jaded ranting

Friday, October 14, 2005 at 4:35:00 PM

Credibility? Honesty? Bueller? Bueller?

W embarrassed himself and our country once again by staring in a television show, I mean candid conversation with freedom fighters yesterday. W wanted to prove to Americans that the troops did in fact support his decision to unjustly go to war, and that they enjoy risking their lives every minute of every day to fight the 9/11 hijackers
Osama
weapons of mass destruction
terrorism
for democracy, yeah that works. Apparently, even the Iraqi's are glad we invaded their country too, as Sgt. Maj. Akeel Shaker Nassir, who is in charge of the Iraqi army training facility in Tikrit, had this to say: "Thank very much for everything. I like you." Unfortunately, the video feed also showed the soldiers prepping and rehearsing their lines before the leader of the free world came out of the green room.

At the end of the transmission, he turned to the camera and said "In case I don't see ya, good afternoon, good evening, and good night."

I love how the right immediately scurries to defend him, including this tidbit from Right On!:

Big darned fricking deal people. Every President who has ever understood the power of the press has staged photo op’s to make them look good. It works, and that is why they do it.

What they fail to acknowledge is that the White House lied. Again. The fact of the matter is this was scripted and staged propaganda that was marketed by the White House as candid and factual. This was simply a lie. Does this administration care about credibility or honesty at all?

What’s even more ridiculous is when reporters asked W’s press secretary about it, he accused them of being against the broader war on terror. The continuing propagandizing of the media by the White House is insulting and embarrassing.

 clio said...

Sgt. Ron Long was one of the soldiers in the “staged” conference, and he’s blogging about the mainstream media’s ridiculously negative spin: Speaking with President Bush. http://278medic.blogspot.com/

Yesterday, I was chosen to be among a small group of soldiers assigned to the 42ID’s Task Force Liberty that would speak to President Bush, our Commander-in-Chief. The interview went well, but I would like to respond to what most of the mass-media has dubbed as, “A Staged Event.”

First of all, we were told that we would be speaking with the President of the United States, our Commander-in-Chief, President Bush, so I believe that it would have been totally irresponsible for us NOT to prepare some ideas, facts or comments that we wanted to share with the President.

We were given an idea as to what topics he may discuss with us, but it’s the President of the United States; He will choose which way his conversation with us may go.

We practiced passing the microphone around to one another, so we wouldn’t choke someone on live TV. We had an idea as to who we thought should answer what types of questions, unless President Bush called on one of us specifically.

President Bush told us, during his closing, that the American people were behind us. I know that we are fighting here, not only to preserve our own freedoms, but to establish those same freedoms for the people of Iraq. It makes my stomach ache to think that we are helping to preserve free speech in the US, while the media uses that freedom to try to RIP DOWN the President and our morale, as US Soldiers. They seem to be enjoying the fact that they are tearing the country apart. Worthless!

The question I was most asked while I was home on leave in June was, “So...What’s REALLY going on over there?” Does that not tell you something?! Who has confidence in the media to tell the WHOLE STORY? It’s like they WANT this to turn into another Vietnam. I hate to break it to them, but it’s not.

Tomorrow morning, the Iraqi people will vote on their constitution. The success of our mission or the mission of the Iraqi security forces is not defined by the outcome of that vote. If the people of Iraq vote this constitution down, that only means that the FREE, DEMOCRATIC PROCESS is at work in Iraq. They are learning to voice their opinions in the polling stations, not through violence. If it is voted down, they will have the chance to draft an even better version; One that may better serve the people of Iraq. This is up to them. It is history in the making and I will not let the media or anyone else (who has not spent more than two weeks here) tell me otherwise. I have been here for almost a year. I have seen the progress made in so many ways from January’s elections to this referendum. Don’t tell me what the Iraqi people can or can’t do. They will tell you with their VOTES!  

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 May_Topak said...

gawd, i used to be such an american news junkie, but have been too caught up in my own country's (not iraq) political affairs, so this whole impeach bush thing is kinda new to me.

it's funny, because we tried, in vain, to impeach our president just last month. funny too, how she and bush have many things in common: child of a former president; came to power through a questionable supreme court decision; uses terrorism as the bogeyman to get more support for repressive executive orders.

what a small, not very different world we all live in, after all, eh?  

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