Soldiers' familes, Dems 'appalled' by Bush jokes ( Media-selected "Victim" alert)

HoustonChronicle.com ^ | 3/27/04 | Frank Jones

[anonymous_user]

WASHINGTON -- Democratic critics and some family members of soldiers serving in Iraq are taking President Bush to task for his jokes at a black-tie dinner about the fruitless search for weapons of mass destruction.

The jokes came at Wednesday night's annual Radio and Television Correspondents Association dinner. In a 10-minute, mostly puckish, self-deprecating speech, the president presented a slide show he called "an election-year, White House photo album."

In several photos, he appeared to be searching the Oval Office. A photo of Bush looking under a piece of furniture was flashed on the large projection screens in the ballroom.

[international american]

Is it me, or am I witnessing a media terrorist effort to trash Bush? I am 50, and in my lifetime, I have never seen the big three trash a President like they are this time around. ABC did a hitpiece on Rummy the other night. NBC is just as bad.

[Rabid Dog]

Perfect timing on the FRN column - I expect this story will appear in a lot of papers and we will have easy access to the facts behind the funding for "media selected victims".

[cyborg]

No it's not you. I notice the same thing.

[NYCVirago]

One other thing: this story orginally ran in the Chicago Tribune, which is why Senator Durbin was quoted. Yet the one military family member quoted in the article, who is of course appalled by Bush's joke, just happens to be from Richmond, Virginia. What are the odds that this reporter would just happen to find this guy when he lives several hundred miles from D.C., but thousands of miles from Illinois! You mean to tell me he couldn't find a single military family member in Illinois to interview about this?

[AnnaZ]

I was shocked (seriously) to see the editorial page of the (Los Angeles) Slimes defend Bush on this subject today.

[Condor51]

Feelings

Feelings, nothing more than feelings,
Trying to impose my feelings on... you.
Teardrops rolling down on my face,
Trying to impose my feelings on... YOU!

Feelings, for all my life I'll feel it.
'Cause I'm just a wimpy 'victim' a-hole;
You'll never be able to apologize ENOUGH.

Feelings, wo-o-o feelings,
Wo-o-o, you hurt my feelings.
My lawyer's gonna get you

Feelings, feelings
Dam you hurt my feelings
Feelings wo-o-o I think I'll sue you
Have you no shame in you heart.

Feelings, for all my life I'll feel it.
So you'll owe me plenty;
You'll never be able to make it up!

Feelings, wo-o-o feelings,
Wo-o-o, my feelings - I'm gonna sue you
(sniffle) You hurt my feelings.
Feelings...

[anonymous_user]

I am getting pretty sick of "relatives and others" who go on their 'fault finding" missions.

There again, that's the real problem. These paid political-hack media whores make us callous to people that are really hurting, really having financial problems, and really need help. Worse yet, our healthy skepticism about "victims" fuels the left's accusations that we're stone-hearted conservatives.

That is why conservatives should be 10,000% behind the troops, supporting the families, raising money, and really making a difference. The media, they'll never notice, but the people who we value will.

Maybe someday people will really see this "Liberal compassion" and media outrage for what it is -- just an attempt to (re)gain political power.

[finnigan2]

This is not the first time that the Dems. have found an instant "concerned citizen group" or individual which, upon investigation, turns out to be associated with the Democratic campaign through a cut out organization which receives funding from Soros or some other Party related sponsor. I'm surprised that Karl Rove hasn't developed a reference book listing all such organizations (it would be easy enough to do) so that the Republican campaign could instantly counter with their own press release pointing out this connection to the Democratic Party. If they did so, these dirty trick set ups would soon stop.

[anonymous_user]

Good research! Too bad the media can't even start to do the same kind of research before they quote somebody as an unbiased source.

I did that purely on a whim, just to see what would happen, and I was blown away with the results.

And don't think the press didn't know for a second who their go-to guy on this article would be. Modern jouralism operates by creating a story then finding facts and interviews to support their creation and downplaying those that don't.

[anonymous_user]

I missed who the guy was on Gallagher, but I wouldn't doubt he was the author! :)

[international american]

Don't worry, 2 weeks befor the election, the LA Times will bring forth Bush's alleged homosexual lover...and that he groped the same women as Arnold:)

[Homer_J_Simpson]

My eyebrows rose a bit when I heard the gag on TV the other night. My first reaction was that it was meant to poke fun at the simplistic WMD obsession of the Bush haters. ("What? No A-bomb factories found in Baghdad? BUSHISALIAR!") The White House had to know that the joke would push the media hysteria button and generate the fallout we see now. Were they just seeing if they could get liberal heads to explode?

[OldFriend]

Same old same old double standard.

Do they have a comment about Mr. Kerry sitting in on meetings where killing sitting US Senators was being discussed?

Are they enjoying the spectacle of the 9/11 commission hearings which have turned into Wellstone Memorial lite?

Cheering, clapping and shouting out during testimony. Do they like that the hearing had to be suspended and a police officer had to remove a spectator while Tenet was testifying?

[Rabid Dog]

Well maybe Karl Rove ought to spend more time on FreeRepublic!

[OldFriend]

New Yorkers are a special breed. Keep in mind that they overwhelmingly elected her heinous to the senate.

[AlexW]

"Is it me, or am I witnessing a media terrorist effort to trash Bush?"

I am 58, and agree with you.
This business of bashing bush for anything he says is just a typical Rat ploy...They line up their operatives to make it look like the public is shocked...It is all just a trick, like Dasshole with his famous " I am deeply saddened
garbage".
Of course, the leftist media is now out in the open since the public has caught onto what they really are, so they might as well pull off the mask.

This is going to be a disgusting year for America.

[tbpiper]

Military Families Speak Out

There's better stuff in sewage than there is in this group.

[DoughtyOne]

I doubt they coined it, but out here on the John and Ken show, they refer to these folks as 'spokesholes'. I kindof like that title.

[eskimo]

Rumsfeld replied: "I wasn't there ... and I just am not in a position to be judgmental about that."

Oh God, all that does is make people realize where weasel words come from.

[DoughtyOne]

It's not just you, and these jerks are getting no sympathy from me whatsoever when they use their loss as a prop to take down the leader in our nation who is doing the most to exact a heavy penalty for taking out their relatives. Do they want someone to exact a penalty for their loss or not? If not, why should I fell sorry for them. IF not, they are major clymers.