Last night Jon took President Bush to task for the disgusting distortion of history he employed Wednesday to justify his endless war in Iraq. Little does Bush know (not surprising), we keep the tapes from earlier in his presidency where he dismissed outright the Iraq-Vietnam comparison. The shameless propaganda knows no limits.
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C'mon, let's give him a break! He's running out of ideas!
I find the president to be most amusing and entertaining. He is afterall, a clown and a joke.
The magical mystery tour is going to take you away.....going to take you away......I wonder if he's met Lucy yet....or if he just gets to recycle
*face buried in palms*
He can't even screw up correctly.
*face still buried in palms*
Bush is now like a fish in the bottom of the boat-he's flopping any way he can to try to get back in to the water. Sad, if it weren't so tragic.
EconAtheist @ 4:
you think there hairy?He's obviously blind
Listening to Bush is always an exercise in what it is to be lectured by the stupidest guy in the room.
...
I actually liked the Maude reference.....
“Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.”
– Mark Twain
Looks like Casto died.
Party in Miami.
Someone who doesn't read history is destined to MIS-UNDERESTIMATE it.
The video montage of Bush and the Iraqetnamese (or is it Vietraqi?) issue was beautiful, but I was also very impressed with the interview with Lt. Col. Nagl, who co-authored the Army/Marines' new Counterinsurgency Field Manual. At least somebody isn't completely clueless about the realities of the Iraq occupation; it gives me hope that Iraq might turn into at least a mitigated disaster. I put up a transcript of the Nagl interview on my blog, with an embed of the video.
Do you think Bush's advisers and speechwriters are trying to do him in? It's obvious that he doesn't remember what he has said in the past and now it appears that he just reads what he is given. Does he even realize how comical his speechifying is?
Make that Castro.
Geez.
AConfederacyofDunces @ 7:
ROFLMAO! My vote for comment of the week!
I rarely post comments about Jon or Keith, simply because I find me-tooism boring. Not having cable though, one of the best things about having the net for the last year is that I can catch their shows. I missed so much!
Canadian Observer @ 13:
One has to wonder don't they..............my guess is he reads it .....but just can't put 2 and 2 together....ahhhh the Preznit....be it nitwit,dimwit or halfwit.........he's still in way over his head.
OH and one more thing.....can we lose the add for Realtime.....soon?
Thought you might have some fun with these two movie references that struck me as very appropriate while watching Bush misremember history...
From "A Fish Called Wanda":
Wanda: But you think you're an intellectual, don't you, ape?
Otto: Apes don't read philosophy.
Wanda: Yes they do, Otto, they just don't understand it! Let me correct you on a few things; Aristotle was not Belgian! The central message of Buddhism is not "Every man for himself!" And the London Underground is not a political movement! Those are all mistakes. I looked them up.
And from the mouth of Bluto...
Bluto: Over? Did you say "over"? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!
Otter: Germans?
Boon: Forget it, he's rolling.
Bluto: And it ain't over now. 'Cause when the goin' gets tough...
[thinks hard]
Bluto: the tough get goin'! Who's with me? Let's go!
[runs out, alone; then returns]
Bluto: What the fuck happened to the Delta I used to know? Where's the spirit? Where's the guts, huh? "Ooh, we're afraid to go with you Bluto, we might get in trouble." Well just kiss my ass from now on! Not me! I'm not gonna take this. Wormer, he's a dead man! Marmalard, dead! Niedermeyer...
Otter: Dead! Bluto's right. Psychotic, but absolutely right. We gotta take these bastards. Now we could do it with conventional weapons that could take years and cost millions of lives. No, I think we have to go all out. I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody's part.
Bluto: We're just the guys to do it.
D-Day: Let's do it.
Bluto: LET'S DO IT!
Cheers,
cmhmd
http://cmhmd.blogspot.com
The radical Christians and the uber rich are who got him elected.
They really did not care if Bush is as dumb as a box of rocks.
They religious base just wants those Supreme Court spots and the super wealthy just want those tax cuts. No group in Bush's base really cares about the welfare of the nation as a whole.
Hopefully their shortsightedness and selfish motives have taught the nation a lesson.
Bush has done an insurmountable amount of damage to the GOP party of Crooks and Liars and for that I'd like to shake his hand.
mudshark @ 16:
It's not that. It's just that Bush and his team have realized that it simply does not matter what they do anymore. Congress is too lazy to stop them and the American people have no authority save for that which they exercise through the legislature and the government. All Bush wants to do now is run out the clock while making sure that the other Republicans still have a chance of ever being elected again this century.
