The Steven King moment--covered up by the world press

[The Blue Flower]

RE: *'s moment of contrived contrition at the press conference and this post:

Richard Wolffe from Newsweek, joined Keith Olbermann and says that Bush's more realistic tone and mannerisms seemed rehearsed.

Wolffe: ..And for me the big giveaway was at the end of that answer, I don't know if you can see it on camera, but the President flashed a big grin to those of us sitting in the front rows. It didn't seem that he was quite as contrite as his performance.
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/05/26.html#a8451

This was the Steven King moment of the evil, lying politician holding the baby up as a shield from an assassin's bullet. But this time, in the real world, a roomful of global media witnessed it and said nothing. There were no photos broadcast on the evening news of this moment. There was no photo on the cover of Time. Bob Schieffer of CBS commented on an "unusual burst of candor" from the president. But they all saw this repulsive display and told us NOTHING about it.

(sorry I can't seem to download the photo that went with it)

[Drum]

1. I trust this is what you mean:

Pure evil alright, and not fooling us.

[merci_me]

2. What's with the scrapes

on the side of his face? Another drunken brawl with an inanimate object or was it Blair this time?

[redwitch]

6. He was trying to make ethanol

from some insurgent switchgrass. :-)

[A-Schwarzenegger]

13. It's the lizard showing through.

[Jim Sagle]

35. Pickles hooked him one because he's seeing Condi too often.

[lyonn]

3. Blair looks really concerned

Bush looks like he just performed Act 99 of his personal play/drama for the people of America that he obviously holds in low esteem.

[NJCher]

10. glad you dug that up

The video doesn't really show it.

Ech. Is there anything lower than this scum?




Cher

[Cha]

31. And just how stupid

do ya have to be to support this Scum?

[HysteryDiagnosis]

14. They're buying it and you b*stids haven't seen the end of me

yet.... heh heh heh.....

[pretzel4gore]

15. bush is god-worship him or die...

confess, repent, obey. and live
(btw how can it be none of them english take blair into room and beat him like the family mule?
that defies understanding)

[Cha]

29. Richard Wolffe calls that

a "big grin"? I call it bush's large lilly livered SMIRK!

Yeah, it's the media stupid! But, why would an international press not show it?

[dflprincess]

37. Kind of makes you think of the kid at the end of "The Omen" doesn't it?

n/t

[tanyev]

4. Bob Schieffer on CBS said that Bush has made those comments

before (I don't recall it), but at much less publicized appearances. That tells me right there it's one of the new talking points. "OK, things are going so badly we need to act contrite about something. What can we apologize for and pay the least political price? The tone, yeah, that's it."

[TallahasseeGrannie]

5. Of course it is rehearsed

and artificial. Can't you just hear the crisis team giving him pointers on how to get his base back?

However, I was grudgingly impressed that they got him to say he was wrong, no matter how artificial. I wonder if they had to drug him to get him to do it?

[Olney Blue]

8. I think we can assume that he was indeed "under the influence"

of some chemical substance or other, TG. x(

[Dudley_DUright]

16. But if you cafefully read what he said TG,

you will see that he did not actually say that he was wrong about anything, only that others may have misinterperted (wrong signal) his words and Abu Ghraib was some else's fault.

QUESTION: Mr. President, you spoke about missteps and mistakes in Iraq. Could I ask both of you which missteps and mistakes of your own you most regret?

PRESIDENT BUSH: Sounds like kind of a familiar refrain here -- saying "bring it on," kind of tough talk, you know, that sent the wrong signal to people. I learned some lessons about expressing myself maybe in a little more sophisticated manner -- you know, "wanted dead or alive," that kind of talk. I think in certain parts of the world it was misinterpreted, and so I learned from that. And I think the biggest mistake that's happened so far, at least from our country's involvement in Iraq is Abu Ghraib. We've been paying for that for a long period of time. And it's -- unlike Iraq, however, under Saddam, the people who committed those acts were brought to justice. They've been given a fair trial and tried and convicted.

http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2006/05/bush_blair_on_t.html

[TallahasseeGrannie]

24. It was a rather half-hearted attempt, wasn't it?

[jus_the_facts]

7. Did they mean *Stephen* King?

[hfojvt]

34. is there a difference?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=4311520#4312473

[SPKrazy]

9. That Evil Smirk

makes me want to puke

[Greybnk48]

11. I emailed this picture to my sister yesterday

from a post here on DU because I thought it was chilling. She's one to send it around to a large group, which she did. They literally talked about it all day and last night she called me and said she couldn't get the image out of her mind. She doesn't like *, volunteers to work for Dems, etc., but has accused me of being too "radical" in my hatred. Not any more. She sounded like me on the phone last night. I hope everyone sees this picture because I agree with Defenestrate, it speaks volumes.

[Cha]

33. bush is definetly his own

worst enemy and that should be a talking point when ritewingnutjobs talk about the Liberals hating bush..they can't hold a candle to bush's self loathing.

[glarius]

12. He admitted the soldiers at Abu Gharaib(sp?) were wrong and half-heartedly

admitted he perhaps should have used other words rather than "wanted dead or alive" and "bring em on." This is not an admission of any major mistakes he had made himself, IMO.

