White House Distributes Bush Op-Ed

[peterh]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4727197,00.html

WASHINGTON (AP) - In a newspaper opinion piece signed by President Bush and offered to newspapers around the globe, a White House eager to lessen anti-American sentiment in the Muslim world is trumpeting U.S. efforts to help tsunami victims in the Indian Ocean region.
``Americans join those across the globe in mourning the tens of thousands of lives, many of them children, who were lost in the recent violent tsunamis from Thailand to the Horn of Africa,'' Bush writes in the op-ed distributed by the State Department starting last Saturday.
After a sluggish start in the days immediately after the earthquake and tsunami struck 12 countries on Dec. 26, Bush pushed the U.S. response into high gear.




Looks like they’re cutting out the middleman and going direct with their propaganda….wonder if they had to give each paper $100 to print it….

[Celeborn Skywalker]

1. Bush knows how to write?

Coulda fooled me.

[CornField]

2. He's already admitted he doesn't read the paper

Are we now supposed to believe that he has written something for one?

[spooked]

9. correction: he doesn't read the "stories"

lol

[jayctravis]

25. Can't wait till he posts a blog...

on them there *internets*.

[bardgal]

3. SPARE ME! He doesn't even know what an Op-Ed is.

[Just Me]

4. Yup. The neoCONimperialists' so-called "war of ideas" has been pegged.

Your "war of ideas" is really covert propaganda to serve YOUR interests,...and EVERYONE is getting it.

Ya' can fool some of the people all the time, most of the people some of the time, but NOT all the people all of the time.

When you neoCONimperialists actually embrace the concepts of democracy, you'll no longer be in the haven of self-absorption,...and I truly doubt that will happen until life itself or humanity puts you in a place of humility,...and even then, I doubt you will ever choose to be humble over being power-mongering, rat-race advocates.

The neoCONimperialists truly represent the scum of human potential.

[lasttrip]

18. you hit it head on.

unfortunately they will not get it.

:hippie:

[atommom]

5. Of course, it was probably ghostwritten, like everything else he's put

his name on!

[Old Mouse]

6. I'm really surprised

That BushCo has not yet learned the propaganda they have perfected to pacify their base only angers and inflames the entire rest of the world.

[w4rma]

7. Bush IS the middleman. He's only a puppet. (nt)

[The Backlash Cometh]

8. Shame we can't take care of our own.

Sounds like our embassy left Americans stranded.

[UpInArms]

10. didn't they try to pass off some crappy poetry a

couple of years ago?

Something about how Pickles smells funny?

[BoristheBewildered]

21. It was about how dropping Barney was Pickles' fault nt

[Ms. Clio]

29. And then Pickles had to admit she authored the goofy bit of doggerel

all on her lonesome.

[Redstone]

11. I'm sure he done writ it his ownself

without no help from nobody. See, he's not such a iggerant sorta guy after all. You all libural types done misunderestimated his edjumacational ability again. They taught him good at Yale.

Redstone

[driver8]

12. What color crayon did he use? Any idea? n/t

[calimary]

32. Maybe red - for his favorite things: blood (somebody else's),

red states, and red ink.

Or yellow - to match that nice stripe down his back.

[Massachusetts]

13. Plagiarism!!!!!

We really don't think the idiot could write, do we?

[wildwww2]

14. Hitler and his generals knew the war was lost before Stalingrad.

That did not stop the propaganda machine however. Why should Bu$h Inc.`s Fourth Reich be any different? Since they control the press just as good if not better than the Nazi`s did.
Peace
Wildman
Al Gore is My President

[JerseygirlCT]

15. LOL that's what I was thinking: is this a cost-saving measure?

[eek MD]

16. This is wrong in SO many ways....

Because we all know that the bush admin. has been so wonderful toward muslims post 9/11...../sarcasm

Then we donate some money to relief work for a heavily hit disaster area, and suddenly our president goes out to BRAG about it?..(Trumpeting US efforts sure sounds like bragging to me)....

Every day i wonder how much more embarrased i can get to say that this creature is our nations "leader"... ugg

[KittyWampus]

17. Jr. Had To Be SHAMED Into Donating More Than A Pittance,

waited 3 days before speaking to the public about the disaster

and then tried to force the world to allow the US to manage the relief funds.

AND, Bush donates a measly $10,000 out of his own pocket.

Oh, and Right-wing fundies say the disaster is because God wants to punish Muslims and Jr. couldn't be bothered speaking out against such bigotry.

[spanone]

19. Yea George, tell the world how kind and compassionate you are.

PS, when you gotta tell 'em...

[rodeodance]

20. .has already been published in papers in Asia, Europe and elsewhere.......

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4727197,00.html

White House Distributes Bush Op-Ed

Wednesday January 12, 2005 12:01 AM


By JENNIFER LOVEN

Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - In a newspaper opinion piece signed by President Bush and offered to newspapers around the globe, a White House eager to lessen anti-American sentiment in the Muslim world is trumpeting U.S. efforts to help tsunami victims in the Indian Ocean region.

``Americans join those across the globe in mourning the tens of thousands of lives, many of them children, who were lost in the recent violent tsunamis from Thailand to the Horn of Africa,'' Bush writes in the op-ed distributed by the State Department starting last Saturday.

After a sluggish start in the days immediately after the earthquake and tsunami struck 12 countries on Dec. 26, Bush pushed the U.S. response into high gear.


.....M.C. Andrews, with a White House office in charge of helping to improve the U.S. image abroad, said Tuesday the op-ed has already been published in papers in Asia, Europe and elsewhere.......

[Bhaisahab]

22. Op-ed? Bush? HA HA HA!

[leesa]

23. Tens of thousands of lives?? Where's the dolt been?

He's probably pissed that nature killed 50,000 more than he has so far.

[daleo]

24. Let freedom from tsunamis reign.

Any way you look at this, it is rather graceless. But to brag about U.S. government aid when it isn't even as much as the Canadian government has given ($350 million vs $425 million, recall that Canada has only one-tenth the population of the U.S.), is just stupid.

[jayctravis]

26. Honestly...

This type of communication used to be get across in White House press briefings, which Bush didn't seem to care for.

Does Bush realize that people will *reply* to a LTTE?

[wicket]

27. damn...

I think I've entered a parallel universe.

[Erika]

28. I think the world has gotten Bush's # n/t

[fob]

30. There's no way bush* wrote that himself. Two clues...

"mourning" spelled correctly - bush* would have used "morning"

"tsunamis" spelled correctly

[Catchawave]

31. I have a hunch...

...that he's not writing the State of the Union and Coronation speeches?

I know, I know, it's hard work, and I guess that's what we pay his speechwriters for.