Democratic Underground Latest Greatest Lobby Journals Search Options Help Login
Google

Shameful Spectacle: Bush in Video Conference with Troops in Iraq

Printer-friendly format Printer-friendly format
Printer-friendly format Email this thread to a friend
Printer-friendly format Bookmark this thread		 This topic is archived.
Home » Discuss » Archives » General Discussion: Presidential (Through Nov 2009) Donate to DU
 
ElectroPrincess Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-13-05 09:02 AM
Original message
Shameful Spectacle: Bush in Video Conference with Troops in Iraq
Edited on Thu Oct-13-05 09:04 AM by ElectroPrincess
Am I just jaded, or is this one of the most shamefully orchestrated PR stunt for "Dear Leader"? It's on all the Corporate Cable news channels now LIVE. :puke:

Every time Bush opens his mouth something insensitive if not completely INANE comes out. This is the worst President that this country has ever had to endure. I pray this nightmare of King George's tyrannical rule comes to an end soon. :cry:
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
Mika Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-13-05 09:03 AM
Response to Original message
1. Shameful staging indeed. He's stumbling drunk. n/t
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
July Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-13-05 09:40 AM
Response to Reply #1
28. Question. Many posters are saying he's drunk.
Since I'm not watching, can you elaborate? I believe it, but what signs is he showing?
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
July Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-13-05 09:53 AM
Response to Reply #28
31. Kicking my own post.
How is he acting like a drunk? I didn't see this, and I'd like to know what he's doing that makes so many people think it's clear. Are we almost at Public Breakdown Time?
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Gman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-13-05 09:04 AM
Response to Original message
2. Must be a slow news day
for this to be carried live.

What a frickin' joke.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
No DUplicitous DUpe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-13-05 09:04 AM
Response to Original message
3. I just woke up in mtn time...they are reading cue cards or a prompter

"one of the most shamefully orchestrated PR stunt"

Yes Yes Yes
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
No DUplicitous DUpe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-13-05 09:07 AM
Response to Reply #3
7. Could The MSM get The Script from this show???

I really can't believe the words coming out of their mouths
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
MaineDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-13-05 09:10 AM
Response to Reply #3
13. Love your avatar! (nt)
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
No DUplicitous DUpe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-13-05 09:30 AM
Response to Reply #13
26. Thanks, Although I am no scholar of presidential history, I can't imagine
a worse POTUS....ever.

Good Morning
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
MnFats Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-13-05 09:04 AM
Original message
This is astounding.....of a badness rarely seen in public life...
...we are witnessing a presidential meltdown.
....the troops should be forgiven; they're being used as convenient props but Bush can't even get that right.
....did he even read his script before he went out there? It sure as hell seems not!
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Why Syzygy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-13-05 09:14 AM
Response to Original message
16. Are you kidding?
A puppet on a string doesn't rehearse. He just shows up and looks stupid.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
ayeshahaqqiqa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-13-05 09:04 AM
Response to Original message
4. Is it on TV?
NPR isn't talking about it at all. I don't have TV at work, just radio.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
joefree1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-13-05 09:06 AM
Response to Original message
5. Ha, saw this. Bush looks way desperate
Edited on Thu Oct-13-05 09:07 AM by joefree1
This looks so staged, like something Bush would think of on his own. Is Rove on the outs?
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Qanisqineq Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-13-05 09:10 AM
Response to Reply #5
11. Staged is right
I only saw the last minute or two, but it seemed so insincere and scripted it was disturbing. Like watching a B movie with really bad acting.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Tamarin Donating Member (337 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-13-05 09:21 AM
Response to Reply #11
20. That's what I was thinking, too. Horrible acting
and his phony accent sounded worse than usual. The troops seemed to be made of wood. I've seen better acting in grade school plays.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
ewagner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-13-05 09:28 AM
Response to Reply #5
25. Sounds like
a Karen Hughes specialty....

wonder if she has a hand in the PR these days? Does she have a protege working with Bush*?
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
hatrack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-13-05 09:43 AM
Response to Reply #25
29. I thought she was busy off somewhere hugging Turks and Azeris
And wondering why her foreign hosts aren't impressed . . . :eyes:
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
ewagner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-13-05 09:54 AM
Response to Reply #29
32. Me too
but this uber patriotic, "the troops love him" bullsh*t is classic Hughes....

remember the article about her (wish I had bookmarked it) that said when she sees GWB, she pictures him walking down a flag-studded hall with Stars and Stripes Forever playing in the background.

I think of that everytime one of these embarrassing photo-ops goes down.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
bklyncowgirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-13-05 09:55 AM
Response to Reply #5
33. Turd Blossom is off spending quality time with his lawyer.
Chimp's on his own.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
leftupnorth Donating Member (657 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-13-05 09:07 AM
Response to Original message
6. those troops
Edited on Thu Oct-13-05 09:07 AM by leftupnorth
are obviously reading memorized answers or cue cards, shameful indeed......
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Old Vet Donating Member (618 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-13-05 09:08 AM
Response to Reply #6
10. Completely Staged
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
glarius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-13-05 09:08 AM
Response to Original message
8. They all look like they were told to "keep smiling"!.....so phony!
Edited on Thu Oct-13-05 09:09 AM by glarius
This is pathetic!...:puke:
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
joefree1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-13-05 09:10 AM
Response to Reply #8
12. Dig the sweat sheen on Smirk's forehead
His backpack prompter must be shorting out.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
doublethink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-13-05 09:08 AM
Response to Original message
9. That woman soldier ........
she sounded like she was reading from a prompter? Even this next soldier seems he's reading????? Anyone else suspect this? I gotta run ..... damn someone look into this. Scripted? Peace.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
No DUplicitous DUpe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-13-05 09:15 AM
Response to Reply #9
17. "sounded like she was reading from a prompter" or cue cards...

