Brit Hume On Walter Reed: ‘It Looks Terrible’ For The Bush Administration, ‘Which Is The Problem’
Brit Hume On Walter Reed: ‘It Looks Terrible’ For The Bush Administration, ‘Which Is The Problem’
This morning on Fox News Sunday, Brit Hume spoke about the Walter Reed scandal in entirely political terms, saying “the problem” is that it “looks terrible” for the administration.
Hume called the neglect and deplorable conditions at the military hospital a “potential” political firestorm, but said that the “administration did what it did to try to get it over with, and it may well have succeeded.”
Hume suggested that if Democrats had not taken control of Congress in November’s election, the Bush administration would not have demanded resignations from the Army Secretary and the chief of Walter Reed. “This is an administration which is known or had been known for sticking by people even when they were embattled.” Watch it:
NPR’s Mara Liasson responded to Hume’s comments: “I think, you know, to say it looks bad, it also is bad. Those pictures were horrible. These are people — nobody who is being treated for any kind of injury should have to live in that condition, let alone people who just fought in a war for our country.”
Transcript
HUME: I think it tells you a lot about the effect of the last election and the political atmosphere in Washington. This is an administration which is known or had been known for sticking by people even when they were embattled. The idea that conditions at Walter Reed hospital, a hospital that is on its way out of business, had deteriorated, that’s probably one of the reasons they wanted to put it out of business. This is unfortunate. It looks terrible, which is the problem. The problem is that it looks as if this administration, which has sent troops into harm’s way, is now neglecting them when they’re injured and need care and help. But make no mistake about it, this was a — there was a potential political firestorm on Capitol Hill began to brew about this. The administration did what it did to try to get it over with, and it may well have succeeded.
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The problem is that it looks bad?
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March 4th, 2007 at 10:30 amThe problem is that it looks as if this administration, which has sent troops into harm’s way, is now neglecting them when they’re injured and need care and help.
It doesn’t just look that way, Hume… It is that way.
March 4th, 2007 at 10:32 amAll thats needed is some completey unexpected issue to trip up the whole thing.
March 4th, 2007 at 10:33 amThe administration did what it did to try to get it over with, and it may well have succeeded.
Keep talking Brit – you are your own worst enemy…
March 4th, 2007 at 10:35 amI bet our troops who have served so honorably and are now hospitalized at Walter Reed would think there are many problems with the current situation, and none of those problems have to do with that it makes Bush look bad. Bush has been an uncaring President since the day he took office.
March 4th, 2007 at 10:37 amThank God Bush may not be hurt politically, because that’s what really matters.
March 4th, 2007 at 10:43 amWhat gets me is how it’s always the smaller issues that get the public’s attention.
This is a big issue, but not as big as the fact that our Constitution is being put through the shredder.
Don’t get me wrong, anything that get’s people’s attention is a good thing.
And the great thing about issues like this is that there’s no way for the administration to justify their actions. There’s no way for them to turn this back around on the critics and question their patriotism or their support of the troops.
But like everything else, once it has been dealt with, or given lip service, it will slip quietly into the back of everyone’s mind.
Hey, weren’t we torturing Iraqis? Hmmm, I wonder how that’s going, seeing as how even Bush has admitted that they had nothing to do with Al Qaeda or 9/11.
Oh well, I’m sure the whole thing has resolved itself.
March 4th, 2007 at 10:46 amScrew brit hume, everyone knows he is a rethug shill. I hate mara liasson. She may be on the right side in this argument but more often than not she is nothing but an enabler for the right wing noise machine. “Oh look see how fair and balanced we are we have mara liasson from liberal NPR on our shows.” As long as she and wan williams are on NPR they will never get another donation from me.
March 4th, 2007 at 10:47 amSo why does the Republican party have a problem? Because they can only see things in political terms and are totally blind to the human.
If they were not so worried about how something was going to effect them politically, then they could create and enact policies that would not only be popular, but policies that would be productive and strengthen this nation. They cannot enact, or even contemplate, effective policy and thus suffer because of their myopia.
March 4th, 2007 at 10:55 amBush has been an uncaring President since the day he took office.
Comment by And You Thought REAGAN Was Stupid. — March 4, 2007 @ 10:37 am
“As you can possibly see, I have an injury myself — not here at the hospital, but in combat with a cedar. I eventually won. The cedar gave me a little scratch. As a matter of fact, the Colonel asked if I needed first aid when she first saw me. I was able to avoid any major surgical operations here, but thanks for your compassion, Colonel.”
–George W. Bush, after visiting with wounded veterans from the Amputee Care Center of Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas, Jan. 1, 2006
March 4th, 2007 at 10:55 amThank God Bush may not be hurt politically, because that’s what really matters.
Comment by AkaDad — March 4, 2007 @ 10:43 am
I believe it was actually the Washington Times who we should thank for the publicity on this story : )
March 4th, 2007 at 10:57 amIt is impossible for them to criticize Bush&Co no matter what — so Brit says “it LOOKS bad” —
Yes, Brit, appearances are everything to you. Forget the inexcusable neglect and shameful dereliciton of duty by your friends at Bush&Co — as long as they can quickly sweep it under a rug, all is well, right?
