Bush: "It's always good to have a plant in every audience,"

[Jara sang]

CNN has a changed a story on their website that portrayed the President as a "talk show host" taking unscreened questions from audience members and Bush saying that he had "plants" in the audience.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x217437

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=216273&mesg_id=216273


The original Assiciated Press story can be found at CBSnews.com:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/01/23/ap/politics/mainD8FAGCNO2.shtml

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Bush has taken a wide variety of questions in three other appearances during the last six weeks. Many of the people he has called on have fawned over him, thanking him for his wartime leadership, saying they pray for him and bringing best wishes from other fans in their family who couldn't be there.

"It's always good to have a plant in every audience," Bush joked last week in Sterling, Va., after a woman rose and said she was proud of him.

[Greeby]

1. "cataputling the propaganda" part II

:wow:

[Richard D]

2. You can be certain that there will always . . .

. . . be a plant when * speaks. He may be the worlds' only talking vegetable (not that I want to insult vegetables, mind you.)

[deminks]

3. I am wondering about this photo as well.

Who is the suit in the sea of cammo?



http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/060123/480/ksev10301231838

Army troops from Fort Riley, Kan., listen to President Bush deliver a speech about the war on terror at Kansas State University on Monday, Jan. 23, 2006 in Manhattan, Kan. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

[RufusEarl]

4. Good catch, have any idea what he's doing there?

[helderheid]

6. Where's waldo?

[nickyt]

7. Well, they're short on body armor, tank armor, prosthetics, brains,

compassion - guess they've run out of cammos as well?

[freeplessinseattle]

9. just came from a Young Rethug meeting I s'pose eom

[displacedtexan]

5. Bored. Pissed off. Daydreaming. Hungover. Uniform at cleaners.

I know they're trying to show respect for *, but they failed, didn't they?

[DrDebug]

8. A girl is even praying that the speech will soon be over

And the guy behind her is checking the clock on the wall to see how much longer the speech will go on.

[librechik]

22. it's either a rutabaga or a kohlrabi

in a bed of mixed greens

[klook]

10. Bush's audience has more "vegetables" than "plants" (eom)

[nickyt]

17. Haw, haw, klook!! n/t

[Hissyspit]

11. Interesting that he would be thinking of that.

Can we impeach him, NOW? Hunh, PLEASE?!!

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

13. With a majority in congress

And balls.

[sakabatou]

12. "That way, I can avoid thinking."

[Penndems]

14. "It's always good to have a plant in every audience," Bush joked last week

That would be my guess - she was a plant by the Loudoun County Republican Committee and the RNC.

Hmmmm . . . wonder who it was? I'd be interested in seeing a photo of the sycophantic idiot.

[mcscajun]

15. "When you want to fool the world, tell the truth."

--Attributed to Otto von Bismarck

The Iron Chancellor called this one...

[blindpig]

16. Call any vegetable

And the chances are good
Oh that the vegetable will respond to you.

FZ, ahead of his time again.

[centristo]

18. from the article -

"It's a great honor, pretty awe-inspiring deal," Bush said in Virginia. "They walk in there and, kind of (say), `What are you doing here, Bush?'"

my thoughts exactly

[mogster]

19. The most interesting thing is that it fits the pattern of past behaviour

The WH PR office has a history of:

- keeping the audience that meets the president Bush-friendly (free speech zones, etc.)
- planting 'journalists' on press conferences (Gannon, anyone?)
- help Bush in any way (wires during debates et al.) to make the best SHOW money can buy

I think I'd say by now that Bush is only mildly interested in talking to, or even acknowledge the presence of, critisizm and the opposition. This 'cushioning' from stress related events like a (free) press conference saves him from cracking up publicly, but it also serves a more important purpose. Bush is the feel good-product that they sell to his core constituency, the 38% that still supports him. That we outside that halo also can see and hear this, and recognize it as the fake show it is, doesn't matter to them.
It's the way extremism works, introversion makes you focus on your own 'people', the sect.

It's all in the show they put up, and it has to be good enough to be swallowed at least partly by the mainstream. They have sufficent media 'bias' behind them to pull that off, and bin Laden, it seems, as some kind of Joker popping up to remind the subconcious that a threat is still present. The stick and the carrot.

[applegrove]

20. That was hilarious. When that woman spoke. Bush seemed to

really think it was an important moment. And it was obvious. I don't know any Iraqis. But I don't get that any of them are happy the US went in with 1/2 the troops.

[nicknameless]

21. "I like yous." (Iraqi)

Remember that tape Randi played on her show?
How sad.

[nicknameless]

23. "Bianca? Are you Bianca?"