[Cleita]

39. The way he said it wasn't contrite to me. He sounded like

he was turning it into a joke, like oops I really shouldn't have pee'd in the pool. I was wrong. Giggle, hee, hee.

[BrklynLiberal]

17. His Evilness merely "apologized" for the words he used, and not for any

decisions or actions that were taken.
The entire act was totally meaningless and disengenuous.
If there is any doubt, that look says it all, "Ya think they bought that crap, guys?"

This is the perfect capture of his true self.

[BrklynLiberal]

18. There was one article:MARY LYON FROM THE LEFT: He's Sorry, Alright

Well how 'bout that? It's no longer true that being George W. Bush means never having to say you're sorry. Bush has now actually admitted he'd blown a few little details awhile ago.

Now I have to say I'M sorry. I have to beg your indulgence. I'm in shock.

WOW, George. It's finally hit your Imperial Perfectionship that maybe you spoke a little (!?) recklessly with all that tough-guy Texas swagger-talk. Heavens to armadillos, maybe that "bring 'em on" stuff, taunting potential enemies with the lives of our troops on the line wasn't exactly the best thing to say. Gee, Cowboy George, maybe that "dead or alive" stuff just didn't hit the spitoon dead-on like you thought it would. No bull's eye for you, sonny. You wound up dribbling your chewing tobacco juice all over your expensive suit, President Bravado. It's painfully clear by now that those big ol' verbal pop guns you waved around so arrogantly at everybody three years ago shot blanks.

But in one respect, Junior is indeed sorry. He's sorry, alright. A sorrier excuse for a human being there never has been, at least in my memory. Watching him slouch on the lectern and grope for the proper words to express his disjointed feelings while somehow still avoiding accepting full responsibility made me want to throw things at my TV. As he stared off into space (yep, kind of hard to look people in the eye when you're fumbling for an excuse to get your fanny out of a sling), gazed upward (hoping your "Higher Father" will come down and get you off this cross), hemmed and hawed, searching for words (well, that'll take all day. A nimble command of the English language is not exactly one of his strong suits), he reminded me of the facial expressions and nervous fidgeting of my kid during the many times I caught him with yet another detention slip he hoped I wouldn't find -- that should have been signed and returned to the principal's office three weeks earlier. Bush seems to think all he messed up was some wording. But he commits that particular sin all the time. This, along with his fabricated WMD assertions and "Mission Accomplished" strutting, just one of MANY. It was merely the semantics he botched. BAD semantics! Shame on you! Look what you've gotten him into this time! Maybe he was misinterpreted -- the undertaste of which clearly affirms that he was still basically right. It was just in the way he said it. That's like the non-apology apology: "I'm sorry you were offended by..."

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more....

http://worldnewstrust.org/modules/AMS/article.php?storyid=3607

[bahrbearian]

19. "I think in certain parts of the world it was misinterpreted"

How can "Wanted dead or alive" be misinterperted ? " Bring it on" ?

[petgoat]

20. How can it be misinterpeted? I can only think of one way.

He must be saying "People should have known I was just talking and
didn't mean it."

[bahrbearian]

21. He might have meant to say

" Wanted Healthy and Alive" and "Can't we just all get along ? "

[SoCalDem]

22. Pue Evil... just like this one from the 00 campaign, where he's literally

wrapping himself in the flag..

[Lars39]

38. Hadn't seen that one before.Here's one that still creeps me out:

[NJCher]

40. oh man

In my dreams.

Unfortunately.




Cher

[quiet.american]

23. "Bush on the Couch" nailed Bush's psychoses. He MUST give himself away.

Justin Frank really pinpointed Bush's mental illness. He could no more not give himself away with a smirk or inappropriate laughter than he is capable of telling the truth.

[alfredo]

25. John Lennon said

"One thing you can't hide, is when you're crippled inside."

[Disturbed]

26. " I think in certain parts of the world it was misinterpreted,"

This Silverspoon Sociopath cannot bring himself to admit that he was wrong. He always needs to excuse even the slightest mistakes as not totaly wrong. The RW spin that he apologized is pathetic.

What parts of the world misinterpreted his stupid remarks and just how were those remarks misinterpreted?

[alfredo]

30. bush or Lennon?

[eleny]

27. It should have been his "Face In The Crowd Moment"

"This whole country's just like my flock of sheep! Hillbillies, hausfraus - everybody that's got to jump when someone else blows a whistle! They're mine!"

[leftofthedial]

28. they all know they live in a Potemkin world

a script is presented to them. they do not deviate.

[earth mom]

32. Did anyone expect anything better from this man?

A man who read a childrens book while thousands died on 9/11,
a man who sent U.S. soldiers to war to DIE for a lie,
a man who cares not how many so called "insurgents" die in Iraq,
a man who allows the people of this country to be spied upon,
a man who takes our hard earned tax money and squanders it not for our benefit but for himself and his cronies,
a man who wants to rob the good people of this country of our social security pension,
a man who ignored the poor and helpless of Katrina,
a man who wants illegal immigration because it helps his big business buddies and at the same time exploits workers mexican and american

...the list of his dirty deeds is endless!

We are a talking about a man-can he even be called human?-who is cruel beyond measure, no doubt laughing behind our backs at our pain. :puke:

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

36. Awwww, come on, our fave media whore Tweety said he was Lincolnesque.