NPR: Bush shows World Trade Center wreckage before his entrance at rallies

[Stephanie]

link to audio + my transcript of that section:

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www.npr.org/rundowns/rundown.php?prgDate=22-Oct-2004&prgId=2
Bush, Kerry Trade Barbs in Pennsylvania, Ohio

At 00:45

Reporter:

President Bush started the day in Pennsylvania, a state he has visited 41 times since taking office.

This morning he spoke in a hockey arena in Wilkes Barre.

"Just seems like yesterday I was here in Wilkes Barre. But come to think of it, I was."

But that folksy greeting quickly gave way to a speech that contained a sustained assault on John Kerry, portraying the Democrat as a man who won't do what is necessary to protect the nation.

Before the president took the stage, images from the World Trade Center wreckage played on the arena's giant TV screens.

[proud patriot]

1. Grr

SPEECHLESS :mad:

[murielm99]

4. Tasteless.

Some of the 9/11 widows ought to object, publicly and vocally.

[struggle4progress]

78. * = smouldering wreckage. In so many ways. eom

[Davis_X_Machina]

2. So it's come down to this....

...the entire Bush campaign, the entire administration:

MOSLEMS ARE COMING TO YOUR TOWN TO KILL YOUR BABIES!

That's all they've got, and if it works it works, if it doesn't, they lose....

[gordianot]

8. That will be the follow up to the Wolf commercial. Attacking children.

Actually the wolves looked more like the large Coyotes we see in Missouri. Some of these mutts top out at 70 pounds. This imagery is supposed to represent those Muslim terra-ests.

[maddezmom]

3. hope the 9/11 Families have something to say about this disgusting use

of the images.

[DinahMoeHum]

37. At least one 9/11 victim's mother already has. Check this out. . .

Link:
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/102304Y.shtml


:kick:

[saccheradi]

46. This letter details impeachable offenses...

Why is it that noone has made the final blow? The fact that Bush used 911 as a launching platform for a war he was already planning for his own benefit???

Why has that FACT not been made so blatantly apparent to those who believe otherwise that Bush would be forced to answer for his crimes???

(and make no mistake, his actions as president have been criminal.)

I for one am pissed that noone in the Dept. of Justice or in Congress has taken action against the sonofabitch...

[c2springer]

77. What about Iraq Casualties?

911- we know the numbers but Iraq/Afghanistan keeps growing.

The list is 1100 dead and over 8000 wounded? Why aren't these numbers posted daily or at least used as a talking point? Especially with
Veterans Affairs and services being cut. There is one ad running in PA of a soldier who lost his hand. But there are thousands of paraplegic National Guard people coming home that no one talks about!

[calimary]

55. What a heartbreak!!!! This letter - man, I'm just speechless.

I cannot even begin to understand this woman's grief or loss. But I can step up to stand beside her and rip those stupid play-acting costumes away from bush and push him out of power. In fact, I fired his ass on Tuesday when I sent in my absentee ballot. Would also have liked to include a warrant for his arrest, but I have no authority there.

[maddezmom]

69. wow...

unfortunately Laura will have to read it and give * the cliff notes.

[yardwork]

5. Despicable.

When I joined DU there was a lot of talk about LIHOP and MIHOP. I don't know where those guys went, but if anyone is still around I want you to know - you've convinced me of LIHOP and I've become very open-minded to the possibility of MIHOP.

Call me a tin foil hatter. These guys will stop at nothing.

[kestrel91316]

10. What do LIHOP and MIHOP mean??

Somewhere along the line I missed out on how these acronyms arose. Somebody please enlighten me............

[beyurslf]

14. Let It Happen On Purpose and Made It Happen On Purpose

[sisenor]

75. The political opportunism is disgusting

Whether LIHOP or MIHOP, or just slipped by him, the way Bush is milking 9/11 is sickening!!!!!! People didn't die on that day for him to be re-elected. One wants to ask that bastard, if we had not been attacked, what in the world would you base your campaign on? No child left behind?
Well on that day, many children were left behind by their parents because our president was on perpetual vacation.

[Sparkly]

6. Shameless

Those people's deaths being used to promote the very people who were negligent in allowing it to happen?! Incredible. :mad:

[Laelth]

23. Agreed.

Completely unacceptable. We must rely on the American people to see true demogoguery for what it is.

I think they'll make the right choice. :smoke:

-Laelth

[TexasChick]

7. You would think even chimp supporters would get sick of this!

Good lord, chimp, give it a rest! America needs to heal, twerp!!!



