Democratic Underground Latest Greatest Lobby Journals Search Options Help Login
Google

Did you just see Bush with Russert ( a snippet from tomorrow's MTP)

Printer-friendly format Printer-friendly format
Printer-friendly format Email this thread to a friend
Printer-friendly format Bookmark this thread
This topic is archived.
Home » Discuss » Archives » General Discussion (Through 2005) Donate to DU
 
glarius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-07-04 06:37 PM
Original message
Did you just see Bush with Russert ( a snippet from tomorrow's MTP)
He was almost incoherent in his answer to Tim about whether he thought it was worth the lives lost and injured to take out Saddam....I can hardly wait to see the whole show tomorrow
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
pinkpops Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-07-04 06:40 PM
Response to Original message
1. me too
but let's don't get our hopes up. Is MTP aleays taped in advance?
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
glarius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-07-04 06:42 PM
Response to Reply #1
5. This show was taped and that's my point....even on tape he comes
across as an imbecile....There must have been too much too take out if they wanted to have a full hour show! LOL
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-07-04 07:36 PM
Response to Reply #1
15. It is normally live but (aha!) not this week. Taped today.
so they can edit his replies any way they wish.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Lindacooks Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-07-04 07:52 PM
Response to Reply #15
20. Yeah, that's my thought
What good is it if it's taped? All the Democratic candidates have to appear live.

On the other hand, if he looks as stupid as usual, maybe people will realize that's he a total imbecile even after 20 takes.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
pinkpops Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-07-04 08:15 PM
Response to Reply #15
26. he's probably pretty busy
being the president and all.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
imax2268 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-08-04 09:04 AM
Response to Reply #1
52. I'm just waiting...
for him to start with "terror" "terrorists" "Saddam" "mass graves" "torture chambers" etc etc in every sentence...
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
lancdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-07-04 06:41 PM
Response to Original message
2. It must be bad
because that clip was probably the high point of the interview for Bush.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
glarius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-07-04 06:44 PM
Response to Reply #2
7. Exactly
:)
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
shooga Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-07-04 07:02 PM
Response to Reply #2
11. like a movie trailer...
... that's probably the best piece of the show ...


Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
NewJeffCT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-08-04 08:36 AM
Response to Reply #2
48. My thought was the opposite
I thought it was a lowlight - people will now go in expecting a Bush disaster, and when the rest of the hour is fairly lightweight banter between the two, it will be seen as a huge plus for Shrub.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Robb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-07-04 06:41 PM
Response to Original message
3. Y'know what's weirder...
I was watching TV last night and saw background footage of Timmy and the Chimp sitting across the table from one another. Chimp on the right, Timmy on the left. No sound, it was a teaser and there were flying graphics and whooshing sounds all around it. :shrug:

Has he interviewed him before?
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
JohnyCanuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-07-04 07:44 PM
Response to Reply #3
17. Ever thought maybe you had crossed into the TWILIGHT ZONE


Like, you know, gone through a warp in the space time continuum while you were on a trip to the bathroom or while going to the fridge for a beer and skipped ahead 24hrs? Dooo Dooo Doooo Doooo Dooo Dooo Dooo Dooo.

If it turns out that Shrub screws up the interview and looks like a looser when the interview is aired on NBC tomorrow, we'll know we've all entered the Twilight Zone for sure. Verrryyyy Scaaaary stuff.

Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
laruemtt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-07-04 06:41 PM
Response to Original message
4. and timmy looked
almost incredulous like he was watching a madman - well, of course, he was, but right - let's not get our hopes up too much
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
rocktivity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-07-04 06:43 PM
Response to Original message
6. Nice question, Tim--I must admit I'm impressed
But I would be a lot more impressed if you'd insisted on doing the interiview live.


