Jon Stewart Exposes Bush's "Surge" Doublespeak
By SilentPatriot Monday Mar 31, 2008 8:39am
When casualties go up, we're winning. When casualties go down, we're winning. Don't worry...It's all good.
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From the C&L Vault: Jon Stewart gets hypnotized by GOP Propaganda.
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impeach these traitors/war criminals NOW!
What are the chances that Bush hasn't read Catch-22?................
we are at war with euroasia...we have always been at war with euroasia
2 days later
we are allies of euroasia...we have always been allies of euroasia
my memory hole is clogged!!!
below_me @ 1:
votes aye
what are the chances Bush can even read?
Every time I see this President I cringe. Between the thoughtless expressions or the dancing on the White House steps, I still can't believe we elected this train wreck. The fact he didn't win any of the debates with Kerry(despite what the MSM said). I remember those debates. So, anyone who says they didn't see this coming is lying! They voted because of FEAR. They allowed this President and Darth Chaney cloud their thinking, believeing there was a terrorist around the corner. I have been vilified and called weak by my own family members because I had the gall to vote for Kerry in 2004. And what do they have to say now? They are remarkably silent on Bush and his minions.
Thanks for posting that video. It was fun to watch and for just a couple of seconds I forgot the reality of it all. We have to allow the comedy to overcome the tragedy ever so often or we'll all lose our minds.
That sounds an awful lot like the approach he takes to his tax policy.
If the economy is doing well, lower taxes.... if the economy is tanking, lower taxes.
Bollox Ref @ 2:
What are the chances he's read anything since My Pet Goat?
Patty D. @ 6:
Patty...Bush won neither election he was appointed in 2000, and rigged the electioin in '04...this administration is criminal to the core.
Bush always sees the glass as half full, even when it's empty.
By now, Bush should look like a 'regular' American. Because of all the cake that he's consumed by having his 'cake and eating it too' on so many occasions. this is just another one of his cake-eating moments. well, if we can't get rid of him by impeaching him maybe nature can take care of it by having him choke on cake. it worked with a pretzel. hmm.
pissed off patricia @ 11:
yeah really. i think with him, it's more like the glass hasn't been created yet and is still blowing around the Sahara.
Bollox Ref @ 2:
Bollox Ref @ 2:
What are the chances that bush has read anything??............
liberal Hussein, that's true. But just enough voted for him so he could squeak through. I know many people who voted for him because they were scared. And what pisses me off is that many of those who voted for him don't even read the newspaper! They listen to CNN and Faux News and think they are informed.
Jon Stewart:
'…how do you not make a dildo joke here?…'
This would be hilarious sh!t except the joke is on us, oh, and the Iraqis, though I doubt many of them are laughing.
With the dumbed down American electorate, the Corporate Media and the Bushco obfuscation, Jon Stewart is probably as close to mass truth mongering as we can hope for.
The Daily Show Was Right: Iraq Really IS Like a Bar Mitzvah
A national holiday for all decent Americans who truly love this country when this useless man leaves office. I just hope he doesn't fuck up too much more in these remaining months.
pissed off patricia @ 11:
What is empty is the thing bush uses to grow hair upon.
With that, I have to go take a "defining moment" ....
Patty D. @ 16:
True as well....question is though...now what the fuck do we do?
Liberal, I don't know. But in PA., the Democrats picked up 46,000 new voters compared to the 7,800 Repugs. It kind of spells doom for the Repugs don't it?
My son, who died in May 06 before just before the 'surge' and was buried in Arlington now has the company of rows upon rows of tombstones of young men born in the '80's who have died during the so called surge...the ground in Arlington is being filled with the doomed youth of this country who found themselves caught up in this catastrophic war and a commander in chief who betrayed them. There is much to say about the complicity of the top layers of the military who allowed themselves to be part of this betrayal.
How will we end the slaughter? When will we put these criminals in prison? When will there be accountability?
6.66 meg. somehow that fits.
