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Just can’t let this one pass by without calling bullshit math on it. Via Froomkin:
AIDS Watch
Note to my colleagues covering the speech: Bush will likely describe his $30 billion proposal for combating AIDS overseas as a doubling of federal funding. But it’s not. As the program’s own Web site makes clear, funding is currently $6 billion a year. So spending $30 billion over five years would simply maintain spending at current levels. (Actually, it would be a budget cut, if you consider inflation.)
How many other lies, prevarications, half-truths, inaccuracies, manipulations, and outright laughable gooberisms can you spot?
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CHL! Bush sucks.
Christy!
boosh STFU!
Let’s fuck over Medicare and Medicaid!
How many times has Bush opened his mouth?
Anybody else notice that there’s too many Repugs in the Chamber…? ;-)
Who is clapping and standing? Are any demos voting with their butts by sitting it out? Obama looks pained. Clinton looks happy to be on TV.
Talking doublespeak on immigration
he’s against it–no, he’s for it—
The rule of law deters me from saying what I think should be done with George W. Bush.
not watching chimpy lie
bloth lows and highest ideals. he blothiated!
He has no ideals …. that I want anything to do with!!
who can rescue us from the evil cabal?
uphold our laws what a jke this fool is
Ya gotta give the dumbfuck credit for hitting every right wing talking point ever laughed at behind his back.
here come the Big Lies
In a word: somnolent.
He confused the goopers there by not advocating shooting immigrants.
The military guys don’t stand when everyone else does.
Everything this monkey has touched has turned to shit. He would gut Medicaid, Medicare and SS in a New York minute if he could.
Condi is giving the Condi Bot death stare.
Gives me the creeps.
-G
I love when the prez tries to look serious.
I can’t believe he had the nerve to say the words “crippling deficits.” The sorry MFer!
He is slurring his words.
Yep. Bush is blaming the Iraqis for not choosing peace.
OMG will you please shit in your hat and pull it over your head, Bush!
he’s getting to me. “bloth our laws.”
In the last 7 years we’ve seen mass murders in Iraq.
Last time we have to hear him do this. sschturing moments.
1 more year,of trying to survive the evil empire
Liar, criminal….Perp.
Ink spained fingers?
oh … fuck him! ink stained fingers on dead bodies ..
ink-stained fingers…what about all the blood-stained bodies?
Well where the fuck are our liberties??/
If was a Senator, I’d skip Shrub’s speech and talk with wounded vets at Walter Reed, or help at a homeless shelter. That’d make quite a statement. What freakin waste of time this is. Turning off…
i took to the streets many times to demand that iraq not be attacked.
I think it’s been a long time since Bush saw anything that sobered him.
What? Iraqis still have purple ink on their fingers have all these years?
Seven years of lies….
Bhutto, Murdered!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OK – I tried. I really did. But I just broke down. Poured myself a Bushmills. I am not as strong as I thought. And besides, why should George have all the fun?
Why yes, that did look like David Addington in the audience…
Oooh, check out ThinkProgress’ front page right now — they’ve got a point-by-point debunking of Bush’s bullshit.
The dung flinging baboon is now lecturing us about demakrashy….
Shut the Fuck up monkey nuts.
-G
the obvious would be “the consitution means what it says”
and him wanting accountability
if only it was a tia
I’m still watching Bush. Perhaps there really is something wrong with me.
I did notice a good majority of the House doing a standing ovation. You don’t suppose some of the Democrats are sitting out his speech tonight? I would love that if that was the case!
Back to 911/911/911.
terra terra terra.
Again. Buck Fush.
We are definitely into the be afraid of the brwon people part of the speech.
There’s violence everywhere but in Iraq.
911….standing ovation
I think that means bush passed a note that he wants to go to the bathroom
The gapped-toothed bee-otch scares me.
“grim reminder” here comes terra. he does look grim, grimmer than Cheney he looks good, even better. Must be taking human growth hormones.
Black is white, white is black….
Who is the terrorist? Just listen.
