Unfortunate timing for the vaunted White House communications team. During today’s presidential speech on “progress” in Iraq:
Sometimes, a picture says a thousand words.
Sometimes, a picture says a thousand words.
Most of those words are “uh” and “um.”
Did you ever get the impression Bush wished he could increase the font size of his spoken words to get to the required 10 pages?
“If we leave Iraq they will follow us home.” At least we will know who “they” are which beats hell out of waiting for the next suicide bomber or IED to go off and kill more people.
Iraq is a half-assed war worse than Vien Nam. Either we decide to start killing people in Iraq until the ones left alive get the message and stop harboring the suiciders and IED makers or we kill no one and get out. Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan were defeated by letting them know there were no “innocent” people. Not only their leaders but their ideology as well had to go. That’s the only way that wins anywhere.
We don’t have the stomach for killing them all so get out now. They have every intention, as a group of killing every American in their country. Can’t say as I blame them all that much.
Free elections do not a democracy make. It’s a thing called individual rights. No such thing on anyone’s mind among the Iraqi leaders, commonplace with church states. We are now on the road to joining them rather than them us.
As Adolf Hitler said in Mein Kampf:
“… ο»Ώthe magnitude of a lie always contains a certain factor of credibility, since the great masses of the people in the very bottom of their
hearts tend to be corrupted rather than consciously and purposely evil, and that, therefore, in view of the primitive simplicity of their minds they more easily fall a victim to a big lie than to a little one, since they themselves lie in little things, but would be ashamed of lies that were too
big. Such a falsehood will never enter their heads and they will not be able to believe in the possibility of such monstrous effrontery and infamous misrepresentation in others; yes, even when enlightened on the subject, they will long doubt and waver, and continue to accept at least
one of these causes as true. Therefore, something of even the most insolent lie will always remain and stick ββ a fact which all the great lie-virtuosi and lying-clubs in this world know only too well and also make the most treacherous use of….”
The grandson of Hitler’s banker, who only avoided arrest and trial under the Trading With The Enemy Act in 1942 by getting himself elected Senator from Connecticut, is only a pale imitation of the true master of the Big Lie.
Good catch, CB. I wonder if this is part of that vaunted “balance” that the news media is always trying for? Probably not. It was accidentally good balance.
“they will long doubt and waver, and continue to accept at least one of these causes as true.”
Sounds like a perfect description of the American psyche in March of 2003.
Hopefully we’re better now. Hopefully we’re familiar with the signs that Bush is lying (his lips move).
Hopefully we’re better now. Hopefully we’re familiar with the signs that Bush is lying (his lips move).
Comment by racerx
It (his lips move) could also be a sign that Dick Cheney is lying. Check for the VP’S hand up the back of George’s jacket.
I think it is becoming more apparent to more people that these guys lie. Or maybe I’m reading too much optimistic leftie blog. π
Our mole in CNN is doing a good job with the ticker headings, isn’t he? π
In this case, one picture is much more tolerable than the thousand identical words and phrases we have been hearing from Bush for years. Think Americans will catch on to the brilliance of his foreign policy strategy this time?
Also note how often Bush says, “I understand that ______. ” Repeatedly telling someone you are not an idiot tends to leave the opposite impression.
Hey Tom Cleaver. Lies that cause people to believe, have faith are moral. The average German “faithfully” believed Hitler had been sent by God. Of course they also believed, had faith that the Bible was the word of the God that sent Hitler to save them. Could they have been correct? There’s more than one way to interpret the Bible. Try this one, http://www.hoax-buster.org/sellyoursoul
When enough people believe a lie it becomes a truth. Therefore, faith moves mountains of lies, converts them to mountains of truths.
Also note how often Bush says, “I understand that ______. ” Repeatedly telling someone you are not an idiot tends to leave the opposite impression.
Comment by jb
Good point. The clunkiness with which Bush recites his talking points (hey Josh take a memo) is almost embarassing. The way he blurted out that Iraq had “Nothing!” to do with 9/11 showed that. He is not exactly Smoove B with his rhetoric. It shows there’s a disconnect between the words he is told to say and any thought process whatsoever.
Nixon: I am not a crook.
Bush: I am not an idiot.
Nice picture of an ugly war criminal.
Although… the text beneath should read:
Let’s hear no more about how Bush and the Republicans control the MSM
Now, was that screen-shot from his “fund-raising” speech in TN today, where he was quoted as saying:
“…[BUSH] We face an enemy that has an ideology. They believe things. The best way to describe their ideology is to relate to you the fact that they think the opposite of the way we think….”
Now, I don’t know about you, but it appears to me that level of articulation belongs back in a 1st or 2nd-grade classroom, perhaps even Booker Elementary. It’s sort of “My Pet Goat” reborn as political philosophy for the 7 year-old. Who in God’s name was he trying to raise campaign cash from with such rousing verbal dexterity? Or, are we in fact witnessing the initial stages of Alzheimer’s Disease?
Better the caption should have read (thanks to Joe Scarborough): “Is President Bush an Idiot?”
“Let’s hear no more about how Bush and the Republicans control the MSM”
Which is another way of saying:
Even corporate-controlled media is starting to see what an absolute travesty Bush’s Iraq mess has become.
When the people who make money off of the war start to display conflicting messages, you know it’s gone seriously fubar.
Face it: There is nothing the coporate media or the republican party or the Marines or anybody can do to salvage Iraq.
It’s over. A complete failure. As in F-.
In fact, the Iraq mess is Bush’s legacy. Historically, Bush’s uncalled for war is going to drown him in excrement. He won’t be treated kindly by historians. Bush’s future is in shit hell and there is no escape. And really, it couldn’t have happened to a more derserving cretin.
[Note: Rummy’s screed the other day was motivated because he too realizes his destiny is shit-hell. His legacy is gone. And he is simply starting to show his sweat. Yes it was devestating shallow and ugly. But when things fall apart, one should not expect grace…]
Let’s hear no more about how Bush and the Republicans control the MSM — Fallenwoman (#12)
Whyever not???
You don’t think the (unfelicitous, from your point of view) juxtaposition of the frou-frou being uttered and the stark reality being streamed accross the screen WAS INTENTIONAL, do you??? It’s the perfect example of what Poles call “the malice of inanimate objects”, but no more than that. “Life interferes”, you know…
*Do* pick yourself up, Fallenwoman
For years we’ve been wowed by the GOP’s ability to redirect the news coverage……but with so many situations going so badly, it’s hard to find a good place to hide. Lately I have renamed them…..
for now they are REPUBLICAN’TS…….
Dear President Bush,
You are losing the war in Iraq. You are losing the war on terror. Saying that your going to just hand the whole mess off to the next President means you don’t what you’re doing. You are giving up. That is not acceptable.
You should just cut out all the trash talk you’re making right now about what a fine mess you made. We are going to vote in a new Congress with some good plans about how to fix this mess and protect this country. We expect you to work with Congress and fix this mess.
Your boss,
John Q. Public
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