bush* yelling at press conference on C-Span.....loud and agitated

[diamond14]

is shrub loosing it...he doesn't sound very calm....

[Terwilliger]

1. on CNN

[Loonman]

2. What's he all fired up about?

Besides the obvious?

[DUreader]

3. live?

details please

[romantico]

4. Sounds like he

could use a blow job. Laura?

[Demobrat]

5. How can you tease us like this?

Have you no heart? Who/what is he upset about?

[Spazito]

6. It was a press thing with Abbas...

I wish the media had asked him about Delay's pending visit to the middle east to spout off against a Palestinian State, how does this compute with Bush's support for that state? If Bush doesn't agree with Delay, what will he do to stop him?

Edited to add link on Delay trip:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=33254&mesg_id=33254&page=

[MUAD_DIB]

7. Which C-Span?

I checked all three?

[Terwilliger]

9. it was on CNN

long over now

[charlie]

8. Drat. Just missed it.

Only got to see him cutting up and hamming while the Palestinian's translated comments were being read, the fuckwit.

[GalleryGod]

11. Whatttttttttttttttttttttta Dick!

:spank: :hurts: :nopity: :puke:

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

10. what's up with his nose?

(and not what's up his nose)

looks like he has lumps above his nostrils

[Brian Sweat]

57. Gin Blossoms?

[twilight]

64. lumps up zee nostrils =

this is an old doper trick - hide your stash up the nostrils rather than up the a$$$! :evilgrin:

:kick:

[diamond14]

73. (pic) chimp in action....

[AntiCoup2K4]

82. This picture is just screaming for a caption!

Abbas: Oh my Allah, he really IS as clueless as they say. I'd rather be under an IDF bulldozer than standing next to this idiot!!

[LiberalLibra]

12. Oh come on people - some details here PLEASE pretty please????

.....

[bearfartinthewoods]

53. all he did was rag the reporters about squeezing in two questions

'disguised' as one. he wasn't really yelling. much ado about nada.

[TNOE]

13. The Boy King

does not like it when the peasants question him - you know all the criticism is KILLING him after such a cakewalk after 9/11....

Let him blow - I know he's capable of it. Let the "Christian" spew some God-speak to the masses.

[catzies]

14. Eeeeeeeexcellent. It's all going according to plan.

/montgomeryburns

[Champion Jack]

15. Anyone tape it?

[Punkingal]

23. Love your jet.....

it's awesome! Are you a pilot?

[jackstraw45]

16. Anyone give a real summary?

What question was asked that set him off, etc?

[DagmarK]

17. Yes, someone, anyone.....please give details

At this point......I'd be happy if someone just made something up! LOL What's the deal with our $200 million "great fun guy"?

[Spazito]

18. I can give it a try....

but with the caveat that I have mastered the ability to tune Shrub out quite well.

It was a quick photo-op with the new palestinian prime minister Abbas (sp?) talking about a palestinian state, the settlements, etc.

The first question from a reporter was about Liberia which Shrub didn't like and his tone went shrill from that point on.

Other than that, I think I tuned him out, sorry :-(

[jackstraw45]

19. Appropriate

[DagmarK]

24. Grazzi Spazito!

Got it! Thanks!

[Loonman]

20. Video (on crappy realplayer, though)

http://video.c-span.org:8080/ramgen/ndrive/archive/ter/ter_wh072503_bushabbas.rm

[Emboldened Chimp]

21. I'm watching the replay now

Forget the way he sounds, Chimp is looking real bad. And he needs a haircut.

[SpiralHawk]

25. Who's got a photo ?

Question W ????????

[jackstraw45]

27. Photo

[jackstraw45]

28. EVIL EYES

[dbt]

35. Think 'reptile'

We have been getting small glimpses of his true form since SOTU.

:evilgrin:
dbt

[Hoppin_Mad]

43. He's a 'shape-shifting reptilian' ;-) Google David Icke to understand -eo

Merovingian monster ;-)))

[Tinoire]

70. I used to think David Icke was stark raving mad

but lately I've wondered because Bush and Blair really have been spape-shifting! The scales seems to be literally coming out at times.

Their skin and eyes looks HORRIBLE!

