Bush thanks MSM Whores with catfish, 'tater salad & chocolate-chip cookies

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

Bush family hosts White House reporters

Thursday, August 25, 2005 · Last updated 7:23 p.m. PT

Bush family hosts White House reporters

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

CRAWFORD, Texas -- President Bush played host to the White House press corps Thursday night for a private off-the-record dinner at his ranch.

The casual affair of fried catfish, potato salad, coleslaw, homemade cheese and chocolate-chip cookies followed a tradition in which Bush and his wife, Laura, have the press covering his annual August vacation out to the their ranch in central Texas as a sort of thank-you.

The event was not held last year because of the busy campaign season. The invitations to the reporters were issued on the condition that they not discuss conversations at the event.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apwashington_story.asp?category=1151&slug=Bush%20Press%20Dinner

[ewagner]

1. Bribery

pure

simple

Bribery

[Skidmore]

4. The WH press corp are cheap dates.

Although a good mess of catfish is worth gold.

[YOY]

2. H'yuk H'yuk H'yuk...Yer just a good ol' boy ain'cha!

It's OK George...we all know you're not from Texas. You can drop the ten-gallon BS act now. The only ones who think you're a cowboy are those who are lost in the makebelieve land the Faux created.

[OneTwentyoNine]

3. Fried catfish....uh I'll pass. Where's the STEAKS daddy Warbucks?!?!

Cheap SOB,saving the steaks for someone else?

[skooooo]

5. Are you kidding?

Nothing better than fried fiddlers!

[Contrary1]

12. Hell, its our money...

hot dogs and Freedom Fries are good enough.

[hobbit709]

6. Catfish aint Kosher

[tridim]

7. So * is feeding bottom feeder sucker fish to the

bottom feeding sucker media. Perfect.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

9. "Poetic Justice," eh?

:evilgrin:

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

8. Salon's report on this:

What happens in Crawford stays in Crawford

George W. Bush still hasn't made time to talk with Cindy Sheehan in Crawford, but he somehow found time in his schedule to invite the White House press corps over for fried catfish and Shiner Bock last night. If you haven't heard about the shindig yet, there's a reason for that: Reporters were invited to hang poolside with the president on one condition -- that they not report on any conversations that happened there.

The Associated Press has the report, but the Washington Post's Dan Froomkin has the story. Froomkin says about 50 member of the White House press corps, unable to resist "an offer of face time with the president, pretty much no matter what the conditions," turned out for the event.

"I'm told that several reporters expressed squeamishness about last night's event, particularly as the press-pool vans drove by antiwar protester Cindy Sheehan's 'Camp Casey' site," Froomkin says. "And later, a small handful watched askance as the rest fawned over Bush, following him around in packs every time he moved."

Froomkin says the topics of conversation included "the antiwar protests, the twins, sports, and Bush's summer reading list." We don't know whether the first two were related -- they should have been -- and, so long as the White House press corps plays along with the president, it looks like we never will.

http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/index.html?blog=/politics/war_room/2005/08/26/party/index.html

[Skidmore]

10. Whoa...blinded by the right....

Man, why didn't ya let us know we'd need sunglasses to get to the bottom of this thread?

[Missy M]

13. Most of the press corps following bush around and fawning over..

him. What is wrong with them that they are so shallow they can be bought with catfish and potato salad. Can you imagine how they would act if he served them lobster and Kobe Beef. I am convinced the White House reporters are made up of a bunch of hayseeds who all came from down on the farm and never saw the big city.

[OneTwentyoNine]

11. Love it...reporters sworn to silence or they couldn't attend

In other words Bush and his Nazis told the press corp to start reporting good things about Iraq or else.