February 02, 2008 01:51 PM
Fox News Documentary: George W. Bush is <i>SO</i> like Abraham Lincoln
Wow! Who knew?
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You know, I think I really learned a lot from this propaganda documentary from Pravda Fox News. I really don't know how it is that I hadn't noticed previously how much George Bush is just like Abraham Lincoln, the founder of the Republican Party, or that Bush is already known for giving "some of the most eloquent and visionary speeches ever delivered by an American President," just like the Gettysburg Address!
So, which of Bush's speeches do you think will be memorialized for generations to come? Will George W. Bush go down in history as being a great President, or the greatest President? Discuss ...
One of the things I always liked about Abraham is in one of his Civil War speeches he asked that may America be on the side of God, not the other way around, and not presumed.
Talk about a disservice to Lincoln. Future generations will see the documentary evidence of Bush and then say "Well, they said Lincoln was great, but then again they also said that doofus Bush was great too. I'm not buying it."
We will go down in history as the traitors who allowed Bush, the Repugs and Faux News to ruin a once great nation. THAT is what history will remember.
Actually, PRESIDENTIAL SCHOLARS ARE SCRAMBLING TO CREATE NEW CATEGORIES FOR BUSH
[Hey, if you're going to blogwhore, please refrain from doing so in ALL CAPS-Sitemonitor]
Time to clean the coffee off my monitor...
Isn't George Bush responsible for starting The Civil War - in Iraq ?
Don't underestimate them, look how Reagan has become such an Icon under conservative revisionist history.
"some of the most eloquent and visionary speeches ever delivered by an American President"
You have GOT to be fracking kidding me. That's the funniest thing I've heard all week...
PUH-LEEZE!!!
Four score and seven Missions Accomplished ago...
Sorry, at the 2:14 mark had to close it.....I was already starting to feel my lunch come up. All I can say is I'm sure Lincoln is spinning at unimaginable velocities in his grave.
Sacrilege! The utter Balls. I'm speechless. To compare George Bush to Lincon is insane! We have the most destructive, dishonest president in my lifetime! And people thought Nixon was bad? Incredible. If you'll excuse me, I have to either vomit or slam a shot!
The bush speech that will go down in history will be his last one in office. It will always be known as his pre-prison speech.
The only thing he has in common with Lincoln is they were both males.
Bush will go down in history as the most evil president of the US.
The only thing I find shocking about this is that Lincoln isn't reaching out of the picture and strangling that vile monkey.
Dugg it.
eloquent and visionary speeches, that is insane. In no time in our history has there been a less eloquent speaker than bush, w/o fox news pushing his agenda, no one would have anything good to say about this president.
I will give credit to Bush for one and only one thing: He gave C- students all across America that anything is possible.
I'm watching Faux's Valentine to Fuhrer Bush. It's laugh out loud funny.
I don't care where Bush is ranked as long as he is out of office.
Legacy schmegacy
WHAT DRUGS DO THESE PEOPLE TAKE?? Seriously..I got a root canal and TMJ thats KILLING me. GIVE ME SOME!! But its not funny at all. Its sad and pathetic...and dangerous too.
Bit NOLA @ 14:
Bwahahahahahahahahh!
that entire piece was just too sick...i turned it off after they went to condi
hes happy that his daughters survived his presidency??
well there are close to 4000 american families and thousands more iraqi families, who wish they could say the same
and yes, he is exactly like lincoln....lincoln freed the slaves....bush enslaved the free
"... Bush is already known for giving “some of the most eloquent and visionary speeches ever delivered by an American President,”
Known by who? Who wrote that line and what size gun was being held to his or her head.
He's proud that his daughters survived his presidency. How many mothers and fathers' children did not survive his war?
Bucket! Quick!
I'm going to get a copy of the program. In case I ever accidentally swallow poison, I can use the video to induce vomitting.
I'm sorry, but this cannot be true. My head is still spinning. I don't know about you guys, but this really turns my stomach. Who are these people? The fact that they can't accept facts when it is staring at them in the face is beyond me. As a free thinker I can't get past that these people actually vote. I'm really depressed.
"But aside from that, how did you like the cartoon festival, Mrs. Bush?"
Bush is a monster - who believes what he is doing is right. In this, 100+ million americans agree. Bush is a part of a larger and more monsterous whole.
This took me some time to understand. But this country has a heart of darkness. Isnt it a sad day when the likes of the Ayatolla Khomeni were correct in their assessment of the US?
