Hasselbeck defended Bush's reading of My Pet Goat using the scared kid card

[merbex]

In today's "fight" on The View when Joy mentioned Bush sitting there in that classroom for 7 minutes-Elizabeth jumped right in with a variation of "Was he suppose to frighten the kids?" by leaving

That isn't the first time I've heard right wingers use that argument.

My comeback always is: say a policemen and firemen show up in a child's classroom for a Show and Tell session and a call comes in about a Fire or a emergency that must be dealt with by the Fireman and policeman present- are they suppose to sit there because getting up and leaving doing their job might frighten the kids???

Puleeze!!!!

He(Bush) couldn't have said: "Kids, I've got to leave a little early cause I have some President business that needs my attention. When I have some free time I'll make sure to come back - thanks for your understanding about this"

Treating kids like they have some understanding of the world around them ,I realize is a stretch for the rightwingers- but kids have an amazing capacity to grasp things like the fact that adults work and have jobs that require that they might have to get up and leave an event early. I know that is a radical concept for the repugs but that "defense" of his "deer caught in headlights" look in that classroom is indefensible and I wish someone would say that to Elizabeth Hasselbeck someday

[Coexist]

1. for a sitting American President to NOT have the presence of mind

to be able to deal with a "situation" like the mild confusion of a group of schoolchildren, does not give me much hope as to how he might be up to the challenge of working with adults in situations where human lives are in the balance.

[Goat or Panic]

10. I've always had a problem

with the whole "Goat or Panic" argument/excuse hence my screen name.

:)



"Goat or Panic" = GOP

[BrklynLiberal]

2. Hasslebeck is an empty-headed, willfully ignorant twit.

If an original thought ever appeared in her brain, it would die of loneliness.

She is like a ventriloquist's dummy. Her mouth keeps moving but the words are not coming from her. They were fed to her by her Rightwing ventriloquist. There really isn't anything up there between those ears except a huge vacuum. Her dumb blondness is what got her chosen for the puppet part.
She probably has no real idea what she is saying, even at the moment she says it.

[Arkansas Granny]

17. I think that just about sums it up.

[Generator]

3. The thing about that is

it's not WHAT her team does. It's that it's HER team. There is no critical thinking. She makes excuses, rationlizations for every single thing they do. When Al Gore committed some sin (I forget what it was-lightbulbs or something) then regardless of all he has done on global warming-he's a hypocrite and she doesn't like him. HER guy let's citizens die because he doesn't want to frighten some kids and that's okay. I have learned from this time in history how Nazi Germany happened. With that kind of loyalty who needs guns?

[frogcycle]

6. well said n/t

[Ilsa]

20. They are saying he has a high electric bill. Well, it is higher because

Al and Tipper both have home offices, and they pay a huge premium every month for green-source energy. So yeah, their bill is higher, but it is because they are using green energy.

[Gormy Cuss]

4. "Sorry, kids. I have something presidential to handle. Maybe Ms. Teacher can finish the story ."

Yeah, that would have scared the poor kids. :sarcasm:

on edit: I seem to recall that one year back in elementary school the fireman booted out of our Fire Safety presentation because there was a big fire and they needed him.

[merbex]

12. Did all the kids get "scared?"

It has to be the lamest excuse EVER for the worst reaction to a disaster by an American President.

"But he would have frightened the kids"

Utterly pathetic

[Gormy Cuss]

13. Exactly.

As I recall, we just nodded in understanding like the kids in that classroom would have done no doubt.

[Goat or Panic]

5. Hasselbeck is right and you know it!!!!!1!!

George Bush could not calmly excuse himself from a classroom without causing mass panic and rioting.

He can't even eat a pretzel without knocking himself unconscious.

If GWB were to have left somehow that classroom would have turned into a "Lord of the Flies" re-enactment within 5 minutes I guarantee.


"frighten the children?"
What was he going to do, drop his pants?

[greenbriar]

11. hummm is the following post your mole???

this was posted on a rw forum...

" I agree. You know, I can completely disagree with everything a person believes and still have a civil discussion about it. And spewing talking points with out a decent back up plan, isn't going to get me to agree with you. Rosie's all talking points.

I didn't watch her when she was all feel good talk show back in the day, and I'm seriously not gonna watch her screech now.

BTW, I pretty much posted this at DU (well, I didn't say screech) and I have someone biting my head off for it. I went against the grain with the, I just don't care. It's always funny when you poke something and I can imagine their heads explo"

[LibDemAlways]

7. That is a well entrenched repuke talking point. I had a

repuke frined say the same thing to me. It's beyond ridiculous.

Imagine their indignation if a Dem leader failed to instantly respond to a national emergency. That President would be facing impeachment the next day. But a repuke moron like the chimp, who didn't know what the hell to do on 9/11, gets a pass. The thing I hate most about repukes is their shameless hypocrisy.

[frogcycle]

8. all of the above, and also

even if it would have scared the living shit out of them, at that point in time there were 280 million Americans with the shit ALREADY scared out of them, and real "president stuff" to deal with. Even if those kids had to be "collateral damage (which they would not have been) it should not have been a consideration. Total spin-doctor copout.

[MisterP]

9. funny thing is, His Lowness went into a neighboring room, similarly child-indwelt,

and proclaimed that the entire nation is under attack and in danger...

[erpowers]

14. I Do Not Get It

I do not understand how the President leaving a room would upset kindergardeners. Just get up, tell the kids you have to leave, and then go. What would have upset the kids? I do not get it; I just do not understand.

[merbex]

15. I have never understood that excuse

and I wish someone would say it to Elizabeth Hasselbeck or any other repug that spews the excuse for the way he sat there frozen

[Atman]

16. He didn't want to stand up and let them see the pee stain in his trousers

He hates it when second graders laugh at him.

:hi:

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[Arkansas Granny]

18. Best explanation yet! And probably much closer to the truth.

:rofl:

[merbex]

22. He could have held the book in front of him -strategically, if you know what I mean

and still excused himself politely to the kids and then leave the room

I don't accept any excuse for sitting there for 7 minutes after hearing what Card told him

[Cha]

19. The ugly twit is just repeating what

somebody told her..she can't think for herself.

Is there anywhere else in the world where twits like her get such a big microphone to spread lies and propoganda?

I hope not..for that country's sake.

A real president would have known how to calm the kids and fucking gone out kept the attacks from coming. bush in his stupor couldn't think of a fucking thing to do. But, why worry when ya got the corporatemediawhores in your fucking pocket?

[alcibiades_mystery]

21. A man whose major productive output for 6 years has been wholesale FEAR

didn't want to frighten people?

It's almost comical when you think about it.

Does he frighten kids when he has the DHS illegitimately raise the threat level right before an election?

[merbex]

23. It fits their thinking about everything

Impeachment is for blowjobs and not for the serious Constitutional issues that have risen and been trashed in the last 6 years

And

we can't "scare" one classroom of kids in 2001 by leaving early from an event for a crisis that required his attention but we can do so every time he makes a speech now and indeed hope that they are scared out of their little minds so that more Constitutional rights will be given over to the neo con crowd in DC

[slor]

24. He actually discussed the attacks later...

right in front of the children, if I remember correctly, so it is a silly argument anyway.

[Garbo 2004]

25. Guess she forgot that subsequently Bush held a press conference with the same kids as a backdrop

prop to talk about the attacks on the nation. He wasn't concerned about frightening them then.