But it was clear, they were all reading. Hey, I wonder if any of those troops could email us the backstory on this "Chat"
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Atman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-13-05 09:58 AM
Response to Reply #17
34. She absolutely was
At least on CNN, they joked beforehand. They commented on how the soldiers had been busy studying their "impromptu" answers. I was almost pissed that they bothered to air it, but I think it's a good thing they did, as it was just one more illustration of the Chimpster's desperation, and lack of ability to handle even the most basic of presidential tasks; a conversation!

That woman who did most of the speaking..."I thought I recka-nized you!" said Chimpy. Oh, year, right...was she in a liquor ad someplace? Her bit was so carefully spoken. No one uses language like that, or speaks like that.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
panader0 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-13-05 09:10 AM
Response to Original message
14. Backfire
Who could watch that (whew, it's over) and still support shrub? Give him enough rope and he'll hang himself.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Catherine Vincent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-13-05 09:22 AM
Response to Reply #14
22. Freepers
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Atman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-13-05 09:12 AM
Response to Original message
15. That was one of the most embarrassing things I've ever seen
Good god, did they think anyone was buying that bullshit? At least they should have hired better actors!

"I LIKE YOU! I-RAK BEEN BERRY BERRY GOOOOD TO ME"

I'm awestruck.

The Iraq guy saying "I like you," then handing back the mic...he was so obviously told to do that. Why else would the mic have passed so quickly? He knew his part of the script was over, he didn't even wait for a response.

I'm gonna be sick.

You hear that sound? It's the rest of the planet laughing at us.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Why Syzygy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-13-05 09:16 AM
Response to Reply #15
18. Your tax dollars at work.
Stage actors. What a deal.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
No DUplicitous DUpe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-13-05 09:23 AM
Response to Reply #15
24. It's like, I woke up, but was still in some strange dream...BTW..

MSNBC "Chris" and "Jim" from the WaPo mentioned right away about the scripted BS and if the US would still buy this stunt. FAUX news quickly moved to the next story.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
jn2375 Donating Member (858 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-13-05 09:47 AM
Response to Reply #15
30. There probably rolling on the their floors laughing
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
missingpeace Donating Member (50 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-13-05 09:20 AM
Response to Original message
19. How pathetic
I just walked over to the mailroom/lounge where I work and heard, as I checked mail, his choppy, hesitating, blathering about the noble effort against cold-blooded evil terrorists or some such crap. This guy is a freakin' basket case. I turned the TV off on my way out the door. Yuk!
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Vinnie From Indy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-13-05 09:21 AM
Response to Original message
21. I am trying to figure out what had me most sickened.
Was it Smirky struggling mightily to just read a few simple questions given to him to read or was it the over the top commentary by the corporate media whores describing the Q and A?
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
magnolia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-13-05 09:23 AM
Response to Original message
23. Bush sounded very bad...
...even for him. With practice, he seems to be able to maker a decent speech now and then...this wasn't it. So, I don't see how they'll be able to use any of it for sound bites.

The soldiers in Iraq were calm even though they face risk every minute. Bush, in the safety of his office and surrounded by armed guards looked like a nervous wreck, ready to lose it any minute.

He ended by saying that he'd like to go to Tikrit someday...when everything is different and safe.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
global1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-13-05 10:04 AM
Response to Reply #23
36. Are We Sure The Soldiers Were In Iraq?...
They could have been staged out in the desert in California. They looked too polished for fighting troops.

Remember - they had transmission troubles and this photo-op got going later than expected. Do you think they were trying to make us think it was coming from Iraq and staged the transmission troubles?

I watched this and it was sad. To see our troops used in this fashion to prop up a failure. If this wasn't so serious of a situation it would be hysterical.

Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
magnolia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-13-05 11:01 AM
Response to Reply #36
37. Good question...
...but it wouldn't be too hard to get a group of soldiers to do this. Like in school...any boring assembly would be better than being in class. It would be a little more than suspicious if the "I like you..." guy showed up on the next episode of "Two and a Half Men"!

I'm so sad about the whole thing. I really want things to go good for the Iraqis...they deserve it. I just don't think that war is the answer...ever.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Guy Whitey Corngood Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-13-05 09:31 AM
Response to Original message
27. aW aT aF?????? N/T
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
npincus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-13-05 10:03 AM
Response to Original message
35. Video Link?
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Francine Frensky Donating Member (870 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-13-05 12:29 PM
Response to Reply #35
38. Watch headline news, they just showed a brief clip while
saying "bush tries to bolster approval, at his lowest point in years" ...looked like he was •desparate•
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
npincus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-13-05 12:41 PM
Response to Original message
39. Lot's of questions about this event's "CHOREOGRAPHY" at WH briefing
Edited on Thu Oct-13-05 12:41 PM by npincus
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
DU AdBot (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue May 07th 2024, 02:08 AM
Response to Original message
Advertisements [?]
 Top

Home » Discuss » Archives » General Discussion: Presidential (Through Nov 2009) Donate to DU

Powered by DCForum+ Version 1.1 Copyright 1997-2002 DCScripts.com
Software has been extensively modified by the DU administrators

Important Notices: By participating on this discussion board, visitors agree to abide by the rules outlined on our Rules page. Messages posted on the Democratic Underground Discussion Forums are the opinions of the individuals who post them, and do not necessarily represent the opinions of Democratic Underground, LLC.

Home  |  Discussion Forums  |  Journals |  Store  |  Donate

About DU  |  Contact Us  |  Privacy Policy

Got a message for Democratic Underground? Click here to send us a message.

© 2001 - 2011 Democratic Underground, LLC