"The shameless propaganda knows no limits."
the shameless bastards do not care . . .
Didn't the Rutles call it "Tragical History Tour"?
Seems to fit here too.
mudshark @ 17:
The ad doesn't bother me at all. Things in this world aren't free. The people at C&L have to eat too, you know. We've all got bills to pay.
Somebody cut his mic. (No, I'm not Bill O., just a reasonable guy.)
If I didn't hate that simpleton so much, I'd almnost feel sorry for him. And to think this man is the President of the United States. I'm ashamed.
Down with the king!!!
Another Bush moment to add to the collection of that he isn't qualified and never has been to hold the job of President of the United States. He is about as vacuous a leader as one can have. And the folks who are to blame for this person holding that job: the REPUBLICAN PARTY. Their fault, all of what he's done. Yes.
breakspear @ 26:
forgot to add that word...
Saw that re-creationist type piece last night....
Starting to believe Bush must of has a close and personal relationship with "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"...
Hey, I drink. I know drinkers. He's hung over for sure. You can see it in the eyes.
Watching Chimpy without Rove is about as good as watching Smokey and the Bandit Part 3 without Burt Reynolds. Absolutely embarrassing.
Say what you will about Rove, he's a gifted prognosticator. He jumped ship while there was still a lifeboat available.
I seriously think it's gonna come down to a quartet of Cheney, Hadley, Bolton and that guy with the beard playing their sordid, off-tempo and out-of-tune song as the Big Ship Neocon finally plunges under.
voters who vote for republicans are the first suckers who buy pet rocks and ask if they have had all thier vet shots
waterboarding for jesus @ 9:
UnEasyOne @ 15:
The knowledge that our government employs torture as national policy and that this policy was not an aberration but instead goes right to the top (Bush) was a deal breaker for me. Lied to war without account. Where is the outrage?
citizen_pain @ 29:
He does have that puffed up, tell-tale drinking, saddle-bag look under his eyes. I'm not sure which is scarier: a drunken president, or a dry drunk president. Dry drunks are nasty nasty people.
@32 AConfederacyofDunces
I totally agree. Since the US has made torture an official policy of state, I include the US on my personal list of terrorist-sponsoring countries. I mean you can't chastise Syria and then send people there to be tortured, but that's what they're doing. Remember when the USA condemmed torture and those that use it??? I do.
Canadian Observer @ 13:
Seriously?
I think the bubble is so small now that his stuff doesn't get passed over by the usual fact checkers and experts...just him and a little neocon clique whose grasp of history is as shaky as his.
...and that is why the internet is such a fantastic resource!
In the past it would have taken many hours of work, but now can be done in a short time and quite easily by people who once just didn't have the time or resources to do so.
The Lies and Hypocrisy shown by these immoral and corrupt politicians can be shown to millions of viewers all over the world by people with little more than a computer, an internet connection, a bit of common sense and a want to do the right thing.
It just goes to show how behind the 8 ball these scumbags really are, and their arrogance in trying to push their rotten agenda is easily brought to light.
I love the internet!
I always enjoy watching Bush's audiences during his little speechifyin' tours. I can't help but wonder who these sad people really are and what must be going through their minds as they listen to this idiot. We all know Bush doesn't give a rat's ass about America, less his endless stupid failures but you'd think real Americans would.
it's a damn shame for the American people that we'll be without Jon and Steven for two weeks. Few other news outlets chose to do things such as this. they just blast your face with pundits and talking points
what will we do when these news casters decide to hang up their hat?
Ted Nougat for Secretary of Douchebaggery.
-GSD
#31 tyree said:
"voters who vote for republicans are the first suckers who buy pet rocks and ask if they have had all thier vet shots"
They're also usually the same folks who tell you they're Christian, and tell you you're not Christian enough, all while supporting "Holy War" and torture.
And you can try pointing out to them that their very own interpretation of the Bible makes clear the Anti-Christ will fool the believers, not the non-believers, and it just goes through one ear and out the other.
Awesome Bush... just weird and terribly forlorn/lost.
But his audience lapped it up, this therefore still means that he has and will have a base to depend on, which makes this all the more scary.
This man is a fool and fools usually do foolish things because they have no understanding of the consequences of their actions.
When will Bush attack Iran or perhaps Pakistan and who in American politics is going to put that genie back into its bottle?
