VIDEO: Matt Lauer goes after Bush over secret prisons and torture

[tuvor]

Yes, THAT Matt Lauer.

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/09/11/matt-lauer-goes-after-bush-over-secret-prisons-and-torture/

[waiting for hope]

1. Is he jumping on

the Keith Olbermann band wagon? Because if he tried, I think he would fall off.

[tuvor]

3. I thought he held up pretty well.

Anyone who can get bush to say, "i don't wanna talk about it" deserves a bit of praise, in my book.

[FightingIrish]

2. What's with the little banty roostser going toe to toe.

It was the same thing with the Brian Williams interview. Carl Rove must think it makes him look like a tough guy. I think it showcases what a lightweight he really is. It was good to see Matt Lauer addressing Bush's anterior orifice for a change. I'd give anything to see him and KO in each other's faces.

[Rose Siding]

4. Bush is clearly insane.

If he's that aggressive and intimidating with his subordinates, no WONDER he never hears the truth. Who would even think he'd HEAR it?

Lauer did very, very well considering Bush was standing there POKING him. Bush's reality is so narrow! "I'm protecting your family" is his excuse for going Full Metal Nixon.

It doesn't seem as though he's allowed himself to understand (and that's the only excuse, it's too simple) about what the opposition really expects. He INSISTS that his critics are bent because he's spying on al qaeda -nothing about warrants.

He's clearly insane.

[MissMarple]

22. Hmm...He can't handle the truth.

His brain would blow all its fuses.

[IChing]

5. I'm not putting it down but I thought it looked a little staged

Why are they standing in the oval office like that?
It was good but something just didn't seem right

[Rose Siding]

9. I'd imagine that the WH set the conditions about standing

-to make bush look engaged or something, is my bet. It just made him look unpleasantly overbearing, in an unhinged kind of way, to me.

[yurbud]

6. glad to see people do it, but a couple of years late

I'm more impressed with the people who stood up to him in 2002-2004.

After Abu Ghraib, the gloves should have come off with everybody, and after Schiavo and Katrina, that should have been enough of a vocal minority of critics to give even the MSM the cover to do their jobs.

Go after Bush now is like kicking Jeffrey Dahmer while he's in a coma. You can understand why someone wants to do it, but it's not exactly an act of courage.

[yurbud]

7. their should be a shrine to the ass-kissing interviews Bush got

with pop-ups saying what scandal had been revealed at that time that they should have been asking about but weren't.

[tuvor]

8. At least it's before an election.

I'm trying to see the glass as one-tenth full.

[Red Right and BLUE]

10. Perhaps this was staged,

and it was meant to make chimpy look strong, but backfired miserably. He only looked like a 5-year-old bully.

"They're gonna come kill your family if we don't let me do whatever I want, Matt!"

[Crankie Avalon]

11. Jesus Christ, if that weaselly little pissant kept poking me...

...with his chubby little finger like that I swear to God I'd bitchslap the taste right out of his lying mouth. I don't care who he is or, more to the point, who he THINKS he is.

[wtmusic]

15. Crankie nominated to fill in for Matt on next interview

"bitchslap the taste right out of his lying mouth" :rofl:

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

12. Did the Shrub say "We eliminated the laws" When talking about the

walls between agencies? I think he meant walls and freudian slipped with laws!!!!

[Karenina]

31. Yesindeedy he DID!

I wanted to see it again, only got audio and decided to let it run anyway. Yesindeedydoody he said WE ELIMINATED THE LAWS...

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

34. Another one of his slips..like saying about Iraq that we would create

chaos out of order!

[gatorboy]

13. When Bush called him "glib"

I think that put Matt over the top. :P

[ariellyn]

27. You're about to make me spit coffee all over my monitor.

:rofl:

[wtmusic]

14. Matt missed the obvious followup

of asking how the administration can expect the world to believe their interrogation is lawful, when no independent verification is possible.

[wtmusic]

16. Junor was getting overheated like he did in the first Kerry debate

about 2,000 rpms from blowing a gasket

[npincus]

17. I suspect Lauer is a Dem constrained by his corporate masters

[mom cat]

18. He must have used the word "protect" at least 25 times. K&R!

What rubbish.

[elehhhhna]

24. He said "PERTECT". Always does.

[elehhhhna]

BEST BUSH MOMENT: BIG SMILE as he says "THEY WANT TO KILL YOUR FAMILY!"

I'll watch it again just for that.

The man is insane.

[elehhhhna]

25. dupe delete

[file83]

19. Bush was just a weeeee bit defensive, wouldn't you say?

[originalpckelly]

29. I think "we do not torture" is the new "I'm not a crook."

What do you think?

[file83]

32. You got that right! This nation will only heal if he's impeached.

Until then...

[DesertRat]

33. Perfect

"I'm not a crook" "We do not torture"

[Shadoobie]

20. Walls

* went on and on about how he helped break down the walls/barriers/etc. One obvious question: how is getting a FISA warrant days after initiating a wire tap a "barrier" to intelligence gathering?

Greg

[bunny planet]

21. That interviews camera angles on * make him look just like Gollum

in his schizophrenic scene talking to himself in the second intallment of the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Anybody see the resemblance?
He is totally insane.
The stories that are going to come out about this guy after he leaves office will be mind boggling. Let's just hope we can get him to leave office a little sooner than expected.

[txb]

23. 100% BAT SHIT CRAZY

wow. whomever thought that THIS was a good idea for the White House really doesn't understand how ridiculous the pResident looked!

a few things --->

-- anyone else notice the macabre GRIN that breaks out on *'s face when he says "wanting to kill your family"?!?! i'm no psychologist--but that just seems kind of sick.

--- right before * makes the point that the terror plots are "real...not make-believe" -- he looks to the ground (breaking eye-contact w/ lauer), shakes his head, and shrugs his shoulders.

i think that * is having issues believing the crap he's being instructed to capitulate.

his head is going to explode.

there will be cocaine residue everywhere.

ewww.

[Virginia Dare]

26. Excellent critique txb...

welcome to DU!

[jeanarrett]

28. Jeezus. Just watching that makes me want to

bust a nose and knock out a couple teeth. What constraint it must have taken to stand there getting poked in the chest with that lying, sneering mug two inches from your face, and probably bad breath to boot.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

30. Oh. My.

First, I hadn't see that so thank you for posting.

Now on to the video.

Lauer did a fine job of keeping on target and not being distracted. No doubt that wasn't an easy task with bush invading his personal space and poking him throughout the interview.

Bush came off as being heavily on the defensive and disrespectful of anyone of a different mind than himself. It was a freakish mix of arrogance, defensiveness and deer caught in the headlights. It was riveting in the same way as a train wreck. You don't like what you're seeing but are so amazed by how horrific it is you just can't take your eyes off of it.

Whomever the person in the WH is that thinks it's a good idea to let bush on camera to sell this administrations agenda, is simply an idiot. The man gives horrible political face. Period. Perhaps the person is a Democratic plant?