Selective taste in company

bush_press_3.jpgAs he is inclined to do, the president assembled a group of sycophantic media guests to boost his ego at the White House yesterday, the latest in a series of gatherings between Bush and like-minded allies who enjoy telling him exactly what he wants to hear — and agrees with every word he says.

At yesterday’s press gaggle, Press Secretary Dana Perino read the names of the invited guests:

Michael Barone (U.S. News), Tony Blankley (Washington Times), David Brooks (New York Times), Ron Kessler (NewsMax), Charles Krauthammer (Washington Post), Bill Kristol (Weekly Standard), Larry Kudlow (CNBC), Morton Kondracke (Roll Call), Kimberly Strassel (Wall Street Journal), Kathryn Lopez and Kate O’Beirne (National Review).

When she was done, some White House reporters literally laughed. Out loud.

It has come to this. The Bush Bubble is so strong, and the president is so loath to talk to people who might confront him with ideas that conflict with his own, that the White House press secretary draws laughter by reading the lists of “reporters” (read: sycophantic media allies) Bush is willing to hang out with.



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Was Fred Barnes busy somewhere else? If he wasn't invited, I bet he's crying himself to sleep.

watch this

a musical re-cap of the last 6 years

http://youtube.com/watch?v=T5dQmS16QGg

The White House reporters laughed out loud.

And then went back to sleep.

They aren't going to report this, or let it get in the way of their
Bush water-carrying.

Helen Thomas... where's your voice or weren't you invited to this little party for the Emperor to show off his new clothes?

Someone... say it!

Not surprising a chicken hawk, awol national guardsmen who hid there too avoid vietnam duty, would also be cowardly too face real journalists, with real hard questions, thank god we only have too put up with this cowardly chicken hawk and his second in command chicken hawk # 2, Dick "5 deferrment" Cheney, just 16 more months and they can fade into history as the chicken hawk duo who hid behind real warriors the US military too further their cowardly greedy political ambitions on behalf of their oil baron buddies..., I believe no earthly penalty will come too them, and only on judgment day will they get their just rewards, and if one believes the bible as I do, the chance for them finding forgiveness/salvation due too their greed in enriching themselves during their reign of power, made them rich men, or richer men, and the bible clearly states it will be as hard for a rich man too enter heaven as it will be for a camel too go thru the eye of a needle.., so one can rest assured their fate is one of eternal damnation for their evil lives on this earth, the 600,000+ dead civilians they have on their bloody hands & souls, not too mention or make light of the 4,000+ US soldiers dead, 30,000+ maimed and crippled for their as Bush famously refers too "refilling his financial Coffers", truly if there is justice and a god which I do believe in, everyone affliated with these evil men from Karl Rove on down too the lowest republican advocate are guilty with them..., and as with all republicans greed/money are their god and creed...

Don Davis @ 4:

The best part was: BUSH: DESPERATELY SEEKING MANDELA, WHO SAYS ‘NO THANKS’

On the other hand, MAYBE IRAQ CAN BE SAVED BY … MURTHA AND THE MANDELAS

No THAT'S funny!! Thanks for the laughs! I was so close to crying, you really made my day!

All hail Ceaser!

Kathryn Lopez??... geez, she doesn't have two brain cells to rub together to come up with an original coherent thought. No wonder they picked her.

Hail to the Pussy.

Why would any self-respecting reporter continue to go to these wank fests?

The writings on the wall for them too.

Yes, Mr. President, Jeff Gannon here reporting for Military Studs for Christ.com.

Some in Washington say the Democrats are helping the Terrorists while others simply contend that they hate America. What would you say to those who are trying to surrender to the enemy that attacked us on 911?

On the other hand... if I was a reported and I *was* on the list, I'd feel a little insulted.

Did they twirl their waxed mustaches and tie Helen Thomas to the train tracks as well?

Yeeesh, I weep for the future.