rocknation
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
arcane1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-07-04 06:52 PM
Response to Reply #6
8. no kidding, I thought "Timmy asked that???"
I may have to tune into this after all!
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
alcuno Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-07-04 06:54 PM
Response to Original message
9. His answer to the families of the dead was "David Kay said.....
that Saddam was even more dangerous than we had thought." I could NOT believe that that was the message he wanted to send to these families. "David Kay said.....?" Are you kidding me?
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
glarius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-07-04 06:59 PM
Response to Original message
10. CNN said the interview was Bush's idea....I'll bet Karl and the boys tried
to talk him out of it....Bush is so egotistical, he thinks he's invincible and can win the public to him no matter what....
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
snippy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-07-04 07:41 PM
Response to Reply #10
16. I do not believe the interview was Bush's idea.
CNN got that from someone in the White House. Therefore, it is almost certainly a lie. I don't know whether it was Turd Blossom Rove's, or Karen Hughes' or someone else's idea, but I do not believe that it was Bush's idea. He is too arrogant and ignorant to want to give the press the time of day, let alone a lengthy interview.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
JohnyCanuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-07-04 07:57 PM
Response to Reply #16
22. This is my take on it.


Personally I think Rove, seeing the situation for Shrub deteriorating and the dropping poll numbers, organized the interview hoping that with the right questions provided to Russert beforehand and/or a chance to review the questions and prepare the Chimp along with some smart editing Shrub could make a passable attempt at once again fooling the masses (or at least the wavering independents and republicans) that he really did know what he was doing. The story about Chimp requesting to go in front of the cameras sounds like more of their propaganda to make the Chimp look like he's a "take charge," "brook no nonsense" type of guy if you ask me.

Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
snippy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-07-04 08:04 PM
Response to Reply #22
24. I think your take is almost certainly correct in every detail.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
LiberalFighter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-07-04 08:34 PM
Response to Reply #16
30. Arrogant and ignorant??? or..
Incomptent and ill at ease responding to press questions?
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
snippy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-08-04 07:59 AM
Response to Reply #30
46. That too.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
nostamj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-07-04 07:05 PM
Response to Original message
12. that lying POS also did the..........

'fighting terrorists/Iraq War loop-di-loo'

it was a clip but somehow I can't imagine tweety stopping him with:

wait a minute mr. president. even you have stated that there is no linkage between terrorists and Hussein. are you referring to terrorists who came into the country AFTER you displaced Hussein? Why weren't you ready for that?
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
TacticalPeek Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-07-04 07:11 PM
Response to Original message
13. Shrub must lack his mother's beautiful mind.
"But why should we hear about body bags and deaths and how many, what day it's going to happen, and how many this or what do you suppose? Oh, I mean, it's, not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?" ~ Barbara Bush

Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
rumguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-07-04 07:20 PM
Response to Original message
14. Oh my god! He sounds like a total idiot....
Just heard a clip on Hardball....
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
onecitizen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-07-04 07:50 PM
Response to Original message
18. He looked AWFUL!!!!
Really, I thought he looked really, really bad. Alot of blinking! Hem-Hawing too.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
onecitizen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-07-04 07:52 PM
Response to Original message
19. incoherent yes!!
Great description glarius.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
bloom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-07-04 07:55 PM
Response to Original message
21. The scary thing is how
he can blather on without saying anything - and yet his supporters will no doubt feel vindicated and justified. :puke:
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Eurobabe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-07-04 08:03 PM
Response to Original message
23. anyone notice the line across his forehead?
it looked like a surgical scar, from whence his brain was extracted!!
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
DoYouEverWonder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-07-04 08:10 PM
Response to Original message
25. If you look close at the pic
Edited on Sat Feb-07-04 08:11 PM by DoYouEverWonder
You can see W's power cord.

Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Malva Zebrina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-07-04 08:20 PM
Response to Reply #25
27. Interesting--Bush looks like a little midget man in this photo
compared to Russert
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
lolly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-07-04 08:26 PM
Response to Reply #27
28. That is weird
Like a little mannequin

And his pants are too short--but it seems as if he always has ill-fitting suits. How can someone w/as much money who has so many people fussing over his image always look as if he's wearing a suit fitted to someone else?
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
DebJ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-07-04 09:35 PM
Response to Reply #28
41. the job doesn't fit why should the suit?
:)
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
JohnyCanuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-07-04 09:24 PM
Response to Reply #27
39. It's a "Subliminable" message for the masses
Edited on Sat Feb-07-04 09:26 PM by JohnyCanuck
The great and powerful war-time leader Dubya is really not as important as you thought. He's really just a slightly overgrown midget. Where'd you get off imagining he was all that great anyway?

