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journalist3072 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-23-06 10:32 PM
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Bush Cool To Gore Movie on Global Warming
Edited on Tue May-23-06 10:38 PM by journalist3072
You can almost feel the chill in the air!

When Idiot Son George Bush was asked if he would see former Vice President Al Gore's movie on global warming (An Inconvenient Truth), he responded with an abrupt "Doubt it."

And that response, I believe, gets at the heart of one of Bush's most dangerous characteristics. If I might borrow a phrase from his mother, Bushie doesn't want to bother his "beautiful mind" with hard, cold facts. Especially when those facts challenge his preconceived notions, and tell him he's been wrong all along. Stephen Colbert had it right when he said at the White House Correspondent's Dinner "When the President decides something on Monday, he still believes it on Wednesday--no matter what happened Tuesday."

What is Bush so scared of, when it comes to viewing President-Elect-But-Not-Allowed-To-Serve Al Gore's movie on global warming? Is he afraid he will be presented with some, well, inconvenient truths about how global warming is destroying our Earth at an alarming rate?

I guess Bushie believes if he doesn't see something, that means it's not happening.

This is a trait I find quite common among Republicans. Close your eyes and ears to the truth, so you won't have to be confronted with the facts.

As I was thinking about Bushie's refusal to see An Inconvenient Truth, I was reminded of when right-wing zealot Janet Parshall appeared on C-span with Air America Radio's Randi Rhodes. Parshall didn't like being confronted with the facts, so she literally closed her ears like a little child.

Here's a screen capture of that incident: (Thanks to KyndCulture and annabanana here on DU, for the hookup)!

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Bucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-23-06 10:34 PM
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1. Beautiful mind. Geeezum, that one still gets me.
What dangerous fucks.
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journalist3072 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-23-06 10:47 PM
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3. Dangerous is exactly right
Closing your eyes and ears to the reality around you is a bad trait in anyway.

But I think it's an especially DANGEROUS trait to have in a President.

And sadly, that's the situation we find ourselves in now. We have a 'President' who is so wedded to his own ideas, even when the facts tell him he's dead wrong.
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marmar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-23-06 10:36 PM
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2. He probably wouldn't get it anyway...
All those multi-syllabled words...
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saltpoint Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-23-06 11:11 PM
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4. It's true. He was told it wasn't about funny animals or choo-choo
Edited on Tue May-23-06 11:58 PM by Old Crusoe
trains, so he just refused to watch it.
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