VIDEO: The Annotated State Of The Union
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By on Jan 24th, 2007 at 12:30 am
VIDEO: The Annotated State Of The Union
ThinkProgress conducted a real-time fact-check of this year’s State of the Union address.
Click.TV, a web video technology company, has synchronized our rapid response with the complete video of President Bush’s speech. You can watch the speech in its entirety, or click on the facts below to jump directly to the claims we’re rebutting. Also, use the search field to search the text of the speech.
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“Madam Speaker didn’t lean over and boink the president on the head with her gavel, or garrote him with her red pashmina.
No one was gelded or cuckolded or left to bleed on the floor of the Senate, as in HBO’s “Rome,†that other gory saga of a declining empire with people who can’t stop talking.†- Maureen Dowd, A Case of Hearing Without Listening
My transcript of the live-blogged SOTU Address is up below that, if anyone’s interested.
January 24th, 2007 at 12:33 amBravo to ThinkProgress for taking apart Bush’s dishonest SOTU speech.
January 24th, 2007 at 12:35 amGreat job by Think Progress! Thank you.
January 24th, 2007 at 12:37 amgreat job, TP !
how many SOTUs have you covered this way ? …
the archives only go back to last year’s… i was sure this was at least the third year…
i would love to see the original posts… i’ve been here since day one…
when was that? … anyone know?
g’nite all…
January 24th, 2007 at 1:01 amHere’s another take at the Top 10 Highlights of the 2007 Bush State of the Union:
1. The New Equation in Iraq: Fight All Muslims, Everywhere, All the Time
2. Balanced Budget Baloney
3. Health Care on Life Support
4. Border Disorder
5. No Private School Left Behind
6. Flipping on Energy Conservation
7. No Flopping on Global Warming
8. Black Allies in the Gallery, Not on the Floor
9. Use the Troops for cover
10. No Red Meat for Red Staters
For the full story, see:
January 24th, 2007 at 1:03 am“The Top 10 State of the Union Highlights.”
Awsome rebuttal.
Thanks To all the TP crew. Awsome coverage tonight.
MSNBC seems to be tearing Bush a new one tonight over the speach too.
I am enjoying the heck out of this.
January 24th, 2007 at 1:37 amBush is at 28%
The world population is 31% Christian
If you kill off more of the non-Christians your popularity should rise.
That is the sitch in a nutshell.
Visit my URL for the award winning short comedy about the conservative Congress: Night of the Dying Living.
January 24th, 2007 at 1:48 amHey, you can also search the entire text of the speech. The transcript is hidden or something but if you run a search for something the video jumps right to when Shrubby mentions it. Radical work TP (or Click-TV?).
January 24th, 2007 at 1:57 amHey, you can also search the entire text of the speech. — ernst-and-old
Yeah, that is sooo cool. I’m gonna be showing this thread to alot of friends.
January 24th, 2007 at 2:19 amThe really amazing thing about Bush’s speech….
He only said 9/11 only twice in the whole speech, has to be some kind of record.
He must have had his old speechwriter wisked off to Abu Grabass, haha
That search feature is freekin awsome.
January 24th, 2007 at 2:32 amHey, I’m from ClickTV and appreciate the nice compliments on the video search and annotation. By the way, anyone can add this video with TP’s notes to their own blog by clicking “Blog” in the player. Or if you want to add your own comments, go to http://www.click.tv/sotu2007/ and you can paste the video with your comments to your blog.
Mike Lanza
January 24th, 2007 at 2:57 amClickTV
Hi, I’m with ClickTV. Thanks for your compliments on the video search and annotation. BTW, anyone can add this video with TP’s notes on to their blog simply by clicking “Blog” in the player and cut and paste the line of code.
Or if you want to add your own comments, go to http://www.click.tv/sotu2007/ and you can then paste the video with your comments to your blog.
Mike
January 24th, 2007 at 3:01 amThanks for posting this for us.
The Eastern Phoenix
January 24th, 2007 at 3:51 amThinkProgress conducted a real-time fact-check of this year’s State of the Union address.
