Bolten Proposing Censorship

Say buh bye to televised press briefings. Guess briefings will be held on tape instead. Boltemup and Snowjob get to decide. In an interview with Fux Gnus, Josh Bolten, deckchair rearranger on the Hindenberg said, "It's worth considering" an end to the live televised press briefings.Just in case a sliver of real news might accidentally escape from the White House, the propaganda machine is battening down the hatches. Asked by Faux if that would "annoy" the media, (freedom of the press is ANNOYING?)Bolten replied, "My guess is in the short run it would hurt them ... the judgment would be, as we do in all things, is look at the long run and see whether it's helpful in the long run." Helpful to whom, you Nazi bastard? The only people a news blackout, (taped delay for editing purposes) could possibly "help" are the liars occupying the White House. "I'm going to leave that judgment to Tony Snow to make a recommendation in concert with your colleagues in the White House press corps." So, Snowjob, of Faux, whose SALARY WE NOW PAY gets to decide if we, the public, should be allowed to see our already neutered press corps NOT get answers to questions? Fuck that. Is this a Democracy or are we in Communist China? The ONLY time Lieboy ever apologized for a damned thing was to Hu Jintao for allowing a protester to be heard on the White House grounds. How telling. "See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda."-Bush

The White House blames the media for any bad news THEY CAUSED. Blame the messenger! Never question the pResident. He gets to decide! Media whores bend over! (You too, Gannon, mmmmm.) Don't ask, don't tell is the Bush motto, unless it's a leak to serve his own purposes. Too bad most of the presstitutes won't fight back. Helen Thomas will, but the White House will smear her and anyone else who stands up for our rights. Is there anyone in their right (correct) mind who can support such a news blackout akin to Pravda? Oh, that's right the 32% of ignorant lumps, mostly winger theocrats, corporatists and assholes, who support Fascism in this country. It's tragic that this once great and free nation has given up so many rights to the thugs in the name of fake national security. What's funny is Snotty McClellan NEVER gave out the truth in his time as White House press secretary. Now we'll just have to "wonder" what Snow isn't saying. Any questions? Oh, I'm sorry, questions aren't allowed! Make up your own news. That's what the White House does.

This isn't surprising at all, I'm wondering what took so long. Several trial balloons have been chucked at us on how useless press briefings are. For our own good they shouldn't even happen, doncha know.
Oh, and this is important, the AP pic I photoshopped had instructions in bold letters. Just in case somebody's knickers get in a twist:
(AP Photo/FOX News Sunday, Freddie Lee) MANDATORY CREDIT: FREDDIE LEE, FOX NEWS SUNDAY
There ya go, Freddie.

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Colbert:Truthiness to Power

Thank god for C-SPAN, where I was able to watch the White House Correspondents' Dinner twice. Otherwise I wouldn't have known Stephen Colbert slashed and burned, making the Suppress Corpse squirm. Bush didn't look too happy either. The disgustingly inadequate and censored coverage of Stephen Colbert's lampooning of the Bush Administration by our "mainstream media" is an outrage in a nation that pretends to have a free press. Free press my ASS! Colbert's point was made. To the reporters he said, "You should spend more time with your families, write that novel you've always wanted to write. You know, the one about the fearless reporter who stands up to the administration. You know, fiction." So, it's going to be up to those of us out here who watched it to report on the internet. Our mainstream media apparently doesn't like reporting the truth, they don't have the stomach for it. Bush feigned interest, poorly. The press, even less so.
The Washington Post's Teresa Wiltz sneeringly panned Colbert's perfomance. Listen to Stephen Colbert, of "The Colbert Report," cracking wise about how he could be the new presidential press secretary, because, when it comes to the media, "I have nothing but contempt for those people." And then show a little video clip of what his first day as press secretary would be like. (Hint: not very successful.) The humor's supposed to be topical, and so we laughed when Colbert said, "If anyone needs anything from your tables, just speak slowly and clearly into your numbers and someone from the NSA will be there shortly." We're not sure if Valerie Plame laughed, though. Or Karl Rove.

I can assure Ms. Wiltz that we were laughing and gasping out here in reality. This event was Shock and Awe! Shocked to hear some truth on the tube, and in awe of Colbert's bravery, especially knowing how vindictive the thugs in the White House can be.
The New York Times focused on Bush and his lookalike Steve Bridges' amateurish skit. (Bush Skewers Self at Correspondents' Dinner) And gave us this ridiculously incomplete dropping, Stephen Colbert, of Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report," wrapped up the evening delivering a routine as the bombastic pundit character of his satiric talk show. No one was safe from his sarcastic barbs. "Fox News gives you both sides of the story -- the president's side and the vice president's side," he said to muted laughs.

What revolting and cowardly NON-reporting from the nation's supposed "major" newspapers. They should be ashamed! So, we have to do their fucking jobs for them, since Colbert was absolutely right and they sure as hell aren't going to do it.

AP pictures showing the President's failure to be amused are few and far between. Why am I not surprised?

We should applaud Colbert's bravery for bringing up the truth. The reason the audience wasn't breaking out in guffaws? The room was a mixture of Republicans and Democrats, all of whom are unaccustomed to hearing the truth. The pResident was there and had a malevolent look on his face. I don't know that I'd have a good belly laugh with all those secret service men around either. Colbert drew gasps from the audience at times and there were uncomfortable looking well-heeled audience members. But there were also many people smiling, laughing and clearly enjoying such a refreshing commodity as the TRUTH. How this can be ignored by the media is doubly astounding since so much of it was aimed directly at their inability to do their JOB, report the NEWS. Of course they're not going to tell us what Colbert said, it contradicts the lies they've been telling us for YEARS.


editorandpublisher.com, one of few sources available.
Colbert Lampoons Bush at White House Correspondents Dinner-- President Does Not Seem Amused
...
“and reality has a well-known liberal bias.”
“This administration is soaring, not sinking,” he said. “They are re-arranging the deck chairs--on the Hindenburg.”

Colbert told Bush he could end the problem of protests by retired generals by refusing to let them retire. He compared Bush to Rocky Balboa in the “Rocky” movies, always getting punched in the face—“and Apollo Creed is everything else in the world.”

"I believe that the government that governs best is a government that governs least, and by these standards we have set up a fabulous government in Iraq."

He noted former Ambassador Joseph Wilson in the crowd, as well as " Valerie Plame." Then, pretending to be worried that he had named her, he corrected himself, as Bush aides might do, "Uh, I mean... Joseph Wilson's wife." He asserted that it might be okay, as prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald was probably not there.

Colbert also made biting cracks about missing WMDs, “photo ops” on aircraft carriers and at hurricane disasters, and Vice President Cheney shooting people in the face.
Observing that Bush sticks to his principles, he said, "When the president decides something on Monday, he still believes it on Wednesday - no matter what happened Tuesday."

Colbert complained that he was “surrounded by the liberal media who are destroying this country, except for Fox News. Fox believes in presenting both sides—the president’s side and the vice president’s side."
"You should spend more time with your families, write that novel you've always wanted to write. You know, the one about the fearless reporter who stands up to the administration. You know-- fiction."

He claimed that the Secret Service name for Bush's new press secretary is "Snow Job." Colbert closed his routine with a video fantasy where he gets to be White House Press Secretary, complete with a special “Gannon” button on his podium. By the end, he had to run from Helen Thomas and her questions about why the U.S. really invaded Iraq and killed all those people.



Crooks and liars has this video also linking back to the above E&P story.


But it's highly doubtful those soundbites will be on the evening news, or in the Sunday papers, or anywhere but on the internet. Pathetic. No wonder we're 26th in the world for a free press. They're a bunch of cowards...and LIARS.
USA Today deemed Colbert's scathing commentary "satirical and silly."

UPDATE:
Video: Part One
Video: Part Two


Full Transcript from Democratic Underground:
Thank you ladies and gentlemen. Before I begin, I've been asked to make an announcement. Whoever parked 14 black bullet proof S.U.V.'S out front, could you please move them. They are blocking in 14 other black bulletproof S.U.V.'S and they need to get out.

