NO WAY... Olbermann said that Newsweek is reporting in

[smartvoter]

"How Bush Blew It" that Bartlett had to burn a DVD of news coverage to prove to our read-nothing-in-chief that things were worse in New Orleans than he thought.

It is absolutely mind-boggling...

[Postman]

1. How Bush Blew It.......read it here

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9287434/

snips:

Bush can be cold and snappish in private, and aides sometimes cringe before the displeasure of the president of the United States

The bad news on this early morning, Tuesday, Aug. 30, some 24 hours after Hurricane Katrina had ripped through New Orleans, was that the president would have to cut short his five-week vacation by a couple of days and return to Washington.

several aides who did not wish to be quoted because it might displease the president

Counselor Bartlett made up a DVD of the newscasts so Bush could see them in their entirety as he flew down to the Gulf Coast the next morning on Air Force One.

Bush can be petulant about dissent; he equates disagreement with disloyalty

[Scout1071]

2. Thanks. Rated!

[bush_is_wacko]

25. And this surprises anyone anymore?

This man truly thinks he is God. He doesn't have any problem speaking with God because he speaks to himself all the time reassuring himself he is still on top of the world and "connected" in all the right places.

He makes me ill every time I see his smug little face.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

44. This is sounding a little like those stories in Capital Hill Blue

This is from that August 25, 2005 article in Capital Hill Blue on Bush's angry and obscene outbursts in private:

"...Bush, administration aides confide, frequently explodes into tirades over those who protest the war, calling them “motherfucking traitors.” He reportedly was so upset over Veterans of Foreign Wars members who wore “bullshit protectors” over their ears during his speech to their annual convention that he told aides to “tell those VFW assholes that I’ll never speak to them again is they can’t keep their members under control.”

White House insiders say Bush is growing increasingly bitter over mounting opposition to his war in Iraq. Polls show a vast majority of Americans now believe the war was a mistake and most doubt the President’s honesty.

“Who gives a flying fuck what the polls say,” he screamed at a recent strategy meeting. “I’m the President and I’ll do whatever I goddamned please. They don’t know shit.” ..."


I wonder who these Aides are who are revealing how "snappish" and unpleasant Bush is behind closed doors. Too bad they can't get video footage of the Chimp's fits of rage. They would be priceless to watch.

[nadinbrzezinski]

45. yes they got the leaks first to be honest

[taquinas101]

49. Dang, Makes Bush Sound Like Howard Hughes . . .

the way he is isolated with relatively few channels of access.

[warrens]

58. Whoever wrote that

Better stay out of small airplanes and away from tall buildings. He or she is probably getting very depressed about now, and may be found soon with 11 self-inflicted shots to the head.

Criticizing the dictatortot is dangerous business.

[The Backlash Cometh]

63. So what you're saying is that Bush, who doesn't read polls, will

look at moving pictures? He's a visual learner.

[Sydnie]

3. They obviously don't let him near a tv that isn't attached to

a dvd player or a satalite linked conference call. Hell, they don't even tell him when the capital is evacuated and his wife is stuffed into the basement! Why would they tell him this? It might make him choke on his food (McCain's cake), break a nail while strumming his git-tar, or fall off his bike.

Too bad they don't give him news like this when he is pretending to use that damn chainsaw. Now, that could be fun to see!

[jimshoes]

24. Pickles seemed pretty oblivious

too, having referred to the hurricane as Corina at least twice in a statement a few days ago.

[txindy]

38. Pickles is so medicated her face barely moves.

I doubt the neurons in her brain are firing, either. I'm just amazed her mouth could form the name 'Corinna', incorrect as it was. :crazy:

[ramapo]

4. Aides fought over who'd deliver the bad news

No, not the bad news about the levee.

No, not the bad news about people drowning.

No, not the bad news about people trapped.

The bad news?

Bush would have to end his vacation early!

[AX10]

Is Bush that much of a damn BUM that people....

must be afraid to tell him that he's got work to do? This is not a leader, Bush is a brat.

[Jamastiene]

14. LOL. So true. You hit the nail on the head. n/t

[ikojo]

18. Bush runs a corporate government...

like in many corporations, by time anything gets to the CEO, it's been watered down so much. Most cronies will tell the CEO exactly what they know he/she wants to hear and nothing that will challenge.

Since many of his cabinet members come from the corporate world, they know how the game is played.

