BBC shies away from Bush story - Democratic Underground

demobrit

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Fri Oct-07-05 12:19 PM
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BBC shies away from Bush story

BBC programme editors turned lukewarm on a claim by a BBC2 programme that George Bush believed God told him to invade Iraq and Afghanistan after a strong denial by the White House.
Just 24 hours after accusations that the corporation's news coverage was backing away from risk-taking, some of the BBC's key outlets decided not to run an exclusive story unearthed by BBC2 about the US president.

http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,14173,1587440,00.html

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mattclearing

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Fri Oct-07-05 12:20 PM
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1. Cowards. n/t

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ayeshahaqqiqa

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Fri Oct-07-05 12:20 PM
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2. Bush's handlers realize how it sounds

and have decided they've catered enough to his rw religious nutcase base enough recently.....

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whatever4

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Fri Oct-07-05 12:22 PM
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3. oh well

oh well that just fucking figures. Cowards, just a bunch of cowards, I agree.

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demobrit

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Fri Oct-07-05 12:26 PM
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4. They have to toe the line

otherwise Tony Blair will curb the BBC`s funding

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gasperc

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Fri Oct-07-05 12:28 PM
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5. it is two years, and the orginal story was posted here

and on buzzflash and elsewhere on the lefty blogs.

why some intrepid bbc reporter decided to resurrect is unclear but a hopeful sign.
However, isn't it fascinating the quick and aggressive denials by McClennan? Bush inc are cognitive that those independents that they are desperately trying to court back into their camp will never follow anyone who claims "God told me..."

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underpants

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Fri Oct-07-05 12:32 PM
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6. At this point it is sorta like making fun of the retarded kid

easy to do but to what aim?

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Benhurst

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Fri Oct-07-05 01:24 PM
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7. Because this particular retarded kid is still at the same old

stand and up to his same old fascist tricks.

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neweurope

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Fri Oct-07-05 01:25 PM
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8. Too late *g* The news that they WOULD bring it has been printed everywhere

But you see: When the Bushistas are displeased they can influence the media even in Europe... For that I hate them most, I think. Well, most after Fallujah.

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Remember Fallujah

Bush to The Hague!

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cassiepriam

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Fri Oct-07-05 06:18 PM
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9. Shouldn't the fact the president of the US is psychotic be newsworthy?

I feel like I live in upside down world. Nothing important matters, the press prints only nonsense.

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Emillereid

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Fri Oct-07-05 06:26 PM
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10. This story originally came out in The Haaretz, an Israeli paper

Edited on Fri Oct-07-05 06:27 PM by Emillereid

at the time of the Bush - Palestinian meetings. They reported back in 2003 that Bush said that God ordered him to go to war, etc.

Check out the story:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/objects/pages/PrintArticleEn.jhtml?itemNo=310788

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