Bush to Brian Williams: "I'm very aware of what's going on."

[BurtWorm]

As reported by Dan Froomkin:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/04/11/LI2005041100879.html


Bush: "Look, I, I, uh, I feel like I'm getting really good advice from very capable people, and that people from all walks of life inform me and inform those who advise me. And I feel very comfortable that, that I'm very aware of what's going on.

"I just talked to the president-elect of Honduras. A lot of my job is foreign policy. And I spend an enormous amount of time with leaders from other countries, and they come right here in the Oval Office and tell me what's on their mind. And I tell them what's on my mind.

"And so -- you know, it's the first time I've seen those magazines, by the way."

Williams: "Do you read this kind of stuff?"

Bush: "No."

Williams: "You don't read the newsweeklies at all?"

Bush: "I really don't. I mean, I'm interested in the news, I'm not all that interested in the opinions."

[Kadie]

1. They just played this clip on MSNBC

So basically he is saying who gives a shit what the opinions of the people are... * whined through the entire clip.

blahhh

[smartvoter]

29. Oh. I think I might need a tissue -- poor guy... nt

[Stephanie]

2. LOL!

Priceless!

K&R

[Loonman]

3. "I'm not all that interested in the opinions."

Which is why 3/4s of the world rightfully agree that Bush is a deluded idiot.

[Mz Pip]

4. The only advice he gets

are from people who are on the Neo Cons page. They may be from all walks of life but they do not give divergent opinions. He doesn't want or welcome differences of opinion. IT's pretty obvious from the way he governs that he is not interested in opinions that don't agree with his.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[rodeodance]

5. Bingo-he listenes to Fox--who pases off opinions as news. te he.

.....I'm interested in the news, I'm not all that interested in the opinions."

[rodeodance]

6. Jr comes right out and says it is the first time he has seen the news

magazines. Bet Rove did not know he was going to say such a stupid thing!


"And so -- you know, it's the first time I've seen those magazines, by the way."


..Williams: "You don't read the newsweeklies at all?"

Bush: "I really don't. I mean, I'm interested in the news, I'm not all that interested in the opinions."

[SammyWinstonJack]

7. Argh! He's interested in the news?

:argh: Fucking simpleton! Arrogant and CONDESCENDING little wannabe DICTATOR! How much longer must we be subjected too this major league ASSHOLE'S arrogance and stupidity? :grr:

[Kazak]

8. He thinks about foreign policy everyday...

:shrug:

[TallahasseeGrannie]

9. If I were a Bush supporter

because I liked his "style" and his "decision-making" and was okay with Iraq, Katrina, and all his other horrific mess-ups, this article would really make me rethink my position.

Because what this article says is he is completely UN-presidential. Every man who has ever had that office has at least been unique and an exceptional leader (at least the ones in my lifetime) no matter what their politics were. Bush is not. He is a second-rate kind of guy who through who-the-hell-knows what fate or shennanigans finds himself WAY over his head in the oval office. He puts out here (or his handlers do) that he has this almost zen-like ability to focus, to break it down to the basics. Uh-uh. It is NOT called simplifying the problem, it is called simplification and it is done by simpletons.

I think this particular article is the most damaging thing ever written about him and it is going to turn a lot of people off who are going to look at our "gallant little president" in a whole different light. What a charlatan. What a loser.

[BurtWorm]

14. He wants to be seen as a guy who gets his news

from world leaders, like the President of Honduras. Why would he have to read a newspaper when Honduras himself will tell him what the deal is in that part of the world (wherever it is)? Bush is greatly impressed with that fact about himself and he expects the rest of us to be impressed with that too.

[Maraya1969]

10. Let's be fair now. He probably has trouble with the big words and doesn't

want to say so.

[Rob H.]

11. "I just talked to the president-elect of Honduras."

I'd bet good money that he has no idea what the guy's name is or that he's forgotten it already. Those details are for other people to worry about. He's probably didn't waste any time in cooking up some juvenile nickname for him, either.