We need to be using 25-percenters for medical research. Except for studies of the brain. That would prove fruitless.
"One of the most impressive part of GW Bush is his ass, which is not only totally hot and turns me on, but also emits sunshine. From the sphincter in fact. While some say he's a demigod in the mold of Hercules, others claim that he's more like Jesus. Yet others believe that he himself is God. Which assumption is true? That's for historians to decide.
GW Bush. Truly an amazing, at least half-supernatural President, and also- his *beep* tastes like peppermint."
They are both great deciderers...
This film is food for his base. God knows they are the only ones who believe this tripe. It allows bush to stroke his own ego and at the same time feeds bs to the lame who actually believe this shit. It was beyond disgusting and appalling to sensible human beings.
That's some seriously sick shit. How is it that the FCC allows this so called news network to even have a license?
It'll be good to be out of this insane place.
I only have to worry about the jack boots for 18 more hours.
Best of luck all. You are going to need it big time.
Lincoln would have shot GW. Of that I'm sure.
Do they really believe this stuff or are they just trying to influence the poor souls that watch their programming?
I noticed that Susan Eisenhower endorsed Obama.
I doubt that any past Repub president would fit in todays GOP.
bobswire @ 7:
That's because it is so much easier to affix a halo to a dead person.
I wonder if Rupert Murdoch spits or swallows.
I have to say: fox news has either a very mysterious sense of humor, or just freaken retarded! There is people that actually buy into this crap?
wow...
naaaaaaaaa!!! its a joke right, I mean these guys cannot be serious...
they just playing with their gijoes and making silly videos...
but how did they get to be so funny without trying to be!?
absolutly disturbing. Boycott, fine, or close down Fox News!!
I just threw up in my mouth a little.
Lincoln wrote the Gettysburg Address.
By himself.
No speech writers.
No spin doctors.
They were his own words.
They were his own thoughts.
And there's the key difference between Lincoln and Bush.
Lincoln had thoughts.
Let's see. Lincoln was a lawyer from Illionois with only two years of national political experience... sound like Bush? Nah. Sounds more like our next president.
About the only thing that I can think of that would make George W. Bush remembered as a president that did something great for this country is his suicide.
The most shocking thing about it is it took them a month to write that ridiculous, recycled state of the union!
Faux News is pure propaganda! My mothers watches this shit and has the nerve to tell me she's informed? Where is the FCC? I guess they have better things to do. Like Arlen Spector investigating pro football.
use to be they compared him to churchill. then there was the truman phase. now it's lincoln. they never mention his daddy, do they?
So many people work so long to write Bush's SOTU for him when all he really needed to say was:
"I really fucked up the world. I'm sorry. I'll work hard this year to correct it. Thank you and good night. Once again, sorry, my bad."
It would have been the best speech he ever made.
Bookem Danno @ 41:
Very good point. Also: he didn't exactly let his generals make the calls in war or listen to them, as Bush likes to claim he does. Lincoln was constantly firing and cycling through generals until he got one that would do the job he wanted them to do. (i.e. WIN THE FUCKING WAR).
Great Moments in Presidential Speeches: Game Over.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pa3J-L29iT8
Refuse to watch the video. Refuse to watch Faux Noise. Any and all pics/photos
of bush-lite make me violently ill.
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I found it very interesting that this war-criminal feels "joyous" in comparison to Lincoln, he tells us. And then reminds us that he hasn't lost any children.
The fact that he can sit there boasting, and feeling "joyous" that his children didn't have fight in his war of aggression and risk losing their lives -- while hundreds of thousands of other souls have died because of this illegal invasion -- is just breathtaking.
He is a true sociopath of biblical proportions!
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the best part of this criminal zero ran down his mother's a-- who on earth watches that station anyway?
The links in the post make it funny, but it hurts to laugh after heaving from the video.
I actually saw a rough cut of this documentary a few years ago when the working title was 'Triumph Of The Will'.
In order for propaganda to work it has to be rooted in some semblance of truth... this is so outrageously false, anyone with the ability to speak the most rudimentary english knows that his speeches are complete crap.
Fox News is becoming a satire of itself, is there a word for that? Fox-iness?
This is absolutely hysterical. "Just like Lincoln... only stupid, dishonest, corrupt, arrogant, selfish, narrow minded, greedy, self centered, egotistical, illiterate, ignorant and lazy."
Alexis @ 52:
That's the sickest part.