Did he say how the hydrogen cars are working out? Or that mission to Mars?
Can Scooter be far behind? He must be lurking in a corner somewhere.
Chimperor is lazy-mouthed speaker who can’t bother to enunciate.
Bush says “we will deliver justice to our enemies” – Cheney gives him the standing “O”, the military guys look pissed….
What do you think Karl Rove is doing at this very moment?
Gin. I need gin.
Now.
Refusing to live in tyranny sounds pretty good to me.
We’ve hit killing brown people, all right. We can all see through the euphemisms. I even called these in the right order.
stop it pups! your comments have me spewing my rhum out lol…. behave now
Liar.
Ok, now we’re selling the surge….
did he really say that?
We’re not spreading freedom anymore. We’re spreading ‘the hope of freedom’.
Sit down, you chickenshits.
Iraq. Better and Better.
Has the prez said anything important tonight?
Things are going so well in Afghanistan that we can send more troops. Hurray!
Brain bleach please!!!
Afghanistan is all fixed now … oh boy! democracy and all that good stuff
and Taliban defeated?
good god!
I always get the feeling Bush takes bubble baths at night and has US warship toys to play with while in there. Do you get that feeling too?
He finally recognized that the congress does things.
They are going to live on Mars…that could be a good thing.
And in just another six months, it’ll all be peachy….
every single word he speaks is an outright lie. He is a lie.
Bored yet? Here’s some suggested reading in place of the dog and phony show:
http://www.archives.gov/nation…..cript.html
Mukasey / McConnell 2-shot … queasy feeling there.
All that talk about Afghanistan, but no mention of bin Laden.
Hmmmm
Thay fur got the phone etic cardzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
and boy has THAT been fucked up!!
STFU
We’ve seen the enemy and it is us.
Hi Mrs. R….. haven’t see you in awhile :-)
skilled public servants, Blackwater.
Afghanistan -> peachy.
Iraq -> much more peachy than before – much more peachiness to come…
having a Brazilian wax with Jimmyjeff
The terrists saw bags of money and weapons coming their way and said Hell Yeah! We want some of that.
-G
To be fair: Petraeus is supposed to be the best general in Iraq on the hearts-and-minds stuff, which is why they put him in charge
That look from George when he imagines he wants to make a point is… well… quite frankly, thrilling.
what a peachy view of the world. cynical me – i did not know this!
now he’s using our troops as an applause line to make himself look good
How can we take any of them seriously when they clap like this for him?
SOTU –> STFU
Hmm. Peach schnapps. Yes. Peachy….
Awwww, how cute:
Cheney is the red (tie), Condi is the white (dress), and Bush is the blue (tie).
People must be applauding, because they know he’s leaving…sooon…Lord Hear My Prayer….
Both in the WH basement with Karl’s leather slave.
Well take of our vets who don’t make as much $$ as the civilians and risk their lives… for shit benefits… fucking asshole bastard..
Just poured myself a BIG glass of wine.
Ah ha! He is spending more time with his son who just moved out of the house to go to college so he wont have to send more times with his parents.
Anyone note that Choate has cancelled the invite to Rove to be commencement speaker? He will give an ordinary speech, according to the wishes of 80% of the people who wrote. What amazing spin. Nothing compared to the spin we are hearing right now.
He talked about dead leaders and civilians(pain and suffering) in…Jordan, Pakistan, Lebanon….everywhere but Iraq
What an absolutely wonderful question.
Oh Gawd – Didja hafta?
DEMS get up and walk out now!
If you look at the wide-angle shots, it’s pretty clear most of the clapping and the SOs are coming from the right side.
They’re just shooting and mikeing it so it sounds better than it is.
I could have gone my whole life without that mental image. Blergh.
Nancy blinking uncomfortably during W’s surge lines.
standing O from pubs on iraq improvement
no dems standing!!!!!!!!
yeah too bad all the dead troops cant applaud his crazy ass……
He’s declaring Mission Accomplished again!! We won!!
He just loves using them as his own personal human shields, doesn’t he?
