Bush is going to crack up before your very eyes.

[loudnclear]

Watch him. I said this three years ago. He won't be able to handle the pressure or keep the lies straight.

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. They shoulda run Jeb

I think he'd have held up.

Then again, I am glad they didn't just for that reason. *l*

[SoCalDem]

27. They planned to, but his wife got caught smuggling

so the dumb one was chosen :)

[Sagan]

75. they wanted to

But he couldn't beat Lawton Chiles, so they had to run the Chimp.

[mandyky]

2. He was looking pretty sheepish

today when they took questions after the Cabinet meeting that I saw on CNN earlier today.

[pinkpops]

7. I noticed something

trying to remember...I believe it was when he was lying about wanting to get to the bottom of the "intelligence failure". For a second he looked like he was going to laugh.

[Sperk]

3. I know......I can't wait.

:evilgrin:

[salinen]

4. Throw the asswipe

to the lions.

[Webster Green]

5. He IS losing it.

He knows the jig is up. This "independent" panel he's going to appoint is doing him more harm than good. Look at today's CNN poll. 97% voted that a chimp annointed panel isn't going to cut it.

How do you like your toast, smirky?

[eleny]

8. Dunked in Chivas, no doubt

n/t

[gristy]

16. That poll is down already

That number is so high it's hard to believe. Now they have this poll:

Which was more outrageous?
Janet Jackson breast-baring Madonna-Britney Spears kiss?

[LiberalFighter]

29. Would his poll numbers be higher if he french kissed those girls?

[leesa]

30. Kiddin' me? He'd be out on his ass so fast he wouldn't know what hit him!

You can blow up brown-skinned people for no reason whenever you want, but inappropriate social behavior??? OH MY GOD!! We live in such a sick country.

[LiberalFighter]

28. Independent???

Oh.... you have it in quotes

We will have to hound them every chance we get

[bonemachine]

36. Does anyone have the hard link

to the poll results?

[Stephanie]

6. I agree

We were saying this in 2000. He's going to have a breakdown.

Now they are tasking his brain too much, trying to remember all those fine distinctions in all those lies is way beyond his abilities. And he is FURIOUS at being challenged. He is going to break, for sure. Today he looks hung over. He claims he missed the halftime because he fell asleep. I think he will have to be hospitalized.

Speaking of which, I am hearing some interesting rumors about Cheney's health. Has anyone else heard any? I have heard that he is in much, much worse shape than we've been led to believe. Anyone else hear anything?

[wysi]

9. Perhaps...

... Satan is renogtiating the deal that has kept him alive this long... :evilgrin:

[Stephanie]

15. Perhaps. It's just too on-the-nose that his HEART doesn't function

It just begs for New Age analysis.

I've also heard he has full hospital facilities in his house. Operating room. Anyone else heard this?

[Doctor_J]

14. That's just an excuse

to replace him in November with Mayor Combover. Our liberal radio hosts should have a BLAST with Rudy's bizarre love life.

[Stephanie]

20. I am sure they won't do that

Cheney IS the administration. He will hang on til they wheel his cold, stiff, stinking, dead body out of there. No way is he handing the whole thing over to Rudy.

[TheDebbieDee]

33. Mayor Combover?

LOLOLOLOLOLOL

[leesa]

31. I'm guessing they are setting us up for his retirement due to health

reasons...and you can't prosecute someone who's so sick, can you? I've always been wondering if the heart thing was a scam to allow him to be missing for years.

[justsam]

39. you can prosecute if just sick, but not mentally unbalanced

[K8-EEE]

43. Looking For His Lost Shaker Of Salt?

That footage of him at the table with all the yesmen, talking about the Independent Council, he coundn't get three words out of his mouth without stalling and looking semi-panicked every five seconds.

If I didn't know better I would think the Commander in Chief is wasting away again in margaritaville!

But I DON'T know better -- I'm sorry he looks WASTED!