I'm watching a rerun on c-span of a speech Obama gave last Thursday. It's so ironic to listen to him free wheeling and compare that to bush when bush has a speech written down on paper for him to read, and he can still screw it up.
This quote about bush being eloquent gives the word "eloquent" a bad name.
Jenny (42) I like the way you think.
The winners write history, and that is why Obama must be the winner.
“some of the most eloquent and visionary speeches ever delivered by an American President”?
If so he did that somewhere in the middle of his countless verbal fuckups.
I CALL BULLSHIT!!!
Eloquent????????
VISIONARY???????????????????
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How did this guy keep a straight face while he was interviewing bush?
Harding would have been a more appropriate presidency for comparison. Harding once stated "I am not fit for this office and never should have been here."
Of course Bush recently said, "I can press when there needs to be pressed; I can hold hands when there needs to be—hold hands."
Ah, the eloquence.
Abe Lincoln totally believed war profiting to be wrong. It did happen in Civil war however, everyone that was caught was discharged dishonorable because thier was no private contractors.
Doesn't this - more than any other single item in recent memory - epitomize how unbelievably, TRULY, pathetic - this empty shell of a human being is?
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Let’s see. Lincoln was a lawyer from Illionois with only two years of national political experience… sound like Bush? Nah. Sounds more like our next president.
That's wonderful.... =)
VoR
Hahahhahahaha.........everybody sing!!........"Hail the conquering hero............"
Great start, but shouldn't it be "four score and seven Friedman units..."
sammy @ 10:
Bush is already known for giving “some of the most eloquent and visionary speeches ever delivered by an American President,”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! STOP IT! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! You've gotta be shitting me!! I mean, I know FOX is the State Propaganda Network, but isn't that a bit much even for them? This is President "Is our children learning?" we're talking about here. I wish Ol' Abe would come back and kick the shit outa Duhbya AND Roger Ailes AND Rupert Murdoch.
We know these guys will attempt to re-write history. That can't be allowed to happen.
justabill @ 57:
Rankings/ratings may be correct because most of us intelligent people stopped long
ago watching any and all MSM news(?) reports. They all suck and primarily the only
folks watching the MSM are those red-neck, ultra conservative, religous bigots who
do not have a brain to begin with.
Bush is WAY better than Lincoln, He had the balls to permantaly threw out habeas corpus!!
Okay...I've watched a bit of it and I've had just about enough. I'm left with two questions: First, how much did the Bush family have to pay Fox for this interview? And second, is it just me or does there seem to be some M-M chemistry between Bush and the interviewer? Seems like they're almost flirting with each other!
Next time y'all want to crush my soul with such misery would you just waterboard me and get it over with quickly? That was so painful to watch. I've seen barmitzvah videos that were less biased and gloating. I'm gonna go watch some Bill Hicks videos to neutralize my psyche.
Another good reason to deport Rupert Murdoch.
Talk about a parallel universe -- one that's disconnected from all empirical reality.
Bush is a total and complete loser. Period, end of story.
Right wing television and radio will ALWAYS perform better than progressive endeavors for the simple fact that conservatives need to be told what they are allowed to think on an hour-by-hour basis.
Doggiebobo @ 71:
Naaaa. Fox news' audience is reeeeally old. How old?
Whenever the cops get around to kicking in their doors to find their rotting corpses hopefully they'll turn the tv off.
Which of Bush’s speeches do you think will be memorialized for generations to come?
The speech he gives on the witness stand at the world court in The Hague, admitting his guilt and complicity in war crimes, and begging for leniency.
Well, dubya has emancipated me from my money.
Lincoln took a country that was splitting in half, and reunited it
boosh took a united country and split it.
Additionally, Lincoln never invaded another country.
In regards to my previous post, dear C &L'ers, I leave this collection of George Bush's visionary speeches:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVKCmiUg76Q
As has been said, Lincoln freed the slaves, and Bush once had frayed sleeves...
This documentary is destined for The Comedy Channel.
Did you notice the major story running across the ticker around 5 minutes in--girls were throwing french fries in school somewhere and got into some trouble. Unbelievable! Who are these people who watch this utter crap?
Wow. Too bad that the Republicans during the Civil War has more similarities to modern Democrats than modern Republicans. Are they saying that Bush is a Democrat?
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I don't recall a "Confederate Exclusion" signing statement on the Emancipation Proclamation...
Lincoln would meet and talk to any citizen that came to the white house during the war.
Bush is intellectually and emotionally incapable of doing the same.