[spooky3]

20. Like a younger and less competent Mr. Burns (n/t)

[bonito]

27. The corporations run bush. n/t

[fooj]

36. Trouble is that he was a total failure running a corporation, too!

The guy is a first-rate LOSER!

Peace.

[Talismom]

53. Yeah and just wait and see how long it takes to rescue our

nation from the effects of this looser's term in office! Never mind the financial and environmental tolls, the supreme court is gonna be lost to us for the rest of most of our lives.

[newportdadde]

57. Yep and people who tell it straight don't make it high in corporations.

If you have ever experienced the corporate environment the first thing you will learn is people like to be lied too. They don't want to hear why it can't be done they just want you to shake your head yes even if its impossible.

The lengths people will go to, the money they will waste simply to not look bad politically is astounding. What is truly a good move for the company rarely happens because with it comes truth and with it comes pain.

[crispini]

60. The difference is that in corporations

that actually have to deliver products, there are always the people at the bottom who are giving the people in the middle a "reality check." And the middle managers have to walk the fine line between reality and spin. The good ones are able to deliver the reality to their "suits" with taste and talent, thereby keeping their jobs and yet keeping both sides happy.

What's happened here is that Bush's middle managers are no longer delivering him any form of reality whatsoever.

[Stephanie]

19. THAT'S the most incredible part of an astounding article

Not the DEATHS, not the DESTRUCTION, not the thousands in imminent PERIL, but ENDING HIS VACATION TWO DAYS EARLY WAS THE BAD NEWS.

[Mr Rabble]

54. Exactly. How sick is that? nt

[defiant1]

67. Yeah....

I saw that too.

:puke:

[mopaul]

5. the average 12 yr. old knows more about the world than he does

[FreedomAngel82]

13. So true and so sad

[RallyInDC]

6. a callous ignorant man. totally oblivious. resign bush, you're disgraceful

[BrklynLiberal]

10. He is a totally empty vessel.

[ecoflame]

7. Who's Bartlett?

Never mind...I read this yesterday.

I do not find this funny.

"It's a standing joke among the president's top aides: who gets to deliver the bad news? Warm and hearty in public, Bush can be cold and snappish in private, and aides sometimes cringe before the displeasure of the president of the United States, or, as he is known in West Wing jargon, POTUS....The president's chief of staff, Andrew Card; his deputy chief of staff, Joe Hagin; his counselor, Dan Bartlett, and his spokesman, Scott McClellan, held a conference call to discuss the question of the president's early return and the delicate task of telling him. Hagin, it was decided, as senior aide on the ground, would do the deed."

The man is the President of the United States for christssake! He absolutely disgusts me, as do all the bedwetters that surround him. What a bunch of wankers that they can't bring themselves to tell the man the truth about the condition of anything.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

15. What a team, huh? n/t

[BrklynLiberal]

8. Laura Flanders reported on that last night.

[WillyT]

9. Recommended And Kicked !!! - C'Mon Folks, Vote It Up !!!

:kick::kick::kick:

[joanne]

12. Understatement of the year

"After five years in office, he is surrounded largely by people who agree with him."

Actually, the Chimp and Rove smear and crush anyone who dares to disagree with him.

Just ask Paul ONeill, Richard Clark, or Joseph Wilson.

[crispini]

61. See, that's the mark of a small and ignoble soul.

The mark of a wise person is how well she deals with dissent. A person of wisdom, when forced with an unpalatable truth (about themselves, or about the situation) will look it in the face, acknowledge the ugliness, and then try to figure out what can be done about it.

This President, like ten-year-olds everywhere, refuses to even acknowledge that there is a problem.

[KT2000]

11. He doesn't even watch TV

we need an investigation into what is wrong with this idiot - REALLY
Why did he not watch television? We need an answer to that question from Bush and Democratic politicians nede to be the ones asking.

[DoYouEverWonder]

22. What the fuck does he do?

How much time can someone spend doing nothing?

[KT2000]

28. rides his bike

it's hard work.

[DoYouEverWonder]

Okay that took 2 - 3 hours

now what do we do?

[tblue37]

68. He also goes to fundraisers.

It is well-known that he also plays videogames during the workday (including video golf), and that he likes to go fishing and play real golf, too.

And he definitely does watch at least some TV--specifically sports. His so-called pretzel incident occurred while he was watching a football game on TV.

I suspect some of his time is also spent in a druken stupor and/or doped up.

And of course, he is in bed by 9:00 each night.

