Bush is on Psych Meds to control psychotic symptoms including paranoia

[PhilipShore]

Capitol Hill Blue
Bush Taking Anti-Depressants to Control Mood Swings
Jul 28, 2004

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_4921.shtml

President George W. Bush is taking anti-depressant drugs to control his erratic behavior, depression and paranoia, Capitol Hill Blue has learned.

Tubb prescribed the anti-depressants after a clearly-upset Bush stormed off stage on July 8, refusing to answer reporters' questions about his relationship with indicted Enron executive Kenneth J. Lay.

“Keep those motherfuckers away from me,” he screamed at an aide backstage. “If you can’t, I’ll find someone who can.”

Although GOP loyalists dismissed the reports an anti-Bush propaganda, the reports were later confirmed by prominent George Washington University psychiatrist Dr. Justin Frank in his book Bush on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President. Dr. Frank diagnosed the President as a “paranoid meglomaniac” and “untreated alcoholic” whose “lifelong streak of sadism, ranging from childhood pranks (using firecrackers to explode frogs) to insulting journalists, gloating over state executions and pumping his hand gleefully before the bombing of Baghdad” showcase Bush’s instabilities.

[wtmusic]

1. How did I know this was a Doug Thompson "scoop"?

:silly:

[Richard Steele]

3. The same way I did- smell?

[wtmusic]

6. Aha (lol)... I thought it was a sixth sense

but it was good ol' number five

[BlueEyedSon]

2. oh, CHB again

[CottonBear]

4. PhilipShore: CHB is not a credible DU news source.

However, we do suspect that Bush has some sort of physical or mental health problems but exactly what is not known. He does seem to be a mean drunk.

[Kurovski]

15. Even the article itself could benefit from proofreading.

Almost like an underfunded FOX.

But it's clear that Bush is off his rocker, still holding on to enough awareness to eventually pay the legal price for his criminality.

Many in the administration are poster children for mental and personality "difficulties".

[RazzleDazzle]

30. That's the opinion of some...

I find it at least as credible as MSM sources and probably more so.

[DELUSIONAL]

33. NYT is not a credible news source

Judith Miller.

NYT helped the with cover up of bushie spying on millions of Americans etc. The news was reported until long AFTER the 2004 elections.

Lots of reasons that I don't believe NYT -- I want to see a second source or third or fourth.

Any news source requires a certain amount of skepticism -- any reporter can get scammed by the scum bags out there.

[Devlzown]

5. All I can say is, the meds aren't working.

eom

[FormerRepublican]

7. Aw - you beat me to it! I was going to say that....

[PhilipShore]

8. GOP consultant: We have to face the possibility that Bush is loony tunes

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi?archive=33&num=5141

One long-time GOP political consultant who – for obvious reasons – asked not to be identified said he is advising his Republican Congressional candidates to keep their distance from Bush.

“We have to face the very real possibility that the President of the United States is loony tunes,” he says sadly. “That’s not good for my candidates, it’s not good for the party and it’s certainly not good for the country.”

[BrotherBuzz]

22. I'll jump on this bandwagon as soon as Doug Thompson names....

one source or connects one allegation to a face. Ghost quotes are totally unacceptable.

[truthpower]

23. Ghost quotes are used by MSM all the time

That's because more often than not it's self-destructive to go on the record with frank appraisals of one's employer.

If you choose to not trust the source that's one thing. But journalism as a whole would pretty much dry up and blow away without info. from anonymous sources.

I think Thompson is great, and I trust his reporting. He made a correction when a correction was due in a much more honest and contrite manner than is typical.

No one here or anywhere else has been able to malign Thompson on specifics. It's all reflexive character assassination if you ask me.

[BrotherBuzz]

25. LOL, Thompson made the correction when....

The guy ceased to exist and all his other sources said that the guy never existed. What's wrong with that picture?

There is a world of difference between a ghost quote and an unnamed source.

[area51]

26. Welcome to DU, truthpower. (n/t)

[newyawker99]

29. Hi truthpower!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Az_lefty]

9. It's been obvious for a long time that he was loony tunes...

but WTF are we suppose to do about it?

[The Witch]

11. A link for you all.

http://www.allmentalhealth.samhsa.gov

http://www.nami.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Inform_Yourself/About_Mental_Illness/About_Mental_Illness.htm

freakin A.

[progressoid]

10. It's posts like this that make me wish we had an UN-recommend button

[TallahasseeGrannie]

12. Wishful thinking

and hyperbole. This is not a reputable source. Worse than the Enquirer, which sometimes gets a scoop.

[PhilipShore]

14. Good point

But the Dems give up -- wonderful opportunities -- to debate the Repukes with Democratic PR.

Capitol Hill blue is written by a Republican; but he talks about some issues that are favorable to Dems, and not all of his stories are Wishful thinking and hyperbole.

99% of all Repuke language is “Wishful thinking and hyperbole,” and the Repukes believe it, the Dems should just repeat it by a PR technique called anti-poetry -- which is when your adversary has a argument that is absurd, just repeat it, and then that shows the inaccuracies in the argument.

Limbaugh, is a typical Republican that uses the language of “Wishful thinking and hyperbole,” which is language similar to the Enquirer.

However, with him because his is staged propaganda -- is to have a different tactic, which is to counter argue with facts. Such as Limbaugh associates all Democrats as being liberals, and obvious falsehood, because liberal Democrats are a minority in the Democratic Party.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

20. Well, you have some valid

points. But I think there are enough awful things that are TRUE about Bush (that we know for certain) that we don't have to go to lies. (or shaky stories) And I'm not comfortable with vilifying him for taking psychotrophic meds, since I have more than a passing acquaintance with them myself and there are a whole LOT of folks out there doing a fine job in life with a little help from modern chemistry.

[emulatorloo]

13. Can we get a sticky that says "CAPITAL HILL BLUE IS NOT A CREDIBLE SOURCE"

Sorry, it just isn't. It is like fan fiction, or the Weekly World News. Fun to read, but not credible.

[seemslikeadream]

18. Oh I didn't know this was LBN

Bush's Erratic Behavior Worries White House Aides - 320 posts

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=602189

[truthpower]

21. Really? I know of one correction he made based on a bad source

Thompson was contrite and honest in his apology. Rather than draping him in a shroud of nebulous taint, name more than one specific instance in which he erred.

The criticisms of Thompson that I see here are typically Pavolovian but when push comes to shove, lack any substance.

[emulatorloo]

28. Hey WELCOME TO DU!

:hi:

[BrotherBuzz]

31. One correction and six scrubs...

Thompson used "that" source six times over twenty years. Six stories that quoted "that" individual as an unnamed source have been removed from CHB article database. A search of other news sources through the Internet and on Nexis finds no evidence that any of those six stories were published elsewhere. If you can't read it, it didn't happen.

[cassiepriam]

16. Shrub needs to be on a lot more thant just an anti-dep

[SeveneightyWhoa]

17. Oh, I thought you meant it was wishful thinking that..

..Bush was on meds.

Because, even if prescribed, he is clearly not taking them.

[earth mom]

19. There is a heckuva lot of denial going on in reply to your post...

:wtf:

I agree with those who say the meds aren't working.

But then again, I'm not sure you can medicate sociopaths...

[SammyWinstonJack]

24. He needs to have his meds upped.

[zippy890]

27. makes sense to me - just look & listen to the guy

bush is scared shitless and medicated

[roguevalley]

32. I love threads where people have aneurisms over this man. He's been right

a lot of the time and he hates bush. that makes him my guy.