Bullshit Artist: The 9/11 Leadership Myth

[Hissyspit]

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Bullshit Artist: The 9/11 Leadership Myth (Paperback)
by Ron Schalow

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Subtitled "America was under attack for 102 minutes and for 102 minutes the president did nothing: How George W. Bush turned his pathetic performance on 9/11 into political gold," this book certainly caught our attention.

This 312-page compilation of the Bush crew's totally inept performance on 9/11 -- including their failure to take a single action to prevent it from occurring even when warned -- was fascinating even to the eyes of jaded 'ol BuzzFlash, who monitored the news reports of 9/11 as it happened.



Part of the attraction of "Bullshit Artist: The 9/11 Leadership Myth" is that its citizen-author, Ron Schalow of North Dakota, mixes fact with sardonic commentary and a playful layout. Can it be fun finding out how the Bush Administration is incompetent? Well yeah, in a sort of "all hail to the dunce" perverse sort of way.

You realize that the mainstream media is so busy playing its role as royal court transcribers that their reporting lacks the most basic of common sense. Schalow litters "Bullshit Artist" with the basic logic of the common person -- and Bush and his minions come off as something like a nefarious version of the Keystone Cops. However, after reading this book, you are left yearning for the Keystone Cops, who would have done a far better job protecting our nation and reacting to 9/11.

Frankly, until we read "Bullshit Artist," we had forgotten how abysmally clueless the Bushevik government is. Their theme song should be "Don't Send in the Clowns; We're Already Here."

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[Vickers]

1. As George was running around in AF-1 after the attacks, the MSM was

initially making comments about it.

"Where is he?"

"When will he make a statement?"

"Why isn't he coming to Washington?"

etc. etc.

Those questions stopped pretty quickly, but initially they were asked. Why they stopped, I don't know, but how he went from being a scaredy-cat coward hop-skipping all over the goddam country to being some kind of brave war president just baffles my fucking mind.

[Chomp]

2. I've been thinking recently

that 9/11 was the icompetance of Katrina multiplied by 100. The only difference being that we all saw the Katrina response playing out, but not the 9/11 one.

I wonder just how deep and broad the incompetance that day really was, and how much decisions were based on political rather than operational/emergency management reasons.

[Hissyspit]

5. You're assuming that the administration was not sitting around waiting for

9/11 to happen, in which case, incompetance was not really an issue. Not saying you're wrong and it's a very interesting parallel.

[SpiralHawk]

3. 9/11: Bush panics, freezes, does nothing

fails America. Wastes over 1/2 hour reading My Pet Goat

Bush is AWOL -- again -- when he is needed. Shameful.

[Cooley Hurd]

4. "Threats against AF1..." What threat did the 9/11 perps pose?

Think about it. The ability to slam one airliner into another (especially if one is being evasive) is something that even highly trained pilots would have a difficult time doing (if that were a scenario the Secret Service considered). The other scenario would be an attack from a SAM as AF1 was landing at Andrews AFB, and AF1 has several anti-missile systems that would negate such an attack.

Bottom line, there was no reason why Chimp stayed away from DC, UNLESS he was in full panic mode and begged his handlers to hide him.

[treestar]

6. The Sheeple don't see it that way - Bush attacked Afghanistan and

Iraq - that's all they see, and that's doing something.