There was that scary press conference where what appeared to be a strung-out and sedated Smirko called on reporters and robotically read from a script answers to their obviously canned questions. The unelected moron even called one and said, "Oops. I wasn't supposed to call you out of turn. Heh heh heh." All the presstitutes could do was utter an embarrassed chuckle and go on pretending.
The BFEE cowers and intimidates and kills those who oppose them. I don't think I'm being paranoid when I say we haven't had a free press since 22 November 1963.
Scripted Press Conferences and the Lapdog Media
BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS
As we have mentioned over the last two years, the Republican Party is so brazen in its hypocrisy, it will sometimes just openly brag about its duplicitousness.
It happened when Andrew Card said in September of 2002 that the Bush Cartel waited until the fall to begin the drumbeats of war against Iraq, because, he argued, the summer is not a good time to roll out a "new product."
It happened again on Thursday night when Bush openly acknowledged that the news conference was scripted. Bush appeared to be referring to a list of reporters prepared for him that he was reading from, which excluded Helen Thomas, of course. As he read down the list, he told a reporter, in essence, to wait to ask his question because the reporter was further down on the list.
You can hear (557kb wav) the "script" comment yourself in an audio file created by a BuzzFlash Reader, who notes, "The relevant excerpt from CNN's transcript is included below -- notice the 'scripted' comment is conveniently scrubbed out."
BUSH: ...The risk of doing nothing, the risk of hoping that Saddam Hussein changes his mind and becomes a gentle soul, the risk that somehow inaction will make the world safer, is a risk I'm not willing to take for the American people.
QUESTION: Thank you, Mr. President. Sir, how would you answer your critics who say that they think is somehow personal? As Senator Kennedy put it tonight, he said your fixation with Saddam Hussein is making the world a more dangerous place.
(See: http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/03/06 /
bush.speech.transcript/index.html)
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