Lincoln's son Robert Todd served in the military.
Bush's spawn need the Secret Service to keep them from showing up in a Girls gone wild video.
I could go on.
This attempt to dress Bush up as another Lincoln was tried before. It failed then. Is this administration so void of new ideas that all they can do is repeat their bad old ideas over again?
Isn't this odd timing for this propaganda piece?
Recently the White House has been predicting boosh's popularity would increase 45% by year end.
And now we have this "documentary" making these spurious claims?
And the reichwingers believe that Michael Moore's uncontested accuracy in his facts in 9-11, was just a hit piece.
gene214 @ 69:
It seems likely to me that Lincoln would handled these human aberrations in a manner similar to a suggestion he once made for handling his angry opponent James Shields . . . .
"Cow dung at twenty paces"
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Future generations' evaluation of America 2000-2008: The truth didn't matter.
Well, "Is Our Children Learning?" DOES now make it into the Bible as the 331st Psalm, so he's doing something right.
Lincoln would have fought against today's Republicans, the racist, bigots and segregationist that make up today's GOP.
In other news an intense whirling sound has been noticed by citizens of Springfield Illinois...
bobswire @ 7:
I don't get that either.
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Remember my American friends -- it 'aint just Fox News.
Here's a video slapdown that I made a while back derived from a from CBS news before the 2004 election which describes Bush as one of the few presidents that actually shows his age.
Goebels would be proud!
Take a look:
CBS Pulls a Lewinsky
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Was that a parody?
Tripe. Pure and simple, tripe.
"The last seven years has flown." For whom?
bobswire @ 7:
Yep! Pretty soon they'll be naming an airport after chimpy.
Rico @ 17:
That's priceless. I rarely laugh out loud on a blog.
Bush is no Lincoln. Lincoln united. Bush divides. Lincoln had vision and eloquence. Bush has blinders and a mouthful of shit.
I missed the documentary. Did they cover the part where lil' baby jesus told dubya to kill over a million Iraqi civilians?
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That should have read "one of the few presidents that doesn't show his age" for the comment I posted above.
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Somewhere in heaven, Lincoln is trying to piece his head back together so he can get it blown off again.
Danke, mein Fuhrer Bush.
pissed off patricia @ 13:
and that one is dead and the other is dead from the neck up also if booth had shot bush it won't hit anything up there.
bush will be known thru out history now for allowing
anyone to put their hand/fist as far up his butt as they want
as long as they have big big hands.
so where is booth? can we rent a theatre for a rehearsal ?
So the "The Decider" and "The Commander Guy" who plays dress-up by wearing jet pilot jump suits now thinks of himself as "Honest Georgie". Lincoln was a school of hard knocks self-educated man of the people. Bush is silver-spooned spoiled 60-year-old mean-spirited man-child living in a cocoon of self-delusion who shills for oil corporations, Saudi Sheiks, defense contractors and the rich. Delusions of grandeur is symptomatic of schizophrenia.
you know? WTF. Why the F is the presnit on his fricking ranch? Aren't we at war? Isn't he working for us?
He's joyous. That warms my heart. I wonder if he'll be more joyous after he's killed a few hundred thousand more people.
The whole point is that dems and repugs work as a team, this is something you folks don't probably want to admit. You are a team, a kind of good cop, bad cop team. Or bad cop, worse cop. This coming from a non-american.
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That video I posted above was about Bush's 60th birthday in 2006 -- not 2004, as I stated.
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For one thing, Abe Lincoln was not the founder of the Repug Party.
That said, I totally agree that Bush's rhetoric is "visionary." That is what people used to say about "opium eaters," and other delusional people who live in dimensions not revealed to the sane.
Lincoln: "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time."
Bush: "Fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again."
I pray that the chimps not-so-secret wish for redemption by history is clearly dashed before he dies. I want him to know his infamy is chiseled in stone. Like Richard "Longshanks" in Braveheart, his line ends here.
Fox is a monster. And Clinton going on that channel this morning gets a resounding "fuck you" from me.
Teh will be memorialized alright but not how you think. They will be an example of how to be a fool and still masquerade as someone who allegedly sometimes, maybe is supposed to be a leader who isn't.
Stratergy
Decider
Hard work
Murder
A magnitude of sheer Incompetence and psychopathic behavior beyond the pale of numbers to describe it, and 30 percent of the people in America suck his splooge.
I am going to the bathroom now and drive the white bus
You gotta be more careful with those headlines. I just blew good coffee out my nose.