[Marie26]

12. The boy in the bubble

And according to him, all news is opinion. "I like to have a clear outlook... I don't watch the nightly newscasts on TV, nor do I watch the endless hours of people giving their opinion about things," the president said. "I don't read the editorial pages; I don't read the columnists."
http://www.justinlogan.com/justinlogancom/2004/05/at_least_he_get.html. So any information that contradicts his point of view is "clouding his outlook". The best way to have a clear outlook is to have no information at all! Conversely, in Bush-world, the aides offering him their views & advise is NOT opinion, but clear facts. This could be because these aides now only tell him what he wants to hear. He's in a bubble, & he likes it that way. This is so scary - he can be so easily spun & manipulated & doesn't seem to care. At this point, his "aides" could tell him Iran just attacked us & he'd believe it. He has no reality check to tell him different.

[Meldread]

13. What the hell does this mean?

Williams. "Do you feel in a bubble?"

Bush: "No, I don't feel in a bubble. I mean, you feel in a bubble in the sense that I can't go walking out the front gate and go shopping, like I'd love to do for my wife -- although I'm a man, I'm not going to tell you what I'm gonna buy her."

Williams: "I understand that."

Can someone translate? I don't have a clue what he is saying. He starts off making sense, then totally goes off somewhere else. It's the "although I'm a man, I'm not going to tell you what I'm gonna buy her" part that doesn't make sense. I feel sorry for anyone who seriously gives this man an interview, I am sure they feel at least a tiny bit obligated to "help him out" because he can't seem to form a single coherent thought.

Am I correct in thinking that he is trying to say he wish he could go out shopping for his wife, then is afraid it comes off too 'unmanly' and tries to dress it up with the "although I'm a man", and then for some strange reason seems to think Brian asked what he was going to buy his wife?

[Marie26]

19. And if you watch the video,

he gets a little pissed-off at Brian Williams for the question that Williams didn't ask. "I'm NOT going to tell you what I bought her," he says & glares at Williams for a second; until Williams responds "I understand" in complete bewilderment. It's an awkward moment - you could almost see it as a moment of intimidation - using body language & tone of voice. Who will back down first? Williams did by submissively expressing agreement. I think Bush does this in interviews to establish who's "in charge" here. It makes no sense, but I think it was Bush's little way of saying "back off".

[elehhhhna]

31. Like Bri's gonna waterboard his ass until he TELLS TELLS TELLS

Mister Prezzydent, you are a friggin dingbat.

There. I said it.

[bettyellen]

34. you got it, i've had more coherent conversations w/ people in K-holes.

in the middle of a dance floor.

[mzmolly]

35. I, unlike Williams do not understand WTF Bush was talking about?

:crazy:

[triguy46]

15. We've heard this before, and the answer is the same...

he knows what his handlers tell him. that's it. Now where is this "involved, aggressively questioning, asking CEO type questions" behavior we have heard so much of? I happen to be a CEO and intuition is all well and good, but I also read the trade journals, customer feedback, public advisory boards, and other methods to stay in touch. And even that is not enough, I don't ask my senior managers, but I do as my part time employees, my hourly employees what they sense/hear and feel from their direct contact with our customers.

* is not a CEO. The kid managing your local pizza hut knows more about business leadership than * does.

[gratuitous]

16. I'm sure Williams just bored in on him, right?

Peppering Bush with specific questions about all kinds of world events, foreign policy matters, and situations in various countries, right? I mean, if Bush is "very aware" of all the stuff that's going on, he was practically inviting Williams to quiz him a little bit, right? And Williams was on it like a goose on a junebug, right?

Right?

[BurtWorm]

18. This is NBC's annual Christmas present to Bush

They want to wrap it up nice and pretty for him, you understand, and they couldn't do that actually testing him on his bullshit. You understand.

[Marie26]

20. But don't you get the sense

that Williams really doesn't like him?

[Doctor_J]

23. Williams loves Smirk

He's the worst of the whores in the "Network News"

[Marie26]

25. Well, there's some stiff competition!

I guess I got the sense that after Hurricane Katrina, Williams looked totally sick of this Administration. Maybe that's changed, though. :shrug:

[BurtWorm]

26. I think he was genuinely shocked by the FEMA disaster in New Orleans

but that doesn't mean he's sick of the administration in general. Williams is not an afflicter of the comfortable by nature, from what I can tell.

