Kerry Knocks Bush Over WMD Jokes

[0rion]

The Following was issued by the Kerry For President campaign this evening:

How Out of Touch Can This President Be?

Kerry Knocks Bush Over WMD Jokes

[private_ryan]

1. link?

developing........ how?

[Demonaut]

14. c'mon, relax ..Its a JOKE.......jesus people it just shows he's got a

a sense of humor, you should see the his rendition of people trying to fly when they leapt out of the twin towers...oh ho thats FUNNY, please dont flame me, I am being completely sarcastic. I would make a comment about "gallows" humor but big brother is watching

[icymist]

42. I don't get it!

:shrug:

[Born Free]

48. he joked about the execution on TV

Back during the 2000 election he was on TV mocking an execution. It's ironic because "bunker boy" wets his pants any time their is trouble by. Much like any other spoiled brat that becomes a bully, he acts really tough when hiding behind some one else. He is more like a squirrel, stands up in the tree and makes a lot of noise but runs at the first sign of trouble. Meanwhile working class Americans are dying to keep the oil flowing so the bush team can make more money.

[thebigidea]

59. ho ho what a comedian. HAW HAW HAW!

http://www.terminalproduct.com/bushwmd.mp3

HAW HAW HAW HAW HAW!

[scarface2004]

44. i love the bush joke about....

how many dead iraqi babies it takes to screw in a light bulb!!!

man i m fuckin' rollin' in the aisle!!!

[Melodybe]

2. Yay! I hope that this is for real.

Go Kerry!

[prolesunited]

3. Excellent response!

If George Bush thinks his deceptive rationale for going to war is a laughing matter, then he's even more out of touch than we thought. Unfortunately for the President, this is not a joke.

585 American soldiers have been killed in Iraq in the last year, 3,354 have been wounded, and there's no end in sight. Bush Turned White House Credibility into a Joke George Bush sold us on going to war with Iraq based on the threat of weapons of mass destruction. But we still haven't found them, and now he thinks that's funny?

George Bush didn't tell us the truth about the economy, about job loss, about the true cost of his deceptive prescription drug plan, or about the existence of weapons of mass destruction. There's nothing funny about that.


Glad to see he jumped right on it. I also liked how he threw everything else in there at the end. MILLIONS of Americans are NOT laughing.

You know who's laughing, a bunch of rich, soulless Repukes who get their jollies off the pain and suffering of others.

[Sequoia]

34. Yes, I emailed another story about the joke to a Repub pal

and she flamed me about how my hatred of Bush needed looking into. How can they keep defending Bush? Then she went on to explain the reason Clinton was impeached was because he LIED! Well, look at the lies Bush is telling us. I guess killing close to 600 troops because of a lie is no reason to impeach. I just can't believe it. Why must they always throw in Clinton. Always.

[Catherine Vincent]

39. You should have told the little bush buttkisser

that us Democrats received tons of joke emails about Clinton when he was president and you didn't hear us whine about it. Tell her to get a sense of humor when their's a republicans in the white house.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

His cutesy little "jokes" aren't so funny now...

...the trifecta thing needs to be brought up and hammered home. He's been so smug and arrogant, and this week was the WORST time for him to try it again.

But I'm glad he did it. The prick.

[izzie]

4. Ever the macho cheerleader

:eyes:

[flamingpie2500]

5. Thankfully it's been a major issue all over CNN today

Barbara Starr from Cnn even asked Rumsfeld about it during his press conference today and he said he wasn't there and couldn't comment.
Probably the fewest words to an answer from Rummy I've heard in a long time. LOL

[young_at_heart]

6. I'm wondering how they will spin this?

We've had nothing but spin since this privileged frat boy was pushed into the presidency. Surely the sheeple will stop falling for it!

[Emboldened Chimp]

7. Get a grip, folks---this is Drudge...

This so-called Independent Media Magazine just regurgitated the exact same thing Drudge "reported".

[slor]

10. I hope Kerry would say something...

and he should pull no punches. It is outrageous for that monkey to make light of this situation of HIS choosing!

[leftchick]

8. as a person who has a loved one/relative in Baghdad right now...

I find his remarks appalling, disgusting and repulsive. He is an obvious sociopath who has no right to hold the office he is in.... :puke:

[carolinayellowdog]

9. The media whores in the audience found it hilarious

according to David Corn's report in The Nation, cited in another thread here. That's way more horrifying than that * himself considered it funny.

[lightbulb]

21. Agreed - the whores have no more soul than bush

The mainstream whores have gotten where they are precisely because they are devoid of integrity. They ask what they are told to ask. The report what they're told to report. Their only "truth" is the truth which most pleases their masters.