[Gingersnap]

76. it hes's not intoxicated slap me and call me Pam (n/t)

[ElementaryPenguin]

85. Holy shit--Is the Evil War Chimp ever starting to look like Satan!!!

CREEEEEEPY!!!! He's beginning to look as awful as we know he is!! Give me this photo, the one yesterday where he looked like an absolute lunatic, and the one of him signing the American flag, and I could run a campaign do handily defeat this chimp - with those photos alone!!

[molly]

29. Talk to the hand?

[TNOE]

30. Color me curious

but wonder if anyone can blow up that left hand there and check out the lines in his palm (palm readers anyone?) - looks like the pentagram between thumb & finger.....

tin foil firmly in place - it is Friday.

[ignatius]

44. How creepy, it does look like some type

of scar...sign of the beast perhaps?

[TNOE]

65. Ooops

I mean RIGHT hand! Doh!

[greekspeak]

36. I Will Mezmerize You With my PsychoControl Inducing Chimp Paw

[catmandu57]

39. Pure fucking evil

thats all I can see in this picture, that and the fuhrer has another appointment with the dye bottle.

[deutsey]

67. "You may say to yourself, 'Am I right, or am I wrong?'"

Kind of reminds me of David Byrne in Stop Making Sense, only Bush never made any sense to begin with.

[AntiCoup2K4]

84. Damn, another classic caption photo...

JUNIOR: Look you fuckin' dishtowel head, I said I'm sober! See my hand?? It's as steady as the rocks in my brain!!

[Julien Sorel]

26. He says 'Warshington.'

Wow, I don't watch TV, so I seldom hear Bush speak. He is incredibly bad. No wonder they stage manage everything. He's all but incoherant without a pre-written speech.

[charlie]

22. Why, oh why

must it always be RealPlayer?! I don't and won't have it... grrrr...

[Enraged_Ape]

31. I just deleted RealPlayer

and my machine runs better than it has in years!!

[newsjunkie]

37. I hate Realplayer!

and it pains me that C-span has all their stuff on it! Grrr

[diamond14]

34. shrub's nose is REALLY BLOATED...wonder what could cause

that problem...he looks really BAD....

notice how he puts his hands all over the PM....just insulting other foreign leaders, especially those shorter than he is....

you can also see the glee as he starts to talk about terrorism...and smiling big grins....

sad...it always makes me sad to watch the child pResident try to conduct any kind of public event...what a dismal failure for our GREAT country...a country that could easily field someone with more smarts....

Hillary for President
Bill for VP

bring back peace and prosperity...

Clinton/Clinton in 2004

[Sophree]

38. And he keeps pointing

At the Press.

Did Babs not teach him ANY manners?

:grr:

[Lisa]

81. he's allergic to free speech?

It seems he always puffs up and his skin gets blotchy when he yells at reporters for asking what he thinks are inappropriate questions, or even trying to ask a two-parter.

[Tinoire]

32. I'm at work - Is there a transcript up somewhere?

This Palestinian question is going to bite us in the ass.

Bush and Sharon are playing a very dangerous game with this one.

Can't say it loud enough.

[DagmarK]

33. Tinoir.........did you misspeak?

"bite US in the ass"?

Us? HIM!

[Tinoire]

69. No,,, but you have a point- Let me clarify

I should have written "It will bite Bush in the ass" to be clear but my personal belief for the last 4 years has been that our refusal to either deal impartially or stop blindly supporting (arming and funding) one side would bite us all in the ass.

The Palestinian problem isn't going to go away until justice prevails no matter how many road-maps & visions Bush comes up with.


I also think this is going to bite us, the Democratic Party, eventually because our reps have been the most one-sided supporters of Israel and this is not well viewed by the Muslim community- to include the 3 million member voting Muslim community.

Bush has been playing a very dangerous game with this one- all for votes, because his road map is just a smoke and mirror illusionary charade. IMHO, he and Sharon, in their blind, mad desire to marginalize Arafat, pushed the latter aside thinking that a puppet leader, Abbas, would be easier to deal with. This has not been the case because Abbas, like Arafat, can't, won't sell the Palestinians down the river.




We continue to negotiate with Israel on the implementation of its obligations. Some progress has been made, but movement needs to be made in terms of freeing prisoners, lifting the siege on President Arafat, Israeli withdrawal from Palestinian areas and easing up freedom of movement to Palestinians.

<snip>

(ABBAS) As you have said many times, Mr. President, attacks on the dignity of the Palestinians must end. Palestinians must be able to move, go to their jobs and schools, and conduct a normal life. Palestinians must not be afraid for their lives, property or livelihood.