Looks like Pelosi’s reading a book. What do you suppose it is? It sure isn’t “Profiles in Courage.”
Today, 5 dead GI’s
Iraqi fighters = sectarian militias
Has the prez said anything important tonight?
sort of – he sure as hell *hasn’t* said “The State of Our Nation is Strong”…
ya think he forgot? or is that too much even for the Liar-In-Chief?
ROTFLMAO!
It is very strange that the Democratic side has lots of red suits/dresses being worn tonight. It makes me angry actually.
I ain’t watching and that makes me want to puke. Sit down dems. This guy is bad news.
Me too. Francis Ford Coppola wine. It marries perfectly with his speech, as it is a fictional depiction of a president and a government.
This idiot is BRAGGING about how many people we have killed!
BRAGGING!
Isn’t he done yet???? This will never end…
BTW: 8 US Troops have died in the last 48 hours!!!!!!!!
not by you asshole
AQ is on the run because everybody in Iraq is beyond fed up with them, and wants them gone.
It’s about the only thing all sides agree on. And most of the Muslim world concurs.
Dick almost laughed at that
40,000 lbs of bombs on neighborhoods in 10 minutes …
and Nancy stands for AQ on the run … damn
Hearts and minds splattered around Iraq. Air bombings have increased massively since the plans implemented by Petreaeus have been implemented.
Concrete Bremer walls have been erected all around neighborhoods.
Ethnic cleansing has been consolidated.
-G
Maybe not a good idea to bring up Osama. When did we capture him again?
Uh-rah! Kill more brown people.
[Mod Note; snark tag closed]
al qaeda on the run in iraq!!!!!
The enemy of America lives in the White House. The End.
Everyone around the world knows that the U.S. is becoming nothing more than farce. Europe and Asia will leave the U.S. in the dust. The world will try and isolate the U.S. to minimize the damage it can do to the civilized world. Meanwhile, Americans will rally chanting “we’re number one” while mindlessly clapping and balancing beachballs on their noses.
And the fighter he’s paying are threatening to allow al qaeda to return if they don’t get more money or included in two months. Just read that article last night.
She’s reading the program, he’s off the map.
Who yelled and what did he yell?
Lord I get goose bumps from watching our Commander in action. This is a man in charge.
Is it me, or does Cheney look like he has gas?
return on success. yep.
“Return on Success!” His latest slogan.
god damn him
Any mention of his favorite constiuency, the snowflake babies?
using the troops as an applause line (for him) again
Things are going so well in Iraq that we can bring some troops home even if we had to do it anyway. Hurray!
over 100 iraqis have died in the last 48 hours!!!
Why are the living on the streets then when they come home? Did he address that? No.
Fucking ghouls.
-G
No argument: just pointing out that he got the job in the first place because he’s as good as it gets.
Which is pretty damned sad indeed.
Is he done yet???????????
more killling! yeay!!
The military guys don’t look happy at all. They know they’ll take the blame and Bush/Cheney won’t.
And lying to the troops into the bargain…
“Return on Success”= you can’t come home until you win, and I get to say when you win. So there. neener, neener.
“My Pet Goat”.
Bob Dole stabbing himself with his pen
It would be really nice if it were a copy of the Constitution. But, fat chance.
Most certainly.
Cheney looks like he has heartburn.
It was an “Uh-rah” that the troops yell.
He was all worked up about killing brown people.
precisely …. ethnic cleansing with weapons complements of Gen Petraeus …
who btw is being criticized in the military press for making the COIN manual “too political”
The Repubs are a bunch of preprogrammed zombiebots, aren’t they?
He’s been stuck here for a couple minutes. Why am I getting a very, very bad feeling about Iraq going forward?
I can’t wait to start some ‘We’re Number One” chants at the soup and bread lines.
-G
Hoo Rah and it’s wasn’t a trooper, I guarantee.
More progress
They have bandied that one about since the beginning of the surge and the talk of lengthing deployments to up to 18 months.
