On Wednesday, George Bush said:
The enemy cannot defeat us on the battlefield, but what they can do is put horrible images on our TV screens.
Who puts "horrible images on our TV screens?" Al Quaeda? Osama bin Forgotten? Did they seize Sinclair Broadcasting and nobody told me? I miss things every once in a while but I think I would’ve caught that.
The people who "put horrible images on our TV screens," the people who aren’t delivering enough of the Good Time News from Iraq that the Administration keeps insisting is out there, are the TV news networks, broadcasters, journalists and those covering the war. These people, according to George Bush, are "the enemy."
George Bush also believes it is okay to tap the phones of "the enemy" without warrants and in violation of the law as part of the War on Terra.
Maybe it’s time for a few of these "enemies" to get a little pissed off?
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Fitz!
FITZ! ROOTZ!
And God Bless the men and women of our armed forces who have died, been maimed or otherwise scarred for life so GWB can be a big man.
Maybe George thinks that Al Quaeda has seized control of network TV. Come to think of it, that would explain alot…
Check this out — finally someone who understands the power of netroots — anyone familiar with Unity08.com?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13006799/site/newsweek
During Watergate, the word got out that Richard Nixon had a secret “enemies list” that he used to target people he didn’t like for IRS audits and who knows what else (wiretapping?) I got a T-shirt made that said, “Enemy of the White House.” I wish I still had it. May be time to get a new one.
The most horrible image on our TV screens is George W. Bush.
This is what Froomkin says about the “images” on TV:
“Once again, Bush asserted that it’s the incessant images of death on TV that are getting the country down. Can someone tell me what Bush is talking about? I don’t think I’ve seen people in Iraq dying on my TV screen hardly ever, not to mention day in and day out.”
‘Nuff said.
Wearing my hat of speech pathologist, I suspect that the Dumberator’s damaged neurons may have elided a clause or three in there somewhere, so we might try to re-parse the quoted utterance less alarmingly as “…carry out predictable acts of unconventional, asymmetric warfare and thereby put, i.e. supply, horrible images on i.e. for our TV screens assuming that there is no celebrity wedding on that night.” Alternatively, the reception is just really lousy on that little wireless receiver he’s got strapped to his back ever since the Kerry debates.
Oh, we as a nation are spared the grief and murder and abject waste of life in that picture. If one tiny image does manage to sneak in and bother the viewer, well– use the remote and get those ugly images out of your beautiful American Idol/Survivor/The Apprentice/Desperate Housewives state of mind or go find the spare change and car keys so you can take a drive in the ole SUV and get it washed at the autowash place after you pick up dinner at the local market and gas up the hog and get your DVD’s at the Blockbuster with the handy dandy adverts for joining the army tucked inside so you can throw them away and then your kid picks them out of the garbage because you still believe in Bush and hate the terrarists and your kid wants to grow up and fight those you’ve demonized, and you did not bother to teach your kid not to be afraid but to understand why bad things happen.
The families of our fallen and disabled soldiers have to deal with their everyday grief, too, and I feel so badly for them and for the ones who have to endure the loss of their innocence and their nightmares.
The people over there have an endless, everday 9/11 in Iraq and Afghanistan. Poor people all over the globe struggling to deal with either the wrath of nature, the evil of men, or the evil of this administration.
Yet we hold up 9/11 as the shiny thing that justifies it all; we had an awful, terrible thing happen here. We need to stop inflicting this horror over there NOW.
maybe Bartlett et al made another dvd so Incurious George could see some of the ‘bad’ stuff that’s comin from Iraq and . . .
That Bush thinks he can orchestrate a full-on pre-emptive ballistic war from his warm leather unitary executive armchair in that cozy but airless 20006 zip code without facing the cold hard brutal truth of tens of thousands of dead or mutilated men, women and children is a very sure sign that he is high on dope. His desire to be a Texas cowboy, swagger and talk in big tough monosyllables is the total substance of his frat boy historical legacy. He needs medical treatment. His Presidential Library will be a monument to illiteracy and a disgrace to the human race. May he forever retrace each and every step of his certain disgrace.
The Bush administration and its surrogates are at war with me as much as they are with Islamic fundamentalists.
If I was any angrier about what this administration has done in our name, with our dollars to innocent people, aiming only to expand power and profit, I’d be arrested and probably put away for a good long while. I will not bend, I will not “try to understand” and I refuse to compromise with the party that has crystallized the very meaning of the word hypocrisy.
“Why should we hear about body bags and death? Oh, I mean, its not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?” – Barbara Bush on Good Morning Brownshirts, March 18, 2003
uh, hate to be disagreeable, but there’s rarely the coverage of actual carnage. yes, you will on occasion see the aftermath of people running to the rescue, or the burned out wreckage of passenger cars, or the file tape that happened to catch the ied explosion — but there’s rarely the footage of actual victims. and you never, ever see wounded military. and note the quickly dispense with announcement of ‘three of our bravest died today in an ied explosion near baghdad; next up snakes in rental cars’.
The message was not intended for us.
It was intended for the base, to preemptively “innoculate” them from the impending storm of photographic and video evidence from Haditha.