Click.TV, a web video technology company, has synchronized our rapid response with the complete video of President Bush’s speech.
Hey you know what could have made that interactive fact-checking tool even more useful ? If your “fact checks” actually checked the facts stated and reported whether they were correct or not.
How about that for an idea eh ?
Those most measurable statements are of course those that concern measurements, which therefore could be indisputably “fact checked” and a declaration of truth or not provided.
Here is what the President said about the economy which as you will know is a leading employer of people who fact check measurable indicators in todays society. Hence, plenty of readily available evidence there from which you could fact check what he said and any statements he did make would either be correct or incorrect.
He even reduced those assessments to short, single sentence statements which would have allowed you to easily fact check and rebut them individually and even in sequence. So here are the statements he made about measurable indicators int the economy which you could have fact checked:
- “a growing economy — and that is what we have.”
- “We’re now in the 41st month of uninterrupted job growth”
- “in a recovery that has created 7.2 million new jobs”
- “Unemployment is low”
- “inflation is low, ”
- “and wages are rising.”
- “We set a goal of cutting the deficit in half by 2009, and met that goal three years ahead of schedule. ”
And with all that to work with, and several thousand financial articles online to assist you, what did your fact checking state ?
- Bush’s Tax cuts have been the largest contributor to budget deficits
(without any apparent purpose or reference to what was stated)
- Deficits have mushroomed under Bush
(with no mention of the specific goal and achievement he cited or whether these were true or false)
- Economic growth has been relatively slow
(without refuting or confirming any of the many indicators cited and with all data comparisons made within Bush’s terms)
So not a single statement the President made about the economy, with the most readily measurable indicators available of any topic, was either refuted or confirmed in your “fact checking”.
Perhaps describing it as ThinkProgress’ “response”, or “counterpoint”, or “non-contradicting rebuttal” would have been a more appropriate description and raised hopes a little less.
Then again, this might be a concern only if you expected any of your readers to either notice or care.
January 24th, 2007 at 4:29 amYou can also achieve that with the transcript and Ctrl-F on your keyboard. Minus the moving pictures of course.
January 24th, 2007 at 4:38 amTHINKPROGRESS did a fantastic job tonight!
January 24th, 2007 at 7:09 ami was very proud of you all & glad to be here.
Response to SOTU : STFU Bush !!
January 24th, 2007 at 8:30 amlies, lies, lies
Like anyone is going to believe Bushy boy now. He’s been lying for so long, he lost is way.
January 24th, 2007 at 9:08 amIsn’t it time for MSNBC to dump Pat Buchanan…
…that sombich lives in an alternate universe…
…his fawning all over Bushiva’s insane in the membrane, inane doctrain…
…was disgustingly inaccurate…
…as the other two guests alluded to…
January 24th, 2007 at 9:26 amHe said “9/11″ twice, but he mentioned September an additional three times (September 11th and “that September morning”) Guess old habits die hard. Especially when you’re trying to equate everything with terrorism…
January 24th, 2007 at 9:39 amI noted Bush also touted No Child Left Behind as “preserving local control.”
The reality is the exact opposite. No Child Left Behind masks a Federal takeover of public schools.
January 24th, 2007 at 9:49 amMore lies and distortions from the dictator in chief. When will it stop?
January 24th, 2007 at 9:51 amWake me when it’s over…
January 24th, 2007 at 9:52 amMadam Speaker is as complicit as BUSH . shes a crawler with a brown nose
January 24th, 2007 at 9:54 am…and did Dicky-boy look a little pre-occupied with the thought of having to testify soon?!
Priceless.
January 24th, 2007 at 9:57 amSo Kilo,
how do you respond to the presidents statements about how the deficit will be cut in half by what was it 2010, as long as you don’t count the billions routed to keeping Iraq going? You and many like you spew numbers, and point to low unemployment etc, but the US economy while not as bad as some naysayers, isn’t as great as you would claim. Webb had good points about all sorts of jobs heading overseas, thanks in no small part to your god, uh sorry the president.
