Anyone should be able to knock this down with a feather

[bigtree]

August 9, 2007

Bush Press Conference today:



"Al Gonzales -- implicit in your questions is that Al Gonzales did something wrong. I haven't seen Congress say he's done anything wrong . . . There's no proof of wrong. Why would I hold somebody accountable who has done nothing wrong? I mean, frankly, I think that's a typical Washington, D.C. assumption . . . you suggested holding the Attorney General accountable for something he did wrong . . ."

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/08/20070809-1.html


He's got the press by the balls, though . . .


CBS White House Correspondent Mark Knoller offers his assessment of President Bush's press conference this morning – and talks about why he wasn't there: (http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2007/08/09/publiceye/entry3152780.shtml)


Talk about being out of pocket.

You probably didn’t notice, but one part of the White House Press Corps wasn’t able to attend the President’s news conference this morning.

At the time, we were aboard the White House press plane en route to Kennebunkport, Maine where Pres. Bush is now spending a long weekend.

So instead of attending the hastily announced Q-&-A session in the White House briefing room where I should have been and otherwise would have been, I watched it from 39,000 feet aboard the chartered jetBlue Airbus A320 that served as the press plane on this trip. On that aircraft, passengers can watch a number of broadcast and cable channels downlinked from the DIRECTV satellite.


Reflecting a reporter’s inflated sense of his own importance, I can just imagine the President saying: “What’s that? Knoller’s on the press to Kennebunkport? Great. Let’s have a news conference!”

In reality, he couldn’t care less. Although I felt he owed me one.

At his news conference last month, he called on every reporter in the front row, and then was making his way down the second row. One by one, he headed in my direction. And then, just as he finished answering the query of the reporter on my right, and I expected to be called on next, he ended the session.

As it turned out, I could have been on a plane that day too.

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2007/08/09/publiceye/entry3152780.shtml

[TwilightGardener]

1. Crazy, to consider holding someone accountable for something he did wrong.

How "Beltway" of them.

[lpbk2713]

2. The WH set designers made a special effort to make the asshole appear extra regal.

But it's only Shit-for-Brains. What a wasted effort.

[bigtree]

5. regal?

royal jackass

[az chela]

3. he looks like he belongs in a mental institution

what is he on??????

[Gregorian]

8. Wow. You'll never believe what I'm doing.

I was thinking the same thing. I've saved the photo, and I'm looking for a way to use it in some kind of meaningful context. I want to put it in a location that puts it in perspective. I was thinking how he's the president for the retarded. But it's not even fair to the mentally ill to do that. So... There must be something. I'll have to find the creative juices, to do this.

He really is disgusting. And those who believe his hype. Yuck, I've hated living in this country for the last seven years.

[Kool Kitty]

10. If you want to put this pic in a meaningful

context, why don't you copy it about a zillion times and make toilet paper out of it. He really was in full-blown "obnoxious bastard" mode today. And someone should tell him to lay off dying his hair. One day it's completely gray, the next day-salt and pepper. Just go gray, Dimson.

[Rex]

4. That's because you don't read a newspaper or watch tv!

You can't figure out how to use a knob!

[Mythsaje]

6. My 60 y.o. stepmom

apparently listened to it this morning, then turned to my dad and said, "he really wasn't saying anything, was he?"

My dad's response? "No, not really."

When I saw it later I was struck by how absolutely vapid he seemed. Anyone who can't see through it now isn't firing on all cylinders.

[NV Whino]

7. He's got a new tailor

No shoulder pad. Look at that great big head on that little scrawny body! :rofl:

Better go cut some more bush Mr. Brush.

[puebloknot]

9. "Please, Mister, may I have the red lollypop?" nt

Yep, the grownups are back in charge. Just ask George.