Where are the Bush twins to fight the war of the century? Oh that’s right. Getting married, drinking, partying, and hiding outside the country when needed.
When we get a dem president do we get cameras on the left?
as repulsive as that image is ….Chimpie lying to the world with his bloody smirk is worse…and i can NOT watch him ,or listen…i just loathe him,and what he has done to US!!!
Ooooh — which one? I love his Bianco…
GWB is a very lucky man. We are a country of laws.
Those troop numbers can’t be right. How is he cooking those books?
I’m having Baileys!
Exactly! The fuckin terra-ists are in the white house.
So who is doing the dem response?
Battery acid.
20,000 troops coming home!!
(no one left there to kill!!!)
No one from the Bush family died so no problem.
How perfectly dreadful.
!@#$%^&*()p_{ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
surge forces beginning to come home. well, if that is the result of his happy view of iraq – then fine. oh, BTW, now you can have all the equipment you need.
You gotta be kidding. She stood for that?!? Please everyone help out here…Please!
http://cindyforcongress.com/
Members of Congress: Be Afraid!!!
The right side is standing up again. And the left side is sitting, and quiet.
and no more troops coming home … surprised?
have the lies stopped yet?
FDL’s favorite right winger, Webb
Everything is going well in Iraq. We can bring troops home. We won. But if we don’t leave 140,000 troops there the place will collapse. But we won anyway.
Steven Hadley! Fuck you, Steven Hadley!!!
No, his lips are still moving.
I bet Hitler would smirk too knowing how many Jews he had killed for his cause on any particular day.
Sorry if I missed discussion of it, but who is giving the Dem response? Thanks :-)
No, seriously: didn’t someone recently blog on how this was one of those sleight-of-hand things, and the numbers were really staying the same?
Progress in Baghdad, the ethnic cleansing is ahead of schedule.
Does he actually believe any of this? Is he delusional?
The pain of SECTARIAN violence?
tonite in this hollow chamber
…must not allow this to happen
What i mean is I haven’t gotten all my leases through yet
Get this empty shell of a human from my face.
-G
Just think. There are people in America who are cheering this president. Just look on your TV! Are the people applauding this man thinking ahead?
Reconciliation Iraqi style is what many of us call civil war.
Good gawd. This man is a ….
Sorry, Raven, you’re right. The room is full of cowards who get their rocks off sending other people’s kids to foreign lands to kill.
it’s about a Free Iraq. Nothing whatsoever to do with oil. “Strategic interest” is a euphemism for….?
Embolden.
Kill me now.
pelosi’s reading
“War and Peace”
cheney’s face is drooping he does look pained, angry. An now Iran has been mentioned will be be happier.
DAMN!!!
Is the pope German?
they are rowing their way over here.
Great minds !
terra-ists coming to DC.
same way he cooks all the books. with THE MATH.
I thought it was Kansas Governor Sebelius.
-G
Governor of Kansas, Kathleen Sebelius, is giving the Dem response this evening.
Uh oh, “attack here in Washington”…
We need Colbert’s split screen exposing the bull. This is a speech designed to make a liberal’s head explode.
sorry
Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius will deliver the Democratic response to President Bush’s final State of the Union address – a marquee assignment for a woman who leads a state with fewer than 2 million voters.
Now he’s bragging about his legacy.
He IS delusional.
she has completely lost it…sad that
Delusional pipedream of his legacy again.
People will look back with disgust that we allowed you pathetic murdering bastards stay in the white house for 8 years. I am sick.
oh, goody! reconciliation is taking place!!!!
impossible
And this is the man, Speaker Pelosi, that you exclaimed was impeachment-proof.
here’s how I confront terror — IMPEACH CHENEY
The obligatory tip ‘o the hat to the Israel lobby…
Kathleen Sebelius is giving the Democratic response tonight.
I don’t understand- bush is not looking at notes. Has he had an implant?
If Cheney had a medical event on camera, this would be less boring.
Thank you kindly.