Wow, wow, what an honor. The White House correspondents’ dinner. To just sit here, at the same table with my hero, George W. Bush, to be this close to the man. I feel like I'm dreaming. Somebody pinch me. You know what; I'm a pretty sound sleeper that may not be enough. Somebody shoot me in the face.

Is he really not here tonight? The one guy who could have helped. By the way, before I get started, if anybody needs anything at their tables, speak slowly and clearly on into your table numbers and somebody from the N.S.A. Will be right over with a cocktail. Mrs. Smith, ladies and gentlemen of the press corps,

Mr. President and first lady, my name is Stephen Colbert and it’s my privilege tonight to celebrate our president. He's no so different, he and I. We get it. We're not brain backs on the nerd patrol. We're not members of the fact (police). We go straight from the gut, right sir? That's where the truth lies, right down here in the gut. Do you know you have more nerve endings in your gut than you have in your head? You can look it up. I know some of you are going to say I did look it up, and that’s not true. That's but you looked it up in a book.

Next time look it up in your gut. I did. My gut tells me that's how our nervous system works. Every night on my show, the Colbert Report, I speak straight from the gut, ok? I give people the truth, unfiltered by rational argument. I call it the no fact zone. Fox news, I own the copyright on that term.

I'm a simple man with a simple mind, with a simple set of beliefs that I live by. Number one, I believe in America. I believe it exists.

My gut tells me I live there. I feel that it extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and I strongly believe it has 50 states. And I cannot wait to see how “The Washington Post" spins that one tomorrow. I believe in democracy. I believe democracy is our greatest export. At least until China figures out a way to stamp it out in plastic for three cents a unit.

In fact, ambassador, welcome, your great country makes our happy meals possible. I said it's a celebration. I believe the government that governs best is the government that governs least.

And by these standards, we have set up a fabulous government in Iraq. I believe in pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps. I believe it is possible -- I saw this guy do it once in Cirque du Soleil. It was magical. And though I am a committed Christian, I believe that everyone has the right to their own religion, be it Hindu, Jewish or Muslim. I believe our infinite paths to accepting Jesus Christ as your personal savior.

Ladies and gentlemen, I believe its yogurt. But I refuse to believe it’s not butter. Most of all I believe in this president.

Now, I know there are some polls out there saying this man has a 32% approval rating. But guys like us; we don't pay attention to the polls. We know that polls are just a collection of statistics that reflect what people are thinking in "reality." And reality has a well-known liberal bias.

So, Mr. President, pay no attention to the people that say the glass is half full. 32% means the glass -- it’s important to set up your jokes properly, sir. Sir, pay no attention to the people who say the glass is half empty, because 32% means its 2/3 empty. There's still some liquid in that glass is my point, but I wouldn’t drink it. The last third is usually backwash. Folks, my point are that I don’t believe this is a low point in this presidency. I believe it is just a lull, before a comeback.

I mean, it's like the movie “Rocky." The president is Rocky and Apollo Creed is everything else in the world. It's the 10th round. He's bloodied, his corner man, Mick, who in this case would be the vice president, and he’s yelling cut me, dick, cut me, and every time he falls she say stay down! Does he stay down? No. Like rocky he gets back up and in the end he -- actually loses in the first movie.

Ok. It doesn't matter. The point is the heart warming story of a man who was repeatedly bunched in the face -- punched in the face. So don't pay attention to the approval ratings that say 68% of Americans disapprove of the job this man is doing. I ask you this, does that not also logically mean that 68% approve of the job he's not doing? Think about it.

I haven’t. I stand by this man. I stand by this man because he stands for things. Not only for things, has he stood on things. Things like aircraft carriers and rubble and recently flooded city squares. And that sends a strong message, that no matter what happens to America, she will always rebound with the most powerfully staged photo ops in the world.

Now, there may be an energy crisis. This president has a very forward-thinking energy policy. Why do you think he's down on the ranch cutting that brush all the time? He's trying to create an alternative energy source. By 2008 we will have a mesquite powered car.

And I just like the guy. He's a good Joe. Obviously loves his wife, calls her his better half. And polls show America agrees. She's a true lady and a wonderful woman. But I just have one beef, ma’am.

I'm sorry, but this reading initiative. I've never been a fan of books. I don't trust them. They're all fact, no heart. I mean, they're elitist telling us what is or isn't true, what did or didn't happen. What's Britannica to tell me the Panama Canal was built in 1914? If I want to say it was built in 1941, that's my right as an American. I'm with the president, let history decide what did or did not happen.

The greatest thing about this man is he's steady. You know where he stands. He believes the same thing Wednesday, that he believed on Monday, no matter what happened Tuesday. Events can change, this man’s beliefs never will. And as excited as I am to be here with the president, I am appalled to be surrounded by the liberal media that is destroying America, with the exception of fox news.

Fox News gives you sides of every story, the president’s side and the vice president’s side.

>> But the rest of you, what are you thinking, reporting on N.S.A. Wiretapping or secret prisons in Eastern Europe? Those things are secret for a very important reason, they’re super depressing.

>> And if that's your goal, well, misery accomplished. Over the last five years you people were so good over tax cuts, W.M.D. Intelligence, the affect of global warms. We Americans didn't want to know, and you had the courtesy not to try to find out. Those were good times, as far as we knew.

But, listen, let's review the rules. Here's how it works. The president makes decisions, he’s the decider. The press secretary announces those decisions, and you people of the press type those decisions down. Make, announce, type. Put them through a spell check and go home. Get to know your family again. Make love to your wife. Write that novel you got kicking around in your head. You know the one about the intrepid Washington reporter with the courage to stand up to the administration. You know fiction.

>> Because really, what incentive do these people have to answer your questions, after all? I mean, nothing satisfies you. Everybody asks for personnel changes. So the white house has personnel changes. Then you write they're just rearranging the deck chairs on the titanic. First of all, that is a terrible metaphor. This ships not sinking.

This administration is soaring. If anything, they are rearranging the deck chairs on The Hindenburg...

>> Now, it's not all bad guys out there. Some heroes, Buckley, Kim Schieffer. By the way, Mr. President, thank you for agreeing to be to my show. I was just as shocked as everyone here is I promise you. How is Tuesday...tonight?

General Mosley, Air Force Chief of Staff. General Peter Pace. They still support Rumsfeld. You guys aren't retired yet, right? Right, they still support Rumsfeld. Look, by the way, I've got a theory about how to handle these retired generals causing all this trouble, don't let them retire. C'mon, we've got a stop loss program; let's use it on these guys. If you're strong enough to go on one of those pundit shows, you can stand on a bank of computers and order men into battle.

C'mon. Jesse Jackson is here. I had him on the show. Very interesting and challenging interview. You can ask him anything, but he’s going to say what he wants at the pace that he wants.

>> It's like boxing a glacier. Enjoy that metaphor, because your grandchildren will have no idea what a glacier is.

>> Justice Scalia’s here. May I be the first to say welcome, sir. You look fantastic. How are you?

>>
John McCain is here. John McCain - John McCain. What a maverick. Somebody find out what fork he used on his salad, because I guarantee you it wasn't a salad fork. He could have used a spoon. There's no predicting him. So wonderful to see you coming back into the republican fold. I have a summer house in South Carolina; look me up when you go to speak at bob Jones University. So glad you've seen the light.

Mayor Nagin is here from New Orleans, the chocolate city. Yeah, give it up. Mayor Nagin, I would like to welcome you to Washington, D.C., The chocolate city with a marshmallow center. >> And a graham cracker crust of corruption. It's a mala march is what I’m describing, a seasonal cookie.

Joe Wilson is here, the most famous husband since Dezi Arnez. And of course he brought along his lovely wife Valerie Plame. Oh, my god! >> Oh, what have I said? I am sorry, Mr. President, I meant to say he brought along his lovely wife, Pat Fitzgerald is not here tonight?

Dodged a bullet.

And we can't forget man of the hour, new press secretary, Tony Snow. Secret service name, snow job. What a hero, took the second toughest job in government, next to, of course, the ambassador to Iraq.