[JPace]

49. "Commander in Chief is wasting away again in margaritaville!"

he does look awful and when he cannot smirk
or swagger with anger he just looks lost and
stupid. The country does not want to see his
humor or his anger.....with unemployment going
through the roof and with our troops dying
in Iraq the country is in a serious mood.
That leaves AWOL with nothing to offer, anger
and smirking is all he had.

[Missy Vixen]

63. Know any CICU nurses? Ask them

>Speaking of which, I am hearing some interesting rumors about Cheney's health. Has anyone else heard any? I have heard that he is in much, much worse shape than we've been led to believe. Anyone else hear anything?<

I had lunch a few years ago with some CICU nurses (we have a mutual friend.) It seems that Cheney had just had the super-duper pacemaker installed. Some of you may recall that the pacemaker in question would administer a shock to the heart if it were beating erratically.

First of all, the nurses told me, the heart muscle was virtually destroyed. One does not use the technology his doctors were using on anyone unless it's a last resort. The press made it sound like the "jolt" that would come as a result of erratic heart activity wasn't that big of a deal. One nurse described it as comparable to being kicked in the chest by a mule. She then said that she wondered if any of the press did any research at all before the blizzard of happy-talk articles came out about Cheney's operation.

It is no surprise to me that Cheney has been virtually invisible over the past couple of years.

Julie

[Stephanie]

67. Interesting. I've heard that his disappearances are health-related

Not "national security" related. He doesn't need to hide underground to run the shadow government - he can do it right from the Oval Office. When he's out of sight it has been due to issues related to what's left of his heart.

Here's what I'd like to know. I believe I've heard that serious heart problems, surgeries, etc. can lead to mental health issues - depression especially. Could Cheney's heart problems explain his bizarre paranoia? And his insistence on repeating those WMD lies long after they've been publicly acknowledged by everyone else to be untrue(I'm thinking of the "bio-weapons" trailers). I wonder if possibly his heart disease or his medications might explain his irrational insistence on unnecessary wars. And if so, can we declare him incompetent and get him out of there?

Is there any sort of mandate that the President and VP's health reports must be made available to the public?

[bobbyboucher]

69. When he came to Sacramento, a cop commented

to the Sacramento BEE about how he wasn't so amazed at the security with Cheney, but rather with the amount of doctors and nurses. Plus, they had the cops block off all routes to local hospitals along the way and near to the event. It was ALL about saving his ass if his ticker has a vapor lock.

[FlaGranny]

74. Serious, serious

breech of patient confidentiality laws by those nurses.

[Cooley Hurd]

78. Sounds like Julie's conversation happened before...

...HIPAA was passed, so technically HIPAA laws were probably not breached.

[Missy Vixen]

79. There was no breach of confidentiality

>breech of patient confidentiality laws by those nurses.<

Based on what?

The nurses involved were talking about a public figure and his reported health issues. He wasn't their patient.

The comments involved were based on what was reported in the press. The media was stupid enough to detail the equipment involved, then try to gloss it over so those who have no clinical knowledge would go back to believing everything was just fine.

Julie

[Hekate]

84. Cheney's the Borg n/t

[lastknowngood]

10. You wont be seeing any news conferences for the

foreseeable future. The moran can't speak more than 4 words at a time and then only if someone speaks them in his ear.

[BeyondGeography]

12. High mumble factor today

ummmmmmm, uhhhhhhhh, ummmmmmmmm, uhhhhhhhh...

Thank you, Mr. President.

[radfringe]

37. noticed that mumble factor...

(I like that term :D )

seems that the mumble factor goes up when he's cornered and looking like a deer in the headlights or a kid caught with his hand in the cookie jar

[alcuno]

11. He can't STAND to not be liked.

That's what will do him in.

