about the two ladies Bush posed with ...please read

[smurfygirl]

didn't want to post this in the other thread because it would just get lost.

I have this incident recorded on the DVR. When Bush walks up to the girls, the shorter one immediately asks him "hows my family" Bush responds that they are fine...Taller one and Bush chit chat about someone by name. Clearly, the audio was not shown on FOX or MSNBC or C-Span or anywhere else I have watched this. I later watched this clip on CNN and this part was edited and you could no longer hear the audio.

[The Backlash Cometh]

1. So you're saying that they know him?

I called them his cufflinks because he put each arm around them and wore them like cufflinks.

[Z_I_Peevey]

2. Could you possibly do a transcript?

That is an interesting bit of information.

[vickitulsa]

7. It certainly is interesting info!

And a transcript would be MOST helpful.

I can do transcripts like this -- it was a task I was good at during my 33 year career as an executive secretary. But there are plenty of others who can do this easily as well, and possibly sooner and with less hassle than sending the video (with complete audio) to me.

But if you need me, just holler!

THIS NEEDS TO GET OUT for sure....

~VV

____________________________________________

[Matariki]

3. wow.

can you transfer it to computer file and send it to buzzflash or boingboing or dailykos or post it here?

can anyone help with that?

[spuddonna]

4. So he has met these people before...

They are having a conversation about someone that is commonly known...

Someone else pointed out these women's shoes - they are BRIGHT WHITE sneakers. They look brand new. Didn't they mention they were looking for clothing for their kids? Yet they have brand new shoes... you walk through flood areas and your shoes are bright white?

[bluedog]

40. I pointed that out.wondering if anyone noticed that

and that was the reason I went looking for Aaron Browns interview..these people were "too" clean.right down to the shoes......my daughter even said.they look like backdrops from the bush camp!

[radfringe]

5. how did he know her family was fine?

where was her family? why didn't he "reunite" her with her family -- wouldn't this have made a "great" photo-op?

[smurfygirl]

6. I will do a transcript and post it a little later...

I'm eating breakfast right now.
:hangover:

[radfringe]

8. after breakfast and transcript posting -- read this....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4623491

[smurfygirl]

11. I have spoke to soon

the dvr recorded cnn. I must have been watching msnbc then when I heard them saying this. I even rewinded it and played it... I know I fucking recorded it because I couldn't believe it. I have over 60 hours of news recorded from the past 3 days. I might have to go through alot of it and see if I can find it. Maybe it didn't record. Anyway, I'm gonna check msnbc's website for a transcript and see if maybe they have it in there. Sorry you guys, I'm not making this up. I know I heard this, i'll have to find it. Surely someone else out there recorded it too if I can't find it on my DVR.

[DemBones DemBones]

13. I saw someone mention hearing the woman

ask "How's my family?" in one of the other threads. I believe you! And I believe it won't be played that way again.

[punpirate]

14. Let's assume for the moment...

... that you weren't imagining this. There's enough info on the other thread to suggest that they aren't just survivors off the street.

Now, why would the younger one say, "how's my family?" How would Bush know that unless they knew him previously, or if he had been briefed on the two girls' family?

Now, how about a different twist on family. There's some suggestion that one or both of the girls were foreign students going to school in the US, at Santa Fe Community College in Gainesville, FL and at another community college in Mississippi. So, what if one or both were exchange students in high school and had stayed for a year with a family known to the Bushes? Isn't it fairly common for exchange students to think of their host family as family?

Cheers.

[neweurope]

16. Then again maybe the Bushistas are blackmailing those girls

with their family?

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Remember Fallujah

Bush to The Hague!

[melody]

41. It would take that kind of threat to get me to hug the Shrub (wince) n/t

[daninthemoon]

43. More like extortion. "If you ever want to see you'r family again..."

[smurfygirl]

18. sound feasible to me.

msnbc is not carrying the transcript til Monday.
All the other transcripts start with her saying they came for clothes.
I'll keep looking for others that might have recorded this.

In the meantime, if anyone else has recorded Bush on Friday then please check your recording before you delete it.