>> Got some big shoes to fill, Tony. Scott McClellan too say nothing like nobody else. McClellan, eager to retire. Really felt like he needed to spend more time with Andrew Card’s children. Mr. President, I wish you hadn't made the decision to quickly, sir.
I was vying for the job. I think I would have made a fabulous press secretary. I have nothing but contempt for these people. I know how to handle these clowns. In fact, sir, I brought along an audition tape and with your indulgence, I'd like to at least give it a shot. So, ladies and gentlemen, my press conference.

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Cystboy Rusty Limpballs Cuts a Deal

Very sweet deal for Rush Limbaugh. If this happened to Joe Q. Citizen no such lovely arrangements would have been made.And just like Thomass DeLay, Rush smiled for his booking picture at the jail. He should be smiling. His high priced lawyers cut him a nice break. WPTV

Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh, has turned himself in to the Palm Beach County Jail for fraud -- concealing information to obtain a prescription. According to the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office online booking blotter, he was booked this afternoon around 4:25.
BOOKING BLOTTER



Roy Black, Rush Limbaugh's attorney, has released the following statement concerning a settlement agreement with the Palm Beach County State Attorney's Office to end the investigation of Limbaugh:

"I am pleased to announce that the State Attorney's Office and Mr. Limbaugh have reached an agreeement whereby a single count charge of doctor shopping filed today by the State Attorney will be dismissed in 18 months. As a primary condition of the dismissal, Mr. Limbaugh must continue to seek treatment from the doctor he has seen for the past two and one half years. This is the same doctor under whose care Mr. Limbaugh has remained free of his addiction without relapse.

"Mr. Limbaugh and I have maintained from the start that there was no doctor shopping, and we continue to hold this position. Accordingly, we filed today with the Court a plea of 'Not Guilty' to the charge filed by the State.

Rush Limbaugh

"As part of this agreement, Mr. Limbaugh also has agreed to make a $30,000 payment to the State of Florida to defray the public cost of the investigation. The agreement also provides that he must refrain from violating the law during this 18 months, must pay $30 per month for the cost of "supervision" and comply with other similar provisions of the agreement."

The formal agreement between Mr. Limbaugh and the State Attorney will be filed with the Court on Monday.

What has Rush spewed regarding drugs in the past?
(Strangely silent on the subject since he was caught.)
His hate-filled hypocrisy is showing, as usual:

Limbaugh on Drugs

There's nothing good about drug use. We know it. It destroys individuals. It destroys families. Drug use destroys societies. Drug use, some might say, is destroying this country. And we have laws against selling drugs, pushing drugs, using drugs, importing drugs. And the laws are good because we know what happens to people in societies and neighborhoods, which become consumed by them. And so if people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be convicted and they ought to be sent up.

What this says to me is that too many whites are getting away with drug use. Too many whites are getting away with drug sales. Too many whites are getting away with trafficking in this stuff. The answer to this disparity is not to start letting people out of jail because we're not putting others in jail who are breaking the law. The answer is to go out and find the ones who are getting away with it, convict them and send them up the river, too.

...We are becoming too tolerant as a society, folks, especially of crime, in too many parts of the country.... This country certainly appears to be tolerant, forgive and forget. I mean, you know as well as I do, you go out and commit the worst murder in the world and you just say you're sorry, people go, "Oh, OK. A little contrition."... People say, "I feel better. He said he's sorry for it." We're becoming too tolerant, folks.--Rush Limbaugh TV show (10/5/95)

These tough sentencing laws were instituted for a reason. The American people, including liberals, demanded them. Don't you remember the crack cocaine epidemic? Crack babies and out-of-control murder rates? Liberal judges giving the bad guys slaps on the wrist? Finally we got tough, and the crime rate has been falling ever since, so what's wrong?--RushLimbaugh.com (8/18/03)

When you strip it all away, Jerry Garcia destroyed his life on drugs. And yet he's being honored, like some godlike figure. Our priorities are out of whack, folks.--Rush Limbaugh radio show (quoted in the L.A. Times, 8/20/95)


I want to let you read along with me a quote from Jerry Colangelo about substance abuse, and I think you'll find that he's very much right…"I know every expert in the world will disagree with me, but I don't buy into the disease part of it. The first time you reach for a substance you are making a choice. Every time you go back, you are making a personal choice. I feel very strongly about that."...

What he's saying is that if there's a line of cocaine here, I have to make the choice to go down and sniff it….And his point is that we are rationalizing all this irresponsibility and all the choices people are making and we're blaming not them, but society for it. All these Hollywood celebrities say the reason they're weird and bizarre is because they were abused by their parents. So we're going to pay for that kind of rehab, too, and we shouldn't. It's not our responsibility. It's up to the people who are doing it. And Colangelo is right.--Rush Limbaugh TV show (9/23/93)

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Pickles And Her Husband

Pickles has GOT to be aware of the devastation caused by her spouse the souse. There's no excuse to not know unless she's so heavily medicated she's unaware of anything going on around her. If she knows, she's complicit. If she doesn't know, she's as uncurious as her criminal husband. Either way, I have no respect for her as a woman. Look at what she married. She'll rot in hell alongside him.


The Devil's in the details, Laura.

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Rover's Impending Indictment

Rover testified for the fifth time today in the Plame CIA Leak Case. What the hell is taking them so long to hand down an indictment? Rove appeared "relaxed" and jokingly told reporters to to get to the back of the room. Hahaha. What a card. Arrogant smarmy little bastard. Did he or did he not speak with reporters? He FORGOT one or two or several. He FORGOT he spoke with a reporter? This is the same little Nazi who documents and remembers ever sleazy thing he has ever done. He BELATEDLY remembered he had. Imagine Joe and Joetta Citizen trying that one on for size in court. They'd be in JAIL.Fitzgerald has not made a decision on whether or not to bring charges against Rove. Libby, who has pleaded not guilty, plans to call Rove as one of his witnesses at his trial, scheduled to start in January. Prosecutors said in late October that Rove remained under investigation.Both Libby and Rove spoke with reporters about Plame before her identity was made public by columnist Robert Novak in July 2003. Her identity was disclosed after her husband, a diplomat, had criticized the Bush administration for manipulating intelligence in the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq. The sources said Rove's appearance involved matters that have arisen since the last time he testified. Translation: The little prick was found out in more lies. And here it is, another forgotten chat. One such matter involved a Time magazine reporter who said in December that she tipped off Rove's lawyer that Rove had talked to a fellow reporter about Plame.
Fer chrissakes, let ME help Fitz out. Rover is a criminal. He should be in jail.
Brief recap of Karl's leakage:

July 8, 2003, Rove leaked to Novak. On September 29, 2003,Rove was asked by ABC News producer Andrea Owen, "Did you have any knowledge or did you leak the name of the CIA agent to the press?" Rove said, "No." McClellan said, "There is simply no truth to that suggestion. And I have spoken with Karl about it."
In early October 2003, Rove called Chris Matthews and said, Wilson's wife was "fair game." In 2005, Rove called Matthew Cooper of Time magazine and told him more information on Plame but that his conversation (Rove's) was under "deep cover."
Yet this administration is denying they leaked anything in order to wage war without dissent. In the meantime, Kkkarl still has his top secret security clearance. We should all feel so much safer.

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Tony Snowjob

It looks like Tony Snow will funnel the White House blastfaxes directly into the open arms of Faux Gnus and the Fox will guard the whorehouse.
"Tony Snow likely to take White House post"
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Sources close to the White House said Monday that Fox anchor Tony Snow is likely to accept the job as White House press secretary, succeeding Scott McClellan. The sources said they expect him to announce his decision within the next few days.A source familiar with the discussions said Monday that newly appointed Chief of Staff Josh Bolten asked Snow to make a decision by early this week.

Neither Snow nor the White House would comment.
So far, he's PERFECT for the job.

Just in time to try boosting Lieboy's poll numbers. Hahaha...32%...freezing.
But I highly doubt they're that high.