[rocktivity]

17. He also can't stand to be criticized

It reinforces every insecurity he has. Consequently, he has an almost phobic aversion to being wrong. He's calling this independent panel in hopes he'll be exonerated--everybody screwed up EXCEPT him, so he shoud keep his job for another four years.


rocknation

[JohnOneillsMemory]

52. W is Dr. Evil's son Scott. "First I wasn't evil enough-now I'm too evil?!"

Sorry, just rented Austin Powers in Goldmember.

The dynamic between Dr. Evil and his son seems to fit perfectly.
I guess that make's Rumsfeld mini-me.

Mooo-hoooo-waaaa!

[worldgonekrazy]

72. That was a good one

Perfect analogy.

[mithnanthy]

55. You're right, RockNation...

and he IS going to "lose it" soon, I suspect. Hope it's captured on camera. He's such a spoiled BRAT BULLY!

[lumpy]

64. "He can't stand to not be liked".

This shows his lack of self esteem and his self-absorption is the result. He must be in agony.

[calimary]

85. More like he can't stand to not be worshipped.

Or coddled. Or covered up for. Or cleaned up after. Or spoonfed. Or groveled to. Oh pleeeeeze, mr. bush, pleeeeeeeeeeeeeze give me one of those cutesy nicknames of yours!

[Doctor_J]

13. He'll be under deep cover

until November. Our nominee (or surrogates like McAuliffe or Malloy) are going to have to call him out in VERY disparaging terms to get him to face the camera or the Dem nominee. IF we can get him debating and/or taking questions, you are probably right - he will disintegrate. It won't be pretty to watch, but over the long haul it's the only thing that will save our nation.

[NicoleM]

42. I disagree.

Watching the chimp self-destruct on live television would be more than pretty. It would be BEAUTIFUL.

[Doctor_J]

46. My only fear

is that, if he really comes unglued, some of the people he's pissed off will take advantage of the situation ro do something drastic. And I don't think the rest of the Rove administration is capable of holding the country together.

Let him serve out his stolen term, replace him with a world hero like Clark, and then turn him and the PNAC crowd over to the World Court.

[Tinoire]

18. If you start taking bets, I'm in! But I want a low number

;)

[Buns_of_Fire]

19. Cracking up in public is OK with me

Preferably during a Presidential debate. Lead him off the stage, ranting and blabbering about all the flying monkeys. Suits me just fine.

Better there than in private, where there might not be a convenient keeper around to divert his attention from the "football" and the nuclear launch codes. :nuke:

[JohnOneillsMemory]

53. Ya think Hinckley's possible release is to get a new martyr? hmm n/t

[earthside]

21. Already Signs of His Crack Up

In a commentary I just wrote and published, I mentioned this little bit of "cognitive dissonance" when Bush has talks about Saddam, WMD, and the UN inspections. He's already having trouble keeping his lies straight ... And his puny brain is rebelling.

Check out http://www.earthside.com/remember.html for hot links to the quotations in the following passage:

"An illuminating dimension to this scandalous affair is that there are indeed indications that Bush, himself, at some level comprehends that he has lied. As the book about the tenure of former Treasury secretary Paul O'Neill demonstrates, Bush and his minions began the planning for "regime change" in Iraq from their first day in office. By March 2003, Bush had wanted war with Iraq for over two years and the reason that worked best was, as he said, "we will disarm Saddam Hussein." It simply must not have added up for him, therefore, that the UN inspections program, that the United States itself had voted in favor of at the UN in November 2003, was not finding weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. A display of cognitive dissonance has betrayed him publicly at least twice. Somewhere in Bush's mind he 'remembers' and gives voice to the inconsistencies. At a press conference with Kofi Anan on July 14, 2003, Bush said: " ... the fundamental question is, did Saddam Hussein have a weapons program? And the answer is, absolutely. And we gave him a chance to allow the inspectors in, and he wouldn't let them in. And, therefore, after a reasonable request, we decided to remove him from power ..." Again, on January 27, 2004, taking questions with Polish president Kwasniewski, Bush said " And then we went to the United Nations, of course, and got an overwhelming resolution -- 1441 -- unanimous resolution, that said to Saddam, you must disclose and destroy your weapons programs, which obviously meant the world felt he had such programs. He chose defiance. It was his choice to make, and he did not let us in."

