Late Show: Like Palin, BillO clueless about the Bush Doctrine
Sarah Palin embarrassed herself pretty badly when she practically admitted on national television (in her first serious interview) that she had no clue what the Bush Doctrine was. Last night on the Late Show with David Letterman, BillO showed that he's just as brain dead as the Alaska Governor. The only difference is that he spent much of the last eight years actually defending the overarching premise of Bush's foreign policy.
"The Bush Doctrine? Remember that, when Charlie Gibson went, 'what's the Bush doctrine'? You got the nose with glasses on and all that. I'm sitting at home going 'what Bush Doctrine'? Is that the doctrine where I go to Crawford Texas five times a year? What Bush Doctrine is that? I don't know what that is. That was just ridiculous. It's all gotcha gotcha gotcha."
Is he serious? I could care less if Bill O'Reilly knows what the Bush doctrine is, even if he has been defending it for years now. But I certainly expect someone who could easily be the President in three months to have an opinion on whether or not it's right for the United States to attack countries that we think may present a threat to us sometime in the future. Call me an elitist, but things like that matter.
and see if we get similar babble. O'Lielly is an idiot, it's amazing anyone even watches his show anymore, but then again, i guess not everyone can have an IQ over 75. (No offense is meant to anyone with IQ's less than 75 by the way...)
BillO is either dumber than I thought he was, or he's just playing dumb in order to defend Palin, which he more than likely is doing. I cannot for the life of me understand how someone with a Harvard education like the Clown has can actually defend Palin.
I actually do watch BillO the Clown sometimes, just to see how the "other side" thinks and more importantly so I can send him some scathing emails!
All the NeoCon-men have to "pretend" they are dumber than their leaders to make thier leaders look good by comparison ..... that explains a lot!!
lol!!
Mr. O tells so many lies, half truths, and stories that it is very very difficult for him to remember every little detail.
Stop being mean to poor Bill.
Where would the wingnuts get their lies/half truths/stories if not for Fox News?
PS His head may explode on Nov.4th with the hopeful election of Obama/Biden!!!!!
Diane
[Bonkers gets down on his knees and PRAYS for the first time in years]
Oh please, oh please let Billo's head explode. Let him spend the rest of his miserable life shut away in his home surfing for porn, watching his beard grow and mumbling to himself.
I'm just superstitious enough to hedge my bets.
Three words -- Senator Al Franken
I've gotta take a break from this political stuff,
or else I could begin to resemble that caricature.
/longest week ever
Boy I agree with you. I am like an addict trying to pull away from this election. But I keep getting back on line and watching TV. I sure hope Obama win overwhelmingly. That way the repuks can't say Obama stold the election.
Southern Yankee
I know that Bush thinks that preemptive war is OK.
I know that he feels that he can bomb whomever he feels like bombing.
But - who the hell gave this bullshit the status of a "doctrine"?
What a load of crap.
I don't blame Palin or anybody not knowing WTF Gibson was talking about.
It was pure beltway pundit gibberish.
when they added phase 2 to it: the spreading of the liberty
that it became a doctrine. It became a predictable behavior pattern, that's for sure.
But the name "Bush Doctrine"... when did that get inshrined in our lexicon?
What horseshit.
So I just did a quick search of Washington Post and the New York Times to see how many times they mentioned the "Bush Doctrine" between January 2008 and June 2008. The results? 5 times in the WaPo and 4 instances in the NYT. Interestingly, 2 of the 5 mentions in the Washington Post were in reference to the movie "Iron Man."
Now in Palin's defense, it was not mentioned once in that time period in the Anchorage Daily News. Of course, since she reads "all of them"...
Any dimbulb knows the basic tenet of the 'Bush Doctrine' is 'Preemptive War'.
It's beyond being intellectually dishonest and only a total fraud would claim not to know this - like O'Lielly.
The frauds are lying so Palin doesn't look as stupid as she actually is, but it's only fooling the idiots - the 29 per centers of the Republican base.
I'm sure there are countless FOX News video clips of these same rightwing stooges and lapdogs spouting 'superior' knowledge of "Bush's Preemptive War Doctrine" taped long before Sarah Palin ever entered the race.
It's important to see these clips come out now so we could expose some of these traitorous propagandists.
"Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. Frankly, I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing." – Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
As Forrest Gump would say stupid is as stupid says. O'Reilly meet your brother Lumpbaugh.
