CNN's King: Media "did not get to photograph" Bush in protective gear...

[Rose Siding]

CNN's King: Media "did not get to photograph" Bush in protective gear; Fox claimed he didn't wear it

Summary: After the release of a picture depicting White House counselor Dan Bartlett and press secretary Tony Snow wearing helmets and flak jackets while riding in a helicopter in Iraq, CNN chief national correspondent John King reported that President Bush also wore protective gear during the helicopter ride, but that members of the media "did not get to photograph" Bush because official personnel "didn't want us to get any pictures" of him entering or exiting the aircraft. In contrast, on Fox and Friends, co-hosts Steve Doocy and E.D. Hill claimed Bush wore no protective gear, but cited no evidence supporting their claim.

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From the June 14 edition of CNN's Live From ...:

KYRA PHILLIPS : All right. You wore body armor. So did the other journalists. But I was reading that the president's aides did not. Is that true, and does the president wear body armor?

KING: That -- that's not true. When we got on the helicopter, the president's aides -- it was 115 degrees, or 112 degrees, and it's hotter inside those helicopters, and they had to wear suits and ties because they were going to an official meeting with the prime minister and the Iraqi cabinet. Now, they put the flak jackets over their suits on the vest. We were told -- we didn't see the president -- one of the most interesting things is we did not get to photograph the president getting on Air Force One, off Air Force One, on or off any of those helicopters, because they moved him so quickly. They didn't want us to get any pictures of that. We were told that he had body armor on. He doesn't like it. I can tell you that from personal conversations with him in the past. But we were told he had body armor on. Once he got off the helicopter in the Green Zone, then we were allowed to take our body armor off and walk without it, right when you're just around the embassy compound.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200606140010

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[AX10]

1. Snow and Bartlett look like a couple of "girly men".

:silly:

[madokie]

10. probably because they are

[William Seger]

15. That photo...

... looks like a promo for some new sitcom or "wackey" movie. :rofl:

Uh..... except there's nothing funny about the situation in Iraq.

[underpants]

16. THE Snow and Bartlett pic (a classic)

[MidwestTransplant]

20. Looks like Hogans Heroes

[ComerPerro]

2. Trying to build myths about him again. "He doesn't wear body armor"

wow, how brave.


Anyone who says he did wear armor is a liar, and I won't believe it unless I see proof, a picture of him in body Armor from that trip...

[tanyev]

3. Maybe it should read, "He wasn't wearing additional body armor."

I'm sure he wears a vest underneath his suit at most public appearances anywhere in the world, even here.

[ComerPerro]

4. I know I would, if 65% of the country hated me

[DBoon]

22. I know I would, if 98% of the world hated me

He was outside the US for this one.

[acmavm]

6. Were we supposed to be impressed by this whopper? Is

this more compensation for the fact that the guy is a personal coward?

[Cha]

14. Only a codpiece..

Is this going to come back and bite him in the ass like "Mission Accomplished"?

Sneak in and sneak out of Iraq for a photo op while they're pushing wedge issues at home?

[William Seger]

18. Yeah, bullets bounce right off him...

... then the terra-ists throw their guns at him in frustration, but he ducks too fast, then he bangs their heads together and leaves them for the police to haul off to Gitmo....

[BOSSHOG]

5. "Cited no evidence supporting their claim."

that is the theme of faux and friends. More chicken shit cowardly bastards making a living by lying to people who wake up every morning wanting to be lied to by "conservatives."

[BR_Parkway]

7. All photos showed Dear Leaders wet pants and had to be destroyed

prior to publication.

[htuttle]

8. He was apparently wearing one of Halliburton's new SurvivaBalls

[Virginia Dare]

9. Actually, he was in a hermetically sealed vault...

remember when they said that the lumps under his jackets were due to the fact that he wore his biking gear underneath?

:rofl:

[MuseRider]

11. Oh. So he looked like

a dope and he fell out of the aircraft huh?

These people disgust me.

[Norquist Nemesis]

12. Poor Kyra

It's tough to have to face the truth.

[CottonBear]

13. Of course he wore protective gear. Geez. Faux's propaganda is insane.

I doubt that Faux's Bush* supporting audience would want Bush* to travel in a war zone without protective gear or that the secret service or the military would allow it. He is, quite possibly, the most hated man on the planet and one of the world's biggest terrorists in the eyes of those outside the USA.

Maybe Faux is trying to plant the idea in the heads pf their misguided viewers that Bush* is bulletproof or invincible. (I know it's a stupid thought but that is the only explanation that comes to mind.)
:eyes:

[underpants]

17. When you have nothing else you have to fall back on "perception"

it is their only reality

[peacebaby3]

19. If he didn't wear body armor/protective gear then that just re-enforces my

opinion of what a complete "moran" this "man" is. My husband was there and he wore his body armor even though he and other soldiers tested it and a bullet went right through! But he had to wear it. Hey, maybe that's why * didn't wear it (which I imagine is a lie) because he knew the armor they were providing the troops was so poor that it didn't matter anyone.

[Lars39]

21. Reframe: Bush is expendable, according to Fox.

[zbdent]

23. But wait a minute . . . doesn't he like to play dress-up like GIJoe

to look like one of the regular guys? Didn't he like the idea of a photo-op in his military greens?

Hmmm . . .