president to reporter"they are a threat to your children, David"

[eek]

Source: HuffPo, CNN

HuffPo has this:

President Bush told NBC reporter David Gregory at a Rose Garden news conference today that terrorists are a "threat to your children, David." The President's reaction came after Gregory asked him why he should be considered a credible source on terror intelligence.

which contains a video clip of that line.
Also links to CNN story.


Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/05/24/president-to-reporter-t_n_49238.html

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I wrote this to CNN:

"..they are a threat to your children, David..."
Sorry, Sir but YOU are the threat thanks to your environmental policies, health care policies, warmongering, deficit....
What'smore, it sounds to me as if you are rolling out a marketing campaign for
a new catastrophic event.
Ruling by fear is another threat to our children. "

[acmavm]

1. Pfffft! Look who's talking.

[nc_gadfly]

2. hell

'no child left behind' is a threat to children

[snappyturtle]

3. K&R I heard that and many other ridulous remarks by the president.

Good grief does he (*) think anybody believes him......I also detected threats to us....I sense something coming.

[Jack Rabbit]

4. My sons are draft age

Bush and Cheney are a threat to my children.

[meegbear]

5. RawStory has the full quote ...

"They are a threat to your children, David, and whoever is in the Oval Office better understand that and take measures to protect the American people," he said.

And what the FUCK were you told back in 2001? :grr:

[here_is_to_hope]

13. I too screamed "PDB!!! that you ignored!"

Eeesh, its friggin' painful to watch this poop....and the way those "reporters" lap it up!!! GGRRRRR!

[fed-up]

6. Bush & his recruiters are a threat to OUR CHILDREN-does * ever NOT project???

http://www.newsreview.com/chico/Content?oid=43406

Up against the wall
Army uses chicanery to get student info

By Tom Gascoyne

More stories by this author...

This article was published on 11.03.05.


CATCH 22
Susan Sullivan and her son Sean say the Army was less than honest about its motives for bringing a rock climbing wall to campus Oct. 27. To climb the wall, students had to sign a waiver that asked for personal information that would be used for recruiting purposes. The U.S. Army leads card, according to the waiver, is explained in USAAC Regulation 601-X, which has yet to be published.

PHOTO BY TOM GASCOYNE
Leave those kids alone: Buried within the 670 pages of the No Child Left Behind law is a provision that requires public secondary schools to provide military recruiters access to facilities and contact information for every student--unless the parent has signed an opt-out form.

Susan Sullivan says the U.S. Army tried to pull a fast one on Chico High students last week when it erected a rock climbing wall on campus and then asked those who wanted to participate to sign a waiver and hand over a little personal information.

The school administration agrees--the Army was in the wrong and deceptive about its motives.

Sullivan, whose son Sean is a 17-year-old high school senior, knew that the recruiters would be on campus, Thursday, Oct. 27 as part of the anti-drug Red Ribbon Week activities. Last May, she said, Marine recruiters were on campus for Career Day using an inflatable fun house to attract student information. Under President Bush's No Child Left Behind Act, the school must provide the military with student information or risk losing federal funding. That is, unless the parent has signed an opt-out form, which the school must provide.

Sullivan, who has signed the opt-out form, said she spoke to Principal Jim Hanlon last May and he agreed the military did not have the right to gather the information they were after by asking students to sign a "waiver."



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[Straight Shooter]

7. bush in charge of "protecting" us is like having a skunk in charge of the fragrance department. n/t

[Lisa]

18. a rabid skunk, at that! (n/t)

[MaineYooper]

8. but the critical point is that it's a non-answer, a non-sequitur

Whether or not the terrorists are a threat to our children (highly debatable, but an open question, theoretically) has absolutely nothing to do with whether or not he is a credible source of information. So instead of answering the question, which means of course facing the deluge of mis-information and outright lies he's dumped on us for six and a half years, he chooses the typical approach of holding up a boogeyman in a vain hope that the question will go away.

[coalition_unwilling]

22. And I'll bet the question did (and does) go away, at least until

the next news conference.

[Amonester]

9. Not new (Fear, Be Afraid, Be Very, VERY Scared)

Fear
Fear
Fear
Fear
Fear
Fear
Fear
Fear
Fear
Fear
Fear
Fear

In Other Words: You Better Be Afraid Of The Big Bad Scare While We Continue To Loot The Treasury And Destroy Democracy Here...

[alcibiades_mystery]

10. I thought Bush went oout of his way to avoid scaring children?

:rofl:

[Straight Shooter]

20. Excellent point! He stayed in the classroom so as not to "alarm" the children.

The flip side being that as long as he was around, the children were in much greater danger.

Nothing, apparently, has changed since then.

[ejbr]

11. Anyone who believes this lying mother fucker needs to be beheaded n/t

[htuttle]

14. No point to that

Anyone who believes the Chimperor doesn't have much going on above the neck anyway...