Southern Yankee
At least as early as January of '03- here are the righties at the AEI discussing it.
And a funny thing about words, terms and phrases that aren't exactly enshrined in the lexicon: when we realize they're biting us in the ass, they become enshrined. See credit default swaps and subprime lending.
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
"Some of these policies were codified in a National Security Council text entitled the National Security Strategy of the United States published on September 20, 2002."
http://www.whitehouse.gov/nsc/nss/2002/index....
thing is, the socalled bush doctrine has changed over the years
so i really didnt blame palin for not having a clue
the problem was, she refused to admit that she had no idea what gibson was talking about
had gibson asked me, i would have asked him to clarify which bush doctrine he meant
I would asked him to clarify.
I would have simply asked him wtf he meant by the phrase.
If he said, "preemptive war" I could have responded.
Palin can be faulted for a lot of things, but not knowing what Gibson was talking about is not one of them.
I agree that she shouldn't have tried to muddle through.
Do I expect the kid working behind the counter at Taco Bell to know the Bush Doctrine? No.
But the person behind the counter of Taco Bell isn't running for the office of Vice President or shaping the popular opinion on daily radio and television programs.
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
I misread you. Apologies, TeaEyeIs.
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
No, azzhat, it's the one where you cherry-pick intelligence and forge evidence to justify to a gullible public the illegal invasion of a country that poses no threat to us in violation of international law. Sound familiar now?
that's the war on terra,don't you know? Perfectly fine in Bill-o world.
It may have been the fact that he was in the presence of such evil that momentarily rattled Dave, but once he stopped staring into O'Really's eyes he nailed him to his chair and BillO gave that all too familiar look of "fuck it!" and "We'll do it live!"... Bill really cracked me up when he couldn't or didn't act as if he knew what the Bush Doctrine was and then had the gall to actually ask Dave, "Are you sure you want to debate me on GO Politics?"... Yes, Bill, I do. Millions want to debate you without fear of their microphone being cut off and without having to yell over your slimy nattering in order to be heard. Bill you're a slimy, no good, opportunistic, sycophantic, godawful waste of air space.
Make no motto of love that worships war
pissed off at Letterman 'cause he had the nerve to sit there with the nose and the glasses on and all that.
I just can't. Bill O'Reilly is a pimple. I mean, thanks for posting the transcript, but my stomach can't take actual Billo video.
I'm just superstitious enough to hedge my bets.
Palin,Bill-o,Hannity,Rush,Bush-especially Bush- I just read the transcript. I save my blood pressure and my mood.
The links seem to be broken
Sadly, most Americans are clueless of its origins..
PBS FRONTLINE
CHRONOLOGY: THE EVOLUTION OF THE BUSH DOCTRINE
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows...
Thom Hartmann: Must see! The TRUE story of the Boston Tea Party
..... TeaEyeIs whatshisface scrolled down far enough to learn that the Bush Doctrine exists and it evolves!!!
"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy
at least the powell doctrine is straight forward and simple...and has never been modified, based on which way the wind is blowing
remember how bush said he will listen to his generals on the ground?
well now petraeus wants us to pay off the taliban
thats the taliban, supporters of the murderer of 3000 americans
moveon was right...he is betrayus
It scares me when entertainment masquerades as journalism. At least with Letterman, Maher, Stewart, etc, you expect entertainment, you get entertainment, and you actually get some legit journalism to boot.
Ironically, I'm pretty sure George Bush doesn't know what the Bush Doctrine is, either. His definition for it is "whatever it was that Dick and Rummy told me to say." Most Republicans don't know what it is, and even the ones who made it up in the first place probably don't realize it's practically a literal translation of General Hideki Tojo's defense, and explanation for attacking Pearl Harbor at his war crimes trial after WWII. (And that isn't even getting in to the Japanese war crimes for waterboarding. Are we looking on Imperial Japan as a ROLE MODEL now?)
that they love Imperial(insert name here) as a role model.
Isn't the "bush doctrine" just a fancy title for crime?
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
O'Reilly is dumb(and so is most of his audience)...period. This guy is like heroin...you'd have to be stupid to try him. Forget the education argument. I've worked for and with lawyers from Stanford, Harvard, Northwestern, etc. Nearly all were highly intelligent, thoughtful, clever....but some were dumb...kinda like Billy.
They're not laughing *with* you...
Before enlightenment - chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment - chop wood, carry water.