[DemBones DemBones]

9. Hope you've seen this thread about the women,

in which intrepid DUers have sussed out a great deal about these two. Obviously, we need to find out "Who's Your Daddy" (Is he rich like me?)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4600320&mesg_id=4600320

[ClintonTyree]

10. Very important info.............

let's get this kicked to the front page everyone.

[RC]

12. That would explain the bottle of water one of them had.

and how new looking clothes they were wearing. I guess they can't trust any locals to not embarrass them on camera.

[madrchsod]

15. i thought they sounded "unamerican"

i noticed that but really did`nt dawn on me that they were not from new orleans or the usa. oh well no one really cares

[progmom]

20. unamerican?

certainly you don't mean that.

my grandparents have lived in Canada for 50 years, but they still have very strong Dutch accents. does that make them uncanadian?

the larger point still remains - sounds like these women had not been through much hardship. but dammit - let's stop calling them unamerican.

[shanti]

37. yes, "no one" cares

because they're BLACK. you know how so many the chimp's base think all black people look the same :-( african american, haitian, cuban, south african, no difference

:sarcasm:

that's how they think they can pull this scam off.

[Kindigger]

17. One I'd like deciphered...

* had finished visiting with the two "survivors", and he was walking some distance with Barbour etc.... I think toward the two black guys standing in front of the big, muddy flag that had been tacked up?

I was trying to decipher the chit chat between the people behind the camera. I could only make out bits, and at one point, "Oh oh, look out, it's a local with a camera, and he's taking pictures."

[smurfygirl]

19. my dad said he was watching cspan and bush was going to give his speech

before he started talking dad said he could hear someone talking in the background. He wished he could tell what they were saying.


On another note...about the man with the backpack, I believe it was the mayor who said to Bush "mr. president, this gentleman has lived here for two months" this should come in on most broadcasts. It is right around the time where it looks like Bush was gonna give this guy a high five, like he had done a great job or something. I was floored about that but nobody else seems to have noticed.

[DeepModem Mom]

21. These women might have been chosen by MS Gov. Barbour, or Lott --

some local Republican with knowledge of them, who prepared them with aid from WH pr people.

[daninthemoon]

44. Here's some sure things: the SS wouldn't have let any unknowns

anywhere close, especially right now. The only other people visible are camera crews. Saw another post about how he pointed them toward the cameras. Can onlu hope the press follows up on this.

[ecstatic]

22. My interpretation of this exchange...

And I'm probably way off as usual. Bush told a bold faced lie to the girl who asked about her family. He has no earthly idea of how her family is doing. That is why the media had to blank that part of the audio out.

[lanlady]

23. about their country of origin

Based on what I've read on DU this morning and a bit of geneological research, the Bessier sisters appear to hail from the West Indies (Belgian/Flemish name) and have some connection to NZ or Australia (the name Bronwynne is Australian).

Can someone give me a link to an audio so I can hear their accents?

[punpirate]

24. Be sure to check the spelling...

... it's Bassier, not Bessier--that's been verified from white pages searches.

As for Bronwynne being Australian or New Zealander, it's also common in South Africa, and a variety of other places--it's one of those neologistic names that's supposed to sound as if it's derived from Welsh Gaelic, I think.

Bassier, too, is very common in S. Africa--probably deriving from French Algeria or Morocco, so it's more likely French than Flemish (in fact, there's a Bassier City, LA).

But, I agree about the audio--I'd like to hear it, too. That would help.

[speedoo]

28. We have established that they are from South Africa.

Toward the end of the thread referenced above.

[goclark]

42. Wonder if their parents are Bush supporters? Where do they work?

[shanti]

38. south african

they mentioned durban.

[Ice4Clark]

25. This is the most complete video I could find online so far

Scroll down to Bush Meets with Storm Victims, 2 Sep 05

VIDEO PAGE SOURCE

He says, "Are you doing alright"

Short Girl: "I hope my families alright."

I can't hear his answer..maybe one of you can decypher it....anyway, this is all I could find.

[yankeedem]

31. Something about a family member has been missing

for four days, but has been found- maybe that was why they were in Biloxi? Funny thing, when Aaron Brown interviewed them, they didn't mention that.

[proud2BlibKansan]

26. I read this on a blog site last night

I didn't know whether to trust this info. Now that I read it here, I believe it.

bush will surely burn in hell for this and so many other evil acts.