Yes, Brit, tell us more about how much Bush respects the troops for their service now; tell us again how the Dems are the ones who hate the troops because they want them to be brought home; tell us again how the Bush government – for 6 years – has cut funding for these facilities, has cut aid for servicemen’s families, has cut medical services at veterans’ facilities, has PRIVATIZED much of the service responsible for the conditions at WR and other hospital/outpatient facilities.
March 4th, 2007 at 10:58 amFriend,
I completely agree with you but Human Quality of Life on earth is detiorating with each passing day. The problem ofthe leaders is that they are inundated with plethora of problems at all times to the extent that for them all human misery becomes nothing but mundane statistics.
http://www.tekno-world.blogspot.com
March 4th, 2007 at 11:00 amAppearances are everything for the Resnotlicken party.
March 4th, 2007 at 11:01 amDana Priest of the Washington Post was also the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist who broke the story on the “secret” prisons. She was called a traitor by the right, aiding and abetting the enemy.
March 4th, 2007 at 11:04 amMoney trumps peace.
-George W. Bush
March 4th, 2007 at 11:10 amBeing disabled vet who is well versed in VA “health” care I can assure anyone interested that while the bushit admin doesn’t care one whit about the vets, neither has any other administration. Our VA facillity is so crowded that getting anything done, even a quick appointment, is a six month process. VA has been underfunded, understaffed and ignored by this government for about as long as I’ve been involved with it, some twenty years now. It is a disgrace and has resulted in many lifes lost, at home. No one gives more than a guick shout for a veteran. I’m sure glad that I knew nothing of the VA when I signed up, twice, because if I’d known how I’d be treated later I wouldn’t have gone. Fucking government is a joke and so is taking care of vets. It is a joke.
March 4th, 2007 at 11:11 amComment by Marie — March 4, 2007 @ 10:58 am
And, Marie, when the government privitizes operations, it ceases doing whatever it was doing and turns that function over to a company who turns a profit off of our tax dollars. Think about it this way. The government does the job for $1,000,000. A private contractor bids the same exact job at $900,000 and turns a modest 20% profit. How? by paying less and offering less benefits to workers; and by cutting costs anywhere possible, like in maintanence and upkeep.
So, is the same exact job being done for less money? Not really.
But, heaven forbid it looks bad for the President. But don’t worry. By the time this hits the Bush Prednisential Libary, the story will read how under Prednisent Bush personnally ran the hospital all by himself, treating patients and cleaning bedpans while running the country in the evenings and on weekends, and it was in pristine condition, until the Democrats took control in Congress.
March 4th, 2007 at 11:11 amhume is a small-minded excuse for a newsperson – total whore.
March 4th, 2007 at 11:11 amHow come is never about what’s best for America (or the soldiers in this case)? It’s all about what’s best for the Rethuglican party?
March 4th, 2007 at 11:20 amHume suggested that if Democrats had not taken control of Congress in November’s election, the Bush administration would not have demanded resignations from the Army Secretary and the chief of Walter Reed. “This is an administration which is known or had been known for sticking by people even when they were embattled.â€
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Is Brit honestly saying what I think he’s saying — that these people should not have resigned?!? I’ve got news for him — if this had happened in the private sector, these people would probably have been fired in a New York minute because incompetence and/or negligence on this scale would have been grounds for a lawsuit (for all that I know, it still might be) or possibly even a criminal suit for failing to keep the facility up to regulations.
March 4th, 2007 at 11:22 amComment by Bluestocking — March 4, 2007 @ 11:22 am
My guess is that all documentary evidence relating to the maintenance and upkeep of the hospital, as well as the treatment of the prisoners, I mean, wounded soldiers, will be classified as a State Secret in the War on Terror.
March 4th, 2007 at 11:31 amIt looks bad when your son commits suicide and rumors fly around washington about same-sex love affairs with members of congress.
And then following this human tragedy, your bitterness remains on imaginary political enemies, your life is devoted to being a paid-up apologist, information warrior and propagandist for a third-rate criminally incompetent and revolutionary wing of a party that couldn’t find conservative principles if they hit them (and him) in the ass.
March 4th, 2007 at 11:31 amIs the military hiding the real problem? Are they being overwelmed by vets with brain injuries that are basically untreatable?
Are they tryiing to hide from the vets and the public that there are thousands of vets that are going to be mentally disabled for life because there is no treatment or cure for these brain injuries?
March 4th, 2007 at 11:34 amComment by jonny bakho — March 4, 2007 @ 11:34 am
What was Bush’s only veto? oh, that’s right, stem cell research. What possible cures could come from that? Maybe: repairing spinal injuries, regrowing lost limbs, replacing damaged brain tissue and other organs….
March 4th, 2007 at 11:42 amI guess it depends on what the meaning of “look” is…
March 4th, 2007 at 11:42 amit “looks terrible†for the administration.
and it’s all about appearances with this crew of degenerates…
March 4th, 2007 at 11:43 am.
The administration did what it did to try to get it over with, and it may well have succeeded.
*The administration did what it did
WHAT did it do? try to cover up? WHAT?
*to try to get it over with
to get WHAT over with?
*and it may well have succeeded.
in doing WHAT?
March 4th, 2007 at 11:50 amWHAT the hell is he talking about???
?
It’s worth remembering when neocons hide behind the troops and accuse anti-war advocates for ‘undermining’ them, that they had created this cockroach-infested situation for our veterans.