Everyone who voted for Bush twice should get a smack on the side of the head!
Wow George sounds a tad drunk there ...
... "The Slur is Working"
Patty D. @ 22:
I think we should be careful negotiating this slope, remember what Turd Blossom said about republicans taking over from here on.
The pendulum can swing to far the other way as well and would hate for my party to be saddled with same stink as the GOP.
Gayle @ 23:
Gayle, my deepest condolences for your loss.
Patty D. @ 22:
Wasnt the rumour that Limpbag sent out his minions to reg as Dems, to then vote for HC and keep the Dems infighting ...it will prob work too.
rk @ 25:
I think they need, DESERVE something a little more than a mere smack...if they still stand behind this idiot...they're all traitors as far as I'm concerned.
EliteLemming @ 27:
Yeah... I hear ya Patty and E. Lemming...I am hopeful one day, and a doomsayer the next...I just can't believe, after all the illegal activity by this administration...that they'll just walk away from all the power they created for themselves...
I'm thinkin they will have to be forced out...
Bollox Ref @ 2:
Pretty good.
he doesn't read!
earl, That's true, but the majority is just so fed up they can't take it any more. I'm hopeful, but I thought Kerry would win in 2004.
Gayle @23, My heart goes out to you. I pray for all our soldiers.
hayden love to dress up and play soldier. it's so masculine.
The Bush Administration is probably the most incompetent bunch that I have ever seen. I've been trying to think of a leadership from the past that has been this bad at waging wars. I draw a blank every time. I can see why Bush spins Iraq. He really can't do anything else except be an embarassment. Just take a look at some of these headlines from various articles regarding the latest operation in Basra:
ANALYSIS-Iraqi crackdown backfires, strengthens Sadrists
BAGHDAD, March 31 (Reuters) - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's crackdown on militias in the southern oil port of Basra appears to have backfired, exposing the weakness of his army and strengthening his political foes ahead of elections.
http://wiredispatch.com/news/?id=108498
Nouri al-Maliki humiliated as gamble to crush Shia militias fail
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article3656300.ece
earl @ 26:
LOL!
Recently I have noticed he has a spot of red on his cheeks and his nose has been red. I could be wrong since I can barely stand looking at him.
His belligerence certainly shows as a drunk... dry or not, he's a drunk.
He gives drunks a bad name.
What are the odds on Bush becomming either the 1st ex-President to move out of the country, or being assassinated after leaving office? Just guessing there cuold be a few pissed off veterans (if they're ever allowed to come home.)
liberaHUSSEINmoderation @ 31:
Do you think any of these candidates will give any of the powers and over reaches back once they have the office. I'm sick and angry (and very, very tired from working a double shift) that I think this country deserves to collapse in on itself. This is what happens when you vote from "moral high ground" and against your own self interests. In a very near future there will be gated communities and slums nothing more.. no middle ground... And I certainly won't have any of the securities of the gate.
earl @ 29:
It's not a rumour, it's true, it's also called electioneering, which is illegal...and I hear he's under investigation.
Well, I think we can all thank the so-called religious right for this fiasco. Thier obsession over gays and abortion brought us the current Administration. All our money, gone. Reputation, in tatters. Our brave soldiers, fighting an endless, bloodly civil war. Yeah, be proud Christian Soldiers, You elected the most immoral Administration I have ever seen.
Gayle, I am so sad for you over the loss of your son. Have you tried uniting with other parents and family of the over 4000 lost in Iraq, as well as wounded, to present your outrage as a solid voice with ultimate credibility?
This has become sick sleep-deprived masochism at this point, I'm off to bed for some lesser nightmares.
earl @ 29:
I was sitting at the caucus in Maine, checking voters in. In -04 we had 30-40 democrats in attendance, this year we had over 400. They were there to vote for their choice, not to vote in a stooge that the republicans could beat. We had independents waiting in line to change to democrat so they could vote for the person they wanted.
I think the repub talking heads are freaked out by the number of democrats going to the polls and caucuses and are trying to find a way to water down the numbers in the publics eyes.