[Gato Moteado]

22. a DU poster recently posted to a thread....

...and said that a whole bunch of stuff was going to come out soon and sink chimpy. i don't remember who the poster was but several DUers thought this person was credible. he said he had information but couldn't share it with us at that time. does anyone remember that thread? and if so, has that DUer said anything new about that?

[eridani]

23. Don't believe it for a minute

Psychopaths never regret anything, so there is no reason to crack up.

[Doctor_J]

24. That's why CHENEY won't come apart -

he's the psychopath. Bush I see as more of a sociopath - no conscience or intellectual capability at all. Definitely could collapse under some pressure.

[depakid]

34. I agree completely

the man has no conscience and is a pathological liar to boot. So long as the media continues to run cover for him, he'll neither crack nor will his lies be exposed. That being said, it could be that he's sick and tired of being president and would really rather be doing something else-

[Cleita]

25. I used to know some potheads. (Who didn't in the sixties

and seventies?) They had that certain "stoned" look when they spoke to you. Bush has the same look. It isn't so obvious in still photos, but it sure is in videos. Just look at some videos of him lately and tell me if you don't see it.

[truthspeaker]

47. I resent that! A pothead would be a much better president!

;)

[Julien Sorel]

26. No, he won't.

He is absolutely, insanely focused on not being a one-termer like his daddy. In that sense, you could say he's already cracked up, but he isn't going to completely fall apart. Getting a second term, a real term, is an obsession for him. Now, the self-created pressure might lead him to crack during the campaign, make huge errors and the like, but I don't think he'll 'crack up' in the sense I think you're using to phrase. We are dealing with a guy who's never earned anything on his own, and who has the reverse midas touch. Getting elected, really elected, this time around would make up for a lifetime of failure and daddy Bush's influence. He's going to pull out all the stops.

[Snazzy]

35. exactly right--that's the whole persona

Not be daddy.

Plus I'll add this, which really bugs me: unlike a normal presidency, there is so much funky ape butt crap hanging out that there will be reprocussions with a turnover--shortsighted as always, they never planned for not being in power. E.g., Guantanamo, all the lies to Iraq, the Plame thing, the war crimes, Halliburton, Enron, the economony in general and in light of policy, the patriot act, tax cuts sunsets, off shore stuff, and on and on (I should be sleeping, but you can make your own list).

As like everything else, the annointed-ones do not plan for their defeats or blunders. It must have dawned on them, however, that there is a real possibility of being in a world of crap should/when they turn over to a dem. Someone must be thinking of that.

This is going to be one crazy mutha of a year. This will not be an easy fight folks. They are not going to cave. They are going to go kicking and screaming. Code red, buddy.

Osama? Ricin? BBV? Invade somebody? All of these? Some crazy stuff is headed our way. It will not be right or fair--expect it.

[sendero]

40. I tend to agree...

... with your theory. In fact, I think Iraq was all about n'er-do-well son impressing and one-upping Daddy. I think yammering about a space program was about Daddy. And no telling how many other things.

Bush*s' self-image is going to take a huge beating over the next few months, and we probably better hope at some level he can maintain a grip :(

[Jose Diablo]

48. He is gonna crash and burn n/t

[SammyWinstonJack]

51. Getting a second term, a real term.

Right! About as "real" as his "first" term. Only way he gets a "second" term is to steal yet another election. He won't get "really elected, this time around." He has no choice but "to pull out all the stops."

[PaDUer]

32. WHEN

not soon enough!

[justsam]

38. he looks like a person

ready for a rubber room, he can't focus on anything and his eyes are blinking a mile a minute.