March 4th, 2007 at 11:51 amThis type of thinking is why Iraq is such a disaster. Bush and Carl Rove were mosltly concerned about how this war would PLAY politically. They were real good at propaganda and divisive politics, and miserable failures at war planning. That’s why Bush was reelected, and Iraq is in a civil war.
March 4th, 2007 at 11:56 am‘It Looks Terrible’ For The Bush Administration, ‘Which Is The Problem’
Brit Hume-
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Should Read:
“Truth Looks Terrible For The Bush Administration, “Truth Is The Problem”
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In an administration that operates on “illusion”, of course this looks bad for such an administration.
March 4th, 2007 at 11:57 amI believe it was actually the Washington Times who we should thank for the publicity on this story : )
Comment by unbelievable — March 4, 2007 @ 10:57 am
how so? … really…
Dana Priest of the Washington Post was also the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist who broke the story on the “secret†prisons. She was called a traitor by the right, aiding and abetting the enemy.
Comment by Marie — March 4, 2007 @ 11:04 am
called a traitor because of the walter reed story of the prison story?
March 4th, 2007 at 11:58 amprobably the prison story… don’t hear much from the right about THIS story…
this morning on Face the Nation, bob schieffer praised DANA PRIEST and
ANNE HULL for breaking this story, and BOB WOODRUFF for his abc story…
kudos to schieffer….
# 17 BnF,
March 4th, 2007 at 12:00 pmI appreciate your dark humor in the second paragraph, but the reality may be that you are closer to predicting the future regarding Bush, and that would be a true Orwellian end.
Not like we haven’t seen “1984″ in effect about a thousand times since the Bushies are in the White House.
how so? … really…
Comment by katy — March 4, 2007 @ 11:58 am
For the trillionth time – stop speaking to me.
March 4th, 2007 at 12:08 pmThe very essence of PIG
March 4th, 2007 at 12:19 pmBrit Hume doesn’t give a damn about the troops. In his world they are just cannon fodder. Just like in the feeble puny minds of our resident trolls.
March 4th, 2007 at 12:23 pmhow so? … really…
Comment by katy — March 4, 2007 @ 11:58 am
For the trillionth time – stop speaking to me.
Comment by unbelievable — March 4, 2007 @ 12:08 pm
girl, you would look much less a fool if you would just answer the question…
March 4th, 2007 at 12:27 pmbut, ok, be that way…
The least expensive component in the Right-Wing noise machine is the scribbler / pundit / talking head.
March 4th, 2007 at 12:34 pmHume is an errand boy for grocery clerks.
You would think with Hume’s background of being on the wrong end of an extremist runaway Repube sponsored government program when he was working for the political disturber Jack Armstrong he would be a say little more obliging to the current runaway extremist Repube government. But being washed in $$$ and given your own cesspool changes things.
March 4th, 2007 at 12:35 pmThe Walter Reed story is the new Katrina story. There are plenty of ignorant, or just plain dumb, voters who don’t understand the world well enough to see that Iraq has been a mistake, or that Bush is a threat to democracy. But the Reed and Katrina stories strike a visceral nerve in many of these people, who ultimately expect government to perform on a human level. But the elitists running the government are out of touch with the common person, and don’t fully grasp that few Americans share in their deeply callous view of the world.
The administration has also been counting on an oversight-free Congress, but that seems to be changing (though not nearly fast enough for me). They seem caught off guard by the prospect of hearings in Congress, which will keep the story in the press for an uncomfortably long time. They are running into a similar buzzsaw with regard to the politically-motivated firing of U.S. attorneys. One thing they continue to have on their side, though, is a cowardly and compliant news media.
March 4th, 2007 at 12:37 pmhow so? … really…
Comment by katy — March 4, 2007 @ 11:58 am
For the trillionth time – stop speaking to me.
Comment by unbelievable — March 4, 2007 @ 12:08 pm
Girls,girls,can’t we all just get along?
March 4th, 2007 at 12:39 pmHmm, the chickenhawks have come home to roost and they seem to be defecating on the VA… It just never ends with these right-wing clowns… You are witnessing the slow-motion collapse of a once-powerful political party. The GOP signed their own political death warrant back in 2000 when they decided to nominate G. W. Bush as their Presidential candidate. This is the end of the road for the Republican Party and the present generation of “leadership.”
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March 4th, 2007 at 12:44 pmgirl, you would look much less a fool if you would just answer the question…
but, ok, be that way…
Comment by katy — March 4, 2007 @ 12:27 pm
The only one who looks like a fool is YOU – the person who cannot control herself and stop speaking to me despite nearly a year now of asking you to do so.
March 4th, 2007 at 12:45 pmGirls,girls,can’t we all just get along?
Comment by just sayin’ — March 4, 2007 @ 12:39 pm
Mind your own business.
March 4th, 2007 at 12:46 pmThe GOP signed their own political death warrant back in 2000 when they decided to nominate G. W. Bush as their Presidential candidate.
Yes they did. Bush has proven to be a great destructive force, damaging everything he touches. It has been amazing to watch. The GOP will be just one of many wrecks that Bush leaves behind. He has wrecked the Army. He has wrecked relations with our foreign allies. He has wrecked the basic functioning of most government agencies. He is doing what he can to wreck the economy. He is a failure of epic proportions.
March 4th, 2007 at 12:47 pmComment by james k. sayre — March 4, 2007 @ 12:40 pm
The only thing that can “save” them is a new 9/11.
