August 01, 2007 08:20 AM
The company Bush keeps
Oliver Willis noted, "Bush surrounds himself with this echo chamber in order to hear good things about himself, and not hear a single critical word about his failed presidency."
We've seen plenty of examples of this, but yesterday was a stark reminder. From Hugh Hewitt:
President Bush invited ten talk hosts into the Oval Office for an hour of conversation today --Glenn Beck, Bill Bennett, Neal Boortz, Scott Hennon, Laura Ingraham, Lars Larson, Mark Levin, Michael Medved, Janet Parshall and me.
It's quite a motley crew, isn't it?
And Democratic presidential candidates are supposed to avoid YearlyKos? While Bush is inviting these far-right voices into the White House for a chat?
No Rush? No BillO? No Hannity?
There are 3 things that were in that room...
1) Bull$hit on tap
2) Stupidity celebrated
3) 'intellectual' dishonesty (sans Bush)
There are 3 things that weren't in that room...
1) a shred of credibility
2) hearts & souls
3) good intentions for this country
Well at least we can all rest comfortably....that Karl Rove is giving all these highly paid wastes of existence...the talking points in person...on the U.S. tax payers dime...
They were going to invite Ann Coulter, but Michael Medved is afraid of her.
Willie @ 1:
The Secret Service nixed those loonies.
No Rush?
Rush is already in contact with Dick on a daily basis.
Isn't that the same list CNN is using for their dream line up of existing and potential show hosts?
oh I wish I could have been a fly on the wall. It would have been an historic meeting of the minds like in the days of Lincoln and his war councils. the historians will write of this glorious meeting. Damn it my silver paint can is empty.
Not to worry, there is no wingnut more ignorant and dumber than John Bircher, Glenn Beck.
He will acquit himself as well as you could expect, and he will probably be the only one with questions that Dumbya can understand.
How stupid must you be to CONVERT to Mormonism?
Our tax dollars at work. bush giving figurative blow jobs to rightwing bobbleheads.
A pathetic president. He seems to be an insecure egomaniac - a deadly combination.
If he gets Alzheimer's in later years, how will anyone be able to tell?
Surrounding yourself with yes men, kiss asses, and fools that agree with everything you say or do no matter what is a sure sign of a dictatorship.
the bush co. congressional recess product roll out has begun. watch for all the happy news to come out in the following few weeks. why did the administration focus on a september date for the report from the general...because they knew they would have a relatively clear month of free spin to resell the surge. bush co treats every policy like "introducing a product" and this is going to be a bigger sales pitch than anything we have seen prior. who better to help the spin than the wingnut airwaves spin machine.
hell bush himself let their approach slip when he accidently called recent legislation a "product" instead of a bill. tony snowjob also said that what we need is a "surge of information". who in MSM will call them out on this.......
get your hip boots and waders on people the bush bs is about to flow.
Simon White-Thatch Potentloins @ 11:
A good point. Worse yet, if Bush turns into a Nero or Caligula (as some say he already has) who in his in circle such as those mentioned above would dare to point out that he is a mad man. The answer, none. This has always been the road to tyranny.
that must have been some meeting of the minds.
Once a Scum Bag always a Scum Bag, get everyone in the habit of spitting every time they say or write the name bush (spits), this piece of garbager is garbabge are the dems' going to give this piece of fecal matter what he wants because they are afraid of public opinion.
I don't have a TV and I'm not "up" on the A-list given except for Medved. What is the story on those people? Are they all "the enemy" for some reason?
Did they all have to kiss his ring or some part of his body?
George W Bush inviting Gleen Beck, Mark Levin, Laura Ingraham? I just can't believe this. I can't believe this. I mean for all his flaws I never thought of George Bush as anti-Muslim or anti-immigrant. And now he is directly associating with such hateful bastards as Beck, Levin and Ingraham?
Joe O. @ 14:
Well at least Caligula mandated state sponsored orgies.
Insecurity? Nah. This is how the administration delivers its talking points to these slimebags.
This is even more proof that, in considering the re-introduction of the "Fairness Doctrine," you should be careful for what you ask, 'cause you just might get it.
Wow, Levin is batshit crazy and he got a day pass into the oval office. I wonder if he got all redfaced and started screaming when making his points to chimp boy?
CG @ 21:
Actually the RNC has been doing that for years. Maybe now since the GOP is trying to distance itself from the Bush admin. a little hand-feeding is required.
Well if they invited those turds they must know the otherside. Media Matters, ouch, Think Progress, Alternet, and of course C&L. I can just see the picture, all these ass kissers kneeling behind Joe Libermann waiting their turn.
