WTF? Bush showing WTC collapse

[Badger1]

I just heard a piece on NPR that the shrub is showing the collapse of the WTC on giant screens to get the crowd warmed up before he gives his stump speech. What a low life fucking bastard! They have sunk to a new low that I didn't even think existed. Utterly disgusting........................................

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Nah they sank to that level a long time ago

now they are using an industrial sized back hoe

[B Calm]

2. He's desperate!

[TahitiNut]

56. Naw. He's proud. The 9/11 attack was his biggest accomplishment.

:shrug:

After all, he's killed less than half as many Americans by invading Afghanistan and Iraq as an encore.

[billyoc]

3. Great, half my neighborhood

has ground zero cough. After Bush OK'd the air to breathe, no problem. I have to say, I'm not going to miss him very much.

[annabanana]

24. you're right... the lies started immediately

SURE you can breathe that stuff, no problem.
sad sad

Welcome to DU billyoc
:toast:

[GreenPartyVoter]

32. Welcome to DU

[Fescue4u]

33. OK'ed the air?

What were you going to do? hold your breath if he didnt?

I don't live anywhere near ground zero, but even I knew the air in NYC was bad stuff.

[nostamj]

50. uh, the POINT is... he HAD to re-open the stock markets....

people's health... who cares!

[Fescue4u]

65. Im sorry.

I didnt see the stock market referenced until your post. I thought we were talking about air.

My point is that people gotta breath and some dumbass in Washington isnt going to change that fact by giving you the OK or NOT OK to breath air.

The only sensible thing to do was to move out of the area for at least awhile.

[Chelsea Patriot]

68. Try punctuation, Miss Thing. It'll make you look less like a Fool.

The Content of your posts...Well, Nothing's going to help you there!

[Stephanie]

57. They had Christie Todd Whitman LIE about the EPA tests

What are you saying? You're so much smarter than millions of New Yorkers? Bite me.

[Fescue4u]

64. Im smarter than Bush

Or anyone else who believed Bush when he said the air was ok.

Now go bite yourself for believing Bush.

[Chelsea Patriot]

67. Maybe wear a damn mask?

* and Whitman didn't even tell us to wear masks or take any form of safety precautions.

We were also given no warning, let alone aid, regarding the clean-up of the WTC dust that blanketed our apartments and homes.

We, residents of Lower Manhattan, were exposed to the worst environmental catastrophe in US and you think it's clever to make glib.

You have a really rotten attitude, Missy.

[jhain]

40. ground zero air

anybody else notice aaaron brown seems to be suffering ever since?

[spanone]

47. Just one of the thousands of things that will take these bastards down

Not one person is accountable for one f*cking thing.

[bahrbearian]

4. Kerry should use the same footage on a split screen with Chimpy

Reading "The Pet Goat" for 7 minutes.

[Badger1]

6. Even in F 9/11

M. Moore had enough class and taste to show the actual collapse. We all know what happened.

[Catch22Dem]

7. Negative

He shouldn't "use" it at all.

[bahrbearian]

25. I agree , I was being, facetious.

It shows their thinking.

[Wapsie B]

21. That should be on a TV commercial.

Time to put out the Pet Goat.

[tmooses]

5. Nothing surprises me from these guys...

But if this is true it's a direct insult to the families of those who perished at the WTC. You'd think that some if this shit will backfire on these scumbags at some time.

[onethatcares]

8. weren't they the first to say "non-politization" of 9/11/01

would be their goal? WTF is wrong with these people? Aw, hell, I answered my own question.

[bushisanidiot]

9. The repukes are nazis. It's as simple as that.

using 9/11 images in a campaign ad or at campaign rallies is pure evil, imho.

all it does is feed the conspiracy theories for why it happened.
(who benefits, etc.)