I noted all the uproar about the moveon.org ad, calling the general betray us, how ironic people failed too see the real story that "Bush & Company" have been hiding behind the military from day one, using real warriors too hide behind too cover their real agenda which was too dominate the oil rich region, for their real masters/constituients the "Oil Barons", whom no doubt have filled their coffers with plenty of kick back money for their retirement in 2008! It is ironic a coward, chicken hawk, who hid in national guard too avoid duty in a real war vietnam, and who by the way could not even do that right by being awol most of the time, loves too defend generals & troops as long as they agree with him and his policies, but in same breathe his swift boat men denigrate real war heros, and not one word of appology, disgust is said, hypocrite is not sufficient too describe these cowardly men who pretend too be warriors but in fact are nothing more than men who were too cowardly too serve when they could have, but now want too ride the coat tails of real warriors in Iraq war that they with out a doubt would be too cowardly too fight in, but definitely get the credit for starting and leaving this mess for more worthy leaders too clean up...., sadly 29% die hard republicans will eat that dung televison dinner fed nightly by the right wing millionare pundits like Sean Hannity, Bill Oreilly who call themselves cultural moralily warriors for the common man/woman, anyone see the irony of millionares having something in common with middle class americans or the lower classes? These pundits fit into the 2% elite who benefit from all these tax cuts and benefits given them by their lord and master messiah Bush...again one consolation is only 29% eat this dung, and thank god 71% of us do not or at least can refuse too eat it...

Don't you get it?
They are very dedicated to their roles in this world wide reenactment of the McKinley presidency (Rove and Bush's Idol)...
I can't wait to see who gets to play Leon Czolgosz.

They have to have selective taste, when they're all so busy sniffing each other's butt.

right on! @ 5:

Helen Thomas... where's your voice or weren't you invited to this little party for the Emperor to show off his new clothes?

Someone... say it!

Scoobedybeebop!

The only thing worse than this would be to put cardboard cut outs in the place of real individuals at that press confrence. This is the sort of action that you would expect from a dictatorial regime.

I have a suggestion for a good you tube video for you video geniues out there get a clip of Ann "the wicked witch of the right wing" Coulter where she was fleeing screaming across that stage where she was giving the speech about her ilk the right wing could defend us and the weak democrats could not, how ironic in this video clip she was fleeing a harmless cream pie, being held by a heckler trying too hit her with it, something many comedians use too do for a good laugh...., she surely would be a poster child video ad on right wing defender bravery fleeing across that stage in terror of a harmless cream pie....it could be titled right wing bravery in all its glory.....

ChrisM70 @ 3:

The White House reporters laughed out loud.

And then went back to sleep.

They aren't going to report this, or let it get in the way of their
Bush water-carrying.

Uh, it was reported in the Washington Post. That's the link provided above.

GW Bush's Presidency has gone from media circus to plain old circus.

If this moron wasn't so dangerous, this would be funny...now it's simply disturbing.

I have a question for the WH press corpse to ask W:

"Sir, do you consider yourself a coward?"

Follow up. Follow up. "You know, the way everybody else considers you a coward who doesn't have their nose up your ass?"

Figures, someone still has to set up play-dates for the gutless, pampered frat boy.

I know this isn't the right thread but I wanted to point this out in one that's a lot more current.

Look at the number of downloads on the Olbermann clip. Holey moley. 17419 and counting.

ChrisM70 @ 3:

The White House reporters laughed out loud.

And then went back to sleep.

They aren't going to report this, or let it get in the way of their
Bush water-carrying.

Exactly.

Well, this will do one thing. At least with this bunch Bush won't need an armed guard to point weapons at the reporters off camera whenever he makes a joke in order to make them laugh. These "reporters" will laugh at all of Bush's lame jokes and cheer for every policy decision he makes no matter how foolish or criminal they may be. Press Secretary Dana Perino has really out done herself this time. No where, except for maybe in North Korea, will you find a better selection of kiss asses and brown nosers assembled in one place.

leatherneck68 @ 14:

I noted all the uproar about the moveon.org ad, calling the general betray us, how ironic people failed too see the real story that "Bush & Company" have been hiding behind the military from day one, using real warriors too hide behind too cover their real agenda which was too dominate the oil rich region, for their real masters/constituients the "Oil Barons", whom no doubt have filled their coffers with plenty of kick back money for their retirement in 2008! It is ironic a coward, chicken hawk, who hid in national guard too avoid duty in a real war vietnam, and who by the way could not even do that right by being awol most of the time, loves too defend generals & troops as long as they agree with him and his policies, but in same breathe his swift boat men denigrate real war heros, and not one word of appology, disgust is said, hypocrite is not sufficient too describe these cowardly men who pretend too be warriors but in fact are nothing more than men who were too cowardly too serve when they could have, but now want too ride the coat tails of real warriors in Iraq war that they with out a doubt would be too cowardly too fight in, but definitely get the credit for starting and leaving this mess for more worthy leaders too clean up...., sadly 29% die hard republicans will eat that dung televison dinner fed nightly by the right wing millionare pundits like Sean Hannity, Bill Oreilly who call themselves cultural moralily warriors for the common man/woman, anyone see the irony of millionares having something in common with middle class americans or the lower classes? These pundits fit into the 2% elite who benefit from all these tax cuts and benefits given them by their lord and master messiah Bush...again one consolation is only 29% eat this dung, and thank god 71% of us do not or at least can refuse too eat it...

