Bush speaking on CNN now...

[Cooley Hurd]

He's got that bullshit backdrop (in the same font as the "MIssion Accomplished" sign on the aircraft carrier) that says UNITED kingdom!

Has he no shame???

[in_cog_ni_to]

1. Thanks for the heads up to MUTE my TV! :)

:puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke:

[minkyboodle]

2. talking about freedom

Saying they have the freedom to protest in England, we have it here in America (well in certain cordoned off zones) and that now they have it in Bagdad (unless you are unlucky enough to set off a jumpy soldier and get turned into a skirmish).... THe applause after the Iraq line was slow and forced even with this crowd. God he is an arrogant SOB.
Scott

[PDittie]

3. Only Paul McCartney

can talk about freedom, as far as I'm concerned...

[July]

8. They have freedom to protest in IRAQ?!! WTF?!

Wasn't it just two or three days ago that U.S. troops arrested a guy for making "anti-coalition statements"? Didn't Bremer and his puppets issue an edict about what the Iraqi press can cover? This "Iraq is free" notion is pure bull.

[walkon]

47. So right.

But the parts about being free in the U.S. and U.K. seem far fetched to me, too. No one is free under corporate rule.

[loudnclear]

48. They can protest in Iraq, but we all know what happens to them if they do

The US military beats them and bulldozzes their homes.

[Athletic Grrl]

19. Good observations, Scott.

What's even funnier is that Chimpy is pausing at certain points where Hastert and Kitty Killer would normally be leading the wild applause. Here? Nada. Heck, Powell is barely responding.

[Wendigo]

41. Freedom to protest in Iraq

And plenty of newly levelled areas to do it in.

[newyawker99]

49. Hi Wendigo!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[elperromagico]

4. I wound up switching to Spongebob Squarepants

I don't lose nearly as many brain cells watching that.

[minkyboodle]

5. no making jokes about france

complaining to wilson about his 14 points... sound familiar he snorts....
arghhh
Sportscenter here I come
Scott

[nostamj]

6. and of course, a dig at france...

who is in this audience?

[Loonman]

7. I bet Northern Ireland won't even be brought up

If the Brits don't care, why should Bush?

[Oggy]

10. We do

care.... Or do you mean Tony etc?

[leftchick]

9. the backdrop is typical propaganda props for chimpass*

I watched about 5 seconds of his smirking and spewing till I wanted to heave. What a shameless pig....

[nostamj]

11. he is an incredible BORE

is anyone in the room still awake?

i have audio only.

[Holly]

12. Wow

This speech is not going over well. As a Canadian I recognise polite condemnation, no one does it better than us.( except the Brits). A little restrained applause.He's speaking sooooo slooowly, this is painful to watch.

[prolesunited]

13. C'mon, all of those winks and smirks

isn't that winning people over?

[Oggy]

14. Apparently

He thinks famine is a disease!! I can't believe I just heard him say that.

[in_cog_ni_to]

16. Believe it.

The man is a MORON!

[Don Claybrook]

22. Thinking it's a disease is really a big improvement

He used to think it was one of the biological WMD's: ricin, famine, bottulin, sarin, chardonnay.

Now he's recategorized famine into the disease column, along with Islam, AIDS, and liberalism.

[wildwww2]

46. Famine is a disease that is allowed to exist by ultra-wealthy snobs that

are determined to ruin our nation and the freedoms we are suppose to have. I love this country but the right-wing of this country are on a suicide course for the "End of Time." When all the small minded right-wing zealots float up to heaven.
Peace
Wildman
Al Gore is My President

[Holly]

17. LOL

maybe alot more winks and smirks are in order.

[morgan2]

15. hey its hard to read the teleprompter

give the chimp a break

[elperromagico]

18. He has... to speak... slowly

because English is not his native language. :P

I wonder if he refers to the English as "Englandians."

[Don Claybrook]

23. Do they have blacks in England too?

I wonder if he's been briefed on that one.

[elperromagico]

24. The worst part is

I'll bet he still can't name the Prime Minister. "Umm... General. I can't remember his name. General."

[in_cog_ni_to]

20. I know the INVITED guests

are being "polite" by clapping, but I wish they wouldn't clap. I would love to see that asshole completely humiliated! Total and complete silence through the entire speech, ah, yes! I can dream. :(

[elperromagico]

21. I can just picture Rice and Powell

clapping very very loudly in support of The Chosen One.