If he's in...Cheney's happy. A happy fat sneering bastard is a happy fat sneering bastard. Bonus:Snow is a former writer for Poppy H.W. Bush. (Read my lips?)
Direct phone line to Faux...absolutely great for the stonewalling to come.
Cheney's dream middleman.
Oh, and this is even more perfect, he's a proven two-faced sunuvabitch. He's an equal opportunity badmouther. Whatever's convenient. And frankly, if this is the worst they can dredge up on Snow...the comments aren't that bad. For Fux Gnus they're almost heresy, but just so they can point to the false "fair and balanced" label. Hah!
From Huffington Post:

Fox News' Tony Snow is expected to be named White House Press Secretary in the next few days. Here's some of what he's had to say about the President:

- Bush has "lost control of the federal budget and cannot resist the temptation to stop raiding the public fisc." [5/17/06]

- "George W. Bush and his colleagues have become not merely the custodians of the largest government in the history of humankind, but also exponents of its vigorous expansion." [5/17/06]

- "President Bush distilled the essence of his presidency in this year's State of the Union Address: brilliant foreign policy and listless domestic policy." [2/3/06]

- "George Bush has become something of an embarrassment." [11/11/05]

- Bush "has a habit of singing from the Political Correctness hymnal." [10/7/05]

- "No president has looked this impotent this long when it comes to defending presidential powers and prerogatives." [9/30/05]
(Originally from Think Progress.)

Aside:I don't give a shit if Snow's "recovering" from colon cancer...I'll continue with any asshole jokes that strike my fancy. It's common. Unless he's been bagged up, no slack. He's still an asshole, just has a resected colon.

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I'm General the Eighth I am

Resign, Rummy, Resign. But he won't. And Lieboy won't fire him either. He's doing too good a job. He got the oil. He lies really well. He never answers questions . He's building the biggest U.S. Embassy in the world in Baghdad. He's the perfect Neocon. Nothing stands in his way. No matter how many generals come along and tell him he should resign, he ignores them. He says there are thousands more generals who support him. Another lie. There are hundreds of generals in the military, not thousands. He takes their silence as compliance. But they saw what happened to Shinseki. They're not blind. Rumsfeld's a vindictive man.
General #8
Retired Lieutenant General Paul Van Riper, a three-star general who retired in 1997, told Fox News that Mr Rumsfeld was not capable of leading the Pentagon effort in Iraq. He is the eighth former general to call for Mr Rumsfeld to step down.
CrooksandLiars Fux gnus Video
Is he the eighth, ninth or tenth?

Gen. Eric Shinseki, former Army Chief of Staff
Marine Gen. Anthony Zinni, former CENTCOM commander
Lt.Gen. Greg Newbold, Director of Operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Maj.Gen. John Batiste, former 1st Infantry Division commander
Maj.Gen. Charles Swannack, former commander of the 82d Airborne Division in Iraq
Maj.Gen. John Riggs who, after 39 years in the Army, retired from the Pentagon in 2005
Maj.Gen. Paul Eaton, who oversaw training of Iraqi troops from 2003-2004
Gen. Wesley Clark, former NATO Supreme Allied Commander.
If one counts General Karpinski who took the fall for Abu Ghraib, that makes ten.


General Van Riper on PBS, July 2004
Van Riper on PBS, July 2004

I know [Deputy Secretary of Defense] Paul Wolfowitz was angry and upset. Were you aware that that kind of dynamic was happening?

I was not aware of things that Richard Perle had been doing and that Mr. Wolfowitz had been doing at the time. But sitting now here in 2004, I take great umbrage at what they were doing. Here's a group with no military experience. And then you add on top of that, you actively avoided service in period of war, Vietnam, as the gentlemen are alleged to do? I take great umbrage that they would have anything to say about the military policies of this country.

Rumsfeld's War
Rumsfeld Timeline

Ahaaaa, Not Just Generals Junior Officers Join Iraq Debate.

Well, Rummy? Gonna fire the whole military?

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Faulty Intelligence My Ass

Bush: "We went to war on faulty intelligence December 14, 2005
President Bush has admitted for the first time that his decision to go to war in Iraq was based on faulty intelligence. But he still said that the decision to remove Saddam Hussein had been "the right one".
The Bush administration lied to us. The Neocons wanted to attack Iraq. They lied to us about the "intelligence" they claimed to have. They showed us pictures that looked like cartoons and told us more lies. Bush kicked the weapons inspectors out of Iraq and claimed Saddam had done it. Scott Ritter tried to tell everyone, they smeared him. Their own inspector, David Kaye knew they were lying but they made him shut up until after the SOU Jan. 2003 They KNEW they were lying to us.
Spies coming in from the cold...to 60 Minutes.

"Intelligence, Policy,and the War in Iraq"
By Paul R. Pillar
In the wake of the Iraq war, it has become clear that official intelligence analysis was not relied on in making even the most significant national security decisions, that intelligence was misused publicly to justify decisions already made, that damaging ill will developed between policymakers and intelligence officers, and that the intelligence community's own work was politicized. As the national intelligence officer responsible for the Middle East from 2000 to 2005, I witnessed all of these disturbing developments.

How many experts have to come out and tell the truth before people believe it? How many more have to die? Incredibly, thanks to propaganda and a complicit media, some people in this country STILL believe that Saddam Hussein had something to do with 9/11 and had WMDs. No matter how many bombshells explode the myths, the TV news is still NON-news and total bullshit. Fucking Aruba. Natalee Holloway's real claim to fame is the way her death is being exploited as a major diversion from the crimes of the worst administration in history.
More proof the cabal lied: "The policy was set. The war in Iraq was coming and they were looking for intelligence to fit into the policy."-Tyler Drumheller.
CBS 60 Minutes: CIA Official Reveals Bush, Cheney, Rice Were Personally Told Iraq Had No WMD in Fall 2002-Video at link.

A 26-year veteran of the agency — has decided to do something CIA officials at his level almost never do: Speak out.

He tells correspondent Ed Bradley the real failure was not in the intelligence community but in the White House. He says he saw how the Bush administration, time and again, welcomed intelligence that fit the president's determination to go to war and turned a blind eye to intelligence that did not.
"It just sticks in my craw every time I hear them say it’s an intelligence failure. It’s an intelligence failure. This was a policy failure," Drumheller tells Bradley.
Drumheller was the CIA's top man in Europe, the head of covert operations there, until he retired a year ago. He says he saw firsthand how the White House promoted intelligence it liked and ignored intelligence it didn’t:
"The idea of going after Iraq was U.S. policy. It was going to happen one way or the other," says Drumheller.

Tyler Drumheller can now expect to be smeared and have his life ruined as his reward for bravely coming forward with the truth. Fux Gnus CNN and MSNBC will tear him to shreds. Rumsfeld and Cheney will simply refuse to answer questions, Lieboy and Condosleeza will continue to lie.

Meanwhile, the CIA had made a major intelligence breakthrough on Iraq’s nuclear program. Naji Sabri, Iraq’s foreign minister, had made a deal to reveal Iraq’s military secrets to the CIA. Drumheller was in charge of the operation.

"This was a very high inner circle of Saddam Hussein. Someone who would know what he was talking about," Drumheller says.

"You knew you could trust this guy?" Bradley asked.

"We continued to validate him the whole way through," Drumheller replied.
According to Drumheller, CIA Director George Tenet delivered the news about the Iraqi foreign minister at a high-level meeting at the White House, including the president, the vice president and Secretary of State Rice.
At that meeting, Drumheller says, "They were enthusiastic because they said, they were excited that we had a high-level penetration of Iraqis."

What did this high-level source tell him?

"He told us that they had no active weapons of mass destruction program," says Drumheller.

"So in the fall of 2002, before going to war, we had it on good authority from a source within Saddam's inner circle that he didn't have an active program for weapons of mass destruction?" Bradley asked.

"Yes," Drumheller replied. He says there was doubt in his mind at all.

"It directly contradicts, though, what the president and his staff were telling us," Bradley remarked.

