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Administration Talking Points, Looks Like a Cover-Up

By Last Night in Little Rock, Section Other Politics
Posted on Wed Sep 07, 2005 at 08:47:38 PM EST
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by Last Night in Little Rock

One good thing about the Neo-Cons is that they don't pay attention to The Daily Show or any show on Air America Radio because it provides comic relief and exposes them for the fools they are.

Everyday this past week, both sources lined up the video or audio of various Administration flacks, including the President, repeating the "phrase of the day." One can imagine Karl Rove faxing it around every morning: "This is the li[n]e for the day." After the third time, you don't know whether to laugh or cry.

Tonight's on The Daily Show was "The Blame Game" being spoken by the President, DHS Secretary Chertoff, Federal Emergency Mismanagement Agency Director Brown ("Brownie, you're doin' a great job" destroying a great city and my Presidency, not that I can't do a good job of it myself).

On the Al Franken Show Wednesday was the line about "It was in all the papers: New Orleans dodged a bullet," as to why DHS and FEMA were caught with their pants down after the storm. Chertoff, Joint Chief of Staff General Myers, and others dutifully repeated the phrase to absurdity. There was no such article in any paper. They made it up. Franken was outraged today, as well he should have been, because I was outraged listening to it. Liars.

But, they make it so easy to make fun of them and expose them for the liars and fools they are. Or, they think we are all fools.

Watch and listen for Rove's dissembling "phrase of the day." When four or five flacks are lined up repeating the same line, and TV and radio play them together over and over again, it looks like a conspiracy to cover up.

Which is exactly what it is. They either don't realize that they are being recorded or they are willing going down with the ship of state, loyal to the end.

"Personal responsibility" was in your platform and campaign promises in 2000, Mr. President, because you felt it necessary to capitalize on a former President's human weakness. Your human weaknesses are far greater, but let's just start with gross denial in the face of the obvious ("you going to believe me or your lyin' eyes?") and lack of personal responsibility, something you should have learned in AA if you went, which I doubt.

Now it is time to step up and take responsibility. Just be a man and admit it: "We f***** up." I know the word is in your vocabulary because it's in Cheney's.

Everyday you don't brings you closer to looking like Nero fiddling while Rome burns.

I'm only talking to like minded people. Nobody in the Administration even has a clue they look so foolish. We can keep on talking and maybe the word will get to the people, "We the people".

And so it goes....

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    • Administration Talking Points, Looks Like a Cover-Up | 9 comments (9 topical)
    Re: Administration Talking Points, Looks Like a C (none / 0) (#1)
    by Last Night in Little Rock on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:03:27 PM EST
    Perhaps a more apropos comment would be from Animal House: "You f***** up. You trusted us."

    Re: Administration Talking Points, Looks Like a C (none / 0) (#2)
    by aw on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:03:27 PM EST
    I simply refuse to believe that most people aren't being moved to question what the hell is happening in this country (if only for their own safety concerns). Remembering the '98 elections when we repudiated the repubs witch hunt into Bill Clinton's sex life gives me some hope, too.

    Re: Administration Talking Points, Looks Like a C (none / 0) (#3)
    by Edger on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:03:27 PM EST
    NYT Editorial The NY Times notes that President Bush leading an investigation of -- essentially -- himself is absurd, in an editorial Septmeber 07/05 titled 'It's Not a Blame Game':
    President Bush blithely announced at a photo-op cabinet meeting that he, personally, was going to "find out what went right and what went wrong." We can't imagine a worse idea. No administration could credibly investigate such an immense failure on its own watch. And we have learned through bitter experience - the Abu Ghraib nightmare is just one example - that when this administration begins an internal investigation, it means a whitewash in which no one important is held accountable and no real change occurs.


    Re: Administration Talking Points, Looks Like a C (none / 0) (#4)
    by Edger on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:03:27 PM EST
    They’re selling postcards of the hanging They’re painting the passports brown The beauty parlor is filled with sailors The circus is in town Here comes the blind commissioner They’ve got him in a trance One hand is tied to the tight-rope walker The other is in his pants And the riot squad they’re restless They need somewhere to go As lady and I look out tonight From desolation row... ---Dylan


    Re: Administration Talking Points, Looks Like a C (none / 0) (#5)
    by john horse on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:03:27 PM EST
    Kudos to the Daily Show. Their bit with the list of the names of Bush's disasters in alphabetical order, like they do hurricanes, was a classic. So far we have only gone from 'A' to 'K'. Here is what we have to look forward to if Bush follows the list. Locusts Mars Attacks North Korea Osama & Jenna Pregnancy: Osama & Jenna Queer Revolt Rodents of Unusual Size Syrian War Tigers Unicyclists, Nuclear Voldemort WWWIII X-Rated Tape: Osama & Jenna Yam Shortage Zero People Left On Earth

    Re: Administration Talking Points, Looks Like a C (none / 0) (#6)
    by Edger on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:03:27 PM EST
    John: Here is what we have to look forward to... What about "Heat deat of the universe"? And shouldn't "Suicide" be there, so that we don't have "Rodents of Unusual Size" starting another "Syrian War"?

    Re: Administration Talking Points, Looks Like a C (none / 0) (#7)
    by Edger on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:03:27 PM EST
    Any Flash programmers around who can rework the Osamatron .swf graphics to put Bush in the chains instead? Put Bush in Here!

    Re: Administration Talking Points, Looks Like a C (none / 0) (#8)
    by Che's Lounge on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:03:27 PM EST
    Meet the F**kers. Brilliant. But in Bizarro World, it's funny.

    Re: Administration Talking Points, Looks Like a C (none / 0) (#9)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:03:28 PM EST
    Note the one tragedy that was glaringly absent from the list.

    Administration Talking Points, Looks Like a Cover-Up | 9 comments (9 topical)