[ejbr]

25. touche n/t

[displacedtexan]

26. OMG! A Second opportunity to use this gif I found...

I thought I would never be able to use this, but I've
posted it twice it this week.

[The Backlash Cometh]

12. Fear, Angst, Revenge, Terrorist

It's the Republican strategy. The acronym says it all.

[seafan]

15. He's transforming before our eyes.

[tmlanders]

21. Good one!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[BikeWriter]

16. He dodged giving an answer!

[goclark]

17. My,my,my ~ how low can he go?

Telling David Gregory that "HIS" children were in danger.

That is nothing but a bully statement.

He is a sick animal.

[Kagemusha]

27. They call it the bully pulpit for a reason.

Bush simply views it a little more literally than some.

[rudy23]

19. Isn't it odd that Bush seems to be the one making the threat--not the terrorists?

"9/11 changed everything"
"The terrorists will follow us home"
"They're a threat to your children"

What if America ever did decide to fully recover from 9/11--would Bush let us?

[Gregorian]

24. Good point!

[Gregorian]

23. The debt is a far greater threat.

It is the only thing that I fear.

[hisownpetard]

28. And how about this:

"The world has spoken and said ... no nuclear weapons programs. And yet they're constantly ignoring the demands," Bush said in a Rose Garden news conference.

Jeez, imagine that! Is that sort of like when our whole country speaks out and demands that we extricate ourselves
from Iraq, and the President constantly ignores the demands?

Yeah, like that. But different...

[Amonester]

Of course... And imagine how much * would be constantly ignoring

the demands if the world would speak and say... no nuclear weapons programs... in the U.S....

With what, a few thousands of nukes (of all sizes) and a bullying ignorant (a la Adolf Hitler) "have's and have-more's" dictator getting torture-monger sicker and greedier for everybody else's oil at the wheel, I guess the rest of the world would have a pretty good reason to be... ummmm... scared.

bu$che & co. constantly ignoring their (hypothetical) demands?? Duh!

(*: "Do As I Say, Never Mind What I DO!") :crazy:

Methinks it's called: "psychological projection" in Sigmund's books...

[blueworld]

29. Because * will keep the war going till he can surge them n/t

[depakid]

30. CNN & Fox are a threat to our children

which is another of the 999 reasons that they're programmed off of my TV.

[olddad56]

31. There is no bigger threat to life on this planet than Bush Inc. . . .

I am fully expecting Bush Inc. to stage another 9-11 type terror event in this country before his term is over. Possibly a nuclear event. That will justify invading Iran, and under President Directive 51 of the Homeland Security Act, he will assume control of all three branches of government, and remain in office indefinitely. And yes, I fully believe that 911 was staged by the Bush Corporation.

His Grandfather and Great Grandfather were two of the primary financiers of Hitler. It is the same scam only the players have changed.

[eek]

37. it sure feels like they're getting ready to wheel it out.

it is so like movie markeeting campaigns.
right now is the grassroots, "teaser" part.
then the print and tv publicity.
the full-on pre-release push should kick in, oohh, after labor day.

(hmmm. why does that sound familiar? "you don't launch a new product in august")

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[Ilsa]

33. I wonder if they will cover this on Hardball or KO/Countdown? nt

[bunny planet]

34. Guess what's a threat to our children you reprehensible little shit of a President

Your plans for ENDLESS war that's what. STFU.

[CANDO]

35. What kind of psychopathic leader is this?

"The only thing you have to fear, is not being afraid enough"! I am fucking sick to death of this fear mongering psycho.

[PATRICK]

36. Projection

It is absolutely reasonable to switch the GOPO "they" to "I". Bush IS the threat to your children. This is as plain as he will ever say it. Every instance of behavior and self-justifying talk affirms this pretzel twist logic.

[liberal renegade]

38. I wonder if he knows just how many people hate him....

[bdamomma]

40. he probably gets off on it, and he just doesn't give a fuck.

[Theduckno2]

39. I was viewing a movie for the umpteenth time today.

"I know why you did it, you were afraid. War, terror, disease; there were a myriad of problems that conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of your common sense. And in your panic you turned to the now High Chancellor, Adam Sutler. He promised you order, he promised you peace and all he demanded in return was your silent obedient consent." V in "V For Vendetta"

I guess it was Bush's way of reminding everyone why we need his administration. Yeah right. He sure sounds pathetic considering the media is spreading the alarm on the sorry state of the New Orleans' levees, tinder dry conditions out West and the threat of an East Coast hurricane.

[young_at_heart]

41. Hearing him say this just sickens me!

This is not what a leader should EVER say publicly ......ever!

[sakabatou]

42. Bush is more of a threat than al-Qaeda

[cassiepriam]

43. I wonder if this was a veiled threat by Bush to reporters?

Remember the anthrax punishment to reporters who printed
the truth about the Bush twins.

[spanone]

44. bu$h* is a threat to all children.