http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=65723

There's a video and mp3 link there.

comedy-fucking-gold

the reporter was on his ass.


the next day the bushies cancelled a scheduled interview that they were going to have with Laura Bush.

They showed some of it on CNN. I'm definitely watching this later.

just like all the other presidents - oh wait, no, of course there's limited replay of him abroad.

why is my "leader" more like a "mascott" cousin to the capital city goofball?

no matter who comes in office...this is very, very difficult..not one single one us netphorians knows the best way of dealing with the middle east...some may argue that we shouldn't be there, but we are...and kerry support or not, elect or not, will have to face the same politics and defend everything president bush has to defend...

Originally posted by ciGarki
and kerry support or not, elect or not, will have to face the same politics and defend everything president bush has to defend...

you mean clean up bush's shit, right?

sure

well shit looks like i was late on this one. :\

Eh, it's nothing special - he seems to have an answer for everything and she never calls him out on any of it. I'd like to see Jeremy Paxman have a crack at him, he did a good job of interrogating Blair

I expected him to look A LOT worse. Actually, she seemed like the bigger ass when she continued to interrupt, and she didn't crack down on his answers as well as I thought she could have. This was actually about as impressive as anything I've ever seen Bush say, but that's not saying a lot. I hate hate hate GWB but with my limited knowledge I feel that he could finish up the job in Iraq as well as almost anyone could. Now that everyone is paying more attention and starting to crack down on him, he's going to have to watch his back more closely which is precisely what everyone's been calling for. It's all the other things about him that scare me. If he gets re-elected I'm going to be dumbfounded.

Originally posted by pink_ribbon_scars
I expected him to look A LOT worse. Actually, she seemed like the bigger ass when she continued to interrupt, and she didn't crack down on his answers as well as I thought she could have. This was actually about as impressive as anything I've ever seen Bush say, but that's not saying a lot. I hate hate hate GWB but with my limited knowledge I feel that he could finish up the job in Iraq as well as almost anyone could. Now that everyone is paying more attention and starting to crack down on him, he's going to have to watch his back more closely which is precisely what everyone's been calling for. It's all the other things about him that scare me. If he gets re-elected I'm going to be dumbfounded.

it completely baffles me how people could say that bush actually looks good in this interview. but reading from the comments on the site, you're not the only one who was impressed by Bush in this interview. imho, i think he comes off as a complete arrogant moron. i think its ludacris to suggest the world is safer today, to also bring up 9/11 when saddam and iraq had nothing to do with it, and just an outright lie to say the bombings in spain had nothing to do with the war.

Originally posted by Debaser


it completely baffles me how people could say that bush actually looks good in this interview. but reading from the comments on the site, you're not the only one who was impressed by Bush in this interview. imho, i think he comes off as a complete arrogant moron. i think its ludacris to suggest the world is safer today, to also bring up 9/11 when saddam and iraq had nothing to do with it, and just an outright lie to say the bombings in spain had nothing to do with the war.

all i'm saying is that i have seen him look a LOT worse. a million times worse. his last few speeches and the big Q&A with the press after one of them have made me want to throw punches at him. he would COMPLETELY avoid the question EVERY time and during the speeches it often seemed like he had no idea what the words he was saying meant. oh no no, i was not impressed by him as a person during this interview, but I was impressed to see that he has the ability to stay pretty calm and collected, to actually try to answer the questions better than he has in the past, and to (in my opinion) give a few answers that are better than a lot of the ones he's made in the past, such as the point where he said that "people seem to think that if the terrorists [in Iraq] kill a few of us, that means we should pull out of Iraq" or something like that. I dunno, I hate him, but I have seem him look so much worse and I expected him to look just as bad here. feel free to disagree.

Originally posted by Debaser


it completely baffles me how people could say that bush actually looks good in this interview. but reading from the comments on the site, you're not the only one who was impressed by Bush in this interview. imho, i think he comes off as a complete arrogant moron. i think its ludacris to suggest the world is safer today, to also bring up 9/11 when saddam and iraq had nothing to do with it, and just an outright lie to say the bombings in spain had nothing to do with the war.

He probably looks good to people who already believe his spiel and support him. He's not saying anything different, except this time he did a fairly good job of getting it across. If she'd actually pulled him up on any of it (like saying the bombings in Spain were a direct result of Spanish involvement in Iraq, or mentioned the hypocrisy in saying that Iraq was invaded because they didn't disarm when it turns out they weren't armed anyway) she could have exposed his arguments as flawed any maybe won some people over. Instead she allowed him to do his patriotic bit, blame the soldiers in Abu Gharib entirely and so on, and he came out very well. Sure he was a condescending asshole in my view but it won't change how anyone who supports him feels.

I think people are saying that Bush is "good" in this interview not because of his words but because of how he's saying it - I've personally never heard him talk this fast off the top of his head. He does seem to have an answer to every question, and he is a bit of a dick when she keeps interrupting him - even though she is very rude also. But yeah, it's not what he's saying, it's how he's saying it - he's certainly not saying anything we haven't heard before.