Another day in "The Inferno"
Waking up in the morning to the sight of JK Rowling's smug, zombified smirk staring at you from the front page of the morning paper for the seventh day in a row.
Blue Buddha @ 20:
Were "the people" invited or was it upper echelon only?
Teacher to join shuttle mission
Bush is going for his "Reagan Moment"
THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT PUT BUSH IN OFFICE, NOW IF YOU HAVENT PAID ATTENTION , THESE ARE THE CHURCH GOING BIBLE THUMPERS THAT CONDEM EVERYTHING AND EVERYBODY, THAT SAY OH YES THE BIBLE IS WHERE WE GET LIGHT TO JUDGE EVERYTHING BY. SO HOW COME AHBU GREB, LIEING, MURDERING, STEALING, TEARING OUR RIGHTS APART IS JUST O.K ? WELL THATS BECAUSE THEY HAVE MADE A JOKE OF JESUS THAT THE HOLE WORLD SEE'S IT'S ONLY THEM AND LIKE MINDED HYPOCRITES THAT ARE BLINDED BY THERE INSATIATLE APPETITE FOR POWER, LUST , AND GREED, EVERYTHING THEY SAY IS SIN. THEY REALLY ARE THE WORST PEOPLE ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH AND REALLY FUCKED US ALL GOOD.
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Glenn Beck looked positively crazed with excitement over his upcoming command performance. If I were asked, I don't think that I could sit in the room with our fearful, cowardly decider.
Hannity was there also. He talked about it - at length on shows. "I looked into this President eyes and I know he is right".
Bush and those sleazy bastards will roast in hell together.
Say hello to R. Nixon, R. Reagan, and J. Edgar when you get there George and Co.
How many times can a man be fellated within an hour or two? I guess we'll have to wait for these 'bloggers' to report on their sycophancy session wit' da Prez'nint to find out.
At least Clinton got a better deal; he had the real thing instead of virtual...
Bush meets with these types every week or so now, doesn't he?
Methinks he is having a hard time keeping the bubble intact. Are the staff "true believers" no longer around? Have they stopped drinking the Kool Aid and the Chimp has to bring in an outside nut squad to tell him he's doin' a "heckofajob"?
No, Georgie is a sociopath. He has no conscience. He doesn't care if people in America (or anywhere for that matter) die in war, from failing bridges, or from preventable diseases, or from poisoned food. As long as he and his cronies can live comfortably, all is right in their little fantasy world. I would guess that a number of these "radio personalities" share similar mental illnesses. Unfortunately, the inmates are in charge of the asylum, and while they remain in control, we're screwed. Will someone with a bully pulpit, someone in Congress who still has some integrity, please step up and do something to stop this charade??!!!!
Here is a list "symptoms" exhibited by sociopaths I copied from a medical site - sound like anyone you know??
Contemptuous of those who seek to understand them
Does not perceive that anything is wrong with them
Authoritarian
Secretive
Paranoid
Only rarely in difficulty with the law, but seeks out situations where their tyrannical behavior will be tolerated, condoned, or admired
Conventional appearance
Goal of enslavement of their victim(s)
Exercises despotic control over every aspect of the victim's life
Has an emotional need to justify their crimes and therefore needs their victim's affirmation (respect, gratitude and love)
Ultimate goal is the creation of a willing victim
Incapable of real human attachment to another
Unable to feel remorse or guilt
Extreme narcissism and grandiose
May state readily that their goal is to rule the world
It's time to worry when your big supporters are, Medved, Ingraham and Beck. What a collection of hacks and shills.
Neal Boortz? That guy is, literally, 175 pounds of shit sewn up in human skin.
When is the voice of the sane, the sane-ter, the human-species, going to arise in the midst of the polarities of right and left, of up and down, of yes and no. Human beings are one species, there is ONE humanity appearing, and peace is inherent in the egoless reality of human being. No war. No us against them. One human family, one egoless reality, one human species. We the people, the sane-ter, the heart which is the only real voice in the midst of the ego-power-addict madness.
Sane. Centered, but not in the middle of ego-wars of right and left. The human voice. The human heart, one heart, here, there, everywhere, same egoless human heart in China, Iran, North Korea, Texas. One humanity, one species. The one human family awakening to the enormous global responsibily of the profoundly urgent collective business that exists for all human beings. Waking up from illusions and getting on with profound matters.
Infantile us versus them is no longer useful or workable, or acceptable for a mature human being. Adolescent "we are better than you" is likewise absurd at this stage of global human social order and civilization in deep crisis. Mature adults who accept responsibility and who voice this egoless truth of one human species must give the people a voice and a means to awaken.