[Auntie Bush]

35. He doesn't watch TV because he's afraid he might hear

something negative or critical and that is forbidden.
He relays on other people or Pickles to tell him what's going on in the world. He probably has given everyone orders not to tell him how many deaths their are in Iraq because he has work to do.

[driver8]

16. Shrub is a worthless sack of shit...

Anytime he tries to help or get involved, he makes things even worse with his incompetence. He doesn't have any idea what is going on around him unless his handlers tell him. He is making decisions that affect this whole country while having very little information about anything. He doesn't read, doesn't keep up with current affairs, and gets upset with his handlers if they "displease" him.

WTF?? Maybe someone should supply the boy king with an outline describing the duties of the President of the United States. He seems to think it is his country and his government to do with as he pleases.

[oasis]

17. "The buck stops here". No manufactured excuses Chimpyboy. Major

hurricane and leveee break. Tens of thousands of Americans at risk.

You are supposed to have constant updates of the situation. I wonder what updates you were getting from Brother Jeb during the hurricanes in Florida the election year.

[Pacifist Patriot]

21. Bush is functionally illiterate.

Though I'm pushing it when I say "functionally."

[Gregorian]

23. And we thought Reagan was a slacker!

This one's a Pretendsident.

[ramapo]

29. At least Reagan had an excuse

He was old and his mind was deteriorating.

Bush blew his mind (what there was of it) out on booze and drugs. Too bad the drugs didn't destroy the bastard center in his brain.

[Mabus]

26. Unfortunately his DVD is still blinking 12:00

:rofl:

[Lars39]

30. I can believe it! Per Paul O'Neil's book, meetings are scripted.

As in everybody has a part to play. I think it confirms that Cheney is really the prez.

[alarcojon]

31. Unfuckingbelievable

Every time I give him a milligram of credit, he proves to me what a total and utter disgrace of a leader he is.

[applegrove]

32. This is just spin. They found their scapegoat = Bush is dumb.

[smartvoter]

52. No, the story says he's an arrogant, do-nothing prick who doesn't like

bad news.

[Vanje]

33. "What didnt go right'?

Bush's handlers dont tell him ANYTHING but happy talk.

Bush's shockingly oblivious answers to Nancy Pelosi's questions were sincere. Stupid, ignorant, but sincere. No one had told bush that the handling of Hurricane karina was anything but a spectacular victory.

Excerpted from CNN


Nancy Prelosi related that she had urged Bush at the White House on Tuesday to fire Michael Brown.


"He said 'Why would I do that?'" Pelosi said.


"'I said because of all that went wrong, of all that didn't go right last week.' And he said 'What didn't go right?'"

[mzmolly]

34. Gov. Blanco "we need everything you've got." Bush then "went to bed."

Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, a motherly but steely figure known by the nickname Queen Bee, knew that she needed help. But she wasn't quite sure what. At about 8 p.m., she spoke to Bush. "Mr. President," she said, "we need your help. We need everything you've got."

Bush, the governor later recalled, was reassuring. But the conversation was all a little vague. Blanco did not specifically ask for a massive intervention by the active-duty military. "She wouldn't know the 82nd Airborne from the Harlem Boys' Choir," said an official in the governor's office, who did not wish to be identified talking about his boss's conversations with the president. There are a number of steps Bush could have taken, short of a full-scale federal takeover, like ordering the military to take over the pitiful and (by now) largely broken emergency communications system throughout the region. But the president, who was in San Diego preparing to give a speech the next day on the war in Iraq, went to bed.

The next day, Bush took time out to pluck a quitar. My gawd.

[journalist3072]

37. Unfortunately, not surprising

This is the man who sent the message to his aides that he doesn't like written briefings more than 1-2 pages. He doesn't do nuance.

[tanyev]

39. I guess Laura doesn't watch TV either.

Or she was scared to tell him. I can't believe the twins didn't call him up and clue him in. "DADDY, you have to save New Orleans! Where else can we get drunk and flash our boobies?"

[Bernardo de La Paz]

55. Laura Bush: "Hurricane Corrina".

[Imagevision]

64. Laura must be chain smoking herself sick with bozo hubby...!

Laura should give the speech thursday night, not Bushie...!


http://downingstreetmemo.com/

[buddysmellgood]

40. NO effing WAY

[Libby2]

41. And yet Pickles said, it wasn't as bad as seen on tv.

I can't count how many times I have heard this last week, that tv didn't do it justice, you had to see it in person.

