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15 October 2005

It was bad enough that Bush had a phoney q & a thing with coached and rehearsed soldiers this week, but one of the soldiers wasn't even really a soldier--she was a pr person from the Pentagon. ... I mean, a public-relations person spouting the regime's line back at us? Instead, he pretended that they were all combat soldiers, not spokespeople. ...

post by: amberglow at: 00:12 | 12 comments

If I post a comment here, is it still on the 14th or is it tomorrow ?

posted by y2karl 15 October | 00:19

Well, it's still the 14th here, hmph !

posted by y2karl 15 October | 00:19

For you, maybe. Not here!

posted by yhbc 15 October | 00:22

I bet a lot of people wish he wasn't the president.

posted by agropyron 15 October | 00:25

Well, there's a criminal investigation in the works for the whole Armstrong Williams thing--this is probably legal in comparison but cut from the same cloth all the same.
This whole Q&A thing took the concept of the staged event into a whole new dimension of imcompetency.

posted by y2karl 15 October | 00:26

Just when I think their scum sucking antics are par for the course, they become scummier. It's as if they are trying to look bad on purpose. At the beginning of w's first term someone said the more stupid he appears the less likely the population will believe he is capable of being party to evil. He's looking like a jackass now. Makes me nervous.

posted by Feisty 15 October | 00:38

Don't wait till you get home. Just shoot me now.

posted by arse_hat 15 October | 02:19

yhbc: You Have Been C...?

posted by delmoi 15 October | 02:26

I watched this event live at work and everyone around me said something to the effect of, "They're reading off a script." The only thing that made me think it might NOT be scripted beforehand was the amount of hemming and hawing, especially from Dear Leader. I guess they all just suck at following cues.

posted by BoringPostcards 15 October | 03:24

I am so glad to see the media starting to pick at some of the threads of this potemkin presidency and hope it will lead to a complete unraveling. I didn't know that the Armstrong thing was still alive so that's encouraging, too.

posted by madamjujujive 15 October | 13:07

yeah what a nice little propaganda stunt.

delmoi- iirc it's your humble something or other. i think he explains it in his mefi profile.

posted by Wedge 15 October | 13:29

'Your Humble & Beloved Commissioner' and his explanation is fun.

posted by Frisbee Girl 15 October | 13:37

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