Sounds like Josiah Bartlett was president during the last 8 years. I'm surprised no one is yelling "Four more years!".
What pathetic propaganda. Americans will spend the next hundred years trying to live down the evil commited by this tyrant. They can only succeed if the media continues to spout this crap unopposed like the did for the brain damaged maniac Raygun.
Oh, yeah, one of the great minds of the Western world.
How about "snot-nosed thug"?
I must agree with FOX, GWB should be immortalized and guess what? Bush's legacy is immortalized at: http://www.gwbworstever.com
next week this whole stupid lincoln bush episode will be forgotten..
and once again you will all be "outraged" at something else fox said..but nothing will change.
nothing EVER changes..
Hey. All you people asking where Booth is.
Be careful what you wish for...
[Any further references to Booth will be deleted. C&L does not advocate violence or assassination. So knock it off. - site monitor]
Who knew that the network that brought us the Half Hour News Hour could produce such comic genius...and without writers! There's a strike on, doncha know.
Tough guy, humble pie. Who's got the barf bag?
Will nobody give simon the attention he so desperately craves?
Post again, simon. Post your identical thought again!
[please don't feed the trolls. - site monitor]
"The last seven years have flown."
Not for me and millions of others. It's been one long, nightmarish prison sentence since Dec. 12, 2000.
Thing Fish @ 113:
That was a great example of what Fox news calls "some of the most eloquent and visionary speeches ever delivered by an American President". Thanks for sharing it.
"Great" President? Good grief. President hasn't done squat. He's not made a speech that mobilizes the country; nor seen either of these insurgencies through. He's lucky to still be President, and have not been lawfully removed through an impeachment proceeding.
Is he like Lincoln? No, he's like Hitler. Let's have a war crimes trial.
What is it with this psychotic obsession with his legacy? His legacy has already been written in stone. Worst president ever.
If we’re lucky, the only similarities between Lincoln and Bush will be that Lincoln was the first Republican president and Bush will be the last.
If this is true, and kids DO end up having to memorize bush's speeches, the history teacher and the English teacher are going to really have some issues to deal with regarding the pronunciation of a lot of words.
It took me 30 seconds before I threw up in my mouth.
Gee golly! That's just Pretzel-rific!
And Faux Snooze and the GOP are going the way of the dodo...
http://www.goleft.tv/view.asp?c=13&v=995
D.G. Bowman @ 126:
I totally agree. The only thing that's flown by is the laundry list of bad things the Prez has done for the country.
I don't watch propaganda pieces, and we know who's side faux is on, the terrorists.
I believe he'll be more closely compared to an Edsel frankly.
oh we beg to differ with faux snooze's psuedo-mockumentary...
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D.G. Bowman @ 126:
For at least one million others, the Bush years ended ahead of time...
Link.
Hmm...If he dies like Lincoln, I'll believe that. ;)
P.D. @ 12:
If you're going to slam a shot, please pour me up a double and put on the hard drivin' heavy metal too!
Bit NOLA @ 14:
Jorge Boosh a monkey? Damn, that's an insult to monkeys all over the world!
C'mon, don't you all remember how inspiring the "Mission to Mars" speech was. Oh.... and I nearly cried when he talked about those "human/animal hybrids". what a man.
And don't knock the Edsel... from what I understand it was actually a great car with some good innovations but nobody appreciated it. People just didn't "get" the Edsel.
That is not at all comparable to this President... we all "get" everything he's done.
Would I be a bad person if I prayed that Bush and Lincoln's lives continued to run on a parallel course.As I remarked last night when this subject came up Lincoln only freed the slaves from their overseers but Bush freed the government from Congressional oversight, corporations from legal oversight and the Justice Department from ethical oversight. I dare anyone to trump this trifecta.
Chuckle Nutz said that critics criticized Lincoln for not eulogizing enough the dead in the Gettysburg Address. But wasn't it the other way around? Wasn't Lincoln incredibly critical of his own work, and it were the critics who praised his work as genius?
Peter E @ 30:
Ick, no. I don't want them in the gene pool at all, frankly.
Bush will not have any thing in common with Lincoln till his Secret Service agent takes a nap.
George Putz is nothing like Lincoln. For starters, Lincoln was shot.
Without - correction, beyond that, there's no need to compare the two.
george bush : abraham lincoln :: pat robertson : jesus
as darwin knew, eventually a difference in degree becomes a difference in kind
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