Sebelius–that is correct
Sepulchral Chertoff. As always.
do they have to skelator
Hi guys, I thought Kathleen Sebelius was giving dem response?
OT: Per Glenzilla, update IV:
That was last year. Unless they made a last minute change, it’s Kathleen Sebelius, D Governor of Kansas
He is delusional, without question. And he sounds like he’s been taking a few too many meds or spirits.
If heartburn’s impossible, I suppose yet another heart attack would be entirely too much to hope for….
Condi turned Justice Kennedy to stone with an errant glance.
-G
they are going to attack him in DC?? Damn, he must hide under his bed at night.
Yea, and there is no way any of those hand-picked troopers would break discipline.
Okay. Now I’m completely creeped out. Thank you. LOL
gw: Iran, a good people
now, let’s bomb the hell out of ‘em!!!!
NUKULAR WEAPON
Chetoff and Condi both look aged and in the same way, faces are more darwn, skull like.
Iran has arrived. watch Cheney’s face. and yes a WMD just got waved at us.
Don’t we have an NIE saying Iran is NOT enriching uranium?
Christy, what do you think of the choice?
Oh, fuck him. Israel and palestine living in peace. Big applause. WHAT exactly has he done to accomplish that??????
The wine is not keeping me mellow.
his legacy is to lower for all times sake the office of the president.that such a simpleton/sophmore could be the most powerful man on earth BOGGLES THE MIND
THe Bush family likes to keep Hitler references to a minimum.
Nuke-you-liar.
What a shame. A year ago I really wanted to find a way for her to become Prez, and was happy after the 1st 100 Hours deal, but what goddamn farce she has become. Pathetic!
OMG, here we go again…enriching uranium..LIARLIARLIAR
Teleprompter.
-G
Crowd is cheering for war on Iran.
As you know, I am in a time warp.
THERE it is, finally, OIL.
And after seven fucking years, you’d think he’d learn to pronounce NOO KLEE ARR
I’m not watching the address. Tired of the lies. Just wondered if they are using a translator to convert his gibberish into English.
What would a Bush speech be without threatening Iran with war because we like them so much?
Hell, even the Repub’s have given up their early, booze-drive bully-boy cheers – now reduced to polite applause.
Hangovers on a Tuesday morning are
a bitchwell-deserved, morons…On a lighter note, the State of the Cliche will soon be over… oh god, he just substituted Iran for Iraq in the sixteen words.
“…stop your support for oppression at home…”
Comedy is no longer possible.
I swear when I first saw the heading for this entry it said “Bush STFU”. I must be projecting.
Nancy stands and applauds his tough talk to Iran … a number of Ds did but the shot was too long to see who
anthrax!
has bush forgotten that too?
Droning on, and on, and on…about people who died, because of him and Cheney!!! 2 troops are coming home…huge applause…but no others unless Petreaus says so…Congress must not allow this to happen…WTF????
Maniac!!!
Now, the truth…no, your kids are NEVER coming home…NEVER…low applause…then some BS…and applause that nobody even knows what the hell he’s talking about…
Bottomline….until we kill every enemy in the world, no one will ever come home and then…only then…in the infinite future…forever…no one will ever come home until…Israel and Palestine have peace…in other words…a cold day in hell..because they refuse to work with Palestine. Your children are toast, but that is okay, because we will defend our vital allies in the Persian Gulf….
Okay, he mentioned iran. That’s a chug the bottle moment! (if i was drinking…dammit.)
Why don’t the Dems ever give the response to the SOTU in front of an auditorium filled with working people, soldiers, students, the elderly, blacks, latino’s, gays, et al that make up the real American mosiac? Let’s see and hear cheering for a real vision of what America can become.
Iranians are brown people, right?
Are there any sane people in the room?
OK, here comes the FISA spanking
Rur Roh – here comes FISA
here it comes
we need to hear the terrrrists!!
We need to give telecoms immunity because otherwise the terrorists will kill us.
Here come the lies about FISA
“nuclear nations – come clean about your intentions!!!”
Thank you!!!!
