Mulligan speech is like an Evangelical meeting

[Atman]

The pre-screened actors are screaming, oohing and ahhing at EVERY fucking word. All that's missing is the crowd yelling HALLEJUAH!

[DeepModem Mom]

1. The sick, narcissist jerk is in his element NOW --

surrounded by adoring sycophants. It's truly, truly frightening. And I'm watching from outside the U.S. Dear God --

[Itchinjim]

2. This good,

he's back in his bubble. On Friday he'll have to come out of the bubble for the debate and face the mean old real world. I can hardly friggin wait!

[hlthe2b]

3. I agree with whoever said this was simply a "confidence builder"

for Bush*. I think Bush's* aids are simply trying to build him up (and knowing a 10 AM stump speech isn't going to do much, anyway, went the whole 9 yards in "billing it as a major speech" as I'm sure Bush* demanded). His handlers truly ARE handlers at this point...

[DeepModem Mom]

5. Reassuring him he's God on earth?

This is one weird sucker we've got in our WH --

[goclark]

4. He is such a fool! nt

[nostamj]

6. i know why they didn't show the crowd...

they were all in brownshirts giving the Nazi salute throughout... that was THE most sickening event I've seen from them yet.

[DeepModem Mom]

7. Equal time? CNN: 404-827-0234; MSNBC: 201-583-5000; email contacts...

pinned to the top of this forum.

This was no major address; it was purely political.

[Atman]

8. "Hello, first time caller, last time viewer."

Fuck the e-mails. I called them on this one. I am soooo pissed of at this I just cannot even believe it!

[AzDar]

9. Nuremburg. n/t

[MatrixEscape]

10. Hail to the Chief!

When the Fuhrer speaks, you must rally and say "Hail!" Can you blame them?

Manufactured President + Manufactured consent + Manufactured results = Mediagarchy.

I can't WAIT to see the movies and documentaries inspired by this Administration!

I can imagine titles like: Someone Bush, King of the News; Clockwork George; Dial Meme for Dubya'; Jr. & Me; Working on the Cheney Gang; Red-Rumsfeld, Red-Rumsfeld; Dirty Rice; Condoleeza Does DC; Ashcroft, Ashcroft, We All Fall Down; Iran, Iran so far Away: The Colin Powell Story; Reservoir Hawks; Bush Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; The Fishy King; The Last Temptation of Rice; Das Bush; Natural Born Republicans; Rat on a Hot Tin Roof; The Ashcroft Witch Project; American Pie: The Slicing; Leaving Las Whitehouse; Forrest Bush; The Cheney Syndrome; Being John Ashcroft; Farewell My Neo-Concubine.

[MrBenchley]

11. Great line from Atrios.."he look like a drunk little guy"

"I'm watching Bush's speech with the sound off (too early to actually handle listening to it). But, he looks like he's losing it. His normal cocky swagger is boosted up a few notches, and he look like a drunk little guy who got a bit too lippy in a bar, picked a fight, and he's trying to hold onto those last few moments of self-respect before he gets his ass kicked out in the parking lot."

http://atrios.blogspot.com/

[KharmaTrain]

12. I Thought The Same Thing...Hiding In The Womb

All those pre-arranged shouts, all we needed was a couple of "Thank you, lords" to go in there and a band in the background and I'd swear I was scanning across the PTL Club. Of course, to Dimwit's credit, he doesn't use all the grease, his sleeze is elsewhere.

I couldn't help notice how he was soaking in those applause lines...like he as a kid getting approval from the adults. There's a meltdown happening here and this Mulligan speech is just another thread unravelling.

[leftofthedial]

13. when is the little bushturd gonna heal someone

like a real preacher?

Or handle snakes