It's scheduled for today (Tuesday) 5:30PM West Coast time, 8:30 Eastern, 2:30AM Wednesday German time. (They're not going for maximum live viewership in central Europe.)
My expectations are low. I don't mean my expectations of Bush. We already know what Dear Leader Bush will say:
"America good. Foreigners evil. We make evil foreigners live like good Americans."
"We gone git them terrorist summabitches."
"Mission accomplished. Brang 'em on."
Okay, maybe he's exhausted that last one. No, it's my expectations of our sad excuse for a White House press corps that are low.
Will anyone ask him why he hasn't found those "senior administration officials" who exposed Valerie Plame as an undercover CIA agent? Will anyone ask him why he never attends a soldier's funeral? Will "national treasure" Rush Limbaugh (our pious Christian President's description) give up Oxycontin forever? What are the chances?
The White House press corps could hardly sink any lower than in the prewar "press conference" that Bush the Magnificent, Liberator of Peoples, held on 03/06/03. That was the one in which our Potemkin press corps laughed along with the joke as Dear Leader even said outright that the whole thing was scripted:
We'll be there in a minute. King, John King. This is a scripted -- (laughter.)
How did Congress and a majority of the public get bamboozled into supporting a war to get rid of "weapons of mass destruction" that didn't exist?
The fact that our press corps, instead of even pretending to be watchdogs of democracy, are happy to be the lapdogs of power and have Bush the Mighty, Hammer of Righteousness, scratch them behind the ears, has an awful lot to do with it.
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youc can't say it any better then you do -- keep up the great work , and truth
I was preparing dinner as I was overhearing sound bites of the so-called press conference. It was painfully incompetent and infuriatingly lacking in substance. But I guess I'm expecting this from George W. Bush. The citizens of this country however, deserves much more.
Incidentally, he was pressed on the question of whether he has any regrets post 9-11. As usual he evaded the question, and basically said he can't think of anything he did wrong. And oh, he said he wished he got this question in advance so he can think of something to say.
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