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George W. Bush Live From Facebook
tekgoblin writes "Facebook has just announced that George W. Bush is going to be present November 29th to answer questions about his new book, Decision Points. The discussion will happen on Facebook Live at 2PM PST."
Or we will be treated to pages of:
"So, how DID you blow up the World trade Center?" and "You lied, People Died!" and "What's it like to be like HITLER you babykiller!?!?!?"
Nothing like W. to bring out the loony left.
Official Heretic from the "Church of Global Warming". Proven right thanks to whistle blowers. AGW = Flat Earth Theory
He should be doing the interview from a prison cell, awaiting trial for war crimes.
When all else fails, run.
Ah, yes. Two more targets of the MSM and liberals for derision and scorn above and beyond the call of reasonable criticism.
O'Donnell may be a dingbat, but Nancy Pelosi has been making dingbat comments for some 30 years or more in Congress and the left never seems to mind. Or any of dozens of others in the House and Senate who make Sarah Palin sound like a Rhodes scholar...
You need to get out of your liberal echo chamber and learn the truth that not everyone who disagrees with you is either nuts or evil.
You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
*Sigh* Hey, maybe it actually had something to do with Iraq being connected to Al Qaeda or something. Try looking around, like here:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=iraq+al+qaeda
First link there is pretty good.
Or this one: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=iraq+wtc+1993
Or this one: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=iraq+okc
Tic-Tac-Toe, Global Thermonuclear War, and relationships all have the same winning move.
Tea Partiers might be perfectly sane, but when you're that willfully ignorant about *everything*, anybody's going to look crazy.
As strongly as people feel about President Obama, and there is as much _strong_ feelings against him as there ever were for President Bush, I've never heard anyone wish physical harm on him. I've never heard of people in the media fantasizing on the airwaves about his assassination or any of the many other reprehensible things that were directed towards Bush, and seemingly accepted as perfectly reasonable by people I would think are above all that.
Really? You've seen enough rage against Bush to name/quote an invented disorder about it, but 'just haven't seen any evidence' of the Right's ridiculous, over-the-top, impotent rage over having a black 'liberal' man as president? The Facebook pages, the chain emails, the snippets of AM talk radio, the hand-painted signs, the mass-produced bumper stickers, and completely context-free anti-Obama comments that just "pop-up" when talking about other, politics-free subjects, like say, the weather?
You lose your keys when they're in your hand, don't you?
You don't have good reading comprehension, do you?
You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
For those of you outside the country, that's not surprising, seeing as how everything you've heard about them has been reported by the left wing mainstream media.
Stupid, sexy Flanders.
That huge Fox News and Murdoch's global sister corps is "the left wing mainstream media"?
You Republicans are so insane that you think people believe such a crude and childish lie.
Let me enlighten you a bit about the American Right -- it has developed a closed culture in which the right wing platitudes carefully developed by what is now an immense propaganda industry with numerous right-wing billionaires and huge international corporations (Murdoch counts as both for example) -- are accepted as self-evident and eternal truths requiring no evidence whatsoever to support. If challenged on any point there is either flat disbelieving denial, or if a comeback is offered it is typically a single well-worn out-of-context apples-and-oranges factoid (which is often actually fictional - like Reagan's racist Cadillac welfare queen fantasy) that is drilled into the faithful.
It has become a secular religion on the right, a political cult.
Let me give a personal example. I am a leader in a youth organization (not the Boy Scouts), and on a recent camp-out heard one of the dads, surrounded by a host of youngsters, in a state of genuine fury denouncing Obama for "being the only American president to refuse to sign presidential letters of congratulations to new Eagle Scouts". This was an astonishing claim to me for many reasons (Obama was a scout himself, this is outstanding free publicity that no politician would turn down, I had never heard this from any news source, etc.) so I simply asked him where he heard this (in a casual tone of voice). The result was him turning his fury on me: how dare I question what he said! At first he said it was "everywhere" then eventually he told me that he was a scout master and could not get the letters for his Eagle Scouts. A few minutes of searching later turned up that this was a false claim circulating on the right - and the Boy Scouts own website had news releases about all the letters Obama had signed and information about submitting letter requests. A little later I learned that the Dad he was no scout master and so the claimed source of his knowledge was a lie.
Although I scrupulously avoid discussing politics with this group, had expressed no view at all about Obama, had never done anything but ask about where I could find out about this claim in a non-confrontational way, and had never even contradicted him (though I did email him the link to the BSA page about how to get the letters) , at a later gathering he made a public snarky remark about how we didn't agree on politics. Basically not instantly accepting any ridiculous assertion about Obama as Gospel proved I was an "unbeliever".
The point is - the believers don't bother to look at evidence, and take all right-wing cant as an article of faith. They not only don't realize what they say is a lie, they don't care, perhaps don't even believe that such a thing as a lie exists if it supports the right-wing world view. Even if "not factual" it is some sort of "deeper truth" (the scout master lie is probably rationalized on this basis - it was more important to convince me that his claim was true than to speak truthfully since he was serving a "higher truth").
Starships were meant to fly, Hands up and touch the sky - Nicky Minaj
I'm not sure of the first reference offhand. The "Mission Accomplished" sign was referring the the aircraft carrier's mission, the longest deployment to sea. If you read TFB, he didn't make or know of the sign until he arrived on the deck. Even so, the message of the speech was that major combat operation were now over. Saddam was ousted. So, that first mission of the war was accomplished. He went on to talk about what's happening next, cleaning up, rebuilding, maintaining order.
And the Brownie line, what do you expect him to say in a public press conference? "F-U Brownie?" Brown had overseen four hurricane relief efforts in Florida the year before, and it went well. They just weren't prepared to deal with a mayor and governor who refused to do anything, make a formal request for help, or turn over operations to FEMA. The technical parts of the law are that states are in charge of cleanup, with the feds there for backup when requested. Mississippi had no problems making such formal requests, and things went smoother.
Dear AC troll, trying reading more than one link. kthxbai.
Tic-Tac-Toe, Global Thermonuclear War, and relationships all have the same winning move.