Pitting Bush for stuff that doesn't seem to rate its own thread

Sigh

Cool thread. A good read and some funny fuckups in it.

Pity your boy can’t fight worth shit.

Bush looks like he’s gonna win. Buckle up people. I fear a 2nd term Bush.

He fights well and hard, but you’re not hearing about it. Unless you seek out what Kerry is saying, you’ll hear precious little of it on the news. The media has no interest in letting you hear how Kerry is fighting.

How many of these speeches have you heard in their entierty? How many have you only heard one or two short soundbites from? Kerry doesn’t do well in soundbites, and that’s a problem.

http://www.johnkerry.com/pressroom/speeches/

http://blog.johnkerry.com/rapidresponse/
Germain to this thread, it doesn’t help when Kerry’s words are twisted:

Damn that liberal media!

At least they kan spel, unlike me, but otherwise, yeah, “liberal media bias” is a myth.

If anyone, anywhere on the TV or in print says anything negative about Bush, that’s automatically “liberal bias,” which is bullshit. The war’s not going well in Iraq? LIBERAL BIAS! People complain because a CIA agent is outed for no reason other than to intimidate her husband who pointed out a negative truth about Bush? LIBERAL BIAS! It’s reported that Bush’s daddy got him into the National Guard and he didn’t complete his service? LIBERAL BIAS! The ecomony is tanking? LIBERAL BIAS! Any truth that’s a negative is a “liberal bias” to them. It’s sickening.

What the media would look like if all “liberal media bias” (the way RWers define it) were eliminated…

  1. If a Republican is in office, there’d be absolutely no criticism of the President, his staff, the administration, or any Republican/Conservative cause. None. Anything that makes the President look diminished, wrong or “misunderstood” would be heavily edited and spun to look like a positive. (we’re getting there on that last)

  2. Every little thing that a Democrat/Liberal does would be subject to intense scrutiny and criticism, lies about them would always go unchallenged, and every “liberal” social cause, from the environment to Head Start, would be lambasted day in, day out, with none of the positives of such things given. (we’re almost already there)

If a Democrat is in office, see #2.

I’d highly recommend the book “The Republican Noise Machine : Right-Wing Media and How It Corrupts Democracy” by David Brock. He explains exactly how we got to this point. It’s been 30 years in the making.

Sounds closer to a dictatorship than a democracy to me

I think he was talking about the US election that’s to be held only in certain parts of the country.

I’m not repeating the whole thing, the above is just for reference. That’s why it’s blank. But, it looks like you’ve been paying attention, and it isn’t when or if, it’s already happening.

Keep in mind, that this past summer there WAS talk about “postponing” the election, under the “threat” of some unspecified attack or threat.

Dammit, the first quote reference was supposed to point to Equipoise’ words about those eeeeeevil liberals and their eeeeevil liberal media. :smack:

From this blog. (Maybe someone can find a link to the full Daily Show piece?):

So says The Man:

Oh, George made a funny! Ha Ha.
I’m not paranoid, much, but the “retard” (as Brutis fondly calls me) in me thinks it’s looking like fascism-wannabeism. I like this fascinating article, with its great (and chilling) quotes from Henry Wallace:

Bush to Expand Abstinence-Only Sex Program to Our Men In Uniform

Hookers may be off-limits for GIs

Troops say proposed UCMJ change unfair in prostitution-legal Germany

Latest Bush flip-flop, boldin mine.

From Thursday’s debate…

In today’s NY Post

These people think we’re fucking Leonard from Memento or something.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/10/05/iraq.main/index.html

Bremer: ‘Not not enough troops’ in Iraq after Saddam’s ouster

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Ha Ha!
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A sinking ship.

BTW, has anybody noticed how closely Dubya Berzelius Windrip?

Another George Bush incident was when he made fun of the NBC reporter David Gregory for “speaking French to the French president in France,” (as David Gregory described it).

This was in 2002 at a press conference with French President Chirac and after asking a question of President Bush, Gregory asked the French president to comment:

The incident is widely described at anti-Bush sites, but I wanted a more balanced description of it. So here is a link to the transcript from the White House website.

Look, if them damned feriners won’t speak American, how’s that Bush’s problem?

If American was good enough for G_d in the bible, it should be good enough for them!

-Joe

U.S. flu vaccine supply cut in half
The number of American vaccine makers has been waning for several years now. Bush attempted to address this problem last year:
DHHS 2004 budget description:

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I hope that this isn’t the year a biological mushroom cloud sprouts over America’s cities.

"I watched “The Daily Show” last night and thought Rob Corddry hit it on the head when he said something like, “Face it, Jon, the facts are biased. The cost, the corruption, the increasing levels of resistance, the lack of security, the dead and the wounded: the facts in Iraq simply have an anti-Bush bias.” "

Or, as Shrillblog said, “Objective reality is shrill.” I love it!

I’m sitting here listening to a Bush speech on TV in the next room - and I’m amazed that people are applauding after every sentence - regardless of the banality or inanity of what he’s saying. He’s speaking in a monotonous voice - and I wonder is the crowd seeded with party workers armed with pins to stick into the audience if they nod off and forget their sacred duty to applaud every golden word.

A few minutes ago he said something really inane about ‘changing the conditions under which someone becomes a suicide bomber’* Gawd knows what he meant - I certainly don’t know - but the crowd applauded on cue. I swear he could be up there reading the Mcdonalds menu and they’d applaud.

*sorry if these aren’t the exact words - it took me by surprise - but that appeared to me to be the content.

There are rumors that some dopers are fiscal conservatives, so this may end up as its own thread, but I don’t want to start it, and this tidbit belongs somewhere:
As U.S. Debt Ceiling Is Reached, Bush Administration Seeks to Raise It Once Again