The more stupid Bush looks the more the world is willing to forgive American stupidity (Warmongering) but if the President were not an imbelice what then???
And just to be clear, even though I'm a practicing Christian, I don't believe Bush is the anti-Christ.
He's just a regular old @$$#ole who happened to be born into a life of privelege.
Bringing up the real war in Afghanistan, I'd like to thank GoDaddy for shutting down a site belonging to my brother, an E-8 serving in Kabul, with no notice.
He'd created the account so he could spend some time gaming on it with his 13 year old son back in the states. He was due back in a couple of months but of course everyone is getting extended.
He and I'd worked on it for a week getting it ready as a surprise. But the only surprise was when GoDaddy shut it down with no notice. They won't tell me why. So he has to try and contact them from Afghanistan and beg for them to reinstate it. Thanks Bob.
My story here.
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/democratic_mob_censures_bush_in
No, not off topic, struck me as a hiliari-sad parody on the kind of tepid response democrats are giving to the continual crimes of this administration.
It's 1984 + 23.
baby jesus must now go into complete isolation, meditation and heavy adult beverage consumption in preparation for Bill Maher.
The most damning indictment is that there are still Americans who "support" Boosh. I cannot think of anything more embarrassing to this country than that simple fact.
theyd put an anamal down that suffers as much as this prick does!
animal
Poor George. It just keeps getting harder to "catapult the propaganda".
Bush is a walking-talking rectum.
Gregory @ 47:
Unfortunately Rep. Walter Jones, R-N.C. seems to have a whole district of them. I've met them. They call themselves Christian sheep, but I'd say lemmings was closer.
At least there are some Christian leaders like Chuck Baldwin starting to speak out. I don't agree with some of what he says, but maybe he can pry open some eyes.
#43Don1One:
Sorry to hear your site got shut down, but Afghanistan's no "real" war either.
I'm pretty sure they got oil pipelines cutting through there, and it's also the source of over 75% of the world's heroin.
That's a heck of a lot of drugs and a heck of a lot of money.
Don't think governments are interested in drugs? Google: England China Opium Wars.
Matt G @ 1:
I've read through the first 11 comments on this thread, and they are all just gratuitous bush bashing. Look, if you guys act no better than the sean hannitys of this world, then you will get nowhere. I dislike bush as much as anybody (and as an american living in the UK but paid in dollars, arguably have more reason to), but it would hardly be showing weakness in the face of the enemy to admit that it's not logiclaly inconsistent for bush to either a) change his mind or b) suggest that the situaton didnt mirror vietnam then, in his opinion, but now does.
I mean really people. most of the comments here are embarassing and gratuitous nonsense. the side with the correct arguments should rise to a higher standard.
[Your "concern" is duly noted -- Sitemonitor]
It's real to the soldiers. That's what I'm thinking about.
My brother says they can't keep the Afghans at work during harvest season. They all leave for a couple of weeks because they make so much more money.
Probably really pissed off the CIA when the Taliban almost completely shut down production. A lot of guerrilla actions have been financed by drugs.
J Smith @ 54:
Not that I don't agree, but what I've learned is that the side that's most passionate about their argument wins the most often, not the side that's right.
#56 Don1One,
You may be right in the sense that the side that yells the loudest usually wins the argument, at least temporarily.
But in the long run, truth, like cream, has a funny way of rising to the top.
He's just too stupid to be President.
Karl,
Yes, I'm talking the tactical wins. Though too often the winners write the history. Often the Republicans win by yelling the loudest, a typical tactic on cable shows.
BTW, I rethought your statement about Afghanistan not being the real war. You're right. It's the war that had the most popular support, but there's about as much proof that Al-Queda in Afghanistan carried out 9/11 as there was about WMD in Iraq.
No doubt OBL financed it, but planning and execution still has a lot of questions.
i allso watch the audiences bush speaks to and theirs a very good likeness on the history channel when hitler spoke to the druids who followed him ,theirs a look on their face of total insanity and a love in thier eyes for all things that are hediouse! seigh hiel
We all laugh and joke about this idiot, but when you really think about it, there's nothing amusing here. This moron is scary!
Even scarier, is the fact that some people think he's a great POTUS! Doesn't say a whole lot about the collective intelligence of the voters!
baby jesus @ 46:
I'm Rite wit chya Heyzus
tyree @ 60:
and these are the same assholes who would have us all inslaved with their insanity ,
greetings musark , dogoboo boo gvinmentroll
tyree @ 60:
Hitler was a druid?!