"The policy was set," Drumheller says. "The war in Iraq was coming. And they were looking for intelligence to fit into the policy, to justify the policy."
Drumheller expected the White House to ask for more information from the Iraqi foreign minister.

But he says he was taken aback by what happened. "The group that was dealing with preparation for the Iraq war came back and said they're no longer interested," Drumheller recalls. "And we said, 'Well, what about the intel?' And they said, 'Well, this isn't about intel anymore. This is about regime change.'"
"And if I understand you correctly, when the White House learned that you had this source from the inner circle of Saddam Hussein, they were thrilled with that," Bradley asked.

"The first we heard, they were. Yes," Drumheller replied.
Once they learned what it was the source had to say — that Saddam Hussein did not have the capability to wage nuclear war or have an active WMD program, Drumheller says, "They stopped being interested in the intelligence."

The White House declined to respond to Drumheller's account of Naji Sabri’s role, but Secretary of State Rice has said that Sabri, the Iraqi foreign minister turned U.S. spy, was just one source, and therefore his information wasn’t reliable.

Video also available at Think Progress

Further from 60 Minutes:
The White House declined 60 Minutes' request for an interview for this story, but Dan Bartlett, Counselor to the President, wrote us:

"The President’s convictions about Saddam Hussein's possession of WMD were based on the collective judgment of the intelligence community at that time. Bipartisan investigations … found no evidence of political pressure to influence the pre-war intelligence assessments of Iraq’s weapons programs." And he added: "Saddam Hussein never abandoned his plan to acquire WMD, and he posed a serious threat to the American people and to the region."

On March 7, 2003, the head of the United Nations' nuclear watchdog agency announced that the Niger uranium documents were forgeries. The Bush administration went to war in Iraq 12 days later, without acknowledging that one of its main arguments for going to war was false.

Four months later, Wilson, who had gone to Niger and found nothing to substantiate the uranium rumor, went public and wrote a piece for The New York Times claiming that the Bush Administration had "twisted" the intelligence on Iraq:

"This was really an attempt to get the government to acknowledge that the 16 words should never have been in the State of the Union Address. It was as simple as that. If you are going to mislead the American people and you're caught at it, you ought to fess up to it," says Wilson.

One day after Wilson's piece appeared, the White House acknowledged the president should not have used the uranium claim. But according to newly released court records, the vice president’s chief of staff, Scooter Libby, leaked classified intelligence to reporters a day later in an effort to bolster the uranium story. What Scooter Libby didn’t tell reporters is that the White House had been warned before the State of the Union speech not to use the Niger uranium claim.

"At the same time they were admitting the words should not have been in the State of the Union address, they were, we now know, sending Libby out to selectively leak only those pieces that continued to support this allegation that was baseless. In other words, they were furthering the disinformation campaign," says Wilson.

"The American people want to believe the president. I have relatives who I've tried to talk to about this who say, 'Well, no, you can’t tell me the president had this information and just ignored it,'" says Drumheller. "But I think over time, people will look back on this and see this is going to be one of the great, I think, policy mistakes of all time."

They continue to lie. "Bring 'em on." the Liar on July 2, 2003. Okay, we will. Impeachment after the elections...if they're not rigged by machines.

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Bin Laden's Amazing Timing

A new Bin Laden tape. Hmmm. How bloody convenient.White House sez it's the real McCoy. Hahaha. IF it's Bin Laden and IF it's real and IF, IF, IF....followed by terra alert, terra alert, terra alert. How many times will the sheeple fall for this shit? As many times as it's crammed down their bleating throats. How stupid are people? Apparently they'll buy anything. Why NOW? The Cabal is trying to rustle up support for their phony war on terror to attack Iran. But gas prices are skyrocketing and Chimp's poll numbers are skydiving. The tried and true methods of thugs throughout history is to make the masses fearful. If it's not terrorists, it's the flu, or economic insecurity. When people start to question them it's time for another "unverifiable" Bin Laden appearance.

The White House has said it believes a tape attributed to Osama bin Laden - in which he criticises the West - is authentic.
The Arab satellite television station, Al-Jazeera, today aired the tape which it reported was the voice of bin Laden, in which he accuses the West of waging war against Islam by trying to isolate the new Palestinian government.
The Islamic militant movement, Hamas, which leads the Palestinian government, is trying to distance itself from the comments in the tape.
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Statement from bin Laden aired on Al Jazeera
Following are translated excerpts from the audio tape broadcast by Al Jazeera television:

"Their (the West's) rejection of Hamas affirms that it is a Crusader-Zionist war against Muslims. Having said that, we reaffirm what Sheikh Ayman al-Zawahri said warning that there is a taboo against joining infidel assemblies (parliaments)."

"The war is a responsibility shared between the people and the governments. The war goes on and the people are renewing their allegiance to its rulers and masters. They send their sons to armies to fight us and they continue their financial and moral support while our countries are burned and our houses are bombed and our people are killed and no one cares for us. What your ally, Israel, did by invading and demolishing the Jericho prison with complicity from the United States and Britain is example enough about the flagrant violations against our nation and brothers."

After "the Ottoman state was divided into tens of countries ... Britain came to separate Sudan from Egypt and returned again to Sudan trying to separate its south so it formed an army from the people of the south and supported it with money, weapons and expertise and directed them to demand secession from Sudan, then the United States adopted this army with moral and material support through its international tools such as the United Nations and applied pressure on the government of Sudan to sign an unjust agreement that allows the south to break away after six years from signing the deal."

"Let (Sudanese President Omar Hassan) al-Bashir and (U.S. President George W. Bush) Bush know that this agreement is not worth the ink in which it was written with and does not oblige us in the least. The United States did not get enough with all of this strife and crimes but went on to stir further strife, the biggest of which was its strife in Sudan; using some differences between some tribesmen, and turned them into a blind war between them that destroys all in preparation to send crusader troops to occupy the region and steal its oil under the guise of preserving security there."

"This is a continuous Crusader-Zionist war against Muslims. In this regard, I call on the mujahideen and their supporters in Sudan ... and the (Arabian) Peninsula to prepare all that is necessary to wage a long-term war against the Crusaders in western Sudan not in defence of the Khartoum government, even though our interests may be mutual, as our differences with it are great."

"It is enough that it abandoned the implementation of sharia law and neglected the south and I call on the mujahideen to learn about the land and tribes of the Darfur province and the parts around it. It has been said that a man with knowledge can conquer land while land can conquer the ignorant."

"It is worth noting that the land there is nearing a season of rain which hampers movement and blocks dirt roads; this is one of the key reasons that delayed the (Western) occupation for six more months."

"It is scornful to people that your warplanes and tanks are destroying houses over the heads of our folk and children in Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan, Chechnya, and Pakistan then you smile at us (Muslims) and say that we are not enemies of Islam but enemies of terrorists and call for peaceful co-existence and dialogue instead of the conflict of cultures. Reality shows that they lie."

"The politicians of the West do not want dialogue other than for the sake of dialogue to gain time. And they do not want a truce unless it is from our side only. You have learned about our response to their opinion polls in their countries through our offer of a truce after they pull out their armies and stop harming us and they rejected all that."

"They insist on continuing their crusader campaigns against our nation and to loot our wealth and enslave us. Do not be fooled by their words or those of the hypocrites and apostates from our kin."

The October Surprise before the Coup of 2004:

Bin Laden Warns U.S. Voters
'Your Security Is in Your Own Hands,' He Says on Videotape
Osama bin Laden injected himself into the final days of the U.S. presidential campaign, warning that American voters will be held accountable for electing any president who seeks to destroy al Qaeda and persecutes Muslims.
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A month later the thugs won another coup.
How real are these tapes? We won't ever know since the CIA does the analysis and translation. Some have tried to tell the truth but as usual, NO coverage here on MSM Gnus. If it doesn't happen on TV...it didn't happen. It's important to focus what's going on with the Neocons at the time a Bin Laden tape/audio/rumor release. One was released a year after 9/11 as Lieboy was twisting arms at the UN. Another tape was released while Shitboy was begging for dough from Asia to "reconstruct" Iraq. One was conveneient released a month before the Neothugs attacked Iraq.