EliteLemming @ 39:
Well, I bet out of the candidates...Obama seem more likely to defend the working class...I don't believe he's the evil powermonger that HRC or McBain appear to be...but he IS, after all, a politician...so who knows...one thing I DO know...if given the chance, I will vote for Obama...if it's between HRC and McInsane...I'll hold my nose and vote HRC...while still evil, she's far less evil than McFlipFlop IMHO...that is if we even have an election...if we're not rounded up for daring to dissent against tyranny.
Gayle @ 23:
Gayle, I'm so sorry...I wish I had the answers for you...hopefully soon there will be justice...
pissed off patricia @ 11:
fixed your post
below_me @ 1:
I second that, but the chances are very slim.
even after they leave office there is little chance that they will pay the piper.
McCain... well, he's a republican and believes in the war and the surge.
He won't go after them.
Obama, he says its time to stop fighting the fights of the past, its time to move on from division and get something done in bipartisan friendship. disagreeing without being disagreeable.
I would guess that this would be considered very disagreeable.
Clinton, she would probably be the one most willing but she would also understand the consequences quite clearly as she has been paying them for years and years! (the whole Nixon impeachment/resignation thing--she found the info forcing the resignation...long story, needless to say where the neo-cons are concerned payback's a bitch.) She would also know the chances of getting any kind of bipartisan co-operation would be nil. Her Presidency would then be seen as a failure and give more fuel to the Hillary Haters.
My brother thinks McCain might go after them... payback for what they did tio him in 2000.
I just had a thought that maybe that is partly why Clinton is so fiercely hanging on. She wants to see them pay for what they have done and knows no one else will do it.
just a thought.
Who knows.
Once she is President they can't really ruin her career any more can they?
accountability @ 37:
When I listen to it (when I can stomach it) :
All the s l o w i n g down to pronounce words, he said "Asshurney General" the other day ... that or he is being given very strong narcotics to go out and perform.
I'm expecting him to break out into "Cabaret" any second ...
And the belligerence ... oh yeah it there.
Patty D. @ 41:
Well said. Just don't expect things to get better - the movement towards where we are now has been decades in the making, and the religious-right is very powerfully seated. It would take a literal revolution of the people for things to change now. There's too much
xenophobia
homophobia
racism
misogyny
ignorance
fear-mongering
and religious zealotry
more at my blog...
I will never understand the average citizen who votes for Republicans, they lie every time they speak. They don't believe in government, so it is a self fulfilling prophesy when they screw every they are in charge of in government up. Almost everything they do is from the prospective of multinational corporations. The common voter that they have fooled into voting for them gets screwed over and over an they come back for more. Well at least the gays can't get married. Really is all the horrible things that have happened in the last 7 years worth that homophobic, right wing religious view? Are they just so scared they cant see?
Gayle @ 23:
Gayle,
I'm so sorry for your loss, for the loss of all the soldiers who've died or been wounded in this war. It must be very hard to share your loss with strangers too.
I share your outrage and anger and want these criminals held accountable as well. They have a lot to answer for.
voodoodiver @ 47:
Thanks and you are so right.
I wonder why no one in the media ever asks McCain how is he going to sustain this war for another 4 yrs or more. Even though I am not a terribly knowledgeable observer, it seems like common sense to question where are the troops going to come from? People are not exactly lining up to enlist. Can the military sustain the current levels of troops in Iraq? Some of them are on their third or fourth tour of duty. What options will McCain have other than to institute the draft? Heck! the democrats should be asking this question. The democratic candidates should ask those who are planning to vote for McCain whether they are prepared to send their kids off to a 100 yrs war.
Lets face it my friends. Unless we get more people to vote, were doomed. I hate to sound morbid, but my God, we can't go on like this. I'm happy that many young people are coming out to vote. But lets not forget, the religious right can be ruthless. They use fear and bigotry at a drop of a hat. The MSM is more than happy to trounce a Democrat as long as big business signs their checks. Our youth is our only hope. And our government is failing them too.
