Comments From Blog "The Liquid List" Regarding The BUSH BUS TOUR SCAM

President Bush's bus tour is a scam on several levels. First, he isn't actually using the bus: "The bus tour, about 60 miles through western Ohio, actually includes two airplane flights — one from Detroit to Toledo and another from Toledo to Dayton." Second, Bush skipped mentioning the torture -- and that's what it is, by the way -- of Iraqis in U.S. custody. That's because he did mention that the "world is better off without Saddam Hussein in power," and that "torture rooms are closed." Oh, we closed them, did we? And when the president opened it up for questions, he had some nice plants such as one, heard this morning on NPR, in which an earnest-sounding man named Joe Francisco asked how he could help the president win more Latino votes in Michigan. Aww. Maybe if the president offered people a chance to become citizens rather than just indentured servants, eh Joe? Oh, how do I know the questions were planted? Here's Don Gonyea's money quote: "There were no direct questions about Iraq or even the economy in a state that has lost 300,000 jobs since the president took office. " Okay, maybe they weren't plants. Maybe they were just lobotomized.

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Dave The Brave
LA WEEKLY
by Nikki Finke
http://alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=18561

But the end result is really something. Enough fodder for the show to spotlight snarky segments like "George W. Bush: Inspiration to America" featuring the president flippantly telling a classroom, "Look, I didn't like to take tests either, but that's too bad." Or, wearily listening to a business speech, nodding like a bobble-head doll and repeatedly checking his watch. (Déjà vu, anyone? Remember Daddy Bush checking his watch during the 1992 debates, a move that helped cost him the election?) This past Monday, Dave's people labeled a segment "Who Does George W. Bush Remind You Of?" and, while Hail to the Chief played loudly in the background, Shrub, talking about taxes, was shown stuttering, "the market . . . the market . . . the market . . .," followed by a cut to a cartoon starring Porky Pig. These undoctored snippets show Bush being Bush: a stumbling and fumbling orator, a why-can't-I-just-take-the-money-and-run campaigner, or worse. This, of course, is in stark contrast to what happens to the footage once it's edited by the news media. Miraculously, Bush's actual inarticulate ramblings or arrogant posturing are prettied up to the point where he's made virtually coherent and semi-mature.