They have a a few buildings in Washington DC that sit across the street from the Capitol Building and right next to the Supreme Court. It contains everything; all the information Bill O'Reilly does not know and never heard about. It is called the Library of Congress.
BillO’s grandchildren, great grandchildren and great-great grandchildren will know the meaning of the Bush Doctrine. You betcha’.
cause maybe that's the definition of a doctrine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctrine
not to mention its constant and common use
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_Doctrine
As to his remark on Letterman, O'Reilly feigns (to give it the best spin) ignorance; therefore, one can only logically conclude he's not really all that interested in his alleged area of "expertise" -- politics -- per se. But we know that already, now, don't we. The blustery pose he feigns (to give it the best spin) ably finances a comfy lifestyle exploiting his fans' incuriosity. Doghouses' column today succinctly describes his neighbor, one of this bunch:
He's ... like a Libruls Want To Take Away My Guns and Macho Bluster As a Substitute for Learning Anything About World Affairs guy.
And, Mr. Grief, the practice of deliberately bombing and killing hundreds of thousands of civilian human beings who happen to be in the way cannot in any sense be labeled "bullshit," especially when these criminal acts have arisen as a direct consequence of a conscious, applied doctrine.
The despicable actions you describe were taken by the madman, Mr. Bush.
He wanted to avenge his daddy. He wanted to kill Saddam. He slaughtered hundreds of thousands in the process.
What I object to is dignifying this psychotic behavior with a name. A "doctrine".
When Obama gets elected (fingers crossed behind back)what will Fox do? They have been in the tank for a sitting president for the last eight years. If they go on the assault (as they are now with Obama) will that mean they are Anti-American? After all that is what they have protested all these years that any criticism of Bush was Anti-American.
I am just wondering.
of that wacko lady who said the other day that Congress should be investigated to find out which ones are anti-American. Except after January 20th they'll add the White House to the list of suspects.
that BillO might regret this statement.
BilO does an hour per night on Fox and 2 hours on radio every day and has NEVER mentioned the Bush Doctrine or mentioned that he has HEARD of it?
Something tells me that someone with superior knowledge of the "internets and its tubes" might do some digging and it wouldn't surprise me considering BillO's incomparable record of always being wrong if it was discovered that he has actually heard of it and has actually supported it too!
Anyone else get this feeling?
I thought the Bush Doctrice was to have Sunny Delight and O'Doulls in every refrigerator in the White House. "Being Prez is hard work. I get thirsty, heh, heh."
I've seen some stuff, man. And some thangs...
If O'Reilly wasn't simply a hack... A HACK, Bill, a clueless deceitmongering HACK... he could have Googled "Bush Doctrine" to see what the Bush doctrine refers to. Instead we get an insipid dog-and-pony show featuring this pompous and all too easily refuted blowhard polluting the political dialog with his toxic bullshit.
ALL I WANNA SAY TO BILL IS...YOUR MOTHER SHOULD HAVE SWALLOWD YOU!!
LOL this is pretty graphic and funny, but i got even better... she should have spit him in the toilet and flush him.....
O'Reilly's not that dumb. He knows what the Bush Doctrine is. He's just trying to play down Palin's stupidity and take a swipe at Charlie Gibson. I do agree that it was a "gotcha" question in a way but it's one that any politician should've been able to answer.
I totally feel the same way.Haven't watched this jerk intentionally for a few years now.
The only Bush Doctrine is, "whatever slogan we are spinning this week".
Pre-emptive strikes against those who harbor terrorists?
Spreading liberty and democracy throughout the middle east?
There have been at least 5 all together.
But that's what you get when you treat governing like campaigning.
Say what you will about McClellan, that characterization nails it.
I wasn't completely sure what the Bush Doctrine was. It took me 4 seconds to type "bush doctrine" into the Google search bar and a few more to click on the first link that took me to Wikipedia.
It tured out, I was pretty much right.
Clearly, neither Mrs. Palin nor Mr. O'Reilly have a few seconds to spare in doing the most basic research that any 5 year old could do.
go figure
Now that the Bush Doctrine is being used to justify cross-border attacks in Syria and Pakistan, those two governments can tell Palin and O'Reilly what it's like to be in the crosshairs of pre-emptive freedom-spreading.
From the transcript of The O'Reilly Factor, March 15, 2004, interview with Hans Blix:
But, hey, that was a whole 4 years ago. Who remembers these things?
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