With a due respect to The Simpsons: "Twirling, twirling, forever twirling..."
He'll say whatever he needs to say to keep us in Iraq forever. All other considerations, including reality, are irrelevant. The agenda is anything but patriotic; it's about making his friends and buddies rich, and he's been quite successful at that.
Bush is the certainly the top dumb-Ass and big liar.
earl @ 29:
Up is not really up, but down is up, but only to a certain point when down becomes down above up and up has down written all over it. At any rate for Merikans, heads we win, tails you lose.
rk @ 54:
Or pay for ANOTHER war -- Iran.
RayC @ 51:
DaveTheAngryRhodeIslander @ 50:
asked and answered
Patty D. @ 41:
Actually I think we can thank the neo-cons who conned the religious right.
Rove-et al. I've been rereading some Molly Ivans and her account of the idiot king's rise is chilling, particularly given her folksy humorous way of putting things.
The neo-cons are responsible for a lot of garbage we have to deal with now, they conned the RR, whipped them into a frenzy with their divisiveness. They had an agenda, all laid out in PNAC www.newamericancentury.org and they do whatever is necessary to bring that agenda to fruition. They have no compunction about ruining people personally or professionaly, conning people, disgracing and even jailing people. This is an evil crew and I wish people really understood to what lengths they have gone and will go for their "vision."
We take our eye off of them at our peril.
All the time we spend picking apart HRC gives them so much joy. First of all we are spending our time screaming about her streaming hatred towards her, yet so much of what gets said are the same talking points they introduced 15 years ago. We are continuing their work of smearing and marginalizing and paying back, second while we have our focus directed towards hating Hillary they have even less focus on them and who knows what they hell they are doing, planning, getting away with.
The media doesn't cover it, doesn't care... they want blood and they will get it even if they have to skewer the picture to do so. They do not do their job. For instance Seilegman (Governer in jail... spelling?) why isn't there a huge investigative outcry about this? You get a little vanilla report here and there but nothing major. Hell, we know how many people died in a crane accident, or how a house caught on fire in east bum**** but we don't know what is going on in a case with such horrendous ramifications?
grrrr.
The media have been so sickening in this election with their coverage of non issues, distortions and not covering the actual criminals and what they are doing NOW...
this has been an election of the trivial so far.
Disgusting. I thought they couldn't out do themselves in rotten election coverage with bush/gore... but then there was bush/kerry... i thought that was it, it couldn't get worse, but I was wrong, this tops it all... and the run up to the war coverage of course. They get their man crushes and that's it.
OOPS, I think I am beginning to rant! LOL
What was I saying.
Don't take your eyes off of the neo-cons. ever.
"We're never been stay the course, George." --George W. Bush, attempting to distance himself from what has been his core strategy in Iraq for the last three years, interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulos, Oct. 22, 2006
The point now is how do we work together to achieve important goals. And one such goal is a democracy in Germany." --George W. Bush, D.C., May 5, 2006
earl @ 49:
Cabaret! LMAO...
Canyou just see it.
Cheney could have the joel grey part.
idiot king can have the Liza part...
Perfect... of course he wouldn't have the verve Liza had, he can't pronounce his words that quickly. Plus he would deliver with belligerence... life ish a cabaret...
I never understand why no one calls out his belligerence. Its an over the top bullying technique. I've never heard it mentioned.
14All @ 57:
That's why W is considered the best preznit ever in the eyes of a few and rightly so.
i'm the biggest Bush hater on the planet, but I think I have a way out of this for him: he's obviously obsessed with being liked in history... if he has a live press conference, with NO TELEPROMPTERS, and just admits that things are going bad, that's it's a big mess, and he's resigning, I believe his popularity would SOAR... I might even have a little respect for him... of course Cheney would have to resign too, and I guess Nancy Pelosi would be president.
pissed off patricia @ 11:
LMAO
Excellent.
the humor is so much better here than HuffPo... I only get aggravated there.
