Full court press conference
10/11/06 16:37
I heard
some of dubya’s press conference on the radio today.
From the part I listened to, it sounded like the
usual train wreck. He was really pushing the “blame
it on the Clenis” theme. His position seems to be
that he abandoned the Clinton administration strategy
of negotiation with North Korea “because it didn’t
work” in favor of his cowboy diplomacy of refusing to
negotiate at all, which worked so well that North
Korea may have tested a nuke. Yessir, he’s doing a
heckuva job. In his Amurka, any policy that doesn’t
end with something blowing up is for pussies.
I’m gonna see if I can come up with a transcript. I really need to see if it reads like it sounded.
Also today the US indicted a guy we don’t have in custody for treason. A 28-year-old religious nut. One line in the CNN heading summed it up pretty well. It says “Californian rejected Christianity, embraced Islam, moved to Pakistan.” Probably passed through a few cults along the way. At first I thought indicting a guy you can’t actually put on trial seemed like weak accompaniment to the preznit’s brave and brilliant press conference. It was like they had run out of al-Qaida number two men to capture or kill. But now I think this one’s more about getting the word treason on the front page. It’s part of the overall fear campaign.
I’m gonna see if I can come up with a transcript. I really need to see if it reads like it sounded.
Also today the US indicted a guy we don’t have in custody for treason. A 28-year-old religious nut. One line in the CNN heading summed it up pretty well. It says “Californian rejected Christianity, embraced Islam, moved to Pakistan.” Probably passed through a few cults along the way. At first I thought indicting a guy you can’t actually put on trial seemed like weak accompaniment to the preznit’s brave and brilliant press conference. It was like they had run out of al-Qaida number two men to capture or kill. But now I think this one’s more about getting the word treason on the front page. It’s part of the overall fear campaign.
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