The bumper sticker crowd went after the headline in the ad rather than the substance of the ad. Indeed, to distract people from the substance.

I recommend reading Kim Strassel of the WSJ. She is truly something to behold.

Satirists will going hungry before this administration is done. Here it is, hot out of the Horse's Ass, direct from the Republican Palace:

THE PRESIDENT: Big Stretch, he's back.

Q What is your reaction to the MoveOn.org ad that mocked General Petraeus as General "Betrayus," and said that he cooked the books on Iraq? And secondly, would you like to see Democrats, including presidential candidates, repudiate that ad?

THE PRESIDENT: I thought the ad was disgusting. I felt like the ad was an attack not only on General Petraeus, but on the U.S. military. And I was disappointed that not more leaders in the Democrat Party spoke out strongly against that kind of ad. And that leads me to come to this conclusion: that most Democrats are afraid of irritating a left-wing group like MoveOn.org -- or more afraid of irritating them than they are of irritating the United States military. That was a sorry deal. It's one thing to attack me; it's another thing to attack somebody like General Petraeus.

All right. Leavitt is going to answer some questions if you have any for him. Make sure they're -- tone them down a little bit, this is his first time in here. Martha, you and Gregory be polite on him. Thank you for your time.

I was disappointed that not more leaders in the Democrat Party spoke out strongly against that kind of ad. And that leads me to come to this conclusion: that most Democrats are afraid of irritating a left-wing group like MoveOn.org -- or more afraid of irritating them than they are of irritating the United States military. That was a sorry deal. It's one thing to attack me; it's another thing to attack somebody like General Petraeus. -- GW Bush, appearing before the assembly of court scribes and official hagiographers at the Republican Palace (Sept 20, 2007)

We now return you to the Pax Banana currently in progress.
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Don't confuse Bushie with facts; his mind is made up.

Or should I say, his "mind."

The White House reporters laughed out loud.

...yet somehow the body-bag arrivals continued unabated.

right on! @ 7:

Don Davis @ 4:

The best part was: BUSH: DESPERATELY SEEKING MANDELA, WHO SAYS ‘NO THANKS’

On the other hand, MAYBE IRAQ CAN BE SAVED BY … MURTHA AND THE MANDELAS

No THAT'S funny!! Thanks for the laughs! I was so close to crying, you really made my day!

Thanks very much for the kind words and support.

She forgot to list Igor Checkov from Pravda....

A "Saturday Night" skit come to life.

Why stop at press conferences?

How about speeches in safe places like military bases, photo-ops on Christian College Campuses and visiting Iraq by landing in obscure airstrips in the middle of nowhere, victory speeches on aircraft carriers, going to…er…wait a minute… never mind.

What a shocker. Bush has done this before. When he invited all his die hard right wing loyalists from the world of hate (talk) radio to come to meet him at the White House for a photo op.

And they went on the radio next day and kissed his ass till kingdom come. They must be apart of that pathetic 29% still supporting this idiot.

Boosh (according to Kristol, savorer of GW's testicles) :

"When I saw the ad by the far left-wing people, I was incredulous at first and then became mad."

Then I threw my toys and goergy, my stuffed monkey. i hurt goergy and then i got sad.

President Potemkin.

There was once a movie called "McHale's Navy Joins the Air Force" or something like that.

At the end, the idiot lieutenant played by Tim Conway winds up behind a podium holding the Presidential Seal.

Art imitating life...or vice versa. Only this time, its the media that's laughing and the public is horrified.

And I think Kristol is embellishing the quote. There's no way Bush said the word incredulous on his own.

Just one big jerk at the ol' Circle-W ranch, tellin' each other they's important.

