Bush's Banned Interview: An Insight Into Insanity

[JTFrog]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ben-cohen/bushs-banned-interview-an_b_111804.html

Bush's Banned Interview: An Insight Into Insanity


Posted July 10, 2008 | 02:34 PM (EST)


While surfing the net on 'Stumble', I came across an interview with President Bush on Irish television that caused a bit of a storm in 2004. The interview conducted by the tenacious Carol Coleman of Radio Television Ireland was not aired on American television, and Bush's press officers apparently complained vociferously about the rigorous questioning.

The video shows Bush at the absolute peak of his arrogance -- convinced of his own rhetoric about Iraq, flooded with confidence from international subservience to American power, and high off a crushing military victory that reinforced his childish fantasies of American power and preeminence.

The problem was, Coleman was having none of it, and what transpired was a unique insight into the warped brain of the least respected and most hated president in the history of the United States. "Mr. President," she asked the stone faced Coleman. "You're going to arrive in Ireland in about 24 hours' time, and no doubt you will be welcomed by our political leaders. Unfortunately, the majority of our public do not welcome your visit because they're angry over Iraq, they're angry over Abu Ghraib. Are you bothered by what Irish people think?"

Other than stutter, the president managed only to answer in vacant homilies about 'the great values of our country.'

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If we had reporters like this, Bush would have been out on his ass years ago.

[villager]

1. We don't have "reporters," period. Only a few bloggers come close to fitting the old definitions

n/t

[krispos42]

22. We have multimilliondollar talking heads

That's almost as good, right? :crazy:

[Barrymores Ghost]

2. So THIS is what a journalist looks like....K&R

Holy crap. That was an amazing piece. Thank you. I'm sending the Huff-Po link to everyone I know.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

10. "Wait, wait, let me finish"

Not only is he a buffoon, he is a sexist SOB as well.

[MedleyMisty]

3. The other day on NPR

some military guys were talking about how they're having a hard time convincing Washington that there is still an actual war going on there.

That's when I realized that they believe their own propaganda, and that scares the shit out of me.

Watching the video - the dude is freaking insane. Hussein cut people's hands off because the national currency had devalued and he was their leader? I hear the dollar isn't doing so well - think our right hands are safe? But hey, those guys got new hands so maybe we will too.

[Supersedeas]

14. the military has to wake up to the fact that this Admin does not want American citizens to know the

truth

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. I remember thinking the same thing at the time

[MadMaddie]

5. Not only reporters but a Congress that had a backbone!

[Warpy]

6. Frightening, isn't it?

A lot of us spotted it even when he was turning in a recitation of canned speeches in his "debates" against Al Gore. He would recite a speech that had one or two keywords in the question but that didn't answer any of the question. It's a performance that worsened with his "debates" against John Kerry and equally frightening were the number of people who didn't spot it.

This is the only reason there is doubt about 9/11. A normal President, even Regan in his dementia, would have excused himself to find out what was going on. Stupid sat like a bump on a log for a full 7 1/2 minutes, only rousing himself to continue the next 20 minutes of an utterly meaningless photo op.

Either he is incapable of initiating a response that hasn't been scripted or he knew what was going down and that Cheney was supposed to handle it by letting it go down.

Both prospects are equally frightening.

[Raster]

7. I believe the truth is a combination of BOTH, which is even more frightening.

[Barrymores Ghost]

11. His incapability of initiating an unrehearsed response is....

...exactly the genesis of his petulant, whiny admonitions of Coleman's follow-up questions as "interruptions." Before each of his ridiculous little outbursts, you could see his eyes tracking a script and turning mental pages, making little checks in thought boxes as he went through them. He's a trained fucking chimp. A sociopathathic sock-puppet in an Armani suit.

[Kaleko]

12. Warpy, if the chimp's handlers were surprised by the attacks on 9/11

they would have pulled him out of that classroom within seconds and hurled his ass into Air Force I.

[MiniMe]

17. ding ding ding

I have said that since 9-11.

[jazzjunkysue]

20. Exactly. No one, including NORAD was surprised or acted surprised.

Scared never happened, either.