Some steps have been taken by Israel so far, but these steps remain hesitant. The new era of peace requires the courageous logic of peace, not the suspicious logic of conflict. The outcome must correspond with your vision, Mr. President, achieving a peace that will end the occupation that started in 1967, the establishment of a sovereign, independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital and a just, agreed solution of the refugee question on the basis of U.N. Resolution 194.

This vision cannot be realized if Israel continues to grab Palestinian land.

If the settlement activities in Palestinian land and construction of the so-called separation wall on confiscated Palestinian land continue, we might soon find ourselves at a situation where the foundation of peace, a free Palestine state living side-by-side in peace and security in Israel, is a factual impossibility.

Nothing less than a full settlement freeze will do, because nothing less than a full settlement freeze will work.

For the sake of peace and for the sake of future Palestinian and Israeli generations, all settlement activities must be stopped now and the wall must come down.

<snip>


and then the whole thing seems to degenerate into Bush-babble... You see Abbas is supposed to roll over. He's the pliable replacement for Arafat remember? He's not supposed to embarrass the US and say that Sharon isn't doing his part. He's not supposed to mention unpleasant facts like walls and political prisoners, many of whom are children detained against international law.

Notice too how Bush calls the new "Schandmauer" (Wall of Shame) a fence and Abbas comes back calling it a WALL. No no, Abbas is out of line here and the journalists asking their pesky questions are out of line also.

Picture of the Bush/Sharon "Fence" that appropriates some of the best lands remaining to the Palestinians...

http://www.palestinemonitor.org/Special%20Section/Closure/08.%20Separation%20Wall,%20Qalqiliya.jpg

[jackstraw45]

40. Transcript here

http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-bush-abbas-text,0,3752071.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines

[charlie]

42. *groan*

QUESTION: Mr. President, how you perceive the settlement as obstacle to your vision -- to implementation of your vision? Thank you.

QUESTION (THROUGH TRANSLATOR): First question to the prime minister.

BUSH: OK, good, yes. This is the old two-question trick. It's an international trick, I see. Very good job, yeah. You learned from the guy to your left. Both of them from your left are pros at that, too, I might add.

[jackstraw45]

45. Master of Low Expectations strikes again

*sigh*

[DagmarK]

47. Bush is such an arrogant pissant ASSHOLE!!!

The prick of the century!

I have never used the term "prick" but it fits Bush to a T!!!!!!! ARRAGGHHHHHHHH

[Brian Sweat]

55. Sounds like he was getting a little snippy.

[DemLikr]

46. I don't see what all the excitement's about...the transcript was boring.

help?

[diamond14]

50. you had to see and hear the agitation and gestures to really

appreciate it....gestures, tone and body language say a lot...he pawed the PM several times...

wonder how the PM feels, knowing that bush* is bragging over the current display of his assassination orders...not the head of the state, but rather, the heads of saddam's sons, and the execution of saddam's 14 year old grandson...yes, shrub has now sent a message to all heads of states in the area...sort of like the horses head in the first GodFather movie...

[Sophree]

51. It was pretty seemingly uneventful

Except for the parts I excerpted and the "two-question trick" faux pas.

Observations on his demeanor and state of mind, no matter how seemingly miniscule, are absolutely necessary, however.

[BurtWorm]

48. Typical Bush shit

"BUSH: OK, good, yes. This is the old two-question trick. It's an international trick, I see. Very good job, yeah. You learned from the guy to your left. Both of them from your left are pros at that, too, I might add."


Using the bully pulpit to intimidate even the international press. Implying that international journalists "learn" from American journalists. Singling out two journalists to mock.

Typical Bush shit.

[Sophree]

49. Here's the question I think set him off

And thanks for posting the transcript.

QUESTION: Would you like to see Israel release the political prisoners? And would you like to see them stop building this barrier wall?

BUSH: First of all on the wall, let me talk about the wall. I think the wall is a problem and I've discussed this with Ariel Sharon. It is very difficult to develop confidence between the Palestinians and the Israelis -- Israel with a wall snaking through the East Bank -- and I will continue to discuss this issue very clearly with the prime ministers. As I said in my statement today, he has issued a statement saying he is willing to come and discuss that with us and I appreciate the willingness to discuss it.