[ClintonTyree]

10. Death and destruction.............

is the cornerstone of the Bush campaign. What better way to whip his sucking, groveling sycophants into a frenzy than to show them pictures of the most horrific event to ever occur on American soil? I'm sure there are Republican men with boners and women with wet cotton at the sight of all this delicious death and destruction. It gets them hot. Then their leader, the man responsible for their retribution, the man who gives the orders to kill thousands upon thousands of brown skinned people, women, children, burnt, maimed, terribly disfugred............struts on the stage and with his trademark smirk on his face tells them "freedom in on the march"!
Rapture, joy. Their messiah has spoken!

Excuse me, I got a little carried away there. These people have no sense of shame at all. They make me want to vomit.

[ldf]

58. you may have gotten carried away

but it's true.

:grr:

[Skittles]

62. I think it's arguable

whether or not DumpGump got carried away. :o

[AntiFascist]

11. 9/11 was the Bush administration's......

greatest accomplishment. Why shouldn't they show it?

[Stephanie]

12. Excuse me? He is doing WHAT!!!

PLEASE if there is a link for this or a picture or something I would dearly love to see it. This fucking CHIMP makes a living by trampling on the grave of my dead neighbors. This motherfucker better explain WHY he is using the DEATHS HE CAUSED to win votes. I am in a RAGE right now. He did WHAT?

[Badger1]

13. MPR

On All Things Considered tonight they had a piece that said they showed the collapse on giant screens before * came on stage. Edwards made a comment on it saying the American people will see thru it. They need to drive this story and attack the bastards!

[Stephanie]

22. Here are the stories covered tonight:

Do you remember which one it was?

http://www.npr.org/rundowns/rundown.php?prgDate=22-Oct-2004&prgId=2

[AlFrankenFan]

35. If you remember what it was called

I swear I'm going to one, complain, and two, get this out to the news networks.

[Stephanie]

45. See my post #36 for audio link + transcript

It's true. Fucking unbelievable.

[Girlieman]

14. It doesn't matter

The only people allowed to his campaign speeches are those who agree to vote for him already. Well, practically. Who in his right mind would sign an oath of fealty to see Bush unless he/she had already decided to vote for Bush.

What an asinine way to campaign. It means that all the stump speeches are nothing but an occasion to create sound bites for television.

I agree, Bush is getting more desperater every day.

[Dark]

15. That is just wrong, It is bestial to even think of doing this.

I almost cry everytime I think about it. I see the black smoke coiling around those towers, billowing out of gaping wounds. I remember seeing the debris falling side by side with human beings. I remember the collapse of both towers, the first crumbling as a gray cloud envelops Manhattan, then the second only a short while later, breaking apart into gargantuan shells imprisoning fellow men, women, even children.

Ugh, I can't bear to think, or see, or hear about it. It's too painful.

How can they use this for political gains? Do they have no humanity?

[Stephanie]

16. No they have NONE

You are making me cry.

[Badger1]

18. We'll get them

on Nov. 2

[petrock2004]

52. see my post

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x2529090


please read it, it will make you feel better

:grouphug:

[Girlieman]

17. On the other hand....

Isn't it appropriate? After all, the attack on the WTC occurred on Bush's watch, and he could have prevented it. I think it's only fair that voters see what could happen again if Bush were reelected.

[Nite Owl]

19. All these people in middle America

don't seem to ask why NY'ers are overwhelmingly voting for Kerry and not *? I mean if he did so well and we who need the protection most are not voting for him what makes them think they know more than we do?

[Vickers]

20. 9/11 changed everything...especially political propriety

:eyes:

[RoyGBiv]

23. Bush = Nazi

There, I said it. I've long resisted saying it because I've thought it would make people tune out, but this just tears it.

As anyone who has actually studied the rise of Hitler to power can attest, he deliberately used devices exactly like this to instigate the crowd, to play off their fears and their hatreds, and to convince people, however subtly, that it was okay to exterminate entire races of people.

This man has to go. Now.

[timtom]

31. I wish I had your reserve

but I have been fairly shouting that * is a Nazi for a couple of years now. And that's not all I've been shouting. Unfortunately the people who need to get it don't get it. But with the grace of God may you and I continue to shout it from the highest rooftops.