I wonder how much the going rate for journalistic ethics is ...?

(The term 'strong dollar' does not mean 3,793 casualties for $500+ billion = small price.)

So which one of those Whitehouse stooges asked the MoveOn.org question? Clearly it was a set up. Something pre arranged between the President and the reporter. It was the last question so there couldn't be a follow up. That was one of the few times the camera didn't pan to show who was asking the question. The Whitehouse regulars never caught on that it was a set up. I'm afraid that the collective IQ of the Whitehouse Press Corps is getting dangerously low.

patty @ 2:

watch this

a musical re-cap of the last 6 years

http://youtube.com/watch?v=T5dQmS16QGg

Thanks SO much for this link, Patty. Always a good reminder!

Why wasn't Chuck Norris invited? He's now a columnist for World Nut Daily and claims "the surge is working!!"

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=57679

Carmikl @ 41:

...I'm afraid that the collective IQ of the Whitehouse Press Corps is getting dangerously low.

Chimp's moronfluenza is contagious.

Supposedly George Bush was there to talk about the Child Health Care Plan. Bush and the Republican's are trying to hijack this plan as their own and CNN keeps trying to help them re-write history. CNN's Jessica Yellin keeps trying to credit the 1997 Republic Congress for originating the program.

It was President Bill Clinton who first suggested the Child Health Care Plan in his State of the Union address in January 1997. Clinton asked Congress for $16 billion to cover children through a combination of private insurance and expanding the Medicaid program. Then Democrat Edward Kennedy and Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch introduced a bill that would give states block grants to insure children.

On July 29, 1997 Bill Clinton sent the first balanced budget since 1969 to Congress. Included in that budget was 24 Billion Dollars for the Child Health Care Plan. The plan invested an unprecedented $24 billion to provide health care to the millions of children who were currently uninsured and represented the largest expansion of children's health care since the creation of Medicaid in 1965.

President Bill Clinton August 25, 1997: Let me say that this 20-cent increase in the cigarette tax not only will provide necessary resources to protect and improve children's health. By raising the price of cigarettes it will discourage children from starting to smoke in the first place.

Then of course, Bill Clinton signed the bill.

Boring Scott @ 43:

Why wasn't Chuck Norris invited? He's now a columnist for World Nut Daily and claims "the surge is working!!"

He's still living in that fantasy world where a group of thugs carrying automatic rifles can be beaten by one creaky-looking guy and a couple of karate moves.

Pravda doormats always on the march

Liberal AND Proud @ 38:

There was once a movie called "McHale's Navy Joins the Air Force" or something like that.

At the end, the idiot lieutenant played by Tim Conway winds up behind a podium holding the Presidential Seal.

Art imitating life...or vice versa. Only this time, its the media that's laughing and the public is horrified.

The movie that scared me was "Idiocracy". The truth is stranger than fiction.

patty @ 2:

watch this

a musical re-cap of the last 6 years

http://youtube.com/watch?v=T5dQmS16QGg

GREAT SONG - THEY COVERED EVERYTHING

Where was Jeff Gannon? Too liberal for that group?

bush is no longer our president but has become a fascist dictator. this is very dangerous with his delusional thinking. we are headed for a rough at least future but probably a very disastrous future he is leading us into. bush/cheney need to be turned over to the hague and tried for the criminals they ARE.

Robert Lockwood Mills @ 50:

Where was Jeff Gannon? Too liberal for that group?

Not too liberal...

Just too expensive.

Here's something fun!
http://www.macleans.ca/article.jsp?content=20070920_100442_7900&source=s...

aah, the man of many disguises and fake realities...

Good to see Kudlow getting rewarded for being a shill.

Harley @ 54:

Good to see Kudlow getting rewarded for being a shill.

Biggest housing pumper out there.

Bush's Goldilocks economy.

Whaddya bet when boosh is out of office one way or another, conservative trolls will come on this site to say boosh failed in the presidency because he was too liberal?

George Bush the Texan is 'scared of horses'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/09/21/wbush121...

Bwhahahahaha! Frigging drugstore cowboy. LOL

ThunderMonkey @ 48:

Liberal AND Proud @ 38:

There was once a movie called "McHale's Navy Joins the Air Force" or something like that.

At the end, the idiot lieutenant played by Tim Conway winds up behind a podium holding the Presidential Seal.