[BurtWorm]

21. I haven't gotten that sense usually.

I didn't actually see the video though. Reading your description of it above, you could be right.

[Marie26]

22. Here's the video clip from MSNBC

It's very short.

http://video.msn.com/v/us/v.htm?f=00&g=51f16ef6-fe21-44b2-a39c-f52abc513c17&t=m5&p=News_NBC%20News

[elehhhhna]

32. Biting questions like "So where IS Honduras, smatrypants?" lol

[Oilwellian]

17. Talk about double-speak

"Look, I, I, uh, I feel like I'm getting really good advice from very capable people."

"I'm not all that interested in the opinions."

Someone, please make it stop. I can't stand this babbling idiot anymore.

[bigtree]

24. What a contrast from his speech

Such a scripted speech, obviously written by Hadley' office. It read like a policy document.

Bush unscripted sends him into the blank room that is his brain. Fun to watch. Infuriating how Americans tolerate such an ignorant fool.

[mcscajun]

27. "A lot of my job is foreign policy."

Um...does he think nobody KNOWS what the job of a real President is???

He has to explain like nobody ever heard of Presidents being involved in foreign policy before? Ah well, maybe it came as news to him.

I'd love to hear the part where (and when, if Ever) he acknowledges that a good deal of his job is Domestic Policy, and we're all still waiting to See One.

[Loonman]

28. "It's hard work"

"jus' the other day, Barney was chasin' an armadillo... "

[Metta]

30. God, is * incapable of anything more than empty slogans

which only dodge the question. Is there no end to how shallow he is? Anything he can't control, he trys to defame and marginalize; transparent scapegoating.

[lpbk2713]

33. He didn't know about the human catastrophe in New Orleans

and the Gulf Coast until he was briefed on it. He was oblivious to the whole thing. Poor fella had to end his vacation early just for that.

[MODemocrat]

36. There goes the news media, propping Bush up to keep their jobs

The media would love nothing more than for Bush's ratings to go up. After all, the big tax breaks go to the media, and they are making a forture whoring for the administration. Shameless moneybags!
:puke: :spank:

[sellitman]

37. It's hard work talking to the president-elect of Honduras.

What a worthless piece of maggot infested .........

oh never mind.


:banghead:

[Blue_In_AK]

38. I'm very curious, who are these "all walks of life" people

he's been talking to? All of his audiences are hand-picked military or fundie people. I sure haven't seen him out mingling with the masses. God help me, I really hate this man.

[tgnyc]

39. "people from all walks of life inform me and inform those who advise me"

Bullshit. He wouldn`t know what the average African-American is thinking even if Condi Rice, Colin Powell, Ken Blackwell, that guy in HUD, and Armstrong Williams were giving him hourly updates.

[many a good man]

43. "I like both kinds of music: country AND western!"

His advisers are oil and gas executives from ALL walks of life.

[Twist_U_Up]

40. Just look at his body language.......

His facial expressions and body movements. He reminds me of someone that is being interrogated and is lying through his teeth and very worried that the wrong question will be asked.Very insecure and on the defensive . Something wicked in his eyes.Chilling that he represents us to the world.

[pinto]

41. This snip sounds like a 12 year old playing at President:

"I just talked to the president-elect of Honduras. A lot of my job is foreign policy. And I spend an enormous amount of time with leaders from other countries, and they come right here in the Oval Office and tell me what's on their mind. And I tell them what's on my mind."

Geez.

[Gabi Hayes]

42. perfect! I work in a junior high school, and he'd be streaming along

in the just-above IEP group, barely hanging on. If it were Texas, he'd be one of the kids who they made stay home during the TAAS tests.

http://www.betweenthecoasts.com/archives/bush%20wave

[tsuki]

44. I don't know where he gets the News. All we get are opinions. eom

[mark414]

45. i don't know what's more troubling...

the fact that he's in a bubble, or that fact that the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES actually has to go on TV to deny that he is in a bubble.

[Algorem]

46. what was with the pink tie G.E. propagandist Williams wore?Symbolic of

something?Presstitute pink?