March 4th, 2007 at 12:47 pm#39 I agree with you analysis of the significance of the Walter Reed story. Newsweek has a 21 year old double amputee on its cover staring out from the magazine stands in supermarkets all over America. I’m not so sure the Bush Administration hasn’t grasped the significance of this situation. The secretary of the ARMY was FIRED. They are panicking to get out from under this story. Defence Sec. GATES and Chief of Staff Josh Bolton have realized the firestorm looming over this.
March 4th, 2007 at 12:55 pmMind your own business.
Comment by unbelievable
My business is getting the facts straight.
March 4th, 2007 at 12:55 pmJust admit you should have said W. Post,not Times.
After all,I didn’t see the sarc. signal.
You need to keep in mind that Brit Hume’s son committed suicide some time ago. If he was a heartless to his son as he is to other human beings, it is almost understandable.
March 4th, 2007 at 1:03 pmMy business is getting the facts straight.
Just admit you should have said W. Post,not Times.
After all,I didn’t see the sarc. signal.
Comment by just sayin’ — March 4, 2007 @ 12:55 pm
Sounds like your business is being arrogant and petty. I said “I think” after which Marie made the correction. Only a immature loser with nothing of value to contribute would need to rub my nose in an honest memory mistake that we all make. Jesus….
March 4th, 2007 at 1:05 pmTHe only things really missing from this Brist Hume’s picture is some face make-up, orange hair, a red rubber nose, and size 34 shoes.
With insight like this, it seems that he is bucking for Tony Snow’s job.
March 4th, 2007 at 1:07 pmIf he was a heartless to his son as he is to other human beings,…
Comment by Bonnie
I don’t think Brit is heartless,he just has a one track mind.
March 4th, 2007 at 1:13 pmThat track,unfortunately,is as a right wing boot licker.
Thank God Bush may not be hurt politically, because that’s what really matters.
Comment by AkaDad — March 4, 2007 @ 10:43 am
I believe it was actually the Washington Times who we should thank for the publicity on this story : )
Comment by unbelievable — March 4, 2007 @ 10:57 am
I said “I think 
Comment by unbelievable — March 4, 2007 @ 1:05 pm
see, the thing is, i thought maybe I missed something about the TIMES…
i did wonder if you had ” an honest memory mistake”, but just wanted to be sure… after all… … nah…
nuff said…
i’m gone for the day – you’re off the hook!
March 4th, 2007 at 1:19 pmSounds like your business is being arrogant and petty…
Comment by unbelievable
That is sooo rich coming from the person who stirs up a flame war every time she turns on her computer.
March 4th, 2007 at 1:20 pmsee, the thing is, i thought maybe I missed something about the TIMES…
Back peddle all you like, but I never stated it was a fact. I wasn’t certain, and said so up front – but you are so desperate to slam me over nothing to feel better about yourself that is is obnoxious and pathetic. Especially after I have asked to yo not speak to me. Why is that so hard for you?
i did wonder if you had †an honest memory mistakeâ€, but just wanted to be sure… after all… … nah…
nuff said…
Sure. I don’t buy that for one second.
Take your own advice, and keep it to yourself from now on.
i’m gone for the day – you’re off the hook!
Comment by katy — March 4, 2007 @ 1:19 pm
F*ck you. Be patronizing to your own children. I am not your child. Deal with it and stop speaking to me. Sheesh…
March 4th, 2007 at 1:26 pmThat is sooo rich coming from the person who stirs up a flame war every time she turns on her computer.
Comment by just sayin’ — March 4, 2007 @ 1:20 pm
So, you can’t dispute my claim that you are being petty – and just make a false ad hominem attack instead for the sake of deflection? Didn’t work. LOL
March 4th, 2007 at 1:28 pmF*ck you.
Comment by unbelievable
Ahh,the poetry and love coming from our ‘educators’.
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March 4th, 2007 at 1:38 pmAhh,the poetry and love coming from our ‘educators’.
Comment by just sayin’ — March 4, 2007 @ 1:37 pm
Yes, like I just said that to a student… Sheesh, you’re desperate. Go get a life.
March 4th, 2007 at 1:47 pmYes, like I just said that to a student…
Comment by unbelievable
Seems to me you said that to everyone who can read.
March 4th, 2007 at 2:08 pmIt’s not who you were sayin’ it to,but what you are sayin’ about yourself,and about your rage.
I’m afraid that Mara Liasson is little more than an enabler for these despicable people. How often does she actually offer any counterpoint to this right-wing noise machine? Usually, she’s just another Joe Klein fainting dainty who is OK as long as everybody’s polite.
Most of the “liberal” media is like a child of divorce. They’ll behave as long as mommy and daddy stay together. Even when Daddy’s kicking the crap out of mommy. I yearn for the day when an outfit like Fox can’t get anybody BUT their own loudmouths to appear on camera. It’s sad that someone like Mara or Alan Colmes needs to be on camera so badly that they’ll allow themselves to become nothing but a token. Oh yeah, Juan Williams too. T.O.K.E.N., and not as in “black”.
March 4th, 2007 at 2:15 pmWhy do we listen to people like Hume anyway
March 4th, 2007 at 2:28 pmAnd to think, only yesterday Uranus was defending the use of such “creative” spelling, on a thread about Right Wingers’ criticisms about the vulgarity by “liberal” bloggers.
sigh…it’s as if some posters are hell-bent on validating those criticisms.