Now if Bush flubs the interview tomorrow and we see more pictures and propaganda/brainwashing techniques which could be understood as means of subliminally diminishing the importance of the Shrub, it could be more evidence that Mike Ruppert was right in his predictions last year that the Shrub had served his purpose in getting the US military into Iraq and would be removed either in the upcoming 2004 elections or by impeachment shortly afterwards. According to Ruppert, once bases are established in Iraq (as has long been planned) the US could exert the control it sorely wants over the world's most important oil fields, and, what's more, under Dubya's "presidency" the corporate crooks and war profiteers are more deeply entrenched in the system than ever. Now that the original goals have been accomplished or are substantially on the way to being accomplished, Shrub is damaged goods and will be replaced with a new leader who can take advantage of the geo-political/strategic gains under Shrub (control of oil) without outwardly appearing to be a war mongering, sock puppet of rich corporations and the oil and defense industries (like the Shrub is now widely perceived to be).

Beyond Bush Part 1

Beyond Bush Part 2


Excerpt from Beyond Bush Part 1.

July 1, 2003 1600 PDT (FTW) -- Let's just suppose for a moment that George W. Bush was removed from the White House. Cheney, Powell, Rumsfeld, Ashcroft, Wolfowitz and Rove too. What would that leave us with? It would leave us stuck in hugely expensive, Vietnam-like guerrilla wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It would leave us with the Patriot Act, Homeland Security and Total Information Awareness snooping into every detail of our lives. It would leave us with a government in violation of the 1st, 4th, 5th, 6th and 8th Amendments to the Constitution. It would leave us with a massive cover-up of US complicity in the attacks of 9/11 that, if fully admitted, would show not intelligence "failures" but intelligence crimes, approved and ordered by the most powerful people in the country. It would leave us with a government that now has the power to compel mass vaccinations on pain of imprisonment or fine, and with no legal ability to sue the vaccine makers who killed our friends or our children. It would leave us with two and half million unemployed; the largest budget deficits in history; more than $3.3 trillion missing from the Department of Defense; and state and local governments broke to the point of having to cut back essential services like sewers, police, and fire. It would leave us with a federal government that had hit the debt ceiling and was unable to borrow any more money. And we would still be facing a looming natural gas crisis of unimagined proportions, and living on a planet that is slowly realizing that it is running out of oil with no "Plan B". Our airports however, would be very safe, and shares of Halliburton, Lockheed and DynCorp would be paying excellent dividends.

This is not good management.

Leaving all of these issues unaddressed is not good management either.

And this is why, as I will demonstrate in this article, the decision has already been made by corporate and financial powers to remove George W. Bush, whether he wants to leave or not, and whether he steals the next election or not. Before you start cheering, ask yourself three questions: "If there is someone or something that can decide that Bush will not return, nor remain for long, what is it? And if that thing is powerful enough to remove Bush, was it not also powerful enough to have put him there in the first place? And if that is the case, then isn't that what's really responsible for the state of things? George W. Bush is just a hired CEO who is about to be removed by the "Board of Directors". Who are they? Are they going to choose his replacement? Are you going to help them?


Many, if not most of you are thinking this is way too :tinfoilhat: for me, especially when you're talking about subliminal messages in photographs. However, the more I see the things going around us today (weird diseases breaking out, mysterious deaths of numerous prominent microbiologists, a suspicious "suicide" of a prominent WMD expert, interest in Peak Oil mounting, the crackdown on civil liberties along with the militarization of police forces under the guise of fighting the war on terror etc.), the more I am coming to believe that Ruppert and others like him are more correct than incorrect in their assesment of the situation.


Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
DebJ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-07-04 09:38 PM
Response to Reply #39
42. amen. Explains the media's last 6 weeks of sliding the other way
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-07-04 09:35 PM
Response to Reply #27
40. YES
the movie ELF comes to mind
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
gristy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-07-04 08:32 PM
Response to Reply #25
29. That is completely surprising!
I thought he was battery-powered. And wireless too. :D
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
LiberalFighter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-07-04 08:36 PM
Response to Reply #25
31. If you mean between his legs... Russert has it too so it is probably..
the mike??
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Poiuyt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-07-04 09:47 PM
Response to Reply #31
45. Those are audio cables
They are wearing lavalier microphones.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
theoceansnerves Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-07-04 08:39 PM
Response to Reply #25
32. whoa!
he looks tiny! is that some kind of optical illusion? yikes!
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
gristy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-07-04 08:42 PM
Response to Reply #32
33. Russert is closer to the camera.
But not very much closer. Bush actually is quite small. What do you think he weighs? One seventy?
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
stevedeshazer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-07-04 08:49 PM
Response to Reply #25
34. Hold on a minute
You can see Russert's power cord, too.

