The bumbling "President of Fabricated Crises" still fabricates.

[madfloridian]

Time to remember this great column from a few months ago.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2304-2005Jan11.html

SNIP..."Some presidents make the history books by managing crises. Lincoln had Fort Sumter, Roosevelt had the Depression and Pearl Harbor, and Kennedy had the missiles in Cuba. George W. Bush, of course, had Sept. 11, and for a while thereafter -- through the overthrow of the Taliban -- he earned his page in history, too.

But when historians look back at the Bush presidency, they're more likely to note that what sets Bush apart is not the crises he managed but the crises he fabricated. The fabricated crisis is the hallmark of the Bush presidency. To attain goals that he had set for himself before he took office -- the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, the privatization of Social Security -- he concocted crises where there were none....."

SNIP..."With crisis concoction as its central task -- think of how many administration officials issued dire warnings of the threat posed by Saddam Hussein or, now, by Social Security's impending bankruptcy -- this presidency, more than any I can think of, has relied on the classic tools of propaganda. Indeed, it's almost impossible to imagine the Bush presidency absent the Fox News Network and right-wing talk radio.

With the blurring of fact and fiction so central to the Bush presidency's purposes, is it any wonder that government agencies ranging from Health and Human Services to the Office of National Drug Control Policy have been filming editorial messages as mock newscast segments, complete with mock reporters, and offering them to local television stations?...."

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[MissB]

3. "you all"

And what were you predicting?

[madfloridian]

4. "you all" hmmmm.....

Whoever wins writes the history. That gives me no satisfaction at all. Sounds like you think it is funny to have such a president.

We have a bumbling man in the whitehouse, and all his little believers run around laughing mindlessly.

[DenverDem]

5. The People will overthrow the fascist state that exists now.

Get out of the way, chuckles, or get trodden under.

[Lone Pawn]

7. More history books exist than the ones that the government authorizes.

Europe and Canada still have freedoms.

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[MissB]

6. Sorry, you have to cite your source.

There is a 4 paragraph rule around here, if these aren't your own words.

[Lone Pawn]

8. That would be the Onion.

[MissB]

9. Somehow that doesn't surprise me (nt)

[madfloridian]

10. More:

"We've had plenty of presidents, Richard Nixon most notoriously, who divided the media into friendly and enemy camps. I can't think of one, however, so fundamentally invested in the spread of disinformation -- and so fundamentally indifferent to the corrosive effect of propaganda on democracy -- as Bush. That, too, should earn him a page in the history books."