Mistranslated Osama bin Laden Video - the German Press Investigates
23 Dec 2001. A German TV show found that the White House's translation of the "confession" video was not only inaccurate, but even "manipulative".
No reason to believe that Bin Laden’s tapes are authentic-Jan. 21, 2006

Democrats rip failure to find bin Laden.


Where the hell IS Bin Laden IF he's so busy out there still sending tapes at oh-so-convenient moments. Chimpy doesn't give a shit. He got his war.
Dead or alive
Q:Do you want bin Laden dead?
BUSH:"I want justice. There's an old poster out west, as I recall, that said, "Wanted: Dead or Alive."
Q:Are you saying you want him dead or alive, sir?
BUSH:I just remember, all I'm doing is remembering when I was a kid I remember that they used to put out there in the old west, a wanted poster. It said: "Wanted, Dead or Alive." All I want and America wants him brought to justice. That's what we want.
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I don't know where he is.
Bush:"Deep in my heart I know the man is on the run, if he's alive at all. Who knows if he's hiding in some cave or not; we haven't heard from him in a long time. And the idea of focusing on one person is -- really indicates to me people don't understand the scope of the mission.
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So I don't know where he is. You know, I just don't spend that much time on him,

So, either Bush produces Bin Laden before the November Elections or another tape wil suddenly show up in, oh, say, October. Americans, trained to live in fear, will buy it either way.

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"Don't Talk To Me!" "Drop Back!"

Sickening display by the Hypocrite in chief. Bush Takes Muddy Bike Ride on Earth Day Mountain Bike One? Is he delusional? Oh, that's right, yes, he is. What the hell does this frat boy know about EARTH day?
"I still ride the mountain bike primarily to help settle the soul and to burn off the excess energy one gets when you're living life to its fullest," Bush told an Associated Press reporter who accompanied him on the ride. If it was the author of this piece, Scott Lindlaw, he was riding along with his tongue up Chimp's ass. Disgustingly glowing "story" of which any "journalist" should be ashamed.

"We're able to enjoy the beauty without really disrupting the pristine nature of the place," the mud-splattered president said after the 65-minute ride. "It's a classic way for mankind to enjoy God's gift. Plus, we get some exercise." Oh, for God's sake, you bloody hypocrite. You're as disruptive to this planet as any man in history.

"I don't spend a lot of time chitchatting," Bush said after the ride. "But I get great pleasure in riding with a group of people, and afterward we shoot the breeze and have fun and laugh and go about our way." In Cheney's case, he shoots the other people. If you like the group of people so much how come you won't let them talk to you, liar? Besides, your "chitchatting" is hardly eloquent.

One of the bicycle-borne agents had mapped out the route, and he was the only person who knew where to turn when the road forked. Bush, however, made plain he was in charge. "Drop back," the commander in chief ordered the agent, with a thumb over his shoulder.The president explained later that he cherishes both the solitude and the social aspect of mountain biking. Let me get this straight, he loves the solitude but he brings along SUVs filled with men carrying machine guns and an entourage big enough to close down all the local roads and keep the protesters away.

"Generally when I ride it is the one time when I feel alone, even though I know people are behind me," he said. "I ask people a lot of times not to be in my line of vision because all I can see straight ahead is, you know, space." Hey buddy, we'll give you all the space you need if you'll just resign. We really don't want you to feel people are in your way. We know you like to have them killed.

Often, he said, when he is riding with his usual group near Washington he plugs headphones into his ears and cranks up his iPod, "and it's like I'm alone."We can assign you to solitary confinement cell after your war crimes trial and you can be alone for the rest of your life. Why didn't you ride your damned bike over near the levees you refused to fund. Get the hell out of our state, asswipe.
More tripe: Text of pResident Bush's radio address, I don't know how he can read this stuff.
Saturday is Earth Day, and many of you are asking how we can meet our growing energy needs while protecting our environment. The key is technology. So I have proposed the Advanced Energy Initiative to change the way we power our homes, businesses, and cars. I will visit the California Fuel Cell Partnership to take a closer look at hydrogen fuel cells, one of the exciting new technologies supported by my initiative. These fuel cells have the potential to revolutionize the way we power our cars by giving us vehicles that will emit no pollution and will be more efficient than gas-powered cars.
My Advanced Energy Initiative will also help improve hybrid vehicles -- cars and trucks that run partly on electricity and help drivers save gas. We're funding research into a new generation of plug-in hybrid vehicles that could be recharged in electrical outlets and could allow many drivers to make their daily commute using no gasoline.
Right, is that after you've sucked all the oil out of the planet ensuring billions more for you, Cheney and all your oil company executives? If Bush is saying Hydrogen is the fuel of the future, the Neocons must already own shares. Unless there's a profit in it for them, they don't do anything. "Don't buy gas if you don't need it."-Lieboy's solution.

Statement by President Bush on Iraq. Text at link...he took time at a nice safe CHP Academy away from the public again to issue a load of codswallop about Iraq. Months of patient negotiations? Bush isn't patient, he bombs first and doesn't ask questions later. Whoever wrote this "speech" for him is a liar too. No matter how many times they lie and say things are going well in Iraq it's just not true. The only thing going well for the thugs is the speedy completion of the largest U.S. Embassy in the world, outside Baghdad.
Sure seems like all Bush did was tell lies and ride his bike. He's got to keep up his stamina for all those psycopathic LIES he tells.

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Lieboy! Get the HELL Out of California!

We don't want you here, you killer! Go back to Crawford! Why did I have to pay $3.49 a gallon for gas today you bastard? The whole spectacle was disgusting. Ahnuld did NOT look happy and shitboy looked smug.
Ahnuld snubbed Bush on his last two visits; he should have done it again. This photo op backfired. Bush denied Federal money for the failing California levees. The Terminator failed to get the money, instead Bush is "allowing" the Army Corps of engineers to work on the levees, using $23 million of CA taxes instead. Ahnuld did all that Chertoff schmoozing for nothing. Ahnuld should have known Bush would want to stick it to Big Blue in any way he could. Fabian Nuñez, the Democratic speaker of the state Assembly, cast the White House response as, "Bush to California: Drop dead."
Ahnuld has hired a Rove boy, Steve Schmidt, to be his campaign manager. It figures since Rove put him into the Governor role with the phony Davis recall. Stupid move; it shows further who calls the shots for Arnie.On the national scene, Schmidt earned his reputation as a steely political strategist who ran the Bush 2004 war room and became a member of the exclusive Breakfast Club, the small group of top operatives who planned the campaign during regular meetings at the home of White House political strategist Karl Rove.
Today's desperate public meeting with the floundering buffoon won't pump up Arnold's limping campaign, It was a faux pas to be seen with Mr. 33% approval rating. Schwarzenegger showed more poor judgement the day before Dubya visited. He shouldn't have criticized the thugs if he wanted dough, they punish disloyal party members. "We are one big storm or one big earthquake away from a major disaster just like Katrina," Schwarzenegger said. "Everyone seems to understand that but the federal government." Whoops. Arrogant Bush had to show Ahnuld who's in charge. The Terminator will likely lose his job (hopefully) and be forced back into bad acting. Bush continued bitch slapping Ahnuld who graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a business B.A. in 1979:
Average student Bush urges Americans to study.
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Stressing the importance of college, he turned to the former action movie star and said: 'You did get out of college, yes? Look, I don't need to be talking; I barely got out, myself.' (C student)He was in the high-tech region to talk with business leaders about improved training for high tech workers. As usual, protesters showed up but were kept blocks away and arrests were made...the land of the free and the home of the brave.

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Hu Boy

A lone Chinese dissenter was allowed to sneak onto the White House grounds for Hu-Jintao's speech. Funny, no American dissenters ever manage to get in unless they're bonkers or have a suspicious package to deposit. Guilty of "disorderly conduct" the woman piped up oh-so-conveniently after the moron-in-chief hinted at human rights violations in the land that owns us.
Something tells me Hu isn't used to being manhandled.