I thank you all for keeping me informed and amused while I get to avoid the sickening sight.
It would be the moral thing to do. Which is the very reason we can rest assured it shall not occur during this Congress. The best we can hope is that in some fashion, they are held to account later. After all war criminals from other wars are hunted for decades (and decades…)!
The time to act is now? What? Blow up the world?
Monitor tools. Cool tools. Here he goes with the bait and switch.
LIE LIE LIE LIE LIE>>>we will defeat him again… no immunity for telcos…Lier
FISA. now I am going to throw my plush toys. I have a chimp right here. sig other had left the room. here it goes !! Pow!!
So, which State and where is the Union Mr Cod-Piece?
Yup. But would Bush lie in a SOTU speech? You betcha!
who the woman seated next to Kerry I think … applauding on FISA?
OOOh that was scary.
Did he just stamp his feet?
Stop him!!!!!!!!!!! He is insane!!!!!!!!!!!
Didn’t talk long about FISA. He’s got bupkis. Can’t defend immunity at all.
You can whine and scream all you want, Georgie. But the dems fucked you HARD today.
Buncha fucking bulldogs on the right.
The utter bullshit is amazing.
Brown enough to threaten, yes.
Oh, on FISA I have had my fill. I hope he is picked apart by vultures somewhere in the depths of Iran.
Immunity? Kiss my hairy white ass, George!
Great TV shot of one entire side of the chamber sitting on their hands while he tells lies about FISA and the Repug side goes crazy
old material. keeps recycling the same old terrorist scares.
Zimbaway…..
-G
Chimpy leaves out Pakistan, China and Saudi Arabia when talking about despotic regimes.
Mc Kulski (sp)?
Congress must pass liability protection for telcos? Most of us have to PAY for insurance. Let the private sector handle it!
Why can’t we have the rule of law right here in the good ole U S of A?
Hey, George, when do we get democracy, transparency, and the rule of law HERE?
And Badwater has me getting wonderful mental images of a medical event. Thanks for the smiles!
Kathryn: Seven years, and the same old terrorist scares are ALL he’s got to show for it.
at the time i would have WALKED to DC to help her…the dream is dead
It’s just a jump to the left…
Most of America is listening to something else, bless them…
Is that Mikulski?
damn… he’s still lying – he knows it’s his last time to bullshit americans so he’s making the most i gather
great to see the Dem side utterly quiet while the repugs go nuts – re FISA
For the first time in my life, I wish I was drinking heavily.
Yeah! $50 billion more for the Bush Regime to launder to their friends!
Apparently nobody told W that EVERYBODY hates The Phone Company. (Even if they haven’t see The President’s Analyst.)
who’s the dude with the lamb chops sitting next to the soldier sitting next to “not Jenna”?
Puma: It’s more than just a wish here.
It’s not any better this way…
BobDole! BobDole! BobDole!
I can’t take it any more…..
“As we increase funding“….Huge Applause!!!!!!!!!
WTF?????
That must be some awesome teleprompter.
Yeehaw I like her!
What the hell is that shiny thing in front of Nancy?
New thread above.
ok hold your ears
THEY WERE WIRETAPPING BEFORE 911….it did NOT STOP the attack they are quite fulL oF of SHIITE
Tara Kunkel, on drugs.
jazz 51
spurs 41
How dare he invoke the Preamble, when his whole governing philospohy is an open repudiation of everything in it?
It is an inkwell — from the time in the House when they used quill pens. They shine it up nicely every year for the SOTU.
Teddy sat next to Barack.
CSPAN is only showing the applauding half, as far as I can tell. CSPAN internet.
Thanks, Christy!
I’m watching MSNBC, and we’re seeing the sitters big as day.
AIDS funding. Hey, it is very expensive to keep people from using condoms or having sex at all. Imagine how much a program like that costs.
Mikulski – see my comment upstairs
Yes – see my comments upstairs. She was also one of the people to vote against the SJC version. It’s very disappointing – I sent her a pointed letter about this last week.