(BTW, just kidding about the "reserve")

[Generator]

26. Just when you think you can't detest them anymore..it happens

[Eye and Monkey]

27. Is he showing split-screen - with his reaction? or rather, non-reaction?

My Pet Goat, tick-tock go the seconds, the minutes, tick-tock.

[troublemaker]

28. Is there any VERIFICATION of this?

If this is true I'd like to know.

[Stephanie]

36. YES. Here is link to the audio, plus my transcript:

scroll down

www.npr.org/rundowns/rundown.php?prgDate=22-Oct-2004&prgId=2
Bush, Kerry Trade Barbs in Pennsylvania, Ohio

At 00:45

Reporter:

President Bush started the day in Pennsylvania, a state he has visited 41 times since taking office.

This morning he spoke in a hockey arena in Wilkes Barre.

"Just seems like yesterday I was here in Wilkes Barre. But come to think of it, I was."

But that folksy greeting quickly gave way to a speech that contained a sustained assault on John Kerry, portraying the Democrat as a man who won't do what is necessary to protect the nation.

Before the president took the stage, images from the World Trade Center wreckage played on the arena's giant TV screens.

[BUSHOUT]

51. Didn't they say they wouldn't use WTC for political reasons?

What scum. Someone needs to get outraged over this, Cheney style.

[MisterP]

53. I don't see the transcript, just the audio

[Stephanie]

54. I just transcribed the relevant section - just those few lines

posted above

[zbdent]

29. Bushbots cheer

no evidence, but likely . . .

[Cat Atomic]

30. That's like Hoover showing stock traders leaping to their deaths

after the market crashed.

Not exactly your shining moment, asshole.

[AlFrankenFan]

34. WTF?!!!!!

OMG THAT IS AWFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HOLY FUCK! :scared:

[d_b]

37. They're getting desperate if they're pulling that shit

[pen dragon]

41. Anti Bush Nazis

Count me in. I've been shouting it since Florida 2000, and Bush gave me the shits when he announced he was even running for President.

[Skittles]

63. lol......pen dragon

living in Texas, I still remember the chill I got when I realized why such a lazy, incompetent, stupid asshole was running for governor - THEY were setting the SOB up to be president.

[jhain]

38. kerik last night

how many times last night ( on cnn's 'town hall thing) did kerik use the words Sept. 11th?

amazed, though, that zahn called him on it at one point-with appropiate disgust in her voice.

maybe kerik, who absolutely has every right to be traumatized by the tradgedies of 9/11 should be retired for PTSS. He is a mess.

[Bluebear]

39. PIMP that tragedy! The new GOP game show!

[Zero Gravitas]

42. DESPERATION

Bush can't run on his record. All he has is FEAR. The Bushists believe that The Leader is keeping them safe from Terra, despite the fact that they dropped the ball big time on the terror issues just as they have on every other issue other than lining the pockets of their cronies.

Terra! terra! terra! the wolves might've buried WMDs in the woods! BOO!

Thats all they have.

[Rose Siding]

43. Send this to your prefered media lists

What's the NPR show, so it can be sourced?

[Stephanie]

46. See my post #36 above for audio link + transcript

.

[madmax]

44. One word

Scum.

[mitchum]

48. Why not? It's his most breathtaking achievement

[kerry-is-my-prez]

49. WHY do people not get that he screwed up and THAT'S why 911 happened.

If people in this country had half a brain - 911 would be a liability for Bush anf not a positive. People are just so freakin' stoooopid in this country.

[tinanator]

55. well, he is running for election

and that was his greatest accomplishment...

[Nashyra]

59. The Dems should show the same footage

with * getting into the limo after the first tower being hit and then they should show the pet goat scene after the second building getting hit. When people put two and two together knowing that the * was aware of the first tower and then sat like an idiot after the second building it will start to sink in.