March 4th, 2007 at 2:47 pmIt doesn’t look bad for them, it is bad of them, and it’s bad of Brit Hume, too – no surprise.
March 4th, 2007 at 2:51 pmsigh…it’s as if some posters are hell-bent on validating those criticisms.
Comment by Briseadh na Faire
Careful,BnF,or you’ll be next in the crosshairs.
March 4th, 2007 at 3:07 pmComment by just sayin’ — March 4, 2007 @ 3:07 pm
That’s ok, I’m getting used to it. I played along with Uranus last night until he started to sound like Exley again.
March 4th, 2007 at 3:19 pmI played along with Uranus last night until he started to sound like Exley again.
Comment by Briseadh na Faire
LOL
March 4th, 2007 at 3:41 pmBrit, Brit.
The problem isn’t that YOU are a sociopathic fucktard blowhard.
The problem is that YOU look like one.
Now that we’ve made this all about YOU, can YOU understand?
March 4th, 2007 at 3:45 pmHume is a sociopathic punk just like all the other Republican talking heads.
March 4th, 2007 at 4:00 pm[...] Alas, us bleeding heart liberals got it wrong again. The problem is that it made Bush look bad, as Brit Hume explained: It looks terrible, which is the problem. The problem is that it looks as if this administration, [...]
March 4th, 2007 at 4:18 pmSeems to me you said that to everyone who can read.
It’s not who you were sayin’ it to,but what you are sayin’ about yourself,and about your rage.
Comment by just sayin’ — March 4, 2007 @ 2:08 pm
That’s the first time I ever said that to anyone in here… And, it was provoked… Shows how little you know, coward who posts behind a different name.
Yap, yap, yap… Don’t you have anything to say about the subject, or you just need to attack me to feel better about yourself? Freak.
March 4th, 2007 at 4:21 pmsigh…it’s as if some posters are hell-bent on validating those criticisms.
Comment by Briseadh na Faire — March 4, 2007 @ 2:47 pm
You can either mind your own business too… Or you can get on to your friends who post that habitually. I just did it once, yet you keep hold me to a higher standard than those who say it regularly?
March 4th, 2007 at 4:24 pmBrit Hume, ya STUPID PIECE OF HYENA-SHIT, YOU are the PROBLEM, NOT THE REPLACING OF THE INEPT Wakter Reed FLUNKIES–THEIR BEING REPLACED WAS THE PROPER ACTION, BUT YOU, Hume, YOU BOMBASTIC IMBECILE and ASININE MORON, YOU SHOULD BE TARRED and FEATHERED AND RUN OUT OF AMERICA!!!!!
March 4th, 2007 at 4:40 pmSome people just “protest too much”.
March 4th, 2007 at 4:45 pmThis is not different from the Administration’s – and the MSM’s – viewpoint that the problem with the black sites, with the NSA eavesdropping, Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, the non-existence of WMDs, etc., etc. – was that people had found OUT about them: the problem was that attention was drawn to those things. That the things were unconstitutional or illegal or WRONG did not enter into their thinking.
It is ALSO the same mentality as existed in Watergate: that the problem was that the press (eventually) “harped” on it long enough and that the Liberals “had it in for Nixon”.
It never occured to Nixon – and it still dodes nto occur to his followers – - that the inherent act itself was the problem, that illegality itself IS a problem. Nixon thought – and Rove has taken that ball and run with it – that it is only a problem if you get caught. And then the problem (in their minds) is that the whistle-blowers won’t shut the fuck up and let it all die down.
Hume is saying that the problem is that the Congress is no longer Republican: Republicans don’t rat out Republicans; it is only these rat fink Democrats who are the problem.
March 4th, 2007 at 4:55 pm67 – I give up. In the time it took me to compose my prior post, Funamoto shows up and drops his load….
It’s enough to make me wonder if at least some of the posters on “liberal” blogs aren’t really paid Reich-Wingers who put things up so the talking heads can criticize “liberal” blogs.
March 4th, 2007 at 4:56 pmSeems, mother? Nay, it is. I know not seems.
March 4th, 2007 at 5:05 pm67 – looks like my prior post was too spot-on for the filter!
suffice to say, I think it would have made you laugh….I tried to parody Zooey, and, like her…I got deleted!
but the next time I she gets so p*ssed-off that she can’t help but use “colorful metaphors” I’ll hold it against her. On second thought, she might like that…. oh well, the things I do for my fellow friends…..
Peace?
March 4th, 2007 at 5:10 pmIt’s enough to make me wonder if at least some of the posters on “liberal†blogs aren’t really paid Reich-Wingers who put things up so the talking heads can criticize “liberal†blogs.
Comment by Briseadh na Faire — March 4, 2007 @ 4:56 pm
If I were into Conspiracy Theories, I’d agree… But I’d think it about the “Bush Did 9/11″ religious zealots.
But, since I’m not into Conspiracy Theories (e.g. Moon Hoax Conspiracy Theory, Dinosaur Hoax Conspiracy Theory, Evolution Conpiracy Theory, etc.), I think liberals aren’t one variety that can be easily defined by an ideology like the Right that has their Bibles and their FAUX “news” talking points….
March 4th, 2007 at 5:16 pmPeace?
