Bush video chat with soldiers was scripted/rehearsed.

[World_Eater]

@Bob Loblaw

After further thought, I actually agree with how the Bush people handled this one. If they are going to have an event staged like this one was, just leak video of the staging process so that we can see exactly how it is done. That’s full disclosure, more or less.

I’m sure they’ll film the staging process next time. :rolleyes:

There goes your full disclosure.

[Merijeek]

@World Eater

I’m sure they’ll film the staging process next time. :rolleyes:

There goes your full disclosure.

I think Bush is a flaming moron, but I think his handlers are quite clever most of the time.

So can someone explain to me how/why that rehearsal was made public? It seems kind of like the opposite of what they’re going for.

-Joe

[World_Eater]

@Merijeek

I think Bush is a flaming moron, but I think his handlers are quite clever most of the time.

So can someone explain to me how/why that rehearsal was made public? It seems kind of like the opposite of what they’re going for.

-Joe

I’ve been wondering the same thing myself.

[Larry_Mudd]

@Larry Mudd

I guess you could [say] it makes sense that “The Iraqi occupation is a logical extension of our response to the 9/11 attacks,” is something that [a] U.S. military PR staffer “wanted to say,” – it’s kind of like how professional sex workers want fat hairy mouthbreathers to come all over their faces.

I have no idea how that sentence got so badly mangled.

[Bob_Loblaw_1]

@World Eater

I’m sure they’ll film the staging process next time. :rolleyes:

There goes your full disclosure.

I’m holding my breath in sweet anticpation.

[Blalron]

@Merijeek

I think Bush is a flaming moron, but I think his handlers are quite clever most of the time.

So can someone explain to me how/why that rehearsal was made public? It seems kind of like the opposite of what they’re going for.

-Joe

We in the Satellite TV business call it Wild Feeds. It’s a pretty standard practice for TV networks to have the cameras rolling before the event happens, and broadcast it on to a particular channel on the satellite. When they notice the event beginning to happen that’s when they switch to it. Well, the Bush Administration, for all the meticulous planning when it comes to appearances, must have overlooked the possibility that the public would see the wild feed.

[Merijeek]

@Blalron

We in the Satellite TV business call it Wild Feeds. It’s a pretty standard practice for TV networks to have the cameras rolling before the event happens, and broadcast it on to a particular channel on the satellite. When they notice the event beginning to happen that’s when they switch to it. Well, the Bush Administration, for all the meticulous planning when it comes to appearances, must have overlooked the possibility that the public would see the wild feed.

Ah, thanks. An oversight but not quite the colossal fuckup it seemed, then.

That’s what I love about the SDMB. There’s an expert on EVERYTHING in this place.

-Joe

[Larry_Mudd]

Merijeek– some essential viewing on the subject of raw satellite feeds:

Feed.

Freakin’ hilarious.

[Steve_MB]

@BobLibDem

Attempting to pass this off as a legitimate Q&A session with the average soldier is dishonest, to say the least.

Not to mention pathetic. It’s like trying to pass off Plan Nine From Outer Space clips as genuine UFO photographs.

[Johnny_L.A]

@Steve MB

Not to mention pathetic. It’s like trying to pass off Plan Nine From Outer Space clips as genuine UFO photographs.

Heh. I used to have a neighbour, an older guy in his mid-to-late-60s, who was convinced he saw newsreel footage of flying saucers attacking Washington, DC. He said the government hushed the whole thing up (somehow). A friend and I tried to convince him that what he saw was Earth vs. The Flying Saucers, but he was adamant that what he saw was real.