July 1 - 14, 2003

VOL. 1 ISSUE 6

REPUBLICANS BEGIN TO CRY LIKE BABIES, SWEAR LIKE BULLIES

Fleischer Whines It’s “Bull,” Tries To Blame Media

July 14, 2003 – Criticizing the President for being a liar is, “…a bunch of bull,” according to White House Spokesman Ari Fleischer.

Over the past weekend, the Bush administration tried to use the game of abusive husbands  and addicts everywhere.  After knowingly lying to the American public for a year – never once recanting the inaccurate statement about Iraq’s attempt to obtain uranium from Niger – President Bush and his people are trying to assert that since they now admit they were wrong, they should be free from punishment; like the teenager who finally admits he’s been stealing money from mom’s purse, and now gets belligerent, asserting that that admission means it is all done and over and there should be no consequences.

Powell asserted this last week.  Rice and Rumsfeld have been doing it daily.  President Bush said he considers the matter “over.”  They got George Tenet to take the blame, and so it is done, they assert.

No one bought it, the Democrats, and some Republicans continued to attack and demand a full investigation.

So what is the response of the Bushies today?

Like the abusive spouse, when the pleas to just let it go don’t work, swearing intimidation follows.

“It’s a bunch of bull,” said Fleischer.  It’s “bull” to demand truth, to expect consequences for lying to lead a nation to war, he whines incoherently.

Then, because that doesn’t seem to work, he starts to accuse and blame others.  He attacks his accusers: he labels it “revisionist,” and thus unfair, to think that what the President said in a speech meant to build support for going to war in Iraq was what built support for going to war in Iraq.  The President’s words and claims are irrelevant, somehow, and people suggesting otherwise are to blame for this embarrassing situation the President is in now.

That didn’t work.

So, of course, he attacks “the media.”  The media, of course, is, and has been, the Bush administration’s best friend, and most of it is nothing but right-wing, Murdoch-owned mouth-piece at this point.

But that doesn’t stop Fleischer.  For years the Bush/Limbaugh Republicans have attacked the media so that they can shift blame whenever they are caught in something.  In this case, their lying to lead us to war isn’t to blame, the media reporting it – belatedly, after 1 year of complicitly ignoring this lie and others – is what is to blame.  The public should be angry at the press and demand they drop it, not be angry at the lying Bush administration and demand more answers.  Fleischer plays this card yet again, blaming a “media frenzy” for causing the current uproar.

How dare the press actually publish statements from Democrats criticizing the President.  To report anything other than Bush/Limaugh commentary, even lies, is a “frenzy.”  Fleischer, I suppose, wishes that quotes from Dean, Kerry, Graham, and several other Democrats were, what, completely discarded and ignored by the media?

Statements like Senator John Kerry’s assertion on CNN’s Late edition that there remain," enormous questions still about the overall intelligence given to the Congress, the quality of that intelligence and even about the politics that entered into the judgment of taking that famous phrase out of one speech (in Cincinnati) but leaving it in another."  Or Howard Dean coming out and strongly asserting it is starting to seem like “Watergate.”  Or Senator Graham pointing out that it “stretches belief” that no one inside the Bush administration knew the statement was false.

The media is to blame for these men saying these things.  Right, Fleischie boy.

And, of course, showing the true mark of desperation, the Bushies flee to right-wing puppet station, “Fox News.”  Whenever you see top-level Bushies going there to make statements disguised as “interviews,” you know they are in utter desperation.

In this case, Condi Rice saying the statements about the Uranium were “accurate.”

Wait a second.  They want to be forgiven for putting bull into their speech, had CIA Director George Tenet apologize and take the blame, saying the statement should not have been in there.  Yet now they are going to assert yet again the statement was accurate?

Hey, guess what.  You just witnessed how the claim got into the speech in the first place.  CIA Director George Tenet said it was not something that should be used.  The Bushies asserted it was technically accurate, and so used it.

Now the Bushies are trying to have it both ways, saying, “Hey, if Tenet had told us what he now says, we never would have used it,” in one breath, but in the next saying, “The statement is accurate.”

Don’t bother trying to pin them down on this, trying to get them to admit that either you have to say it was a statement that shouldn’t be used or it was accurate and should have been used.  That is the game they want you to play – the addict’s game, the liar’s game, the abuser’s game.

There are only three things that are fact in this:

1)  President Bush fed us bogus information in his State of the Union address.

2)  He doesn’t want himself, or anyone else, to be held accountable for it.

3)  There is no level too low for the Bushies to stoop to to accomplish number 2, whether it be bullying, swearing, talking both sides of things, trying, repeatedly, to say, “It is done,” “It is over,”  and, of course, blaming everyone and anyone who is not them – i.e. the “media” (that they own and operate), the Democrats for “playing politics.”

These are the facts.  Please, stop swearing, crying, lying, and pull yourselves together.  We’re already disgraced enough by your previous actions and words, don’t humiliate and weaken us more by showing even more clearly that our President and his associates are cowardly, swearing, whining little pansies. 

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