LIVE THREAD: Bush's Speech on Iraq (8:00 P.M. EDT)

www.freerepublic.com | May 21, 2004

[Howlin]

Speech begins at 8:00 P.M. EDT; carried on MSNBC, CNN, Fox News, and CSPAN.

[TomGuy]

Ceci Connelly is convinced they never wanted to do that but looked at polling data and "came around" to that decision.

Ceci gets the dailytalkingpointsmemo fax and never deviates from it. Squawk! Squawk! So does Alan Colmes! So does Alan Colmes. Arwk! Arwk!

[MJY1288]

I dislike her immensely

[Howlin]

Storms?

[Dog]

Yep they rip our hearts out....but we still have Smarty Jones to root for..

[Severa]

*checking in while getting kids ready for bed* This house is a Fox News house. Sadly though, the network of choice at my husband's work is CNN. We're working to change that...

[dwilli]

If you don't think this presidency has re-election problems, get out and talk to people of all walks.

[Congressman Billybob]

Yep, I'll be watching the speech so I can discuss it on air with Jerry Agar tomorrow afternoon. It's a filthy job, but somebody's gotta do it.

Congressman Billybob

Latest column, "How About 'The No Bullsh*t News'?"

[RightWhale]

He has to change the tide tonight or pack his bags.

High tide 30 Jun. Dubya is bringing his surfboard.

[Petronski]

I hope Jewel is the warm up act, I want to see both her teeth AND her breasts.

[YaYa123]

All last week I listened to emboldened partisans' personal trashings of the president. All week-end I read and watched gloom and doom predictions about the war in Iraq, and Bush's downward spiral in popularity.

For the most part, I think it's politically motivated "blood in the water" overkill, wishful thinking even, by sharks who've been feeding on the over-abundance of eagerly supplied polling data as news, and a steady diet of those awful prison pictures.

Neither of which is real news!

I could easily discount and discredit the motivation for much of it, as Larry Sabato so ably did in his latest "Crystal Ball". But I take seriously his dire warnings, and I hope the White House does too.

Shame on the networks for not showing the President's speech tonight live. "Equal time" should require it after the bad news they've emphasized for so many days.

(My surefire prediction du jour: Chris Mathews will get the speech all wrong. His immediate critiques are always way off base.)

[ken5050]

You're all invited to guess if the cable ratings do better than the crap that the nets are showing...also,when the nets break in for their updates, will they start with the Dems comments first?

[My2Cents]

AAAGGGGGG!!!.... My eyes!!!!!

[Camel Joe]

Why He's just had his nose to the grindstone so to speak.

[RightWhale]

She has nice teeth.

[PISANO]

EVERYONE in the media, including GW's advance people, are DOWNPLAYING this speech. I hope this is NOT true, and I it would be a big dissappointment if the HEADLINE from this speech has something to do with the Abu Gharib prison story. Please don't let it be that!!!

[dwilli]

What if that goes as badly as everything else here lately?

[looney tune]

Smarty - ahhh yes!

[TomGuy]

Down in front.

Howlin's been do that since this thread opened. I can't see the screen. Peach took my popcorn!

[cyncooper]

I think the photos may have hastened it, but I think the plan all along was to rid the Iraqi people of that place.

I certainly don't think that the Bush administration operates by looking to the polls.

[billorites]

Can you imagine the home base hearing "The President is down" on the radio?

Yeah, I be down bro'