Check out their guffaws at the end of this clip:

http://images.indymedia.org/imc/washingtondc/media/video/6/9_11laugh.mpg

This moment leaves most decent people feeling quite disturbed. But the reporters just brush it off with a bit of nervous laughter.

[llmart]

35. Agreed, also...

The media whores laughing at this is equivalent to people laughing at racist jokes just because they go along with the crowd and don't have the courage of their convictions (or maybe they don't even have any)to stand up to tasteless humor.

[Sagan]

11. I wonder if they can use the footage for a campaign commercial?

It would sure make a great one!

"George Bush thinks it's funny that he can't find the Weapons of Mass Destruction he told America were in Iraq.... (show scenes of bomb destruction and a flag-covered coffin)... we don't think it's very funny."

[lindashaw]

25. E-mail this suggestion to Kerry's website.

[BrotherBuzz]

29. E-mail that suggestion to move-on.com

[onehandle]

12. Tanned, Rested, and Loaded for Chimp!

Uh, Bear.

[Demonaut]

15. Office of Home Land Security

might recommend a deeper tan at the Gitmo Spa and Reindoctrination Center.

[jsw_81]

13. Bush is a very sick man

We have lost almost 600 troops (three more today) and this asshole is making jokes about the war?

[i_c_a_White_Ghost]

16. Yea

what else u expect? He never had to go to war himself, so it's a big joke to him and cheney and the rest of the regime

[AlinPA]

17. This Karl Rove "joke" is going to backfire on the idiot Bush*

Totally sick. I think Rove is screwing up more now. They are desperate.

[JoFerret]

18. You could look for it here

http://www.johnkerry.com/pressroom/releases/index.html

and I could not find it.

[Demonaut]

19. See CNN with Wolf, they just showed a shot of Lieberman

laughing at bush's jokes, the whole version should come up in a minute

[jsw_81]

27. Why am I not surprised

Lieberman sickens me.

[JoFerret]

20. Team Bush scrambles to regain the ball

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4594757/

[bagnana]

26. this is a great plan:

"Through attack ads, aggressive use of local surrogates, and withering one-liners from the President, Bush hopes to redefine the Massachusetts senator as a two-faced opportunist"

"Withering one-liners from the President" -- good god, is that their strategery? How can Kerry possibly survive the repartee of Bush?

[Timefortruth]

22. Sinister, some photos show his soul

This was taken at the dinner.

[i_c_a_White_Ghost]

24. As this smile went off his face, 3 more GI's Died!

:mad:

[prodigal_green]

28. His eyes are really bloodshot...is he drunk

again?

[0rion]

30. Again?

lol

[Timefortruth]

23. Sinister, some photos show his soul

These were taken at the dinner.

[yardwork]

31. Again, worse than anything Nixon did.

I never thought I would see the day.

What's next? Electing Satan himself?

[0007]

32. junior deserves to be confronted by all that take this seriously

and not as another Carla Fay Tucker joke, like when he mimicked her by saying "I don't want to die" just before they executed her.

junior is a son of a bitch that has no fucking class, never has had, never will have. Fuck him and his whole fucking ugly ass family. This no class, low class asshole can go fuck himself.

[0007]

33. Are the poor and uninsured, the unemployed, and the ones

with no health insurance and the seniors that can't make it, next to be laughed by this sleazy asshole and his wealthy friends?

[illuminaughty]

53. Oh, please don't call him an "asshole"

This is an insult to the lower bowels of real human beings throughout the world. At least an asshole functions and eliminates waste. We definitely can't credit him with those abilities.
If I weren't such a new poster on DU I'd suggest he was more like an "orgasm from a child molester" you know, sociopathic selfish satisfaction while raping the innocent..but being new and all..well

[Barad Simith]

56. Thank you

"This is an insult to the lower bowels of real human beings throughout the world." Perfect.

Welcome to DU!

[BabsSong]

36. Can't figure out if this is

suppose to be real or not. If real then it's terrific because it's 100% necessary for Kerry to criticize or otherwise lose a great political opportunity. If he hasn't then I'm getting more and more damn disgusted. There is no reason to hold back and say nothing particularly when we might (gasp) actually get some goddamn (about time) air time coverage of response. The opportunities of the last few days are just marching by and we are letting them be propagandized by the repukes at will. Are we going to say something??---sounds like the past 3 years of silence to me.

[Democat]

37. This may not be a good thing to attack Bush over

We want our candidates to be able to joke, and if jokes become off limits, then the media will trash any Democrat who makes a joke.

There are better things to slam Bush over than making a joke.

Humor is on our side, we don't want to ruin that by making any Kerry joke seem hypocritical.

Wait until the right digs up some old Kerry jokes now to make him look bad too.

[yardwork]

38. I hope that Kerry makes a big deal out of more substantive issues.

There is a lot of ammunition against * and I hope the Dems use it effectively.

