Bush has a staged chat with troops

**Lazul** · 10-14-2005, 09:30

Well this is kinda intresting, why would bush not have a fair and open chat with the troops and let them ask and answer freely what ever they want.

http://www.overspun.com/video/CNN.BushFakesIt.wmv

**InsaneApache** · 10-14-2005, 09:54

'Shrubs' obviously had a pointer or two from his buddy Bliar. Bliar won't let 'ordinary' people anywhere near him, never mind ask him a question that Bliar did'n't approve of first.

It's the way poitics has gone over the last decade or so. As long as people allow this to take place without sanction (ie dont elect these lying liars) then things will only get more rehearsed and spun......

I fear for the future.

**Tribesman** · 10-14-2005, 11:03

I don't get it , where is the rest of the footage of them being "schooled" ?

GC it seems to be , unless someone can provide full details of the briefing that show otherwise , completely different from those other cases you mention .

**lancelot** · 10-14-2005, 11:42

Originally Posted by Gelatinous Cube

The Bush administration is the worst yet for having absolutely farces with regards to public relations. Plants in the whitehouse press room (The Gay Porn Star fellow), (shoddy) doctoring of photos to make it look like there are more people attending a speach than there actually are (The Daily Show did a good bit on this one--The Picture was of such poor quality that you could clearly see the exact same person standing 3 people over from himself.), pre-packaged State Department Propaganda (the infamous video of an Iraqi-American saying "I love Bush, I love USA."), ect. ect.

Totally antithetical to the way I think a leader should approach the people who supposedly elected him, of course.

God bless democracy eh?

On a serious note I thought that film was a lot less suspect than I cynically expect from anything that comes from the white house these days. And to be fair I could see that perhaps this was done for to simply help the guys out of a jam if they start to ramble or whatnot...I was expecting 'Bush will say this, you WILL answer with THIS!'

**Reverend Joe** · 10-14-2005, 13:52

Originally Posted by Gelatinous Cube

Blame it on the fact that the people calling the shots may as well be landed nobility.

They're not already? Seriously, this adminsitration is going absolutely pravda on us. I mean, Fox news was bad enough...

Still, this is one of the sure signs that western civilization is on a severe decline, and we are headed for a serious dark age.

**Redleg** · 10-14-2005, 13:58

Lets see the Pentagon spokesperson was telling the troops what questions President Bush was going to ask them. Now how is that a bad thing? Hell there was even a joke about if the President or a servicemember begins to stutter the Captain was to grap the mike and begin to sing. Now that was funny - and it took the Captain about a second to get the joke.

THe media question part was just funny.

**Geoffrey S** · 10-14-2005, 14:37

This kind of thing is hardly new. Other politicians do the same thing all the time, although mostly more carefully than Bush. It's just an unfortunate side effect of the media becoming a more and more dominating factor for polticians to keep in mind, keeping PR good practically demands staging these kind of things. Particularly if the politician in question is someone like Bush, who isn't at his best when it comes to improvising; he does seem to be somewhat overreliant on things being staged though.

Originally Posted by Redleg

Hell there was even a joke about if the President or a servicemember begins to stutter the Captain was to grap the mike and begin to sing. Now that was funny - and it took the Captain about a second to get the joke.

Wasn't that because of the time it took to transmit the video and audio?

**Divinus Arma** · 10-14-2005, 14:46

Check out my poll on liberal media bias. This thread is a perfect example of how people just take the crap that the news media machine feeds them without any critical thinking at all.

**Redleg** · 10-14-2005, 15:20

Wasn't that because of the time it took to transmit the video and audio?

Probably but I thought I heard him stutter just a little before his comment.

**Red Harvest** · 10-14-2005, 17:04

It was billed as spontaneous, yet the actual questions the President would ask were rehearsed.

This Administation uses the military as theatrical prop for its political messages to an extent that is just nauseating.