January 24th, 2007 at 10:24 amThe SOTU reinforced the fact that Bush meets the definition of insanity. It’s embarassing that we have a president who is so out of touch with reality that he believes that saying things makes them so, and it is appalling that our other leaders, the media , and too many average citizens have supported his fantasy world.
Webb held a mirror up to their irrational and unethical behavior last night. It will be interesting to see the reaction.
January 24th, 2007 at 10:28 amHmmm, why the applause? Is there a peace in the Middle East I’m unaware of? Has Bush announced he’s going to give himself in at the court of The Hague? Has Cheney arranged for Halliburton to pay for the entire Iraq war? Has the world finally come to its senses? I guess not…
January 24th, 2007 at 10:52 amExcellent, excellent work, TProgress team! And kudos to the Cent. for American Progress having a spokesperson on BBC World News this morning.
January 24th, 2007 at 11:06 amWhat ever happened to “Stop the Violence! Peace in the Middle East!” ?
January 24th, 2007 at 11:19 amNice job, TP, providing all the facts to counter the speech assertions.
January 24th, 2007 at 11:25 amPresidents ought to be required to swear
January 24th, 2007 at 2:22 pman oath not to lie moments before giving a
SOTU address
in response to Kilo:
January 24th, 2007 at 3:59 pmthe comments below the video window contain some factoids disputing what Bush was claiming to be true
did you miss this?
Just after 11:05 he proposes “a standard tast edduction [slurred misspeak for tax deduction]”.
January 24th, 2007 at 5:00 pmIf I had stated I was fact-checking such statements I would check that fact and report that if it was false if it was.
Was that point not clear enough already ?
What are you basing that on fool ? My complete lack of spewing any numbers so far ? Way to go there strawboy.
If you missed the point the only relevence these numbers have in regard to them being “fact checked” is whether they support the assessments made by the President.
For the record — and this is the point I was making — I had no idea whether anything he said was true or not and that didn’t change after reading ThinkProgress’ “fact checking” of those statements, as they didn’t actually do any fact checking.
Got the point now ? Capable of any independant thought which would allow you to make a similar criticism ? No ?
FYI I have no god or President. But don’t let that stop you working with those tried and true sterotypes. Saves having to think about what you write.
January 25th, 2007 at 4:10 amAbsolutely. Here’s a timeline of me missing everything else ThinkProgress wrote:
i. Hear about skyrocketing US debt for best part of a decade
ii. Read the President stating he not only sought to cut it in half but did.
iii. Believe that statement to be extremely suspect
iv. Spot ThinkProgress claiming to have fact-checked the SOTU speech in which that claim was made
v. Read supposed fact-checking which not only failed to render a verdict on whether that statement was true, but failed to do that for any of the simple, sequential, unambiguous statements the President made about the economy.
vi. Decided this “fact-checking” effort by ThinkProgress was amatuerish, worthless and laughable and hence stopped wasting my time reading it.
Apparently “vii” is “be the only person disappointed that said fact-checking didn’t check any facts”.
January 25th, 2007 at 4:19 amEasily impressed bunch you lot.
Think Progress did a great job in the short time available to post.
January 25th, 2007 at 1:36 pmThe factoids mentioned by Kilo, well, I hear them on AirAmerica and read them in what is now a library of books/posts of facts and reality ignored by Mr. Bush. But I understand Kilo’s criticism as constructive and valid, if somewhat unkind.
As in all SOTUs, one tries to imagine how the proposals (usually based on radically false assumptions) can be executed if made into law. That’s where Bush has fallen down since day One.
Think Progressive’s presentation reflects this acknowledgment… (In 2002, Bush presented going to war- we all thought there must be something They know that We don’t know. We were caught in shock at the brazen disregard of our values.
By now, we all should know that Bush uses SOTUs as another catapult for propaganda.)
I’m grateful that Think Progressive worked hard to make the speech bearable to those of us who would’ve otherwise been retching, going to bed depressed as hell.
I may be wrong on details- but I hope we can be kinder to each other.