CNN made a fuss about how the feed was blocked in China. Um, CNN where's all that footage WE don't get to see from Iraq, American protests, investigations into our corrupt government? Hypocrites. Strangely, there's currently no story about the woman yelling for Hu to stop killing people at CNN's site. (There's a link that goes to Michelle Malevolent Malkin's site but I won't venture into that cesspool of right wing hatred.) However, hindustantimes has picked it up. Human rights? Hahahaha. China pointed that finger right back at us. (Older post on topic here)

Today Hu stated he's furthering "freedom and democracy" in China. Who does THAT sound like? Hu isn't budging. No matter how the White House spins this one, China is standing firm and getting what they want. Boeing, Microsoft deals, and ignoring what lame duck boy has to say. China needs more planes. Many of the Boeing parts are made in China. Who benefits from this deal? Hu benefits. That's who. Moron embarrassed us further during the "press" conference. "I appreciate that...he's(Hu) used the word 'win-win'...I appreciate the (Chinese government's) commitment to access (their market)...exports to China are up by 21%", said beaming Oaf-face. "And that means jobs." (Smirk) "A common goal is to stop Iran from having a nyookular weapon. A second goal is to be in a position where we can work on tactics..UN Security Council Chapter 7...to send a common message to the Iranians...concern about the Iranian mission. China's an important voice in international affairs I will continue to work with the president to strategize."
Hu asked Bush about furthering relations between U.S. and China. Chimp said at his first commencement address as pResident, he noticed "Notre Dame had many Chinese students with advanced degrees; exchange of students leading to lasting understanding, leading to future relations. Exchanges in the arts, sports exchanges, Yao Ming, he's a perpetual exchange, the Olympics, there are all kinds of ways to have exchanges...a lot of people-to-people exchanges." Then, as his earpiece had clogged up with wax, Chimposaurus ended the occasion abruptly. It's clear we lost. Bush put a good face on the meeting but Hu won.

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Who's in Charge?

Let's pretend Dubya is in charge.

Video, I'm the Decider; crooksandliars: Here

The leader of the free world?

Shuffleupagus rectumus. Rove on the loose, Snotty cut loose. Loose cannon still in place. The real power is DarthCheney himself, along with his close pal and co-worker from waaay back, Rummy.

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Snotty Quit? Pass the Kleenex

The propaganda games out of the White House just got more desperate. Laughingstock press spokestwit Scotty Dog Quits in the take no prisoners shuffle at the White House. Looks like Rummy is moving a few people in to handle the propaganda and Karl has been untethered to fix the 2006 elections and be a tad less visible around the White House.


MClellan Resigns
WASHINGTON - White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove gave up some of his responsibilities and White House press secretary Scott McClellan announced his resignation Wednesday, continuing a shake-up in President Bush's administration that has already yielded a new chief of staff.
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But now, the job of deputy chief of staff for policy is being given to Joel Kaplan, the deputy budget director.
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Asked whether the change in Rove's role was akin to what he used to do as political director, McClellan responded "I wouldn't look at it that way. ... Karl is someone who has always been intimately involved in the strategic planning and addressing these bigger strategic issues and this will free him up to do more of that."
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McClellan is expected to remain in his job until a successor is named. Among those under consideration are Tony Snow, a former White House speechwriter under the first President Bush, former Pentagon spokeswoman Victoria Clarke and Dan Senor, a former coalition spokesman after the invasion of Iraq, according to Republican officials.
Rove gave up some of his responsibilities? I doubt it...he just shifted gears.Is Fitzgerald getting closer? Or has this move enabled him to devote more of his disgusting time to smearing Democrats? Darn, no more Scotty Dog to kick around, to be replaced by? Pick your trial balloon. Dan Senor was a senior adviser to Bremer in Iraq, more recently hired by, gasp, Google. Victoria (Torie)Clark is a known Pentagon, turned TV "analyst", whore. For ghod's sake, Tony Snow is straight out of Fux Gnus, Cheney's favorite channel. Joel Kaplan was a "helper" in Florida's stolen election. They're not exactly replacing the unethical with the ethical here. The names are changing but the criminals are simply changing seats. Revolving door, Hello, Goodbye.The whole thing reeks of cover-up, clamping down on "news" and the release of the hounds...Rover. It looks like the thugs have decided to exert a steel grip on all "news" we're allowed to hear. Let the stonewalling commence, but harder, harder. They like it harder. Who the hell are they trying to kid here? Helen Thomas will never again be allowed to ask a question.
Wait, CNN's reporting a huge explosion in Kabul, the forgotten war in Afghanistan, near UN HQ, first reported as the US Embassy. God, these neothugs are good at diversion and distraction. Lieboy is, after all, THE war pResident. Time to show shome TERRA on TV so folks don't think about the shake-up under Rummy's rule. It's that or Aruba, or lacrosse players committing rape.
A novel idea: Just give us the TRUTH!

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Phone Jamming? Pass the Popcorn

Be still my heart. The New York Times reported cheating in the Senatorial race in New Hampshire.(A Small-Time Crime With Hints of Big-Time Connections Lights Up the Net) A few of us out here noticed but this crime pales in comparison to other lies and skullduggery committed by the new right. There's a mountain of crimes to be apoplectic over. Until Judith Miller a NYT "journalist" is exposed as the liar she is I don't have much faith in the Times. Until that load of lies gets a proper airing, I don't see what all the fuss is about. It's just a little phone jamming by Republicans to cheat Democrats. In the grand scheme of underhanded and illegal techniques used by Rove's Storm Troopers this little incident in New Hampshire is nothing. A drop in the crooked infested bucket.


In 2000 the Miami Brooks Brothers Riots to stop the presidential vote counting got scant attention. Out of state Republicans suddenly had to protest the vote count. The Washington Post did a good little follow-up on them but I don't recall Wolf-the-whore-Blitzer mentioning anything about it. I don't recall headlines in the major newspapers announcing the theft of presidential elections. I don't recall Fox Gnus EVER reporting much truth. I don't recall Chris-the-tool-Matthews hardening his balls to report the truth. I don't recall what a free press looks like.

Here's what some of the others went on to do:
No. 1. Tom Pyle, who had worked for Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Tex.), went private sector a few months later, getting a job as director of federal affairs for Koch Industries.
No. 7. Roger Morse, another House aide, moved on to the law and lobbying firm Preston Gates Ellis & Rouvelas Meeds. "I was also privileged to lead a team of Republicans to Florida to help in the recount fight," he told a legal trade magazine in a 2003 interview.
No. 8. Duane Gibson, an aide on the House Resources Committee, was a solo lobbyist and formerly with the Greenberg Traurig lobby operation. He is now with the Livingston Group as a consultant.
No. 9. Chuck Royal was and still is a legislative assistant to Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), a former House member.
No. 10. Layna McConkey Peltier, who had been a Senate and House aide and was at Steelman Health Strategies during the effort, is now at Capital Health Group.

