HuffPost Blogger Deconstructs Bush Press Conference and His Scrawled Notes

BurtWorm

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Tue Aug-22-06 05:37 PM
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HuffPost Blogger Deconstructs Bush Press Conference and His Scrawled Notes

Edited on Tue Aug-22-06 05:37 PM by BurtWorm

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-harris/your-president-the-visio_b_27789.html

Courtesy of the AP, here's a glimpse of Bush's notes at his press conference yesterday, published over at Arianna's place:

I took a few minutes with Photoshop, and now here are the same notes, rotated and made a little clearer, as if we're looking down from the podium ourselves:

Hmm.

First thing that leaps out is the semi-literate capitalization habits, but we saw that before in his note telling Condi he needed to wee. So, sigh, nothing new there. Moving on.

Some of the writing is too fuzzy to make out, but by blowing the picture up and fooling with the contrast slider, this much was pretty clear on the left side:

history not written capacity to shape

What I have found from talks

___________________

majority

Don't want to split

Forces are united

Imagine how addled you'd have to be to need to actually write down reminders to yourself to burp up meaningless phrases like "history not written." Which, in case you were wondering, yes, he actually used in the first two responses he gave:

You know, I hear a lot of talk about civil war. I'm concerned about that, of course, and I've talked to a lot of people about it. And what I've found from my talks are that the Iraqis want a unified country, and that the Iraqi leadership is determined to thwart the efforts of the extremists and the radicals and al Qaeda, and that the security forces remain united behind the government.

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MADem

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Tue Aug-22-06 05:48 PM
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1. Those are probably cues to speak so Karl can give him the

answer in his earphone!

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Iwasthere

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Tue Aug-22-06 05:58 PM
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2. Are those press names in the middle page

What do the lines on the names mean?

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NMDemDist2

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Tue Aug-22-06 06:00 PM
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3. it looks like a seating chart to me

:shrug:

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Iwasthere

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Tue Aug-22-06 06:05 PM
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4. I know it's a seating chart just wondering what the lines and squares ...

... signify

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patrice

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Tue Aug-22-06 06:07 PM
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5. Are the lines and boxes somekind of graphic representation of

the conceptual structure one sees in an outline? "If they say this _________, say that _____________"?

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