May wisdom prevail in our dark time.
Welcome to the 2007 Washington Hackfest, starring the leading drooling, delusional idiots on the planet today. Our motto---31% public approval is in reality the same as a majority. Winning the heartless and mindless of America since 2000.
ej doyle @ 17:
I'm not familiar with most of the others, but Lars Larson is Oregon's own home-grown purveyor of right-wing fertilizer. He's actually, by most accounts of those who've worked with him, extremely smart; he can argue his points intricately. It's just that his logic is based on hate for "the other," anybody who disagrees with his ideology, or people who think using tax dollars for things like public works is a good idea.
He used to be a news anchor for the local Faux affiliate--starting back before it was a Faux affiliate, Oregon's only independent TV news broadcast--but I suppose it wasn't right-wing enough for him, so he left to do radio hate-talk (partly because of the conflict-of-interest involved in doing both "fertilizer" and news).
Oh, and like a lot of right-wing haters, he has three chins. (Of course, so does Michael Moore, and I'm not so thin myself anymore, but just sayin'...there were probably a lot of wattles in that room with bush...)
Its bullshit feedback! He feeds them and they feed him. Someone's going to have to hose down that room when they're done eating out each others a$$holes.
Bush&Rove: Now listen up you bastards, read the fax every morning! Your check is in the mail! (paid for with tax payers money!)
The company Bush keeps:
Like they say Birds of a Feather...
Keep dumping on my car.
Q: What do you have if you have 10 wingnut talking heads in one room?
A: Most of your shit together.
JERRY HALL @ 29:
No wonder Sir Mick divorced you, all that yelling.
CafeenMan @ 27:
Well I'm sure stable hands were allowed in as long as they were accompanying donkeys.
bernarda @ 9:
My mother did, are you calling my mama stupid?
Was michelle Grimalkin curled up on the carpet or licking herself?
the rightie talkers use culture war talking points to get tax cuts for themselves while telling their moonshine drinking listeners the "Democrats want to raise our taxes"
Rusty Shackleford @ 38:
Boortz is on the radio now slobbery all over himself about being in the Oval Office with the Fearless Leader.
He is pulling the "I was told information on Iraq that is not out yet" but take my word for it. Things are going well.
Looks like this little pow wow was to sell more money to extend the "war" until after September when the funding runs out.
ysbaddaden @ 49:
Oops, I forgot...
Hacking up a hairball?
sanity-in-the-sane-ter @ 39:
"Egolessness" is just another cop-out.
Harley @ 51:
No doubt. And the suckers will lap it up.
Only somebody as fucking stupid as Boortz would brag about a visit with one of the least popular human beings on the planet.
ej doyle @ 17:
If you want some morning comedy, watch Randi Rhodes "debate" Janet Parshall :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q058WEMnlWI&mode=related&search=
Non editorial version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3jFE84fBOM&mode=related&search=
If you go to Media Matters, the atrocities are documented on all these shills. For example, Laura Ingraham encouraged her callers to call the democratic get out the vote phone lines and block them. Glenn Beck said to newly elected representative Keith Ellison "With that being said, you are a Democrat. You are saying, 'Let's cut and run.' And I have to tell you, I have been nervous about this interview with you, because what I feel like saying is, "Sir, prove to me that you are not working with our enemies." Neil Boortz called Cynthia McKinney a "welfare drag-queen".
Finding hate filled quoted from these types is just picking low hanging fruit.
Willie @ 1:
Don't forget Coultergeist and Savage...
Simon White-Thatch Potentloins @ 11:
LOL
These bastards...Did you know that Bush had dinner with Pelosi and her husband last night?
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NewsSophisticate @ 58:
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/08/01/300823.aspx
It turns out that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her husband Paul broke bread last night at the White House with President Bush and his wife, Laura.
The evening began with a one-on-one meeting between the president and the speaker, after which they were joined for dinner by their spouses, according to Pelosi. Pelosi tells us that it is important to have a "good rapport" with the president -- and in fact, she says, that is exactly what they have.
leftminded @ 57:
That's what I thought back in 2000 if Al Gore got elected. Put some sunglasses on him and who could tell the president from his security detail?
Harley!! you nailed it!! Look for a extension on September because things are "going so well" still bet tax payer dollars went to bring these clowns together!
This gathering is fairly representative of those who still support the preznit and who are not ashamed to say they voted for the idiot at least twice. One in four 'Mer-kans fit that description. Even boosh could do the math and realize there are a lot of feckin' morons in this country and many of them listen to his guests. This is a sad, sad commentary on the state of this country.
stevo @ 61:
Figures, Shrub would go back to the same people he helped to sell the "war" to begin with.