How fortunate for the Great Innoculator there was not a storm of graphic evidence on mainstream corporate media about white phosphorus use in Fallujah…
neurophius (#6): the phrase these days is
“PERSON OF INTEREST”
we should take a cue from “V for Vendetta”. have millions of T-shirts printed up with that logo on them and start wearing them all on a pre-designated day. maybe for 4th of July celebrations.
Will Nightline run the Honor Roll of the (US) Dead tomorrow night? IIRC, that was done a year ago.
Maybe it was Veteran’s Day in Nov.; not sure.
But still.
Don’t forget, Ross had been warned he’s under surveillance. And he’s not alone.
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Holy Fuck – Now they’re playing ‘Three Card Monte’ with fucking NUKES. As if keeping them ‘on the table wasn’t enough…
Monday’s NYT:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05…..mp;emc=rss
“Pentagon Seeks Nonnuclear Tip for Sub Missiles
By MICHAEL R. GORDON
Published: May 29, 2006
WASHINGTON, May 28 %u2014 The Pentagon is pressing Congress to approve the development of a new weapon that would enable the United States to carry out nonnuclear missile strikes against distant targets within an hour.
The proposal has set off a complex debate about whether this program for strengthening the military’s conventional capacity could increase the risks of accidental nuclear confrontation.
The Pentagon plan calls for deploying a nonnuclear version of the submarine-launched Trident II missile that could be used to attack terrorist camps, enemy missile sites, suspected caches of biological, chemical or nuclear weapons and other potentially urgent threats, military officials say.
If fielded, it would be the only nonnuclear weapon designed for rapid strikes against targets thousands of miles away and would add to the president’s options when considering a pre-emptive attack.”…
Let’s see if I’ve got this straight:
George Bush is a mighty and resolute leader. The only thing that can hurt his mighty resolve is horrible images on our TV screens.
George Bush is the leader of a massively booming economy, one that’s bringing wealth to everyone. The only thing that can bring down this booming economy is Al Gore’s movie.
I’m beginning to detect a pattern.
No need to repeat what Froomkin said about this crap. but he is right on. This red herring about “death on the TV” is absolute, utter, crap. The problem in Iraq is the images on TV? Okay, dude. Roll up another one.
peace,
jim
I stopped watching television awhile back, but I don’t recall them putting any horrible images on the screen. As I recall, they made a point of saying that they wouldn’t put such images on. I tried to show some of these images at a public market and was almost arrested. No one wants to see what is going on and the media is happy to comply.
oh god oh god oh god tell me he didn’t really say that, about putting horrible pictures on our TVs, tell me it isn’t really so. I think I’m gonna jump out a window (even though I live on the first floor…)
I have fiddled at the idea of writing to my local T.V. stations and paper, a letter to the editor asking where their outrage is?
It’s not like they were scooped out of a gun tote’n Cheney story, misfired and gone shot his best-est buddy.
More like, why aren’t they concerned that the AG A.G. has declared that it is open season on free speech and sources. I mean, it’s not like journalists can’t contact their source, but rather, if and when they do so, they risk imprisonment and subsequently revealing the source due to no fault of their own, but that of being wire taped.
Remember, the president, once upon a time said in an attempt to reassure America, that warrants were required to wire tap. And that it was only foreign phone calls and not domestic calls, and that it is the terrorists that are being targeted. After all, don’t ‘cha wanna know who the terrorists are talkin’ to?
Certainly not the media. Because we all know, they don’t talk much about nothing. Unless you count American Idol and all things Faux Knewz.
Unless, the enemy is within and complicity through silence is what allows Blogsylvania to thrive. Boo-Ya, take that Apple.
“We have proved, time and again, that the people of the United States can be baffled with bullshit. But that cannot occur if they are enabled to draw conclusions using their own eyes, or using their own minds”.
Pissed off? You are surely joking! They will bend over further, just to try to prove that they are not “the enemy.”
“By doing so, you only demonstrate that your devotion to petty politics blinds you to the danger that the civilized world faces from the violent adherents of Islam. “
Oh please. Where is Osama? Where is the money to secure our ports? Bush has hurt the war on terror by this disasterous adventure in Iraq. Mindlessly yelling 9/11, 9/11 does not excuse his failures.
Someone mention the presidential library?
I heard there was a recent tragic presidential library fire…both books were lost… and one had even been all colored in.
( apologies to Gore ‘V for Vidal’ on the Ronnie Raygun library massacre )
Is this the kind of good news Mr. Bush is looking for coming out of Iraq?
OK I’m coming in on this I invite every Americn reader to go to my daily blog. Click the homepage link:
Then follow the navigation system for some of my recent postings:
“Forgive and Forget or Be Progressively Pre-empted”
“In Which The Gorilla Says “I told You So”"
“12 years old – hauled off the street whipped with electric cables, violated with an electric drill, shot, body dragged through the streets”
“Sequence of Events”
“Abdullah Yaseen Wept Alone” – took me hours to do that one I couldn’t stop crying.
“Melanie’s Feelings”
“President George W. Bush described militias as one of Iraq’s main challenges”
– Read the comments to that one we discuss a 14 year old boy so poor that he prostituted himself quite literally for potatoes – he died for a handful of spuds.
