Army of propagandists meet Bush in the Oval Office

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On an overcast Friday morning last month, White House aides ushered an influential group of conservative radio hosts into the Oval Office for a private audience with the president.

For an hour and a half, Mr. Bush discussed his case for the war in Iraq, his immigration proposals and even the personality of his Scottish terrier Barney, who scratched on the door during the session until the president relented and let him into the office, according to several hosts who attended.

The meeting, which was not announced on the president’s public schedule, was part of an intensive Republican Party campaign to reclaim and re-energize a crucial army of supporters that is not as likely to walk in lockstep with the White House as it has in the past.

Conservative radio hosts are breaking with the Republican leadership in ways not seen in at least a decade, and certainly not since Rush Limbaugh’s forceful advocacy of the party in 1994 spawned a new generation of stars, said Michael Harrison, publisher of the industry’s lead trade publication, Talkers.

http://www.themoderatevoice.com/posts/1161096893.shtml

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. Freak show. One clown with a beaver on his head, next to him

is a moron (Kneel Boortz) that babbles on and on like a 85 year old man with Alzheimers and bad hemmorhoids, Laura Ingraham learned to talk thru her nose in 3rd grade and still thinks it's sexy, Sean Hannity still carries around his Las Vegas Drive-in chapel marriage papers to Terri Schiavo(see photo), and the guy next to him just got through cleaning the bathroom in the Oval office.

What a bunch of asswipes.

[liberalnurse]

2. This is as offensive as sexual abuse!

This man who we are to call our president, he has never lead the nation....he just keeps on campaigning....

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3. Just the fact that he's meeting with the press

and CHOOSING WHOM TO MEET WITH BASED ON THEIR IDEOLOGY should make anyone's hair stand on end. :grr:

[tinfoilinfor2005]

5. Any similarity between the "press" and faux news is purely fiction.

This is bush's propaganda tool, much like the old Soviet newspaper, Pravda.

[MGD]

4. The Republicans are acting like wounded animals backed into a corner

They're seeing the writing on the walls, that November 7th is going to be a day of reckoning for the GOP that they will not soon forget.

[VOX]

6. Imagine a Democratic prez meeting with Al Franken, Keith Olbermann...

Michael Moore, Randi Rhodes, Arianna Huffington, George Soros, Sean Penn, Janeane Garofolo, Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart, etc., etc.

The blowback from the corporate media would be phenomenal. Right-wingers would be screaming from the rafters. It'd be a top headline for a week. :grr: :nuke:

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7. And the thing is, they would be justified

since when is the president WHOM I PAY allowed to conspire with private industry propagandists on government time?