The surge is working. Another corner turned. The insurgency is in it's last throes. Americans will be greated as liberators. Candy and flowers. Mission Accomplished.
BushCo will lie to their very last day in office admiting having done no wrongs, committed no crimes or admitting to having left America in far worse shape than when they took office. They will never admit to the damage they've done at home and abroad as they work over time to make sure they are never to held accountable while in office and after leaving office. BushCo has and will continue to get with murder, literally and figuratively.
The level of violence is totally irrelevant. As long as Halliburton, Blackwater, Raytheon, Bechtel, etc. are making huge profits, we are winning and must stay the course. That is the true deciding factor.
king of mean @ 67:
HA! No sirree! 'Tis I, who is the biggest Bush hater!
And I for one, wouldn't gain anymore respect for the man for resigning...maybe, I would if he turned himself in to the Hague as the war criminal he is, and turned in everyone of his accomplices I would have a wee bit more respect....NAAAAH! LOL! Who am I kidding, nothing he could ever do will make me respect him even a little.
Deepest sympathies Gayle.
so sorry for your loss.
I don't know how there will be accountability. I don't see any hope of them not strutting out of office scott free.
I don't understand how they have been allowed to get away with everything they have. Partly we the people just haven't protested, demonstrated enough I guess.
We would have to have massive public acts of civil disobedience and passive resistance to make impact. Protesting in out of the way "free speech zones" just doesn't do the trick. To easy to ignore, the media doesn't have to cover it that way.
"free speech zones." ironic isn't it?
I've tried to get massive snail mail campaigns going... not good at that kind of organizing though. I keep seeing hundreds of thousands or millions of letters being delivered all on the same day to Congress.
Wonderful visually. email is also too easy to ignore. There has to be an actual materiel object-petition, letter, the virtual is just that, it is almost as if it isn't real I think.
Hmmm, have to think about this.
Thanks for sharing with us Gail, again, heartfelt sympathy.
voodoodiver @ 47:
Very good!
love it.
liberaHUSSEINmoderation @ 45:
I understand your desire to not vote for Hillary Clinton. I would like to say though that I don't think calling her evil or a war monger is helpful... it feeds into neo-con talking points. I'd really like to see Progressives take back being Liberal and stop the hate mongering that has been fed into us by the neo-cons.
sorry, not wanting to start an argument at all, just think that keeping the focus of who is actually responsible whee it belongs and want to try to get ourselves together and unified for a Dem, rather than "if I have to." I understand the dilemma but I also understand that the division and Hillary hate is exactly what the neo-cons want and delight in. I don't want to give them that pleasure.
BTW, one positive thing you can say for Hillary is she so pisses them off! It must gall them that she hasn't ever let them win in their battle to destroy her.
That has to give her some street creds in my book.
LOL
earl @ 49:
I wonder what sort of drugs...strong anti-depressants perhaps?.... they are keeping him on. That is not normal, sober speech!! It's not!
Bollox Ref @ 2:
What are the chances that he can read, if at all ?!
accountability @ 74:
I can understand where you're coming from...buy I'm a dem/lib from waaaay back, and I have never liked nor trusted Hillary...and in my own defense...I didn't say she WAS an evil warmonger...just that she APPEARS to be...semantics, I know...all that being said...I just think Obama's a better choice, not just for me, but for ALL Americans.
Verdillac @ 5:
thier is evidence bush can read! and hes exceptional too! on 911 he was seen reading from MY PET GOAT! and he was holding the book upside down!!!!
Patty D. @ 6:
do not worry about thier silence on the bush family, im sure they dont hold that against mccain!!and all will be as it was before!!!!!!!!!!
Still more proof that the surge is working:
(about an hour ago)
Iraqi casualties at highest level since August
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Fighting between security forces and Shi'ite militiamen last month has driven civilian deaths in Iraq to their highest level in more than six months, government figures showed on Tuesday.
accountability @ 74: </