Jennifer

[Maiden England]

9. * = asshole

[nostamj]

11. it WISH I could be shocked by this

but, I'm not. I'm not surprised. I'm not shocked.

oh, don't get me wrong. I'm a NYer. I was in midtown Manhattan that morning. to even try to politicize this sickens and outrages me.

but, I'm not surprised.

with the release of the PIPA report today... the republican 'trifecta' of HATE, FEAR and IGNORANCE is a fact.

their campaign is about HATING Kerry and "his liberals friends in Congress"

their campaign is about FEAR.

and, their campaign capitalizes on the IGNORANCE of those they have exploited with HATE and FEAR.

[Proud2BLiberal]

51. Disgusted

I hate to say it, but I'm not shocked either. I am disgusted. :(

[Bluebear]

12. PIMP that tragedy, "W"!

[Hoosier]

60. ...sorry, off the subject...

that GIF file is outstanding ---

I can't tell if it's really penguins....

thanks

[obiwan]

71. That's the funniest GIF I have ever seen...

... I damn near swallowed my tongue the first time I saw it last week, and I'm STILL laughing!

Outfuckingstanding!!!

[progressivebydesign]

13. Bush and Cheney go down as the most repulsive pigs in our history..

.. those MFs need to be shown the door. They are the lowest form of life on earth.

[spooked911]

62. agreed

they HAVE to go!

[tedoll78]

15. I am convinced..

that there is a special place in hell for this asshole.

[robbedvoter]

16. Karma - now would be a good time? Please!

Bob Hope had Thanks for the memories, Clinton - Don't stop thinking about tomorrow. W - the fall of WTC....

[Roland99]

17. Damn! I'd love to get into a Bush rally with about 50 other people

and make one HELLUVA scene over shit like this!!

:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

[DeepModem Mom]

18. Thanks for noticing the mention of this outrage, Stephanie --

n/t

[Stephanie]

32. It was Badger1 who noticed it -

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x2527965

[Dem2theMax]

19. I'd love to see this.

"Images from the World Trade Center wreckage play on TV screens."

Then a voice says, "I'm George W. *, and I LET this happen."

Picture of WTC fades to flag draped coffins being unloaded from military planes.

Another voice, "I'm George W. *, and I MADE this happen."

Multiple coffins fade to one in a cemetery, just after the funeral service.

Last voice says, "I'm the mother of this soldier. Don't let this happen to you."

Fades out to the words "Kerry/Edwards 2004"

[VolcanoJen]

20. WoooHooo! 3,000 Innocents Murdered, My Finest Hour!!!!

Me Like Bush! Bush Cheney Strong Like Bull! Ugh!!

:eyes:

[LynnTheDem]

21. hey bush; when ya gonna run on YOUR RECORD?

Oh that's right. YOUR record SUCKS. So all you have is terrorizing Americans and smearing your opponent.

Didn't work for daddy, either.

[calimary]

57. Actually, that horrendous episode IS his record.

That's the high point of his worthless, reckless, utterly sinful, abominable administration. That, and the war. Tragic. Can't wait til he's GONE!!!!

[muchacho]

22. sick

no decency....none

[AlCzervik]

24. I wonder if the Kerry campaign knows about this

or the 9/11 families?

[Stephanie]

33. We should send it to them

I'd love to see some footage - find out exactly what they're showing.

[arwalden]

25. Howsa Bout He Dig Up The Corpses Of WTC Jumpers...

and put them out on display too. Or make a kinetic mobile sculpture out of them.... THAT WILL REALLY get the crowd fired up! Eh?

-- Allen

[liberal N proud]

26. An example of How LOW KKKarl Rove will go

These bastards are sick human beings.
Why do people not puke at these rallies? Becuse they are under the Rovian spell.

[MileHiStealth]

27. It happened on his watch !!!

I still can't figure out how he gets to
use 9/11 as a campaign issue when it
happened because of his callous disregard
for his intelligence sources. A month
before the attacks, he gets a report
that says Bin Laden is poised to attack,
brushes it aside and continues his vacation.
A month later, the towers come down.
Gee, this guy makes me feel real safe !!!

Someone needs to do a commercial with vicious
looking wolves circling the Twin Towers, obviously
C/G graphics would be required, with overlays of
the memos warning of an attack superimposed ...

[mbperrin]

31. I'm with you, MileHiStealth! This occurred on HIS watch!

And reams of evidence that he could have stopped it!!!!

As a teacher, I have to believe that people actually connect these...

[spooked911]

63. simple-- it's trauma-induced brain-washing on millions of people

...who don't want to think for themselves.