Art imitating life...or vice versa. Only this time, its the media that's laughing and the public is horrified.

The movie that scared me was "Idiocracy". The truth is stranger than fiction.

It is a common misconception that "Idiocracy" was a movie, I am afraid that it is/was a documentary.

ysbaddaden @ 56:

Whaddya bet when boosh is out of office one way or another, conservative trolls will come on this site to say boosh failed in the presidency because he was too liberal?

I've already heard that being said. Can't remember where but they also said that's why McCain is losing. I don't know how they can compare "liberals" with bush or McCain but be assured, you are right. All they have to do is say it and it becomes true thanks to the stenographers er I mean media.

According to Dana Milbank of the Washington Post the MoveOn question came from Washington Examiner reporter Bill Sammon, who is also a frequent Fox News guest and formerly a Washington Times reporter.

Bush just had to know that he was going to ask that question ahead of time.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/20/AR200709...

Doctor Who @ 58:

ThunderMonkey @ 48:

Liberal AND Proud @ 38:

There was once a movie called "McHale's Navy Joins the Air Force" or something like that.

At the end, the idiot lieutenant played by Tim Conway winds up behind a podium holding the Presidential Seal.

Art imitating life...or vice versa. Only this time, its the media that's laughing and the public is horrified.

The movie that scared me was "Idiocracy". The truth is stranger than fiction.

It is a common misconception that "Idiocracy" was a movie, I am afraid that it is/was a documentary.

LOL... I think that's why it scared me.

Cantor de Mambo @ 57:

George Bush the Texan is 'scared of horses'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/09/21/wbush121...

Bwhahahahaha! Frigging drugstore cowboy. LOL

That's why I always refer to him as the Faux Cowboy. I grew up around real cowboys. I owned my own horse when I was a kid. My wife and I had a couple of horses when we were younger. Despite all of his cowboy affectations that guy is no cowboy. He did not get his swagger from riding a horse.

He rides a golf cart around his ranch. You can go a lotta places on a horse that you can't go on a golf cart, but with the exception of a few photo ops, he probably leaves the real work to the real cowboys on his payroll.

The only reason he has cattle on his ranch is that he uses their recycled oats in his rhetoric.

After hearing about what Vincente Fox says about Bush in his new book, if I were Bush I would be picking and choosing my press, political and regular friends also. LOL

Among some of the comments Fox says of Bush " he is the cockiest guy I have ever met"

also

When it came to language skills. Fox said Bush was "a bit sheepish as he tried out his grade-school-level Spanish"

also

sharply we may disagree on Iraq

also

He called Bush a windshield cowboy

also

"I can't honestly say that I had ever seen George W. Bush getting to the White House," per Fox

(seeing what we see now......I cant believe Bush got to tbe Prez either) What a waste of good space in the White House.

Well Fox's comments sized up our Prez very nicely. Even heads of other countires see Bush as most of us in the U.S. see him. NO WONDER other countries dislike us so much.

Boy the next Prez has their work cut out for them undoing the "Bushie mental midget ideals".

* I still say along with the yearly physical they needed to do a mental evaulation on Bush. I would bet they would find he has mental capacity problems.

What's with all of the "K" names? Kessler, Krauthammer, Kristol, Kudlow, Kondracke, Kimberly, Kathryn, and Kate? And the ones that don't follow that trend are Barone, Blankley and Brooks? Did Bush spin the wheel, hit "K" and then spin it again and hit "B" in order to choose this weeks sycophants?

Let's please stop calling him "president." He's unworthy. Follow what his predecessor was referred to: his last name. Just call him "Bush" and leave it at that.

I like all the raised hands in the picture. Do they get a BIG FAT bonus for kissing ass?

mr.ed @ 66:

Let's please stop calling him "president." He's unworthy. Follow what his predecessor was referred to: his last name. Just call him "Bush" and leave it at that.

I hear ya, but I also try to remain civil and use people's titles (unless I'm fuming mad). If we don't remain civil the terrorists win-- or something like that. Anyway, I try not be fuming mad perpetually. It doesn't do one any good, so I try to mitigate it for my own peace of mind. If I don't, the terrosists win-- or something like that.

Wait one!
While I don't normally disagree with what's written here, I SAW that presser.
David Gregory was there and the softball about the MoveOn ad was scripted by Fox.

So I guess they were all sycophants...huh?

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