretly speak about George W. Bush, as a 'pod person' created by Karl Rove and other 'handlers' to spew zombie-like pre-programmed talking points?"