The rest of them couldn't be found. It was only noticed by those of us who want to know the truth, apparently a minority. John Bolton was one of many wingnut lawyers sent by Republicans to scrutinize Florida chads. John who? Instead of any investigation into who those angry people in Florida were and what their motives could possibly be, the counting was stopped because it was "disruptive" and the Supreme Court was used to declare George W. Bush president. Democrats who actually won the election were told to get over it and stop being such sore losers. There's reason to believe Justice O'Connor was worried she couldn't retire unless Bush "won" the election. Bush vs. Gore was a tainted travesty of justice.
Rigged computerized voting machines, known as Black Box Voting, have been used nationwide to count our votes. These same voting machine companies are owned by Republicans, easy to hack, yet no conflict of interest is seen? Diebold, ES&S, Sequoia, all had suspicious results. In Florida and other states voters were disenfranchised for no good reason other than being Democrats. Howling over cheating has gone on nationwide but has been ignored by mainstream media or painted as sour grapes.
Why get our knickers in a twist over a little friendly phone jamming?
Watergate had the nation riveted. We knew Nixon was a liar. Could corruption at the highest levels be stopped? Only by little mistakes. We "accidentally" found out about the White House tapes. We "accidentally" found out that burglars had broken into the Watergate offices of Democrats. Dirty campaign tricks were synonymous with the Nixon mob, Lee Atwater, Karl Rove, and other cheat-to-win shady characters; supposedly an anomaly. Instead they turn out to have been honing their skills then for the big coup of 2000 followed by the big coup of 2004. Ohio was rigged with barely any atttention paid. And we're to expect some justice now out of a little phone jamming scheme in a tiny little state with few electoral votes. Heck, it's just Sununu jr. His daddy was worse, wasnt't he?
Karl Rove's actions from the day he was a College Republican until now have always been shady and underhanded, dare I say illegal? And we're now supposed to get a glimmer of hope that justice and truth will prevail because somebody's phone was busy? Give me a break. This country has descended into crooked politics even Nixon could only imagine in his wildest dreams, and this will go absolutely nowhere.
These days we're "allowed" to get excited about a couple of "gotcha" moments, so we don't revolt, while we're being robbed blind and people are dying behind the scenes and the PNAC gang pursues stated goals. It keeps us busy and gives us hope. Just enough hope that the system will actually work this time so that we don't say enough is enough and storm the Bastille. Hitler would be so proud of the Bushes. He liked Prescott, he'd LOVE Dubya. They've perfected thuggery and seemingly affected fewer victims. What Americans aren't noticing is that in the interim the Constitution has been dismantled and the treasury has been emptied.
Phone jamming. Hahahaha. Maybe one or two people will go to jail for a couple of years...if that. Shut up Americans who don't like it. Anyone who disagrees with such criminal, make that fair play activities is just a whiner and WILL be smeared by the White House machine.
It's time for the Mrs. Twitty/Foghorn Cosby show to take up some more air time. Let's get our priorities straight. A blonde girl missing from Aruba is so much more important than the destruction of Democracy. Thanks winger-owned media. We sure appreciate your help in exposing all the corruption. But unless it's on television, Americans continue consuming while they still can, oblivious to the deficit, oblivious to the actions of the most corrupt bunch of thugs known to mankind. George Bush is a proven liar. Another crooked liar:The Tom Delay connection to New Hampshire phone jamming.
We're in a war based on Neocon lies. Turns out it was about the oil and power. The joke's on us. All's fair in hate and war. Just ask a Bush. The New York Times article states, "We know the questions to ask." The problem is that nobody has to answer any questions at all. Justice is now the anomaly.

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Neocons Nuking Nevada

Nyookular, nyukular, newculer, it's still a bomb. The idiot doesn't have to be able to pronounce the word correctly to "decide" to drop them. Lieboy and his mob are insane. Nuclear test, Divine Strake, is scheduled to occur in Nevada on June 2, 2006. The P-Nackers love to give rollicking fun names to their bombs and attacks. This test dovetails nicely with Neocon plans to blow up Iran. Practice makes perfect.
I dunno, if I lived in Las Vegas, I might be making plans to leave those bright lights behind.
Pentagon Plans Explosion at Nevada Site
The Pentagon plans to detonate 700 tons of conventional high explosives in Nevada in a June 2 test designed to gauge the effectiveness of weapons against deeply buried targets, officials said on March 30. "All explosives, given the right thermal characteristics, will create a cloud that may resemble a mushroom cloud," the Defense Threat Reduction Agency said in a statement. "The dust cloud from Divine Strake may reach an altitude of 10,000 feet (3,048 meters) and is not expected to be visible off the Nevada Test Site." Tegnelia said because of the power of the explosion, officials will notify Russia and make sure authorities in Las Vegas understand the test.
Understand? Understand WHAT? That they might glow in the dark or DIE of some horrible illness that the government will deny happened? Bush is testing out nyukyular weapons to practice for Iran bunker busting and earth shattering and KILLING.Randi Rhodes was on Lou Dobbs today. She brought up the Nevada nuclear test. She also tossed in Lieboy's obvious insanity. Heh heh. I wonder what Lou's more "conservative" viewers thought about that? She told Lou many of her callers and listeners are concerned that Bush is insane or on drugs. I'd say BOTH and I'm a caller and listener. Lou clearly likes her...hell, she's funny and informed. The best kind of woman! She talks fast and gets her points in. That's what Liberals have to do to be heard over the winger's droning talking points. Clip of both segments courtesy of JordyMJohnson's blog, virtualmatter.

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More on the insanity. YIKES! In hour two of the Randi Rhodes show, she and Dr. Justin Frank, author of Bush On The Couch discussed the brain of George Bush. Scary stuff. Nothing new to those of us paying attention and reading, just more validation. What a sick family. But we knew that too. Short audio clip Listen here, just enough to whet one's appetite. The tip of the psychological iceberg. The archives aren't up yet. It's worth listening to those segments. Apparently George has no compassion for the suffering of others due to his absent father and cold bitch of a mother. (Okay, I added bitch, well, she IS.) The day after Dubya's younger sister died, Poppy and Bar went off to play golf and never even had a funeral. It explains why death is such a foreign concept to the little lad. He can't attend troop funerals. He feels nothing. Perhaps he thought he'd disappear next? Part of his defense mechanism is to not need anything or anyone. Translation, he's arrogant, cock-sure of himself, and bullheaded. So he just can't play nicely with others. Or animals. He blew up frogs as a kid. He should have been in therapy then. Instead he went on to drink too much. And we let this man have his paws on the big red button that could finish off the world? Fool me once...and we can't go home again.

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Blockhead

I see Wiki has edited the truth out of this bio:
WikiBio
Following family tradition, he attended prep school in New England, at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, the same school his father attended. Bush then enrolled in Yale University, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in History in 1968. As a senior, Bush was a member of the secretive Skull and Bones society, as was his father. In May 1968, at the height of the Vietnam War, he entered the Texas Air National Guard. He trained in the guard for two years, where he was among the last to learn to fly the F-102, a plane not used in Vietnam and due to be retired. Bush was promoted to First Lieutenant in November 1970 at the recommendation of his commander Lt. Col. Jerry B. Killian. He served as an F-102 pilot until 1972.

In 1974, he obtained permission to end his six-year service obligation six months early in order to attend Harvard Business School, where he earned his Master of Business Administration (MBA) in 1975; he is the first U.S. president to hold an MBA. After graduation, Bush returned to Texas to enter the oil business. Two years later, he married Laura Welch, a school librarian originally from Midland, Texas. Their twin daughters Barbara and Jenna Bush were born in 1981. Bush is the only U.S. president to father twins.

No mention of the abortion he obtained for a girlfriend. No mention of the fact that he and Pickles were in the middle of adopting a baby boy whom they sent back after their fertility treatments kicked in. No mention of the fact he was AWOL for 18 months. No mention of his arrest for DUI and for cocaine. No mention of his court ordered stint of community service that he now claims he did out of the goodness of his heart. No mention of his absolute failure as a "businessman" and subsequent bailouts by daddy's friends, including Saudis.
Proof Wiki can't be trusted to tell the truth.

He's a blockhead. A stupid, mean and conniving blockhead.

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The Great Pretender Hears Voices

Bush today declared,
"I hear the voices and I read the front page and I know the speculation," the president told reporters in the Rose Garden. "But I'm the decider and I decide what's best. And what's best is for Don Rumsfeld to remain as the secretary of defense."
He talks to Ghod, he hears voices, and he gets to decide the fate of the world?
I don't think so. The P-Nackers get to decide. George can go for a shot of whiskey now. Mission Accomplished. The generals who questioned his fucked up war are being maligned as traitors and all is well back in the Dark House. Oh, a little personnel shuffle too. Portman's in...Snow on his way out. That trial balloon was floated last week for the MSM to get their needed heads-up their own asses. Back to Aruba for the truly important news of the day. The MSM tools refuse to admit this administration is totally corrupt and inept. They're collaberators, aiders and abettors and equally culpable. And all for a hefty paycheck. Treasonous assholes!
Too real is this feeling of make believe, The Great Pretender/Decider.
Video, at bradblog.com I'm the decider...

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