Comment by Briseadh na Faire — March 4, 2007 @ 5:10 pm
I was thinking more along the lines of the two people who have screamed the f word at me in caps, with no asterisks, on more than one occasion… Zoo is pure comedy.
It goes back to what I maintain about getting what you give. If you give me peace, then I’ll be happy to give it back. But if you’re going to give me a hard time, then don’t be surprised when you (in the generic sense) get one in return…
And part of that is accepting the fact that I’m not demure, not interested in being demure, and don’t even like demure… No matter how much our culture expects it from women.
Fair enough?
March 4th, 2007 at 5:22 pm[...] and delusional truth is that under NO circumstances will the media assign ultimate blame for the Walter Reed outpatient fiasco/disgrace to the obvious fact that WE COULDN’T AFFORD IT because we absolutely HAVE to preserve those [...]
March 4th, 2007 at 5:27 pm[...] and delusional truth is that under NO circumstances will the media assign ultimate blame for the Walter Reed outpatient fiasco/disgrace to the obvious fact that WE COULDN’T AFFORD IT because we absolutely HAVE to preserve those tax [...]
March 4th, 2007 at 5:29 pmThere is Hume admitting that for the Republicans appearances are everthing.
March 4th, 2007 at 5:31 pmWaxman’s investigation will show if this resulted from sweetheart contracting. The evidence is an internal memo, and on that basis he subpoenaed Weightman. It’s a charming story.
March 4th, 2007 at 5:50 pmHere’s the Army Times story link about what might be another Pentagon contracting scandal.
March 4th, 2007 at 5:52 pmThat’s ok, I’m getting used to it. I played along with Uranus last night until he started to sound like Exley again.
Comment by Briseadh na Faire — March 4, 2007 @ 3:19 pm
Actually it was you that sounded like Exley yesterday. And you seem to be unable to distinguish the difference between a ‘foul’ and a ‘bigoted’ word. A foul word describes the foul actions of a person. A bigoted word is what Coulter did – as the only way to fling it is to completely deride a class of people (such as gays). Whether it’s the n-word or the f-word she used, it’s a word of oppression, not of a harsh and relative response.
Your bizarre tirade that expects individual citizens to simply not use a ‘foul’ word, is way to Tipper gore right wing extremists for my tastes. Especially when you call people ‘Hag’, which has a much more vile and historic use to attack ‘witches/pagan’ people as a statement of religious oppression. It simply makes you a hypocrite.
March 4th, 2007 at 5:56 pmHume is now on my waterboarding list when I take over…which can’t be soon enough for the good of the country. I have a LOOONNNNNGGGGGG list. I think I might start adding some of the major reichwing talkingdog trolls I find soiling these pages with their verbal droppings.
March 4th, 2007 at 5:56 pmPlease stop fighting among yourselves.
March 4th, 2007 at 5:59 pmhttp://www.tarpley.net/bushb.htm
George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography — by Webster G. Tarpley & Anton Chaitkin
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I encourage everyone to download and read this free book about George HW Bush. It explains how George Junior grew up as well as all of his misgivings then and now.
It is available in .htm and .zip format
EVERY dirty little secret is revealed. It is a GREAT recent hist
March 4th, 2007 at 5:59 pmhttp://www.tarpley.net/bushb.htm
George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography — by Webster G. Tarpley & Anton Chaitkin
————————————————————–
I encourage everyone to download and read this free book about George HW Bush. It explains how George Junior grew up as well as all of his misgivings then and now.
It is available in .htm and .zip format
EVERY dirty little secret is revealed. It is a GREAT recent history text.
March 4th, 2007 at 6:00 pmPlease stop fighting among yourselves.
Comment by God — March 4, 2007 @ 5:59 pm
As soon as you tell BnF to stop being a pompous prick that can’t tell the difference between foul language and hate speech that will become easier… It would also be helpful for you to tell him to learn when to let it go. I said nothing to, or about him all day – and he still wouldn’t STFU. Get over it BnF – grow up.
March 4th, 2007 at 6:05 pmValiantVenusGrewFromUranus,
Please stop fighting among yourselves is directed at all, and no one in particular.
March 4th, 2007 at 6:12 pmI SERIOUSLY wouldn’t be surprised if…
…one day we all awakened to the news that…
…Brit Hume had murdered and eaten his wife and children…
…as a sacrifice to Bushiva and L’il Dick…
March 4th, 2007 at 6:33 pmUranus, touched a nerve there, did I?
I merely filled today’s posters in on yesterday’s excitement when it appeared relevent to today’s discussions. You delight in calling people names, first “c*nt” and now you lable me a “pompous prick.” Yet I have given you the courtesy of calling you by your chosen last name. You’re the one filled with hate speech.
March 4th, 2007 at 7:01 pmComment by God — March 4, 2007 @ 6:12 pm
I understand and appreciate your efforts, by God. And, by God, I’m willing to abide by such a command. Unfortunately, excremental comments keep coming out of Uranus.
March 4th, 2007 at 7:04 pmMore and more the Bush administration “looks” like some really bad B-movie Hollywood production, run by some old-style, meglomaniacal Hollywood moguls.
March 4th, 2007 at 7:11 pmBritt Hume hasn’t got any more honor than anyone else in the Bush administration. Like others at Fox News, Hume is struggling to come up with a way to spin this story that’ll deflect attention away from George W. Bush – but it’s not yet clear that they can get away with it.