Shrub knows how to use his tools.
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Simon White-Thatch Potentloins @ 11:
I agree, that idiot is already dumber than a bag of dicks, he might already be suffering dementia and nobody can tell. It sounds like advanced dementia every time I hear him speak.
bush knows it take uncontested repetition to really "catapult the propaganda" into the MSM. and that's why they are so afraid of a new Fairness Doctrine or anything that cuts their monopoly. this disaster wouldn't have been possible without reagan killing the Fairness Doctrine and Rove knows it.
if there is one place they don't want local sign waving and boycotting it's the local talk radio station where the chickenhawk blowhards send out that propaganda. progressives biggest mistake the last twenty years was ignoring talk radio. but it's been the GOPs most important tool.
here's the talker's A list from talker's magazine thru media matters
http://www.talkers.com/main/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=17...
the millions of listeners is astounding. if that's right and some people listen to more than one and some just listen for a bit this is incredible. unfortunately a lot of listeners are just trying to get the news or some politics at work before they get home and don't have a choice.
20% plus americans say they get their news from talk radio. until we get a new fairness doctrine or something like it GOP/bush opponents- most of America- are going to be playing politics and media without a front line and a minority of extremists will continue to shred the constitution while they wave their made-in-china flags.
right wing hater @ 2:
Absolutely brilliant!
President Bush invited ten talk hosts into the Oval Office for an hour of conversation today –Glenn Beck, Bill Bennett, Neal Boortz, Scott Hennon, Laura Ingraham, Lars Larson, Mark Levin, Michael Medved, Janet Parshall and me.
The coalition of the consistently wrong.
Where was Wilhelm Kristol(nacht)?
These are mostly dangerous voices on the airwaves, especially Mark Levin. Voices of intolerance, hatred, and voices of the vast MINORITY.
What is happening in the United States is the slow crumbling of the grand experiment. It's going fast.
There is a dangerous set of premises in place:
Premise: A stealth government is ruling the United States;
Premise: A powerless loyal opposition is in Congress;
Premise: The media is a corporate-owned entity that selectively reports news;
Premise: Elections were rigged, flipped, stolen;
Premise: Tax dollars are funding a tremendous war machine;
Premise: Healthcare protection for all is dead and may remain dead;
Premise: Unions are mostly busted.
Conclusion: ?
The invite read something like this:
"You are cordially invited to come over to the oval orifice, get on your knees, and suck Satan's cock for about an hour. Whadda ya say boys & girls?"
Hannity, Billo and Coulter are gonna be pissed that they weren't invited.
Just more desperate measures for the incompetent Rethugs. to come up with a strategy on how to best cheat, lie and steal from all of us.
Actually it was just a big sex party with the really dumb Rethug. blondes giving head. Coulter is just too diseased to invite anymore.
Sheesh what a stink! Must have smelled like the money house at the zoo.
They had a special meeting on the new propaganda campaign that we will be seeing in the coming months.
Ingram is a double agent, lol. She will be calling Chris Mathews and rant about the president's chaotic interview. Go, Ingram, you need a job and the democrats need your double role.
Rush and Hannity were not invited due to their close ties to Nathanyahu. Who can the president really trust; not even his wife.
EnricoFermi @ 76:
and limbaugh is taking today (thurs) for the one on one VIP treatment- he gets the real heads up so he can claim clairvoyance.
this is why the Dem party needs searchable database of these fools daily monologues- they will tell what the GOP has in store for us.
Bush lives in a bubble. Who else is going to get to buy his bullshit? He's failed as a president over and over. So only the suck up neocons are willing to kiss his ass now.
Lars Larson? He does a local show in Portland, Oregon. They really are scraping the bottom of the barrel if they have to go all the way down to Lars to find someone who will not see the insanity in Bush's eyes.
Please don't use the word 'powwow' to indicated a meeting. It is disrespectful.
You are all a bunch of brain washed liberals. Glen
Beck is at least lucid in his views and Ann Coulter is a fox!
Dennis @ 82:
Lol, if you call asking Rep. Ellison if he's a terrorist lucid, Glen Beck is as clearheaded as AG Ashcroft lying in a hospital bed, doped up and recovering from pancreatitis. And Coulter is a fox, until she turns to a profile shot and the adam's apple she sports makes her look like the letter P.
Damn! All those people were in one room together at the same time?
This is analogous to how Clinton let Bin Laden slip away.
Why didn't we strike?
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