[Kaleko]

23. An Interesting Day: President Bush's Movements and Actions on 9/11

An investigation by Allan Wood and Paul Thompson

Quote: “It was an interesting day.” —President Bush, recalling 9/11 (White House, 1/5/02)

Check it out: http://www.historycommons.org/essay_pf.jsp?article=essayaninterestingday - printer friendly view

http://www.historycommons.org/essay.jsp?article=essayaninterestingday - with images

[malaise]

8. He's pathetic

bat shit crazy -there are no other words.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

9. Keerist, the f'n chimp is a piece of work. What an a-hole!

K & R

[samsingh]

13. bush is so fragile he can't be asked a reasonable question

poor pathetic fool

[jazzjunkysue]

21. 8 years ago the RNC and GOP wanted a sock puppet. Trouble is, B* started to believe

he really was president. I think he believes all of their delusional arguments, too. I also think he takes reports at face value and then goes and watches the game. Nothing is real to him. The war, the oil, the dying, and even his prescious so-called religion. Nothing is real to him. He is separated from reality.

He manchurian candidated himself, or, his mother Barbara did it for him.

[Karenina]

15. A !!!MUST SEE!!! interview.

[MiniMe]

16. "Let me finish, let me finish" and then adds nothing but BS

[TexasObserver]

18. I saw that a long time ago. It got little coverage in the US.

[jazzjunkysue]

19. The news was cancelled 8 years ago. Go buy something.

If you don't, "They win."

[Kaleko]

24. The self-satisfied grin on the Chimp's face when he belittles the reporter

speaks volumes to me. It says: "I'm right! Why? Cuz might is right!" And: "Whatcha gonna do about it, you lowly peon, huh?!?"



Time for a quote from from Arthur Silbert's blog of Sept. 25, 2007 http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/

It is true that the style of the Bush administration is notably crude and aggressive. But if genuine, widespread opposition to the administration's policies had existed, Bush would never have been able to enact his program in the first place -- and the Democratic Congress would not ratify and sanctify his crimes, as they have done and continue to do. When one appreciates the historic continuity which gave rise to this abominable administration and without which this administration would not have been possible, and when one considers the particular style in which Bush, Cheney and the rest present their program, it is as if they are saying -- both to the nominal "opposition" party and to all Americans:

We're doing what this government has done for over a hundred years. We start wars of aggression to establish American dominance around the world. We began that policy in the 1890s, and we've never stopped. Sometimes we do it through covert operations, and by toppling regimes that won't do as we demand. Sometimes we simply invade and bomb them.

And we've used torture as a standard means of warfare for decades. We just used to hide it better, and we had better PR about how we weren't "really like that." Some of you even said you wanted torture to be brought out "into the open." So we did that.

Beginning with Woodrow Wilson and even before that, the ruling class has wanted a powerful police state here at home. We never kept it a secret, but we made it go down more easily with flowery talk and nice phrases.

We decided to do away with all the camouflage. We recognized what the actual aims had been all along and we agreed with them, so we decided to bring it all out into the open. We didn't want to waste time with all those nice speeches that make people feel better about themselves. Oh, sure, we still do that to some extent. We have to, because you're not willing to face the truth about what we've been doing around the world for 60 years and more, and what we do today.

But we stripped away a lot of the delusions. We knew no one would stop us -- because this is what you've wanted all along, and it's what you want now. You like making the rest of the world do what we tell them. You enjoy it. And whenever you have the slightest excuse for it, real or imagined, wide scale murder doesn't bother you in the least.

You like it. It's what you want. If it isn't, why don't you stop us? You could, you know. If enough of you made your objections known in ways that mattered, we'd have to stop. We're not worried, because we know you won't.

But go ahead. Try to stop us. Try to stop this war and the wars to come, and the mass slaughter, and the growing authoritarianism. Aren't you going to at least try? Aren't you?

Go ahead. We dare you.

And what's the answer from almost all of you, and from almost all Americans?

Exactly. That's what they counted on. They were right.

The chimp smirks because he knows he's above the law.