[tinanator]

61. plus

that cockamamie "what a bad pilot" remark one month after he received reports detailing bin Ladens intent, and the same day as this so called training exercise took place. Hey Kerry, why aint these issues on the table?

[nodehopper]

60. SEIZURE SEIZURE SEIZURE

Sorry for the caps, but as someone from New York, who was there on 9/11 there is NOTHING that pisses me off more about this administration than their exploitation of the tragedy they are responsible for. Just remembering those Bush ads, Safer, Stronger, makes my blood boil.

[m berst]

66. re: "Im smarter than Bush...

...Or anyone else who believed Bush when he said the air was ok. Now go bite yourself for believing Bush."

Fescue4you, I object to this shifting of the responsibility onto individuals. This to me is neo-con Republican thinking. We live in a community, and to shift blame onto individuals for everything breaks up the community. Many people cannot just pick up and leave, and that doesn't mean that they aren't as smart as someone who is able to pick up and leave. Whether or not people are stupid or smart, and believe or don't believe what the President says, is not relevant to the fact that the people were lied to. The ones doing the lying are some of the most masterful liars in history, and the people who were being lied to were already stressed and terrorized. People who are under duress will make mistakes in judgement, especially if they are being intentionally and cleverly misled.

You asked what people would do if the government had been truthful about the air quality and then added sarcastically "not breath?" I find this offensive and mean-spirited. The government gave the ok to the air quality. How many people are willing to discard and ignore everything that every government official says? It is easy in retrospect to say that people are stupid for believing the EPA on this, but to say that is similar to saying that "all politicians are crooks so why bother?" This attitude makes it impossible to restore proper trust between the people and their government and government officials, and weakens our ability to hold pulbic officials accountable.

Had the government been honest about the air quality, many things could have been set in motion - better clean up procedures, more testing, better medical response to potential health problems, and easier assessment of liability to cover the inevitable costs of doing the right thing. Recognition that there was a problem would have also allowed us to devise plans to help those whom you are calling stupid to be able to leave or otherwise protect themslves and their families.

You are in effect asking people to either swim strongly against the tide of official lies and public acceptance of them, and to pay the price in social ostracization from that, or to think only of themselves and pack up, abandon their lives and neighborhood and leave. You are asking far too much of the average citizen, and deflecting attention away from the real problem and where the blame should be placed - on the powerful people in positions of public trust.

[Stephanie]

70. Welcome to DU m berst.

Hope you like it here.

[m berst]

71. thanks

Thank you for the welcome Stephanie. :)

[Lerkfish]

69. But isn't that his most monumental FAILURE to protect us?

why he keeps acting like it wasn't is proof he's the antichrist.

[allalone]

72. this is confusing

how is showing his biggest failure supposed to help him? I must be slow today. I would be thinking oh yeah, he had a memo that had the warning in the title for christ's sake and they let it happen. yes, LET IT HAPPEN.

[bpilgrim]

73. "Never did I dream we'd get the trifecta." - GWB June 14, 2002 Houston

June 14, 2002
Remarks by the President in Texans for Rick Perry Reception
Hyatt Regency Hotel
Houston, Texas
6:09 P.M. CDT
<clip>
You know, when I was one time campaigning in Chicago, a reporter said, would you ever have a deficit? And I said, I can't imagine it, but there would be one if we had a war, or a national emergency, or a recession. (Laughter.) Never did I dream we'd get the trifecta. (Laughter.)
<clip>
<http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/06/20020614-8.html>

http://news.globalfreepress.com/mp3/trifecta.mp3

peace

[Art_from_Ark]

74. They're lower than a snake's belly

at the bottom of the Grand Canyon

[pa28]

75. Let's not forget.

"Bin-Laden determined to strike within the United States."

President's daily briefing. August 6th, 2004.

This P.O.S responded by extending his vacation. 9-11 is his shame, not his accomplishment.

[noiretextatique]

76. further proof that he is a sociopath

he gets pleasure from reliving a part of his trifecta.