[dbt]

41. Not only is he going to crack up on Live TV,

He will, at that moment, be unable to maintain his human shape any longer. Astonished viewers will see a reptile on their thoughtscreens and immaculately-groomed anchorettes will break out in a rousing chorus of "HomminaHomminaHommina!"

:wow:
dbt

[catmandu57]

44. The cabin boys stole the strawberries

and made the moron* invade. If this idiot* falls apart I hope he doesn't try to take the rest of us with him.

[DinahMoeHum]

50. Ah yes, Captain Queeg and the brass balls in his hands !!

n/t

:evilgrin:

[Jose Diablo]

56. LOL

:tinfoilhat:

[milkyway]

45. * is looking Nixonian lately. He looks haggard,

alone, and like he does not want the burden of who he is right now. Poor guy. Right now it looks like any Dem, including my Uncle Bob, would beat him in November.

[opihimoimoi]

58. I happen to think it is slowly dawning on him... he is being used...

to a much greater extent he had first thought. " OH OH...what happened?"

Also, it is dawning on him...."Its not so simple as they told me it would be.... I can hardly take naps, and those pesky questions...damn"

[worldgonekrazy]

73. Man those Bushes are &*%$ing scary

Would H.W. use his own son as a patsy?

[leftchick]

60. He Sure Looks Nixonian Here....

What is up with the cufflinks, has he worn them before? Where is his wedding band anyway? He certainly needs a haircut. I would bet he is getting harder and harder to maitain by his handlers. I watched this performance yesterday and it was really one of his worst EVER! I kept wondering how the criminals around him could keep straight faces.

[NoKingGeorge]

54. What he wants doesn't matter.

Even if this failure collapses the powers behind him will wall him off in seclusion. This sorry fool does not have desires for a second term. He controls nothing. Please stop giving him credit for wanting this or wanting that.He is a diversion. This is bigger than that fool. cHeney is key,he knows.

[Jose Diablo]

57. Bush* is the "useful idiot"

Cheney is the path to the real power behind this cabal. Even Cheney is not the one, only the face.

[opihimoimoi]

59. The Pub Masters remain hidden in the far side

They come out at night to boogey.

[Jose Diablo]

61. Yes, you see

As Mick said:

"who killed the Kennedys..it was you and me"

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

62. i thought he cracked in paris

in 2002 when he belittled david gregory for speaking in french at a press conference in front of the whole world.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

65. It's "Weekend At Bernie's" time...

...two guys with a lot to hide (Rove and Cheney), big smiles plastered on their faces, proppin' up a rag doll between 'em.

Coming soon on DVD, fully loaded. Just like *.

:beer:

[Jose Diablo]

66. You are not the only one

:beer:

[rasputin1952]

68. I was watching a clip w/bush and Kofi Annan...

bush rambled on, as usual about obscure banalities. Annan was intelligent and dignified. The sight of the two opposites was eerie to say the least.

bush is losing control, and rather quickly, from what I can see.The clincher for the beginning of the "breakdown" was the Rose Garden news 'event', when there were no teleprompters, and he was on his own. He flubbed every question, and they were at least 75% softball.

EVERY time bush is out there unscripted, he is a complete disaster!
For the first time in my life I am actually embarrassed that a president of the US cannot ANYTHING right. Everyone makes mistakes, but for the love of Pete, this is a human tragedy.

I have a vague picture of Hitler in the bunker under the Reichstag, trembling and delusional to the point of psychosis. It is a frightening thought to be sure.

O8)

[Jose Diablo]

70. The football need to be removed from his access

He is gonna kill us all, with himself.

[trackfan]

71. I've always felt he was a "bleeder", to use the boxing analogy,

and all we had to do was "cut" him a few times, and he'd be through.

[rocktivity]

76. Bush at his most coherent

And the background music is titled "Baby Elephant Walk!"

http://www.takebackthemedia.com/liar.html


rocknation

[0007]

77. junior looks best with his "hangover heat-on look" or ..

and after the second drink when when his I.Q. roars up to 65 -

[swinney]

80. Bush Crack (up)

I see symptoms. Watch his eyes. Watch number of nervous smirks.