The whole family is in denial.

[journalist3072]

42. Here is the excerpt from Newsweek

I'm not sure if anyone has posted yet, but here is the exact excerpt from Newsweek, re: the DVD.

I'm covering this on my blog. And basically saying that we now see the consequences of having a President that doesn't like to read, and doesn't live in the reality-based community.

"The reality, say several aides who did not wish to be quoted because it might displease the president, did not really sink in until Thursday night. Some White House staffers were watching the evening news and thought the president needed to see the horrific reports coming out of New Orleans. Counselor Bartlett made up a DVD of the newscasts so Bush could see them in their entirety as he flew down to the Gulf Coast the next morning on Air Force One."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9287434/

[Imagevision]

66. BUSH truly has mental issues that must be addressed unfit to lead...!

http://downingstreetmemo.com/

[journalist3072]

69. That's the understatement of the year!

We are truly seeing the consequences of having a President (and I use that in the loosest term possible) who doesn't like to read. A president who told his aides he likes to go to bed by 9 PM, and a president who has said he's not a reader.

If President Clinton were still in office, George Stephanopolous or Dedee Myer would have NEVEr had to make him a freakin' DVD to show him the gravity of the situation.

[buddysmellgood]

43. But, but...but I was on vacation.

[Ouabache]

47. I wish a reporter would ask him a question about his vacation reading

Remember how they said he was reading four books on his vacation? Yeah, right. Someone lob him a softball question about the simplest of those four books. ( I forget what they were.)Or, just ask him, Mr. Prez of the books you read on vacation which one did you enjoy the most and why?

Then watch him stand there looking totally stupid.

[LittleClarkie]

46. I BET KERRY WATCHES THE FUCKING NEWS!

GOOD GOD!!

That's it. I'm going to go cry again about what coulda been.

[Hello_Kitty]

50. I bet Gore watches too.

I cry when I think about how he should be serving his SECOND term right now :cry:

[SoCalDem]

48. The MAN does not READ

I am surprised that they don't do an daily "storyboard" for him..

[LittleClarkie]

51. So how do you break down a disaster of this magnatude

into one-syllable words?

"Water bad. Water hurt people"

Oops. Two syllables. Can't have that.

Maybe they could do some stick figure theater for him.

[CottonBear]

62. Have you seen the Vanity Fair satire: "Bu$h's pictogram briefing"?

OMG. Fucking hilarious. I'll try to find and post one.

[peekaloo]

56. Bu$h was bored with his 'Faces of Death' DVDs. Needed a

greatest hits package from N.O. to get him interested.

[symbolman]

59. Here's what I emailed to KO

since he repeated DUCT TAPE DUDE about 10 times :)

*************

To: [e-mail]
Subject: "Duct Tape Theater" Humorous Flash Political attack ad online from Takebackthemedia.com creator "Symbolman"

Hi Keith

As the co founder of Takebackthemedia.com (we received over 100 million hits our first year) I've been on the O'Reilly show, and twice on Joe Scarborough's program for my media work (along with a Hollywood award for animation) and I wanted to share one of my fans favorites, called "Duct Tape Theater" flash political attack ad I created when they offered us Duct tape to save us from Terrorists.

Since you were hitting them hard on hiring for FEMA the Duct Tape DUDE on your show I thought you might enjoy this flash (one of 50 at our site)

Here's the link to it (featuring the music of the Dandy Warhols) - it also features symbol cards created by the Govt to help us that are incomprehensible... turn up those speakers..

http://66.230.230.110/geeklog/public_html/staticpages/index.php?page=20040602184656622

Please feel free to pass it along on your blog at least, hope you enjoy,

Keep up the fine work,

"Symbolman" co founder of Takebackthemedia.com
http://www.takebackthemedia.com

[Imagevision]

65. I take full responsibility and the whacko appears smirking-smiling

On MSNBC home page this whack-job claiming to be a leader smirks telling us he's accepted responsibility??--

Great, then effective at noon tomorrow he should resign and allow Go-F---k yourself step up to the plate and attempt to play president, at least this fucker can't run and hide as he's been doing since he's played the VP. and he can resume the Bush debacle and we can take this BS. straight to him...!


http://downingstreetmemo.com/

[oasis]

70. kick

[Borgnine]

71. He's a total puppet.

I think this, along with the month-long vacations, goes further to prove that than anything. Unbelievable.