I tend to think they will, because Kerry is known as a real fighter in politics.

[buycitgo]

49. drudge already has

something from 88, involving SHOOTING Quayle, or something, if Poppy got hit

not good

[thebigidea]

55. I doubt Kerry will be making jokes at the expense of American soldiers

[TheDonkey]

40. Kerry shouldn't bash bush on this, but WE SHOULD!

this is a shameful joke and disgusting. All the Democratic talkers in the media and on the streets need to be up in arms about this. Iraq isn't a silly where's waldo game asshole.

[Democat]

47. Great point - Kerry shouldn't have to say anything, his surrogates should!

Bush is a master of trying to not look like he's attacking Kerry himself, but letting his supporters do the dirty work.

Our side needs to learn that lesson.

Rather than Kerry directly attacking Bush on this issue, he should have let other Democrats and the 9/11 families go on the attack.

[yellowcanine]

41. The sophomoric towel snapping little fratboy cheerleader

has finally gone too far with his little "jokes". Karen Hughes used to ride herd on him and head off these kind of outrages. My guess is she will be returning to the White House soon but it will be too little too late. Everyone saw the Emperor naked and it was not a pretty sight.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

43. I find his "jokes" to be flagrant disrespect

for everyone who's died because of him, and for the law itself.
He's thumbing his nose at the rules like a spoiled rich brat.

Oh yeah...Maybe there's a reason for that.

[enough]

45. World Net daily reporting the Drudge story

adding this:

Snip:

The statement also included a quote from Brad Owens, an Iraq war veteran and apparent Kerry supporter.

"George Bush insulted me as a veteran and as a friend to many still serving in Iraq," Owens said. "This act lowers the dialogue about weapons of mass destruction. War is the single most serious event that a President or government can carry its people into. No weapons of mass destruction have been found and that is no joke - this is for real. This cheapens the sacrifice that American soldiers and their families are dealing with every single day."

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=37751

[Mari333]

46. Good. this story needs legs.

I watched the snippet today of him and his wealthy friends mocking and laughing about our kids on the ground over there. I watched the wealthy bastards thinking its oh so funny that they sent our kids over to Iraq, oh so funny that over 600 troops are dead and never coming home, oh so funny that our kids are coming home in the dead of night to Dover in body bags, oh so funny that thousands of civilians and Iraqis are dead and wounded, oh so funny that thousands of soldiers are maimed and lost their limbs are traumatized for life, oh so funny that they used our kids like cannon fodder to make them all wealthy
I sat with my increasingly sick and crying husband and watched it. I thought of our loved one who just emailed me "get us out of this hellhole"
and I realized I was watching the most evil human beings on earth, laughing at our children who they put in harms way, who they killed and maimed, so they could make money.
God has a special place in Hell for these people, if there is a Hell.

[buycitgo]

50. jesus, mari, whenever he gets sent to that prison in the Hague

they should WALLPAPER his cell with that picture

jesus

[Katie]

51. As tasteless as his 9/11 "Lucky me, I hit the Trifecta" Joke

bush is despicable. Not only did he mock 9/11, now this. He hides the coffins of dead soldiers and exploits the dead bodies of 9/11 victims. He's a ghoul.

[Ganja Ninja]

52. I just can't get over what a complete ass this man is.

But what's even worse is how the national media put his little stand-up act on the news and laughed along with him. Both ABC and CBS tried to spin this as if we were seeing a more human side of Bush as man capable of laughing at himself. None of them seem to realize how tasteless and unfunny it really is. The man cracking jokes about his ineptitude might have been funny if so many weren't suffering from asinine war mongering.

[0rion]

54. Punt for the night crew.

nt

[orthogonal]

57. Laughable, but not at all funny

Mr. President, there are more than 500 young American servicemen and servicewomen who fought and died in Iraq -- and they won't ever again laugh at any jokes.

Over 500 young Americans who won't comfort their parents' later years. Over 500 young Americans who won't ever again hold their children. Over 500 young Americans who didn't live to pass on the torch their teachers and coaches and ministers passed to them.

Over 500 Americans who made the ultimate sacrifice on your say so, Mr. President.

They went to Iraq because they -- and Congress, and we, the American people -- took you at your word about the "Weapons of Mass Destruction", Mr. President. And to you safely back in Washington, it's all a joke, Mr. President. An amusing prop for you and the rest of the Washington elite to laugh at.

This administration may be laughable, but it's not funny anymore.

[Reciprocity]

58. Not surprised!

I'm not surprised that he found humor in this. Remember when he laugh at the women on death row who was pleading to him to change her sentence to life .

[Whoa_Nelly]

60. Who has the link to the original article

about the WMD jokes at that dinner? Want to share it with a few consevatives I know.
Thanks O8)

on edit: Found the article
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/03/25/bush.broadcasters.ap/