[Athletic Grrl]

35. See my post above.

Colon (yes intentional) was quite restrained. Condi? Well, she's a whore, what can you say....

[maddezmom]

25. the applause

is tepid at best. And his smirking his at an all time high. :(

[elperromagico]

30. I think the smirking is a subconscious thing.

Possibly a sign of discomfort he picked up in his early years... it's his only notable facial expression, isn't it?

[maddezmom]

37. let's hope it's subconcsious

it's hard enough listening, but watching is almost too much to take this early in the am.

[rasputin1952]

26. No shame, no dignity and no character...

He's using the same old talking points, just upped the rhetoric to a somewhat more sophisticated audience. These are not bluecollar workers he's talking to, but the "elites" of GB. I'm surprised my TV has'nt exploded from all of the overblown egocentric arrogance that it is being subjected to.

Let's see him try to give this sopeech in Trafalgar Square on a Soapbox, I'd give him 10 seconds before he looked like a produce stand gone mad.

:evilgrin:

[Holly]

27. He keeps pausing

for applause and at times ....nothing. wonder why?

[Atman]

28. Applause lines falling flat

Long pregnant pauses where the applause should be.

What little applause there is is decidedly polite, out of obligation.

I keep waiting for SOMEONE to stand up and shout him down. Come on Brits...its almost over! Where's the guy that sneaked into the palace? Why couldn't he have sneaked into the hall instead, to heckle?

[MaineDem]

40. It's an "invited" audience

The BBC America coverage (before they dropped it mid-speech) showed a graphic at the bottom saying he was speaking to an invited audience in Banqueting House.

I love the fact they had to qualify the audience as invited! Cool!

[laruemtt]

29. make......him.......

go.....away....... i can't take anymore!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! please lock him up

[THUNDER HANDS]

31. He's the worst public speaker I've ever seen

I mean...wow...he just is...awful.

[Holly]

32. I know I'm being picky but,

don't call them Engish.They are British, what an idiot.

[elperromagico]

36. Well...

he calls citizens of the United States "Americans," which completely ignores the other residents of North and South America.

I think it's just a US thing.

[qanda]

33. That was PAINFUL!!!!!!!!!

eom

[Holly]

34. Must have missed

his rousing applause and standing ovation.

[elperromagico]

38. Must we remind Bush that the League of Nations failed

because the United States refused to get involved?

Must we remind Bush that Great Britain was under attack when we came to its aid during WWII?

The morons on MSNBC are calling this speech a triumph; was I watching the wrong speech?

[in_cog_ni_to]

39. Now,

for the rest of the day or the rest of his trip, ALL we will see from his ass kissing media whores will be clips of this gawdawful speech with a segment that just happened to have applause. They will spew the rhetoric that the Brits just LOVED the chimp. <sigh> They have become so predictable, so damn boring.

[LittleApple81]

42. Sorry... but if you were listening to C-Span you would see that

his speech is having the desired effect by the Bush administration. His speech HAS ALL THE LIES put in a pretty package. What he did was NOT because of what he said.
The speech writer had a stroke of genius.

[BlackFrancis]

43. Did anyone catch that line about the Royal Navy?

How they had fought the good fight to end slavery?

Does anyone still believe that?!

Does W believe that?

Wasn't he a history major?

:wtf:

[Neecy]

44. stumbling, bumbling, stupid

I only watched about three minutes of it on my local FOX affiliate (about two minutes over my normal tolerance for watching him). In just those three minutes he stumbled over several words. What a humiliation this dumbass monkey is.

And twice the local FoxBots informed us that he was speaking to the British Parliament, which he obviously wasn't.

[LibDemAlways]

45. Our media whores will never admit

that the chimp can only speak in front of invited and carefully screened audiences where he's sure not to be interrupted, booed, or challenged. He can't and won't appear in public anywhere - ever. These kinds of events are a sham, and it's a goddamn shame we don't have a free media to report it. Even C-span put on a whore from a right wing British paper to declare the speech "fantastic."

Any bets that the protests receive only minimal coverage here, and that the protesters will be marginalized as "left-wing" extremists? This is all too predictable.

[Gloria]

50. It's a sad state of affairs when you wake up

turn on your two presets for the BBC World Service and have to hear CHIMPY spouting about terra!!

Thank goodness Radio Canada was talking about food banks for drought stricken farmers.

Is there no escape from this little shit??