[HamdenRice]

27. They appear to be South African -- anyone have audio they can send?

Another poster linked them to Durban, a city on the east coast of SA. If so, they are "Coloured" people from Durban and would have an accent that is pretty regional and hard for Americans to identify.

BTW I lived in SA for years, and if anyone can send me a file of the audio, I could verify whether the accent is South African.

[speedoo]

29. Try to listen to Aaron Brown's interview with them (CNN).

Their accent is very distinctive and I think it will confirm to you they are from SA.

[HamdenRice]

32. Sorry to be clueless but please help!

I've tried the posted links above, and they don't work. I couldn't find the Bassier clip on CNN.

If anyone could post the exact link to audio, I really could identify the accent.

I know the South African accents like the back of my hand ... errr throat .... or tongue?

[punpirate]

39. Try the Yahoo link again...

... it takes some time to come up, and then in a pop-up window (so, if you've got all pop-ups turned off in your browser, the link won't work).

Now, if it's any help, I listened to it a couple of times--a bit difficult to pick out a coherent sentence because her answers are interrupted by chokes and sniffles, but I did catch a word or two. One that suggested urban South Africa--clothes came out "clows," rather flat in pronunciation.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

30. Someone on an above inserted thread found out that they were

foreign students. I did a search a couple of days ago, and there was some mention of So Africa. The young women's last name is Bassier.

Here goes.

http://eyesonkatrina.blogspot.com/2005_09_01_eyesonkatrina_archive.html

Three South African families are OK

Tom Wilemon found three native South African families who wanted folks back there to know that they were safe in Biloxi. The families of Malcomb Smith, Shawn Abraham and Lynne Bassier wanted him to pass that along.


posted at # 2:04 PM

[ElsewheresDaughter]

33. Here's how Bush "comforts" the disaster victims. EarlG ..Link to video....

Link to video:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4623494&mesg_id=4626238

In case you haven't seen it yet... watch how Bush turns these two girls towards the camera. You can tell that compassion is clearly at the forefront of his mind as he "comforts" them.



Smile for the cameras, ladies.

[spanone]

36. the video is gone. Doesn't come up anymore.

[Radio_Lady]

47. Maybe I'm paranoid, but none of these links work anymore.

Shit.

[liveoaktx]

48. Here

Bush Panders to Camera

Political Videos

[Radio_Lady]

50. Thanks, liveoaktx. I don't recognize the accent, but it certainly wasn't

anything like black folks in the South that I recall from living in Florida for almost three decades.

[skids]

34. Keep that video... if you can spare the space.

...I wish I had a Tivo. There are lots of video clips we may need to dig out, for stuff like this:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4621364&mesg_id=4621364

[preciousdove]

35. Maybe they have been "disappeared" already

With the fear that immigrants and foreign nationals have after seeing so many rounded up and still in prisons after 911 I would guess that foreign nationals would be "controllable" (Another case of "using" foreign nationals and the fact that Diebold hired foreign nationals as "observers" at the polls (poll workers were told they worked for Diebold) in 2000 told them not to tell immigration that they were here to work and then sent them home

So for the phony photo op they were told to come there and the fate of a lost family member would be given to them (by Bush?). Now it appears they have disappeared off the face of the earth and nobody has come forward saying they "know them" (Now they will of course, another orchestrated addenda to the spin).

[Freedomfried]

45. Maybe they're his illegitimate love-children....

Didn't Bush rape some black woman in Texas?

[Straight Shooter]

46. Don't go there.

I believe the allegations were that his father was involved in repetitive rapes of a woman in Texas. She is now dead. Suicide, of course.

[Joebert]

49. I may have missed it, but what channel were you recording that you got it?

That's pretty wild.

[flyarm]

51. i noticed a PILOT standing behind the salvation army truck

did anyone else see that..when * was talking to people at the salvation army truck over his shoulder..was a man in a very white shirt..with his pilot stripes on his shoulders..

others might not notice but i am retired flt attendant..so i noticed that right away ..and thought..why is the pilot standing there..
why would he not be staying at his plane or helicopter guarding it??
or what would be the reason the pilot would already be at the salvation army food and water truck??


just a fyi...but i found is completely odd...

fly