Seven years discussing the same lie. Kill me now.
Tony Snow @ 65:
guess you never read what i said the adiences were
How come when Bush says, "strategizing" it sounds so wrong...
tim robbins yaaaaaah
conservatism can't exist without memory holing. They pretend recording devices don't exist
What's really strange here is that the members of his audience were old enough to know that Bush was dispensing crap. He was talking about their history, and their life's experience. His applause lines should have been met with chuckles and laughs, but they weren't. Now that's what I call a friendly audience. The true meaning of suspension of disbelief.
Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to re-write it.
They forgot this gems:
Is Iraq becoming another Vietnam?
"The analogy is false," President Bush said Tuesday night at his news conference in response to the first question.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2004-04-13-vietnam-iraq-cover_x.htm
Magical history tour--I love it. The Daily Show is the greatest liberal institution.
Imagine there's no Stewart
It's scary if you try
Shallowness consumes us
Around us only lies
Imagine all the people
Watching O'Reilly
Imagine there's no Colbert
It's pretty sad to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no funnies too
Imagine all the people
Watching the Fox News
You may say that I'm a sadist
But please do not condemn
I hope when they do retire
We will no longer need them
IMPEACH!!!!!
No words
OH please NO more of this idiotic embarrassing president.
SAVE-DARFUR @ 75:
This stanza is particularly beautiful. And I agree with every bone in my body.
Mandvi's comment on the Vietnam War memorial elicited groans from the audience....I too, was initially prickled with disbelief.
Satire is tough to mix with dead veterans. After watching it a second time I realized that the whole value of Mandvi's quip was in it's tenacity.
The premise of the open ended sacrifice of our military youth is so detestably psychotic that only "brick to the head" commentary can truly convey its insanity. I initially had the thought of: "How could you say that?" I've finally realized that there is no excuse among any American for not being even more outspoken.
Mandvi, was sublime in that clip...he may have actually been too sublime.
We have no excuse for feeling anything else but utter outrage.
Comparing Iraq to Vietnam Aasif hit on it when joking that had we stayed in Vietnam the Wall would stretch from Washington to Times Square saying, "Vietnam was our national sorrow".
Iraq and Vietnam are our national sorrows.
Molnardian @ 2:
but not funny.
You know you laugh at the guy because you know he's so full of horse manure. Then it makes you want to cry because the rest of the world knows this too. And they associate him with us.
IMPEACH!
I predict W will be the 1st ex-president to kill someone as a drunk driver.
Bush Bites @ 22:
That's what I was going to say!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=U1y9BIjTSVk
JohnnyBravo @ 83:
What make me wanna cry is that there are so many Americans that still don't know that he's dispensing recycled oats (through a horse that is).
And the moderate voting public, panicked about how "rich" they will remain because of what their houses are still "worth" will go right along with it: "Yeah! We SHOULD have stayed in Vietnam longer! Been there even today if we had to!"
After all, a 45-year-long war would have assured that their houses were all "worth" 15 million dollars - because the dollar would be worth Russian toilet paper after paying for that much war with debt.
Don't blame Bush. He's too dumb to remember what Rove had him say three years ago.
JohnnyBravo @ 83:
I know lots of locals here in Canada who can't and won't associate our American friends (and relatives) with BushCo. We only want what you want, pretty much.
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You can't fight city hall. Death and taxes. Don't talk about politics or religion. This is all the equivalent of enemy propaganda, rolling across the picket line. Lay down, GI! Lay down, GI! We saw it all through the 20th Century. And now on the 21st Century, it's time to stand up and realize, that we should NOT allow ourselves to be crammed into this rat maze. We should not SUBMIT to dehumanization. I don't know about you, but I'm concerned with what's happening in this world. I'm concerned with the structure. I'm concerned with the systems of control. Those that control my life, and those that seek to control it EVEN MORE! I want FREEDOM! That's what I want, and that's what YOU should want! It's up to each and every one of us to turn loose of just some of the greed, the hatred, the envy, and yes, the insecurities, because that is the central mode of control, make us feel pathetic, small, so we'll willingly give up our sovereignty, our liberty, our destiny. We have GOT to realize we're being conditioned on a mass scale. Start challenging this corporate slave state! The 21st Century's gonna be a new century! Not the century of slavery, not the century of lies and issues of no significance, of classism and statism, and all the rest of the modes of control... it's gonna be the age of humankind, standing up for something PURE and something RIGHT! What a bunch of garbage, liberal, Democratic, conservative, Republican, it's all there to control you, two sides of the same coin! Two management teams, bidding for control of the CEO job of Slavery Incorporated! The TRUTH is out there in front of you, but they lay out this buffet of LIES! I'm SICK of it, and I'M NOT GONNA TAKE A BITE OUT OF IT! DO YA GOT ME? Resistance is NOT futile, we're gonna win this thing, humankind is too good, WE'RE NOT A BUNCH OF UNDERACHIEVERS, WE'RE GONNA STAND UP, AND WE'RE GONNA BE HUMAN BEINGS! WE'RE GONNA GET FIRED UP ABOUT THE REAL THINGS, THE THINGS THAT MATTER - CREATIVITY, AND THE *DYNAMIC* *HUMAN* *SPIRIT* THAT REFUSES TO *SUBMIT*! WELL THAT'S IT, that's all I've got to say. It's in your court now.