This history imples problems ahead--

draft dodger
criminal militry deserter
criminal baby killer
criminal cocaine snorter
criminal drunkard
alleged adulterer
alleged woman abuser
criminal insider trader
pathological liar
family history of evil actions.
a "sorry group".

[xxqqqzme]

81. Remember nixon's

farewell speech to the WH staff? When he started rambling on about his mother? He just blurted out 'my mother was a saint'...I thought 'oh shit, we're gonna see him implode...live in front of us. Nixon managed 2 get it back 2gether...but then he was a lot smarter than squatter - make that, a WHOLE lot smarter. squatter wants poppy, but mostly mommy 2 B proud of him...pat him on the head...good job..but it's never gonna happen

[catmandu57]

82. Back in the eighties

the kansas city chiefs football team stank, I mean they were putrid stinking. The head coach at the time called a press conference and lost it right there. He sat head in hands, looked up saw the reporters and asked them what they were doing there and what they wanted. The poor guy had the deer in the headlights look, lost and confused, he was fired the next day.

I want to see the same thing happen to the chimp* totally lose it on national tv.

[CreekDog]

83. Look at the Emperor's new clothes. They're beautiful!

I just thought it was an apt comparison...

==========

The Emperor's New Clothes
by Hans Christian Anderson

Once upon a time there lived a vain Emperor whose only worry in life was to dress in elegant clothes. He changed clothes almost every hour and loved to show them off to his people.
Word of the Emperor's refined habits spread over his kingdom and beyond. Two scoundrels who had heard of the Emperor's vanity decided to take advantage of it. They introduced themselves at the gates of the palace with a scheme in mind.

"We are two very good tailors and after many years of research we have invented an extraordinary method to weave a cloth so light and fine that it looks invisible. As a matter of fact it is invisible to anyone who is too stupid and incompetent to appreciate its quality."

The chief of the guards heard the scoundrel's strange story and sent for the court chamberlain. The chamberlain notified the prime minister, who ran to the Emperor and disclosed the incredible news. The Emperor's curiosity got the better of him and he decided to see the two scoundrels.

"Besides being invisible, your Highness, this cloth will be woven in colors and patterns created especially for you." The emperor gave the two men a bag of gold coins in exchange for their promise to begin working on the fabric immediately.

"Just tell us what you need to get started and we'll give it to you." The two scoundrels asked for a loom, silk, gold thread and then pretended to begin working. The Emperor thought he had spent his money quite well: in addition to getting a new extraordinary suit, he would discover which of his subjects were ignorant and incompetent. A few days later, he called the old and wise prime minister, who was considered by everyone as a man with common sense.

"Go and see how the work is proceeding," the Emperor told him, "and come back to let me know."

The prime minister was welcomed by the two scoundrels.

"We're almost finished, but we need a lot more gold thread. Here, Excellency! Admire the colors, feel the softness!" The old man bent over the loom and tried to see the fabric that was not there. He felt cold sweat on his forehead.

"I can't see anything," he thought. "If I see nothing, that means I'm stupid! Or, worse, incompetent!" If the prime minister admitted that he didn't see anything, he would be discharged from his office.

"What a marvelous fabric, he said then. "I'll certainly tell the Emperor." The two scoundrels rubbed their hands gleefully. They had almost made it. More thread was requested to finish the work.

Finally, the Emperor received the announcement that the two tailors had come to take all the measurements needed to sew his new suit.

"Come in," the Emperor ordered. Even as they bowed, the two scoundrels pretended to be holding large roll of fabric.