What's worse is that 9/11 was an inside job and they are covering up their own complicity oin this horrible crime.

[LibDemAlways]

28. Wilkes-Barre area

needs jobs, not threats of terrorism. Kerry spoke in Wilkes Barre last week and talked about things that matter to the people in the area - jobs, social security, health care, Medicare. Chimp keeps showing up there, probably because his advisors have told him it's a heavily Catholic area. What they seem to have missed is that the jobs have gone, and the senior population is huge. I have several cousins there - all in their 50s and 60s. Their kids all moved to DC to find work. Look in the local paper at the listings of senior clubs and organizations -- many hundreds. Those seniors are going to vote for the guy who is going to bring jobs to the area so that maybe their kids and grandkids won't have to move away, the guy who is going to strengthen Social Security and work to give them a real prescription drug benefit. That guy is John Kerry. Chimp is wasting his time.

[MrScorpio]

29. John Edwards said that Bush is using scare tactics to resteal the WH

>>The Kerry campaign immediately responded, with a spokesman for the Democratic senator saying the president was using "the politics of fear" out of desperation.

Campaigning in Boynton Beach, Fla., Mr. Kerry's running mate, John Edwards, said the president is "continuing to try to scare America in his speeches and ads in a despicable and contemptible way."

Then, in a measure of the lightning speed of the two campaigns in the final days before the election, the Democratic Party released a commercial that features a soaring eagle and an ostrich with its head in the sand.

The ad asks: "Given the choice, in these challenging times, shouldn't we be the eagle again?"<<

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/22/politics/campaign/22CND-CAMP.html?oref=login&hp=&pagewanted=print&position

[bookman]

30. His finest hour

A surprise attact on US soil by terrorists.

[ohtransplant]

34. Truly a sad commentary

Have these people no soul? no conscience?

I refuse to believe I live in a country where the majority will validate this kind of cynical, opportunistic, ghoulish behavior. Thinking Americans need to stop and consider the impact on future generations.

Volunteer to work the election !!!

[truthpusher]

35. They are all part of the 'Cult of ick'

[Mr_Spock]

36. Bush shows total contempt toward the electorate - who would vote for him?

What kind of person would vote for someone who thinks death and destruction is something to highlight when asking to be re-appointed?

Really bizarre!

[NVMojo]

38. The idiot is so deseperate, he doesn't realize that this reminds us

that the job is not done!!! We haven't found out why it happened!! We haven't been told the TRUTH!!! This entire 9-11 incident is unresolved and he is just reminding the world what a lying loser he is!!

[Glenda]

47. Re-appointed... I caught that!!

[TwilightZone]

53. Agreed. You'd have to be incredibly ignorant to vote for this guy.

But, then, I've seen some incredibly ignorant people support him.

Yesterday, one of our local news stations was interviewing Bush supporters. They asked one "soccer mom" why she was voting for Bush.

She said, and I kid you not, "Because he just seems like a guy we could invite over for Sunday lunch."

Yeah, that's a great reason to vote for someone. He's a complete moron, utterly incompetent, but damn, if he isn't a good guy to have over for lunch!

Idiots.

[Rude Horner]

54. Re: Agreed. You'd have to be incredibly ignorant to vote for this guy.

How about this one? - I live in Wisconsin and a couple weeks back, I saw this on msnbc.com:
********
U.S. Rep. Mark Green, R-Hobart, who will be with Bush today in Wisconsin, said Bush’s chances to win the state this year are excellent.

“This is a state that is not terribly partisan,” Green said. “It’s a blue-collar, conservative state. We watch the Badgers on Saturday and the Packers on Sunday. We hunt in the fall and snowmobile in the winter. The candidate who I think represents those values best wins. I think clearly between John Kerry and George Bush, Bush represents those values.”
*********

WTF??? First off - exactly how does Bush represent these values and Kerry doesn't?? Second - gee, thanks Mark for essentially telling the rest of the country that we're a bunch of dumb morons in Wisconsin who couldn't care less about issues like the farce in Iraq and the skyrocketing national debt - we only care about issues like football and hunting.

I wrote an email to Mark Green telling him that basically he was an idiot, but I never heard back from him. :)

[TwilightZone]

58. Yikes.

I love how he said, "not terribly partisan" and "conservative" within a few words of each other. You know that he really means "Conservative" (capital "C"), equating it with Republican.

