The H.L. Proud Member of The Anti-Bush Press
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts), Videos on October 17th, 2006 2:23 pm by HL
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Yesterday Fox News host Bill O’Reilly asked President Bush whether the “anti-Bush press” is responsible for the American public turning against the war in Iraq. Bush agreed with O’Reilly, stating that he’s “disappointed that people would propagandize to that effect because the stakes are too high for that kind of illogical behavior.”
Sixty-four percent of the American public now disapproves of Bush’s handling of the war in Iraq. These people are not “illogical” or victims of a propaganda campaign, but are responding to the facts.
Full transcript below:
O’REILLY: Is one of the reasons they’ve turned against the war in Iraq is that the anti-Bush press pounds day in and day out in newspapers, on the network news, in books like Bob Woodward’s, that you don’t know what you’re doing there. You have no have a strategy. You don’t listen to dissent. You’ve got this thing in your mind and you’re stubborn and you just can’t win it.
BUSH: Well, I’m disappointed that people would propagandize to that effect because the stakes are too high for that kind of illogical behavior. We have got a plan — first of all a stated goal.
H.L.s Take
Why are there so many members of the anti-Bush Press. Maybe it has to do with his resume.
(courtesy of Pissed On Politics)
RESUME OF GEORGE W BUSH
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington , DC 20520
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:
LAW ENFORCEMENT
I was arrested in Kennebunkport, Maine, in 1976 for driving under the influence of
alcohol. I pled guilty, paid a fine, and had my driver’s license suspended for 30
days. My Texas driving record has been “lost” and is not available.
PAST WORK EXPERIENCE
-I was a cheerleader.
–I ran for U.S. Congress and lost.
–I began my career in the oil business in Midland, Texas, in 1975. I bought an oil
company, but couldn’t find any oil in Texas .. The company went bankrupt shortly
after I sold all my stock.
–I bought the Texas Rangers baseball team in a sweetheart deal that took land using
taxpayer money.
–With the help of my father and our friends in the oil industry, including Enron
CEO Ken Lay, I was elected governor of Texas.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS GOVERNOR OF TEXAS
–I changed Texas pollution laws to favor power and oil companies.
–During my tenure, Houston replaced Los Angeles as the most smog-ridden city in
America.
–I cut taxes and bankrupted the Texas treasury to the tune of billions in borrowed
money.
–I set the record for the most executions by any governor in American history.
–With the help of my brother, the governor of Florida, and my father’s appointments
to the Supreme Court, I became President after losing by over 500,000 votes.