"Here it is your Highness, the result of our labour," the scoundrels said. "We have worked night and day but, at last, the most beautiful fabric in the world is ready for you. Look at the colors and feel how fine it is." Of course the Emperor did not see any colors and could not feel any cloth between his fingers. He panicked and felt like fainting. But luckily the throne was right behind him and he sat down. But when he realized that no one could know that he did not see the fabric, he felt better. Nobody could find out he was stupid and incompetent. And the Emperor didn't know that everybody else around him thought and did the very same thing.

The farce continued as the two scoundrels had foreseen it. Once they had taken the measurements, the two began cutting the air with scissors while sewing with their needles an invisible cloth.

"Your Highness, you'll have to take off your clothes to try on your new ones." The two scoundrels draped the new clothes on him and then held up a mirror. The Emperor was embarrassed but since none of his bystanders were, he felt relieved.

"Yes, this is a beautiful suit and it looks very good on me," the Emperor said trying to look comfortable. "You've done a fine job."

"Your Majesty," the prime minister said, "we have a request for you. The people have found out about this extraordinary fabric and they are anxious to see you in your new suit." The Emperor was doubtful showing himself naked to the people, but then he abandoned his fears. After all, no one would know about it except the ignorant and the incompetent.

"All right," he said. "I will grant the people this privilege." He summoned his carriage and the ceremonial parade was formed. A group of dignitaries walked at the very front of the procession and anxiously scrutinized the faces of the people in the street. All the people had gathered in the main square, pushing and shoving to get a better look. An applause welcomed the regal procession. Everyone wanted to know how stupid or incompetent his or her neighbor was but, as the Emperor passed, a strange murmur rose from the crowd.

Everyone said, loud enough for the others to hear: "Look at the Emperor's new clothes. They're beautiful!"

"What a marvellous train!"

"And the colors! The colors of that beautiful fabric! I have never seen anything like it in my life!" They all tried to conceal their disappointment at not being able to see the clothes, and since nobody was willing to admit his own stupidity and incompetence, they all behaved as the two scoundrels had predicted.

A child, however, who had no important job and could only see things as his eyes showed them to him, went up to the carriage.

"The Emperor is naked," he said.

"Fool!" his father reprimanded, running after him. "Don't talk nonsense!" He grabbed his child and took him away. But the boy's remark, which had been heard by the bystanders, was repeated over and over again until everyone cried:

"The boy is right! The Emperor is naked! It's true!"

The Emperor realized that the people were right but could not admit to that. He though it better to continue the procession under the illusion that anyone who couldn't see his clothes was either stupid or incompetent. And he stood stiffly on his carriage, while behind him a page held his imaginary mantle.

[JohnyCanuck]

86. Lord Hutton reports on the emperor's new clothes.

Did you see the Terry Jones commentary in The Independent. It was already posted in EAOA, but for those who haven't seen it yet, here's the link (below).


Lord Hutton has finally published his long-awaited report into the Emperor's New Clothes. Speculation in the media that the Emperor has been walking around stark naked for the past few months has finally been put to rest. Lord Hutton concludes that not only has there been no duplicity whatsoever on the part of the manufacturers of the clothes, but that there has been no hint of gullibility on the part of the Emperor or any of his ministers, officers of state or indeed anyone associated with the Emperor.

Indeed Lord Hutton goes on to stress that it is perfectly obvious for all to see that the Emperor's New Clothes are of excellent workmanship, that they have been cut to fit the Emperor perfectly and that they are made of the very finest materials - including top quality satin with rare silk linings and intricate lace cuffs. The colours, he says, are remarkable

Singled out for particular criticism in the report is a small child who claimed that he could see the Emperor as naked as the day that he was born. Lord Hutton states that the child had no factual evidence for making this statement, and that the claim amounted to a "very grave" attack upon the credibility and dignity of the Emperor and, indeed, upon all his ministers of state and advisers. In future no small children should be allowed to make unsubstantiated statements of fact detrimental to the Emperor that are not based on solid research and verified by a parliamentary sub-committee and by at least two law lords nominated by the Emperor.

More at:
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=486587