Bush Press Conference Again Scripted Beforehand

[MORTARDUDE]

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles...shscripted.htm

Bush Press Conference Again Scripted Beforehand

Paul Joseph Watson | April 14 2004

George W. Bush's Tuesday night press conference was the usual torrent of endlessly repeated cuddly sugar coated questions followed by the same endlessly repeated worn out monotone responses.

Interestling enough though Bush again let it slip that the press conference was scripted and that the questions had been vetted beforehand by the White House.

Near the end of the conference Bush took a question;

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QUESTION: "Thank you, Mr. President.

In the last campaign, you were asked a question about the biggest mistake you'd made in your life, and you used to like to joke that it was trading Sammy Sosa.

You've looked back before 9-11 for what mistakes might have been made. After 9-11, what would your biggest mistake be, would you say, and what lessons have learned from it?"

BUSH: I wish you'd have given me this written question ahead of time so I could plan for it.

John, I'm sure historians will look back and say, gosh, he could've done it better this way or that way. You know, I just -- I'm sure something will pop into my head here in the midst of this press conference, with all the pressure of trying to come up with answer, but it hadn't yet."

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Anyone who watched the TV footage witnessed the embarrasing sight of Bush pausing for at least five seconds and saying absolutely nothing. Bush's admonition that the question should have been written 'ahead of time' (like the rest) proves that this was an impromptu question in an otherwise carefully scripted briefing.

Many people have speculated that Bush actually wears an ear piece and the responses are fed through to him and he just repeats them. I have done radio interviews but I'm by no means a master of public speaking. If a radio host asks a question about a topic that I have no detailed knowledge of then I can at least give a surface answer and so could most other people. Bush, the President of the most powerful country on earth, could not even do that. He literally stood there in silence fumbling around 'waiting for an answer to pop into his head' (or through the ear piece).

This pep rally for the Neo-Cons has again fallen flat on its face and Bush has only further proven that he runs absolutely nothing in Washington and is just the frontmen for the real powerbrokers behind the scenes.

Read the transcript of the whole conference here.

[skeeter]

It's a good thing I don't have any money invested in TV stock, as I think I would have lost money last night..
That was a waste of time and whatever it could have been called.

Larry; you saw the same thing that I witness from the man.. The reporters had to been scripted before hand. When a reporter asked a non-scripted question, the "deer-in-the headlights: look came on.

Glad you taken the time to take notice also.

[melody1181]

Lots of the things he said teed me off.....

[Seascamp]

I would like to know when a Presidential news deal wasn?t scripted and the Washington Press Corps wasn?t precisely directed as to the nature and content of questions. Probably way before the invention of recording devices would be my guess. I seem to recall that Brent Hume was booted off the Washington Press Corps for asking ?naughty? questions that were outside the question protocol. But that was during the Clinton administration so that?s completely correct and understandable, right?
Brent should have known all about Charlott's web and not being as equal as others. Silly foolish man.

Scamp

[MORTARDUDE]

things I noticed...

whenever mistakes or apologies by him or his administration were mentioned, he acknowledged nothing. He gave no reason good, bad, or indifferent why the Vice President has to hold his hand during the 9/11 questioning...

whenever a question strayed ever so slightly from the ones that were submitted by the press beforehand...he was lost.

Too bad Rumsfeld wasn't there with his "good days, bad days" line...it would have fit right in.

Larry

[Packo]

Question:

Name one President that has ever apologized for anything? FDR about Pearl Harbour? Truman for Korea? Johnson for Vietnam? Clinton, who owed us all BIG TIME? Nope, no apologies. Am I missing something here or is Bush the only President who should apologize for something that was borne and bred on someone else's watch? What about the Deputy Attorney Generals Memo building the wall between CIA and FBI? And she sits on the "bipartisan 9-1-1 commision". What a joke.

Packo

[Gimpy]

thought he look about as dumb as a box of rocks.

Naw............the rocks look smarter!

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"Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm., lemme see, ya kinda caught me off guard there? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. sumthin will surely come to me in a minute?

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. well I guess not!"

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Jeeeeeeeeeees....Ussssssss!

This guy never had a original thought in his LIFE!

[Gimpy]

"notes" & "thoughts' from the land of Jiimmy Buffet and Cheesburgers in Paradise!

What a revolting development for Dubya and Co. Having to admit that John Kerry is RIGHT about the situation in Iraq!

Republican strategists have argued that the president would run circles around Kerry on issues of foreign policy -- a challenge to which Kerry's response during the primaries was, "Bring it on!"

