Lehrer Interviews Chimperor
Despite what has become Dubya’s habitual penchant for tongue-twisted weaselism, the most troubling aspect of his performance this evening was how detatched and unaffected he was when talking about the (Lehrer’s numbers now) 30,000+ thousand Iraqi civilian deaths and the 2100+ American deaths. Pawns in the game to this guy. Shit happens.
And what the hell is up with that omnipresent jaw twitch? Perhaps the question we should be asking is this: Precisely what kind of psychotropic medications is the leader of the free world now on and how long has he been on them?
“hehhh…We tapped your home, too Jim.
Can’t be too careful, heh he.”
You can review the festivities for yourself here.
-tristero
December 17th, 2005 at 11:26 am
I read the transcript of the “analysis” that followed. Lehrer, Brooks, and Shields danced around the issues like ballerinas. Media analysts can apparently faun over anything. And Lehrer really dropped the ball by not delving deeper into the New York Times story about Bush giving the NSA the OK to eavesdrop. Weak. And yet Bush still looked callous and clueless.
December 17th, 2005 at 5:33 pm
What’s almost as disturbing as BushCo’s secretive wire taps and subverting existing law is how the NYT simply sat on the fucking story for over a year simply because Bush asked them to!. Another stunning example of the Liberal Media™ in action. Jesus fucking christ.
December 19th, 2005 at 1:41 am
Yeah, that is ridiculous. That paper has taken so many hits to its journalistic integrity over the past 4 years that its hard to view them as anything more than an arm of the Bush admin. They’re far more subtle than Fox News (then again a bazooka is more subtle than Fox News), but that just makes me even more leery of them. When you consider the fact that the CIA has planted stories in foreign papers in the past (Argentina’s during Pinochet’s reign for instance) and the DOD in Iraq more recently why would anyone consider it a stretch to believe that even domestic papers as prestigious as the NYT couldn’t be infiltrated or manipulated?