-Alex Jones (Waking Life)
I'm flawed after all what "W" has said, there are conservitives that still believe in that fruit cake.
To top off the proveriable fake whipped cream (coolwhip) on the imaginary fruit cake (cardboard box) that fox news kisses this mans ass with such vigor and enthusiasum that i'm not supprised at everyone of those news pretenders noses, lips and chins are brown and their breath all smell like poop.
The Empor is compleatly nude and now were all laughing at him.
Impeach? Are you nuts? to end up with have Grand Inqisitor Chainey at the wheel? That would just end our democricy all together.
I yeald the konch.
CraigJohnson @ 19:
I think you just insulted my box of rocks. :-)
Thanks for the stream, John is clever as always.
alex jones @ 92:
have been wanting for at least two years to say hello and thanks, Alex, if this post was really from you.
Who cares...
Its just so easy to blame the republicans isn't it? Truth is that the republican party has changed so much from what it stood for even a few decades ago that most republican voters don't know what to do. And the democrats aren't helping by putting up some really weak candidates. Even in this climate, where a democrat should win by a landslide after bush, I don't think I can vote for one. None of the democratic candidates are any good! Who have we got, Hilary? She's in the pockets of the corporations just as much as the republicans. Obama? Who knows WHAT he stands for, but he didn't seem that great to me in the debates I've seen. All the democrats do is just bobble their heads up and down and say "we shouldn't have invaded" or "I promise I wouldn't have invaded" and its all just bull crap. They put forth no plan of action, just hindsight wisdom.
I'm voting nader if he runs
I think this is a good place to see the part of history you don't hear often
http://www.viet-myths.net/BuiTin.htm
Most people boo and hiss and throw popcorn at the TV when they see Bush speak, but they do nothing about it. What makes you think Democrats will do any better at all? Hell they voted in the original Patriot Act in 2001 and then the Military Commissions Act in 2006. If you want change, and actually want to do something other than just complain, google Ron Paul. This My Team Vs. Your Team politics has to stop.
The most irritating thing about George Bush's speeches is that he always speaks to us as if we're the ones who are retarded.
Peter G. @ 101:
"We" are retarded, after all "we", America, elected this monster 2x.
[Deleted. Your handle r dumb!!11!-so I changed it. Much better. Feel free to pontificate to our fabulous spam filter-Sitemonitor]
Hey he talks like he does to communicate with the mtv/myspace crowd. If he spoke any more intelligent, they wouldn't understand him.......
Blue Buddha @ 85:
When are we going to have the Ruttles Live at the BBC, and the Ruttles Anthology I and II, with accompanying TV specials?
Although I totally grokked on This Is Spinal Tap, I sniggered at the movie critics who were gushing about how original it was.
I think the Rutles described booshco and the religioius reich best in Tragical History Tour when they sang of Evangelistic boxing kangaroos.
Peter G. @ 101:
A child being taught to repeat something by rote often picks up the tone of the adult teaching it.
makes Ronald Reagan looks like Einstein
Molnardian @ 2:
It's just that, maybe, America needs competent statesmen at her helm in these times, not clowns.
Cowboy Bob in Austin @ 11:
Brilliant!
I actually supported the war in the beginning, but I, like most Americans, was giving too much credit to the Iraqi people. It just seems like in that part of the world that they would rather live under a dictator. On a lighter note, I wrote this article about Bush. Let me know what you think! http://www.nationalsquib.com/html/small_brain.html
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