Bush Said The P Word !

[UncleSepp]

ROFL!

I'll probably say it three more times. See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda. (Applause.) -- George W. Bush, 24 May 2005
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/05/20050524-3.html

And for a corresponding, but slightly better stated view:

"...Effective propaganda must limit its points of a few and these points must be repeated until even the last member of the audience understands what is meant by them."
-- Adolf Hitler, 1930

Maybe it's just me, but this so far is the most darkly hilarious thing I've heard from Bush yet. He actually said the P word. You're never supposed to SAY the P word! You just DO it!

[forintegrity]

1. I'm sure Rove and Cheney told him

never to say that word. (You can tell it had to come from one of them cuz he used the word "catapult," a word that isn't typically found in a dimwits vocabulary.)

Problem is, Bush is too DAMN stupid to remember what they tell him!

[evlbstrd]

2. It's "Don't think of an elephant."

So, of course, he did.

[Patchuli]

4. He remembers what they told him

but he doesn't apparently remember that they told him not to say that he spews propaganda! Idiot son of an a$$hole...

[blogbear]

5. How true! I bet he couldn't spell the p word without being coached

much less elaborate on it..

[Dinger]

3. Good Catch - Creepy. . .

Deserves a kick!

[Bake]

6. Love your Johnny Cash photo and quote!

Ain't it the truth!!

Bake

[Dinger]

10. "Man In Black" A Democratic Anthem

Oh, that Cash would still be here : (

[wicket]

27. me too :(

"And I wear it for the thousands who have died, believing that the Lord was on their side..."

[calimary]

25. Indeed! And DOES deserve a kick.

For full documentation, here's the quote from a Washington Post piece by Dan Froomkin - irresistably titled "The Ostrich Approach" (!)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2005/05/25/BL2005052501250.html

Kicked and nominated.

MAN! This is a KEEPER for all of us from the "Frame the Debate" discussions... Schmucko just proved our point for us. Out of the horse's-ass's mouth.

[halobeam]

7. ROFL is right !!!!

:rofl: UN FREAKIN' REAL!!

[earth mom]

8. Reminds me of the time he accused Kerry of "bait and switch"

which is EXACTLY what he and Rove love to do! :eyes:

[Pryderi]

9. "you repeat a lie hundred times and it becomes the truth."

---Joseph Goebbels

[UncleSepp]

14. Well, that's not QUITE the quote, but you're on the right track (n/t)

[Zorbuddha]

11. Next he'll explain how lies are best used in his line of work.

This could go on and on.

[tyedyeto]

12. Later in the day, KKKarl told him

"Didn't I tell you not to speak unless we wire you first? No booze for you this week."

:sarcasm:

[lonestarnot]

13. This creepy freak never ceases to amaze me how he flaunts truth at times

and people applaud! Through the looking glass... I saw a Sat. Remember the hippy show on South Park? Yeah just like that!

[slor]

22. That is the part that gets me...

that the crowd applauded that shit! I mean, can you believe it? He may as well said, "I am playing you all, for the fools that you are. So thanks alot, dummies". My guess is that they would applaud that too. Idiots!

[Barad Simith]

15. Jesus

Christ

[orleans]

16. ah-HA! so he admits it!

[elperromagico]

17. "Repetition" and "propaganda" are not synonyms.

Sometimes it is necessary to repeat something many times before the public will hear it. I will grant Bush that point.

Propaganda is a different matter altogether, though. Propaganda is not repetition for the sake of clarification or education. Rather, it is the manipulation of ideas in order to obfuscate and miseducate. Repetition can often encourage knowledge; propaganda relies on ignorance.

[truthisfreedom]

23. beautiful observation. thanks for that post!

[Boo Boo]

18. I think Bush meant that he has to keep repeating

the truth over and over to "catapult" it over the propaganda. That is, what he says is right, and what those that disagree with him say is propaganda. So he speaks more like a football coach than a President; apparently that goes over big with morons.

I guess it's kind of an amusing malapropism the way he said it, but for me it really doesn't rise to the level of giving our wings dreams and putting food on our families.

[magellan]

19. Don't care what he might have meant

It's that he got caught telling the truth again that matters.

[VOX]

20. Well, there it is.

Too much. I'm just shaking my head, half in despair, and half in amazement.

[laheina]

21. He's prolly giving the PR people fits.

They're prolly gonna be up all night trying to figure out how to spin it. I'm betting that they are gonna bite their tongues and PRAY that it goes away. tee hee!

[truthisfreedom]

24. oh, i know how scotty will spin it if he choses to speak about it at all.

he'll say that the prez was saying that he has to "catapult the propaganda away" by "repeating the truth again and again."

[laheina]

28. LOL!

That guy is a piece of work.

[wicket]

26. "Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth." - FDR

n/t