I have never seen Meet The Press staged in the Oval Office. Has this ever happened before? Why isn't Bush in the studio set, just like everyone else?

Look at the picture carefully, for you can learn a great deal from the body language.

Bush has a defensive posture, stiff and with a hand on his knee. He is clearly smaller than Russert, although the camera angle emphasizes Russert's size. Russert is leaning forward slightly to take advantage, so points for him .

Bush's pants are too short! Unless he's wearing knee socks.

This is a very revealing picture on many levels.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
carols Donating Member (694 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-07-04 08:55 PM
Response to Reply #34
36. He looks like Edith Ann in the Big Chair
And the short pants don't help. Dear God he looks ike he is about 12.
Carol
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
DebJ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-07-04 09:40 PM
Response to Reply #36
43. poor little guy...the child left behind
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
VOX Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-07-04 09:42 PM
Response to Reply #34
44. Good analysis, SD -- * does indeed look very uncomfortable...
and even infantile.

Not that those are new characteristics for him.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
T Bone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-07-04 09:03 PM
Response to Reply #25
38. Well he certainly has his 'high-water pants' on for the interview
man those are high-water pants. Is the white house basement flooded and he has been down there helping bail it out?

His posture looks 'up-tight' in that pic rather than relaxed. But then I am not a network whore propagandist.

Also one poster mentioned blinking throughout the interview. Remember excessive blinking is a body language LIE. Watch and see if he shakes his head 'no' at times too. That is a body language LIE.

Not sure I will get up in time to watch it.

Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Enraged_Ape Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-08-04 08:31 AM
Response to Reply #25
47. "Ok, Tim, if you just hold your head right about here..."


"and promise not to bite--"

"Don't worry, Mr. President. You know I'm very good at this."

"But you can do that swirly thing with your tongue, though. I like that."

"It would be my pleasure."
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Trajan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-08-04 09:01 AM
Response to Reply #47
50. ACK to that visual ...
You are TOO good at this Ape ...

*runs away SCREAMIN .... *
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Mari333 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-07-04 08:55 PM
Response to Original message
35. How odd
I left a particularly strong message on Russerts phone number that as the stepparent of a young man going to Iraq, was he, as a human being , going to ask bU$h real questions or cater under to what the WH told him to say..
I know it will be a bullshit PR stunt. everyone does.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
0007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-07-04 09:01 PM
Response to Original message
37. I ain't gonna watch no dog & pony show!
Wait until tomorrow, they'll edit this thing where junior will look like a saint.

Screw it!!
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
OneTwentyoNine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-08-04 08:53 AM
Response to Reply #37
49. This garbage will be so scrubbed Bush will look better than St. Ronnie..
Setup,Fake,manipulated,forged...add your own.


David
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
BradCKY Donating Member (325 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-08-04 09:03 AM
Response to Reply #49
51. Dishonest Dubya Lying Action Figure (With Choking Pretzel) Page
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
DU AdBot (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view 
this author's profile Click to add 
this author to your buddy list Click to add 
this author to your Ignore list Wed Apr 24th 2024, 02:51 AM
Response to Original message
Advertisements [?]
 Top

Home » Discuss » Archives » General Discussion (Through 2005) Donate to DU

Powered by DCForum+ Version 1.1 Copyright 1997-2002 DCScripts.com
Software has been extensively modified by the DU administrators


Important Notices: By participating on this discussion board, visitors agree to abide by the rules outlined on our Rules page. Messages posted on the Democratic Underground Discussion Forums are the opinions of the individuals who post them, and do not necessarily represent the opinions of Democratic Underground, LLC.

Home  |  Discussion Forums  |  Journals |  Store  |  Donate

About DU  |  Contact Us  |  Privacy Policy

Got a message for Democratic Underground? Click here to send us a message.

© 2001 - 2011 Democratic Underground, LLC