Listen. Bush and his people are pissed because there’s been a PR breakdown, not because soldiers are being mistreated. To them, some traitor (or bunch of traitors) in uniform contacted reporters and told them what was going on – and it might have been some of those ingrates with Combat Infantry patches on their uniforms – so now they’re all pissed off.
Who didn’t know? Everybody who didn’t want to know, that’s who.
But every senior civilian official and senior military officer at Walter Reed knew what was going on and was fully aware of the troops’ miserable conditions. It’d been going on for a while over there, too, hadn’t it?
These Republican fucks didn’t just open their eyes and stumble over it last week and start acting all shocked and shit, know what I mean?
And remember: it took reporters and a newspaper to bring this story out. The Army and Bush’s DOD would never have said a word about it or done a thing to fix it. We’d never know about this if it hadn’t been for a reporter. Think about it.
Meanwhile, watch for the White House to spare no effort to find out who squealed. Hell, the FBI’s been sitting around with its worthless thumb up its ass for the past seven years, so Cheney will probably turn ‘em loose and we’ll get another extended news cycle of reporters getting subpoena’d and told to identify their sources.
March 4th, 2007 at 7:22 pmPlease stop fighting among yourselves.
Comment by God — March 4, 2007 @ 5:59 pm
FYI – TerryTheTurtle got banned for posting as Jesus…
March 4th, 2007 at 7:27 pmPlease stop fighting among yourselves is directed at all, and no one in particular.
Comment by God — March 4, 2007 @ 6:12 pm
I understand. Unfortunately, just because we are all liberals doesn’t mean we’ll always agree or always get along. South Park did a spoof on this topic with Atheism that was pretty dead-on… That once you remove the opposition, the remaining group will find divisive issues about which they will battle. It may very well be human nature. We have evolved into predators after all…
My policy toward other liberals with whom I don’t get along is to ignore them – until they insult me. And then, I’m going to call them on it. And people who then attack me for defensing myself will get called on that. I’m not a passive person and the small minority who harrasses me won’t make me one. In fact, when you fight fire with fire, you just get a bigger fire…
So, I’m going to state it clearly that if you don’t like what I have to say, either debate me respectfully (no insults), or ignore me. Unless you’re a whack-a-troll and then you’re here at your own peril… : )
March 4th, 2007 at 7:38 pmPlease stop fighting among yourselves.
Comment by God — March 4, 2007 @ 5:59 pm
FYI – TerryTheTurtle got banned for posting as Jesus…
Comment by unbelievable — March 4, 2007 @ 7:27 pm
So that’s who that was? Green, scaly bastard – just because he can flip a middle flipper at Dad when Dad sent a flood to cleanse the earth, I know his sort – cocky reptiles all of them. Hang on a bit, the flood didn’t cleanse the earth did it? I mean the sea creatures, the ducks, they all got off Scot-free as it were…. bloody hell… bit of a cock up there on the apocalypse front there, Dad. Hey Dad?
March 4th, 2007 at 7:57 pmComment by Jesus Christ — March 4, 2007 @ 7:57 pm
You’re funny…. but l don’t know if Faiz has Judd’s temperment or not… (seems not, but I’d hate to find out the hard way :).
He told me that he has to post from hotel IP addresses when he travels, because Judd banished his home address for impersonating JC… Seemed a bit much to me, because it wasn’t ugly or anything, but you know how your followers can be about humor…
Too bad because Terry has a gift for posting classical comments :)
March 4th, 2007 at 8:14 pmJesus,
You’re grounded.
March 4th, 2007 at 9:43 pmFYI – TerryTheTurtle got banned for posting as Jesus…
Comment by unbelievable
Turtle soup give me gas.
March 4th, 2007 at 9:44 pmJesus,
You’re grounded.
Comment by God — March 4, 2007 @ 9:43 pm
Crying from laughing so hard…
March 4th, 2007 at 9:51 pmAlright Jesus, if you are so clever, what does the ‘H’ stand for in ‘Jesus H Christ’?
God, pack it in – that f***ing sprint from the trees to the water in Costa Rica the day I was born was NOT funny at ALL.
March 4th, 2007 at 11:25 pmGod, pack it in – that f***ing sprint from the trees to the water in Costa Rica the day I was born was NOT funny at ALL.
Comment by TerrytheTurtle
What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. You look like you’re doing ok.
Quitcherbitchin’
(The H stands for Herbert, but don’t tease him, I’m tellin’ ya)
March 4th, 2007 at 11:39 pmGod, it was a f***ing close run thing, that’s what it was. I bricked my load and built a wall with it. At least you should let me know what the h*** I am up against before my first birthday.
Next time I want to come back as herpes. That’s if you follow the hindu-buddhist thingy and not this bloody end-of-times, chop-the-trees down, burn-the-pagans, cult they call Christianity. Sorry about that Jesus old bean, but you have to admit, they ripped your message, eh?
March 4th, 2007 at 11:52 pmHume’s grasp of the very, very obvious never ceases to amaze me.
March 4th, 2007 at 11:54 pmJesus,
You’re grounded.
Comment by God — March 4, 2007 @ 9:43 pm
Oh that’s great, coming from an absent father. What is it with you, anyway? You come down here a couple of thousand years ago, knock up a virgin and leave. And we’ve been fighting wars over the product of that one-night-stand ever since!
