More deception: Bush was not speaking "live" about the disaster

[Sara Beverley]

It was an edited taped broadcast touted as being live. We heard the audio earlier. They can't afford to have him speak live for fear of his screwing up. And you know they don't want him answering questions from the press live. This was a taped message and I am sure it was heavily edited. The media tries to pass this stuff off as live. It took them three days to get his act together after almost every national leader had spoken to the issue.

We have a PNAC manikin for President.

[shoelace414]

1. like he cares

he's president until 2008.

[benburch]

3. We'll see about that. nt

[DCDemo]

2. I'm thinking he's had surgery or something medical

That's why no pictures, he wasn't going to comment at all, and now just a tape.

[benburch]

4. Probably a pacemaker.

To replace the EAD he's been wearing.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

5. If that thing is a defib...

His need for it could be traced to prior cocaine abuse. It is wel known that cocaine abuse can cause problems with the "signals" to the heart and that the problems can manifest years later.

[LiberalFighter]

21. Send him 10 kilos of the stuff

[DoYouEverWonder]

They released still photos to the wires

he looks like shit.

[Ready4Change]

6. I think he's having "holiday issues."

Lots of people have problems over the holidays. There've been signs during his entire White House residence that he's having some form of chemical issues, perhaps trying to get a balance on drugs to help with some mental disorder.

Hide him on the ranch. Re-balance his chemicals, tape a response in a moment of lucidness. He'll return "revitalized" by his holiday "vacation."

It's what the rich and famous all do. Only poor commoners break down, go nuts, and require treatment for their mental illnesses. Rich people go on "sabbaticals."

[gratuitous]

7. Well, I'm sure our bulldog media

Will level with the American people about Stupidhead's unavailability during a time of unprecedented catastrophe. You know, like they did back on September 11, 2001?

[Pepper32]

8. I am so... sick of this... IT, that is pretending to be our president.

I can't wait for the day when his opinions or speeches are no longer relevant. Because truly they are not! Where is the justice? Many, many people are dying, John Kerry won & should be our president, and I can't sleep. Yet this a**hole get's to go on vacation and plan for the inaugural ball. :argh:

I'm so mad I could cry, but I did enough of that the first week after the election. Now I'm just angry and want justice...

[opihimoimoi]

10. The man just don't git it and probably never will

The maniquin President, I luv it....

[Stinky The Clown]

9. Okay, I turned on the TeeVee after the original broadcast .... it sure

looks as if MSNBC is replaying a live press conference. Is this not what it was?

And are those more gin blossoms on the saintly (albeit lopsided) visage of the great Chimpus Khan?

[Orangepeel]

11. according to Brian Williams when they interrupted for "breaking news"

he taped the message in front of a small group of reporters in Crawford and then the tape was "hand delivered" to media outlets. Brian didn't explain why.

[Atman]

12. On the CNN version, Darryn Kegal pretended it was live

They had just broadcast the radio address. Then, when they had the video (of an oddly poor quality, I might add -- more on that later), they played it and had the post-conference commentator on, and Kegal asked questions and referred to the tape as if it was live, asking questions as if she had just heard all of if for the first time. Something is very suspicious, to be sure.

Now, as for the bad quality of the video...any good Photoshopper knows that adding "noise" or film grain, or other minor seemingly innocuous schmutz to your image will mask all sorts of flaws. Kinda like a Playboy soft-filter. So, Premier or AfterEffects will add these filters to video the way Photoshop does to still images. They probably just needed a few minutes on the ol' G5 to doctor up the footage a bit before airing it. I can't see any logical reason for this video to be broadcast this way, especially AFTER the audio was just played "live."

Something is up, for sure.

NotBannedYet.US

[LiberalFighter]

22. You think the President's office would have top of the line media equip?

[Royal Observer]

13. He doesn't

feel our pain.

[AzDar]

14. It just gets curiouser and curiouser.... n/t

[Blue Gardener]

15. "We shall prevail over this destruction"

WTF does that mean? He is such an idiot.

[Deja Q]

17. Seems more like he's deranged than just an idiot.

Or a deranged idiot. :-)

[Deja Q]

16. It's like Hitler, minus the brain.

[Glenda]

20. LOL! this made me laugh

btw, who is the person in your avatar?

[Catchawave]

18. Funny, all his stump speeches were live!

But after the faux pas "35 billion" statement, he still said "billion" in the video!?

[htuttle]

19. Bush is actually a Wavefront Object file made up of 85,000 polygons

They keep him over in a basement studio at Disney.