An interesting moment with Bush on Meet the Press

[Cat Atomic]

Several months ago, a reporter asked George Bush to respond to the suggestion that he'd had knowledge prior to 9-11 of potential terrorist attacks, but hadn't done anything about it. He frowned sadly, looked down, shook his head, and repeated "it's a time for politics" several times.

This past Sunday, when Russert asked Bush about his AWOL status in the Texas Air National Guard, Bush had precisely the same reaction.

Look for yourself:

9-11 comment:
http://images.indymedia.org/imc/washingtondc/media/video/6/9_11laugh.mpg

AWOL status (it's at the beginning of video 2/4):
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4209283/

[ecstatic]

1. So if we can prove he really was AWOL

then we can safely assume that he knew about the terrorist attacks prior to 911...?

[Cat Atomic]

2. Well, I don't know about proof.

It's just this:

I've never been completely convinced that they had prior knowledge of anything before 9-11. But his AWOL status is pretty much undeniable.

The fact that he responded to the 9-11 question the same way he responded to the AWOL question made me wonder if the first one is true as well. Sort of a tell, you know.

[PaDUer]

8. Wonder how he's going to act

when he meets his maker.

[kayell]

11. Yo, Satan! What's up my man?

nt

[Bandit]

3. Well he is an expert on "Politics" and the dirtier the better.

The one thing Bush* truely excells at is politics.

[Minstrel Boy]

4. Damn, can't get it to play...

But if it's anything like his 9/11 response, he's lying through his smirking teeth!

[ElementaryPenguin]

5. Holy shit!! Chimpy acted as guilty as sin about advanced 9-11 knowledge!

I thought he was about to faint! He is such a BAD actor - and way to fragile and thin skinned to be working in the BFEE!! Not true BFEE/PNAC Mob material! It's clear to me that the man actually has a concience - one that he must continually obliterate with drink or drugs!

[frank frankly]

6. here here

it is a BIG tell

they are sinking

we must throw them every anchor in the universe.

[Sophree]

9. Exactly my impression.

He just wants this whole thing to be over with and is tired of playing President.

Mr. S also thought he saw (a couple times) B*sh glancing down and to the left at the teleprompter and shake his head "No"- like he wasn't going to say what they were telling him to say. Mr. S felt sorry for him. I ALMOST felt sorry for him. It was truly pathetic.

[Lefty48197]

7. Another great point

The link didn't work for me, but if it showed what you said, then it is just more evidence of how sscripted George W. Bush's big fat lie is.

[DrBB]

10. HFS. Well that's just darned interesting.

I mean, the thing about sociopaths is that, instead of reacting spontaneously on the basis of geniune moral feelings and genuine emotions, they practice in private and try to do their best to replicate what normal people would do. They think this is what everyone else does, and so you also get these strange, surprising moments where they expose that fact to the world, figuring that others will say, hey, he's just like us. Philip K. Dick's term, "replicants," is a reference to this phenomenon. He basically invented the concept of the android, which he says was based on reading transcripts of the Nazi trials after WWII, and the idea in Do Androids Dream (Blade Runner) was that there were these strange people among us who have enormous power, yet have no essential humanity, just a bunch of programmed responses they think are all that everyone else has, too, and that's what they operate out of.

So here we have a classic, textbook example. He's not responding in any authentic way; he's just running a subroutine. GoTo: LookSad:-->Read:'It\'s a time for politics.'/endstring;

Oh, and just so revealing that it's the exact same subroutine he runs for 9/11 questions.

[Sophree]

12. And that's what he was doing

When he was trying to answer the question about the fallen soldiers- if it was worth their deaths, what he'd say to the families, etc.

He was searching for the correct/appropriate emotional and "heartfelt" response- and he COULDN'T DO IT. This was the question that was fumbled the most, with the longest, most awkward gaps, slurring, unintelligible sounds, etc.