That is pretty scary. Sometimes, I think people just shut off their brains when election time comes around (or never turn them on in the first place). They vote based on completely irrelevant bases and ignore the fact that Iraq, Afghanistan, job losses, the economy, education, etc., even exist.

Someone should also tell him that everything he mentioned covers only August - March or so.

What do Wisconsin residents do the rest of the year? (Look forward to hunting and football? ;))

[Rude Horner]

61. Yup - never mind the issues. :)

What do Wisconsin residents do the rest of the year? (Look forward to hunting and football? ;))

You forgot snowmobiling! I mean, Poland! You forgot Poland! LOL!! ;)

[BUSHOUT]

39. All he has to run on is fear. America will reject fear. n/t

[Joe Turner]

40. Did Shrub put up a split screen with him sitting in a kindergarten room

with a blank clueless face for more than 7 minutes after being told the 2nd tower was hit?

[raysr]

41. Should have a caption

saying "Look what I done!"

[Joe Turner]

48. Indeed. 911 happen BECAUSE of Shrub's Incompetence

[spooked911]

64. The Bush administration MIHOP

see:

[spooked911]

66. 9/11 was a military highjacking exercise gone wrong-- retry of HTML

9/11 was a military highjacking exercise gone wrong

[OSX]

42. Bush : 9/11 Whore

I hear you, the whole world hears you, and to those who fixed the 2000 election...will hear from all of us real soon...

Kerry / Edwards.

OSX

[Stephanie]

43. Welcome to DU

Please god let there be justice once Kerry's in the WH.

[despairing optimist]

44. Why. Does he pledge to finish the job this time?

It's hard work, you know.

[Chiyo-chichi]

45. That's despicable.

What's even worse in NBC doing it for him. The Today show last week inserted a shot of smoking WTC rubble when reporting on a Bush stump speech during which he invoked 9/11. No graphics inserted to enhance Kerry's points, of course.

[bush equals idiot]

49. Put that reviling prick on a lie detector

ask him if he isn't happy that 911 was such a tragedy....when he answered no, the needle would fly off the machine and hit the wall.

I hope someone will come forward who has the proof that he's committed treason and they put that bastard away in a dungeon with rats.

[Pluvious]

50. Maybe he should also have...

... read them all the closing chapter of The Pet Goat.

Since that was what he was listening to while the wreckage was occuring !

[Cocoa]

52. warming up the crowd

do they play "Have you forgotten" as they show the carnage?

[farmbo]

56. Audacious! Now can we attack Bush on his 9/11 failures?!

Remember when the Swift boat liars attacked and the press gave them a free pass because Kerry had "opened the door" by showcasing the Band of Brothers at the DNC?

With his audacious use of the Trade Tower footage, Bush has just "opened the door" for a stark and serious challenge of his intelligence and leadership failures leading up to 9/11.

[fortyfeetunder]

59. Look on the flip side

People can look at the WTC images. However, they also need with a clue by four realize, this is the biggest eff up this president has ever made!!!

[orpupilofnature57]

65. One tragedy to cover up another, now isn't that pathetic.

As 9\11 shows the most lack luster start to a presidency in modern history, then came another <pearl harbor>.And what sort of audience would be moved, by the most horrific sight in years.

[Generator]

67. Just when you think you can't be anymore disgusted at these scumballs

they make you wrong.

[Stephanie]

73. That's how I feel

I would like to see this be front page news in the New York tabloids. We need to find out exactly what images they are showing.

[0007]

68. Low class idiot!!

[stevietheman]

70. Who let the wolves in (woof... woof woof woof woof woof)? *

* Sung to "Who Let the Dogs out?"

[Robeson]

72. Did anyone think he wouldn't?

These guys have no scruples, and will try ANYTHING to win this. The only thing I would have been surpised about, is if this group of thugs HADN'T tried to capitalize on this. They're shameless. So what else is new? Thats why we have to steel ourselves and expect anything from this crew!

[Shopaholic]

74. I have never seen a president

campaign on corpses the way that this man has. Fucking unbelievable.

[Beetwasher]

76. This Is What's Known As TRANCE INDUCTION

Whipping the faithful into a blood frenzy w/ violent, emotionally charged propoganda.

See "Nazi Germany" for further details.

[Stephanie]

79. In light of recent events

This takes a lot of nerve, Chimp.

[CBHagman]

80. Bush barely spent any time in NYC during his own convention.

Didn't he just come in for the acceptance speech and then go right to Pennsylvania?

And I know for a fact that New Yorkers were treated like undesirables during the convention.

Yet he's willing to exploit the horror and despair of that city for his own advantage.

May he be punished for that.