Now events have indeed brought it on, and it's clear that Kerry's apprehensions about a unilateral war and occupation were well-grounded, even as Bush's cavalier hopes for an all-American nation-building project were the most dangerous of fantasies.

It's also clear that Bush has been forced by events to move, kicking and screaming, toward Kerry's vision of the requirements for a successful occupation.

On the centerpiece of that vision -- handing over control of the occupation to the United Nations -- Bush has remained, seeking instead to get maximum U.N. involvement without surrendering U.S. control. He hasn't acknowledged that it's precisely the U.S. control that makes the occupation so objectionable to millions of Iraqis.

Still, Bush has been compelled to internationalize certain functions that he had assumed the United States would perform, and for the reasons that Kerry predicted.

By the standard of previous presidential candidates running amid wartime quagmires, Kerry has been unusually forthcoming in his critique and prescriptions for Iraq. All Eisenhower pledged while seeking the office during the Korean conflict was, "I will go to Korea." In 1968 Nixon said that he had "a secret plan" to end the Vietnam War.

Kerry, by contrast, foresaw the perils of unilateralism and has consistently proposed a more workable occupation policy than Bush's. By its growing dependence on Brahimi and its increasingly plaintive calls for more nations to send troops, even the administration tacitly acknowledges that Kerry was right .

Yeah. And that's why Kerry deserves to be in the Oval Office and the whole 1600 Crew on the unemployment line.

Not ONLY that.

The recent "Press-Conference" exposed Bush for what he REALLY is.............an arrogant, self-serving. self-absorbed, hypocrite unable to admit he has ever made a mistake or error in judgement!

After the Bay of Pigs, President John F. Kennedy spoke to newspaper publishers and said: "This administration intends to be candid about its errors. For as a wise man once said, `An error does not become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.' . . . Without debate, without criticism, no administration and no country can succeed ? and no republic can survive."

Compare Kennedy with Mr. Bush, who conceded no errors and warned that any Vietnam analogy with Iraq ? in this acid flashback moment when more than 60 U.S. troops were reported to have died last week and when McNarummy is ordering up to 20,000 troops to stay in Iraq ? "sends the wrong message to our troops and sends the wrong message to the enemy."

BULL$HIT!!!!!!

Bush reiterated that his mission is dictated from above: "Freedom is the almighty's gift to every man and woman in this world."
Given the Saudi religious authority's fatwa against our troops, and given that our marines are surrounding a cleric in the holy city of Najaf, we really don't want to make Muslims think we're fighting a holy war, do we?? That would only further inflame the Arab world and endanger our overstretched military even MORE, so let's hope that Mr. Bush's reference to the almighty was to Dick Cheney, instead.

Appears he's made another unmentionable "error" in judgement that I'm sure he'll also be unable to "admit"!

What an idiot.

[reconeil]

Any Dem/Lib cheerleaders or all knowing and morally-superior fools aside,...you nailed it right on that nonsensical and moronic and/or purposefully political: "Apology" bit.

Just like The Japs were rightfully the only ones whom should have apologized for Pearl Harbor,...Islamic Terrorists are the only ones that should rightfully apologize for: "9/11" and more PERIOD.
Only ding-dongs, fools or politicians are currently and purposefully babbling differently. Johnson and Vietnam? That's a little different.

Hell,...Clinton never even apoligized for Somalia, or even messing-up Monica's Sunday Church dress. Still, and in fairness, she will have a cherished memento that no others will ever have. But then, and Old Slick being what he is,...who-the-hell really knows?
Maybe there are other young girls out there with similar Clinton Mementos they can cherish forever???

Neil

[skeeter]

Gimpy:

Man! You got him(what's the idiots name)pegged to a "T"..
I wish I could have thought of that..

Gimpy: The man has no education.. For the life of me, I cannot figure how he past the API tests which is a 6 weeks course. And all things past the pencil written tests. Only about 22% of the Navy Flight School applicants past the test.
I'm sure if we were to compare "The idiot" to these 22 percenters, there would be a well of of difference in oral behavior..

Oh!. I KNOW HOW HE DID IT.!! His pappy made a phone call to some Texan that wanted something, and "little tree 43" just waltz right into the ready room, like he was a new Air Force pilot.

Now wait just a damm minute.. Are you sure he didn't get a camera person to take a picture of him with his Air Force flight suit and helmet and go set in the cockpit of that Air National Guard jet. Just like he did when he came aboard the Carrier USS Araham Lincoln last year. PLAY ACTING. That's It. Now we know the rest of the story..