On the prisoners, I think it is very important to, you know, have a frank discussion on the prisoners. We ought to look at the prisoner issue on a case-by-case basis. Surely, nobody want to let a cold-blooded killer out of prison that would help derail the process.

I mean, after all, it doesn't make any sense if you've got somebody who is bent upon destroying lives and killing people in prison, if you were let them out it would make it harder to achieve the peace we all want. And so, I think it is very important to analyze the prisoner situation on a case-by-case basis.

"Somebody who is bent on destroying lives and killing people in prison." Sound like anyone we know? Hmmmm.

Case by case basis? * in TX- EVERY single death penalty case rubber-stamped through with nary a glance.

[Brian Sweat]

56. Isreal is building a wall on the East Bank?

How does Jordan feel about this?

[BurtWorm]

58. Oh. My. God.

I didn't catch that until you pointed it out.

[Sophree]

60. Did he mean the West Bank?

What a dumb$hit.

[diamond14]

59. "..and the Israelis -- Israel.." sounded to me like a real

slur, but shrub caught himself, barely making a lame attempt to cover it up....

[Sophree]

61. I caught that, too

He can barely disguise his contempt.

[Cocoa]

52. again with the fixation on the "rules"

this asshole is constantly whining about how the reporters are trying to "cheat", he comes off as a total brat.

Going back to the debates against Gore, where he got all snippy about Gore "breaking the rules" and asking him a question.

[BurtWorm]

62. That's one of my least favorite Bush traits

The whiny cry baby tattle tale teller!

[Tinoire]

71. Thanks! n/t

[Sophree]

41. I think I know what set him off

He started to get very agitated when he was answering a question about the death penalty for Palestinian terrorists. He was probably remembering his own record or, rather, the mean old Press who insists on asking him about his death penalty record as Gov. of TX.

It REALLY makes him mad and he was probably thinking about it the whole time he was trying to answer the question.

Notice how he said he "Really understands" the position of the PPM, but not in an empathetic way, an angry one.

On edit: I f*cking HATE RealPlayer as well. :argh: That was long and painful.

Edited again for correct emoticon. D'oh!

[CMT]

54. this is what the dem nominee needs to do to Bush in a debate

state the facts about the economy and Iraq and how Bush has loused things up and let the chimp lose his cool and make an ass out of himself.

[ewagner]

63. Just watched the clip

He is very agitated.

Trying too hard to make a simple point.

Stressed out?

[Oilwellian]

68. Perhaps it's because he knows....

his party faithful are wondering why Bush is now negotiating with terrorists. One of the charges placed against Saddam was his giving money to "terrorists" a la Palestinian families. How is Bush giving $20 million to the Palestinian government, any different? See how that must make the wingnut "moral compass" spin completely askew?

[Hand]

77. Nah...

Hung over.

:evilgrin:

[DiverDave]

66. Huh??

I watched the whole 20 minutes twice.
I was all ready to see spittle and a red face.
I saw none of that.
Why the sensational title?
I don't get it, bush does plenty to laugh about, we don't need a lie to point out that he is an imbecile.
Next time tell the truth.

[bearfartinthewoods]

72. sometimes people get carried away with the titles

i guess they feel no remorse for misleading people or wasting other's time. maybe they are just natural drama queens...who knows?

[L.A.dweller]

74. Press conference is on CSPAN 2

right now.
Bush is speaking in a low and "serious" voice.

[JohnKleeb]

75. and they say this guy is the kind you would like to have a drink with

I'd rather be laughing at him at the zoo than drinking a beer with that jerk. Hopefully he will act like an arrogant jerk that he is and people will realize jeez that Bush is a jackass and I will say known it since day one people.

[Lisa]

83. only if you like mean-spirited teasing with your beer!

I always tell people who think Bush would be an enjoyable as a dinner/drinking companion that I can act silly and insulting too ... and they won't even have to make a campaign donation.

[Noli Mitangere]

78. doesn't surprise me.

like a spoiled brat throwing a temper tantrum

[grasswire]

79. the reporter he was referring to...

.."on the left" was David Gregory (the same person who wigged him out by speaking to Chirac in French).

And, by the way, only three questions were allowed, instead of the four that Bush promised at the beginning. As Bush stepped away, a reporter hollered out "THAT WAS ONLY THREE QUESTIONS!!" and that's when that evil, slitted-eye look came as shown above. He was making snarky remarks to Abbas.

[diamond14]

80. good description: bush* " making snarky remarks to Abbas"

nt