“Mary and Compassion”
“Continuing to Defend Their Country”
“Words fail me”
“Lost in Land That Cannot Provide – Update”
” No one can wear a mask for very long”
“Et respondens rex dicet illis” (Ask John Casper what that means)
“Go and end the tyranny in Iraq”
“In which the gorilla talks dirty”
“Why Are These Two Children Dead?”
“What is the difference between these two children?”
“Why is this 14 year old boy crying?”
“Asharq Al Awsat’s headline – Oh fuck episode 4,563,984a” You have to scroll past the Arabic to get to my translation
“Incident” in Al Amarah”
“Who do you believe?”
“No Child Left Behind Part 1″
And finally a personal scream of rage from my other blog:
The photos you’ll see are fucking mild. They’re nothing compared to what goes out nightly on the pro-American TV stations. I don’t want to even think about the video feeds from the anti-American ones. BTW al-Jazeerah is generally reckoned to be pro-American. Just sayin’
It’s not the godamned American stations that clusterfucked scumbag needs to worry about.
This’ll probably go into moderation and I need to get to work. But do please take a look at what’s being done in your names. Then ask yourselves why do they hate us?
OK I’m coming in on this I invite every American reader to go to my daily blog. Click my homepage link Then follow the navigation system for some of my recent postings:
“Forgive and Forget or Be Progressively Pre-empted”
“In Which The Gorilla Says “I told You So”"
“12 years old – hauled off the street whipped with electric cables, violated with an electric drill, shot, body dragged through the streets”
“Sequence of Events”
“Abdullah Yaseen Wept Alone” – took me hours to do that one I couldn’t stop crying.
“Melanie’s Feelings”
“President George W. Bush described militias as one of Iraq’s main challenges” ( – Read the comments to that one we discuss a 14 year old boy so poor that he prostituted himself quite literally for potatoes – he died for a handful of spuds.)
“Mary and Compassion”
“Continuing to Defend Their Country”
“Words fail me”
“Lost in Land That Cannot Provide – Update” (contd below)
” No one can wear a mask for very long”
“Et respondens rex dicet illis” (Ask John Casper what that means)
“Go and end the tyranny in Iraq”
“In which the gorilla talks dirty”
“Why Are These Two Children Dead?”
“What is the difference between these two children?” (contd below)
“Why is this 14 year old boy crying?”
“Asharq Al Awsat’s headline – Oh fuck episode 4,563,984a” You have to scroll past the Arabic to get to my translation
“Incident” in Al Amarah”
“Who do you believe?”
“No Child Left Behind Part 1″ (contd below)
And finally a personal scream of rage from my other blog:
The photos you’ll see are fucking mild. They’re nothing compared to what goes out nightly on the pro-American TV stations. I don’t want to even think about the video feeds from the anti-American ones. BTW al-Jazeerah is generally reckoned to be pro-American. Just sayin’
It’s not the godamned American stations that clusterfucked scumbag needs to worry about.
This’ll probably go into moderation and I need to get to work.
markfromireland
OK the last one has gone into moderation. – basically I say it’s not the US stations that clusterturd feces throwing chimpanzee needs to worry about.
Got to get to work long day ahead.
mfi
Gud velsigne dig og tak, mfi.
It sounds like the Chimp doesn’t want us to get upset that little kids and their families are being wounded or killed. It’s as if ChimpCo wants us to suppress our own humanity and mother/father/auntie/grannie instincts.
The enemy cannot defeat us on the battlefield, but what they can do is put horrible images on our TV screens.
Yeah I hate American Idol too.
He’s drinking again.
this is perfect bush hear-no-evil, see-no-evil simpletonism. don’t show the real war on TV and suddenly we win, we win, weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.
It’s not just the images, it’s the reality.
The way Bush is “thinking” when he talks about the horrible images on TV is really the same as the way he’s thinking when he apologized, the other day, for his choice of words, e.g., “bring ‘em on,” etc. This is consistently how Bush thinks. It is not about eliding, as an earlier commenter sugests. Mr. Bush is profoundly limited in his ability to reason. This is the kind of “President” the Republicans want America to have. That way, voters don’t need to worry their pretty heads about policy and its implications–e.g., those terrible pictures on TV such as the one you started this thread with.
I agree with the Dear Leader. More media outlets pick up stories from the Baghdad office of Voice of America. Oh, wait….
I want my government to define TERRORIST…… I do not trust that the definition will be the one I use……..
Breaking news..;.CNN cameraman and sound man killed in Iraq, and a correspondent (woman) is critically injured. I hope NOW CNN will stop parroting the WHouse’s tripe about the media!!!
Been ill, so I’m playing catch up with news. This picture socked me in the gut, fills me with grief. What is being done in our name, in the good name of this country – that is terrorism.
The picture is too disturbing for me. I am a father, and a human being. The news of more media killed coupled with this picture makes a reality that makes– “The enemy cannot defeat us on the battlefield, but what they can do is put horrible images on our TV screens”–Georges words ring at the volumn of ten in a mindless hypocrisy the Truth doesn’t need.