The way I figure it, you owe about a gazillion dollars in back child-support, counting interest compounded over 2 thousand years. And a college fund. Did you even send your son to theological school? NO! He got what…40 days and 40 nights in a frickin’ DESERT!
And how did he repay you? The first “miracle” he did was to PARTY! That’s right…that little water-into-wine bit. How many hangovers did he cause with that one? But did you ground him then? Noooo. You let him go, spreading his “message” until he got the locals so riled up they killed him. And where were you? Out galavanting about the Universe, again…as usual.
At least a graven image is around when you need him. sheesh.
March 4th, 2007 at 11:58 pmHow many can say they ran on the beach in Costa Rica? Oy, what a griper. Besides, it’s funny watching you little bastards run….yeah, I have a sense of humor. I haven’t turned the all-purpose fundies into cinders, have I?
March 4th, 2007 at 11:58 pmMy policy toward other liberals with whom I don’t get along is to ignore them – until they insult me. [...]
Comment by unbelievable — March 4, 2007 @ 7:38 pm
ATTENTION… MAY I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION, PLEASE…
… THANK YOU…
i would like your honest answer to this question -
does anyone find this comment to be an “insult”?
how so? … really… [...]
Comment by katy — March 4, 2007 @ 11:58 am
i can only say, and you can trust me, that it was not meant to be an insult,
and so i’m confused as to why it was not ignored…
… or at the least, given a reasonable, mature and educated response…
it’s just that “For the trillionth time – stop speaking to me.” is so,
so 3rd grade, or something… i was disappointed… really…
but then, i guess my phrasing was much too similar to a michael-style,
and that would be a put off… darn… my bad…
but i really did wonder if the moonie times was up to any new tricks…
ah well…
thanks… and, good night.
March 5th, 2007 at 12:04 am…
God, I knew you were a bastard. Theocratically I have no idea what that means, but I lost a lot of friends and relatives on that beach….
March 5th, 2007 at 12:09 amAt least a graven image is around when you need him. sheesh.
Comment by Briseadh na Faire
Dude, I was busy.
The running of the turtles in Costa Rica is a bigtime fav.
Then I gotta whisper sweet nothings in the ears of Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson. All of it crap, of course. I ought to get hazardous duty pay for that! So just take it off the top of the gazillions I owe, ok?
And then all these sports stars and movie stars keep thanking me and dedicating things to me. I gotta keep track of all that garbage!
Sheesh…
March 5th, 2007 at 12:11 amI lost a lot of friends and relatives on that beach….
Comment by TerrytheTurtle
Well….I had fun…
Sorry, I think the pressure of this “God” thing is getting to me.
Here’s a quarter.
March 5th, 2007 at 12:13 amThe running of the turtles in Costa Rica is a bigtime fav.
Comment by God — March 5, 2007 @ 12:11 am
yeah, for the seagulls!
For Terry and his kin it was like living in a remake of Hitchcock’s The Birds!
March 5th, 2007 at 12:17 amBriseadh na Faire,
What? I’m supposed to be good all the time? It’s a vacation!
Let me tell ya, I put on my bermudas, big flowered shirt, black socks, sandals, and umbrella hat — nobody recognizes me. And really, shouldn’t they? That one always confuses me.
See? I’ve got stuff to think about, and seagulls picking off a few slow turtles (sick one, eh?) takes the pressure off.
I’m supposed to be any better than the humans I created? Puuuleeze.
March 5th, 2007 at 12:25 amBriseadh na Faire,
You forget your “sarcasm on” slogan in the end of post #100.
March 5th, 2007 at 12:26 amRachel,
I am all understanding. Peace.
March 5th, 2007 at 12:26 amAnd you lot thought Normandy was a bloodbath….
March 5th, 2007 at 12:29 amAnd you lot thought Normandy was a bloodbath….
Comment by TerrytheTurtle
Well, if you’d stop feeding the seagulls, they wouldn’t come around.
March 5th, 2007 at 12:34 amWell, time to hit the rack.
Yes….God sleeps.
And takes bubblebaths…
I feel so close to ya’ll now.
March 5th, 2007 at 12:47 amGod, it’s been fun. Thanks for taking some time on your day off to converse with us…humans and reptiles.
March 5th, 2007 at 1:00 amYou know I don’t think that really was God you know – not enough George Burns about him. And Jesus, well Jimmy Cameron reckons they found his bones – what’s good enough for the director of Terminator is good enough for me. Game’s up JC, sorry JHC.
March 5th, 2007 at 1:24 amThat’s the problem with everything that’s bad in this world. It LOOKS bad. In fact, there should be a whole new branch of epistomology devoted just to this Republican thesis. Just as Bishop Berkeley believed that nothing existed unless it was perceived by a human or by God, the simpler Republican version would have it that nothing exists at all except for appearances.
That’s why Republicans are baffled that we aren’t still celebrating Mission Accomplished. Didn’t we see the figher jet land, the banner, the commander with his codpiece? I mean, what more proof do you want than that that the war is a dazzling success!
March 5th, 2007 at 4:25 am“Yap, yap, yap… Don’t you have anything to say about the subject, or you just need to attack me to feel better about yourself? Freak.
Comment by unbelievable — March 4, 2007 @ 4:21 pm”
Now that’s just plain funny. From where I’m standing, you keep hijacking this thread, which is about “Brit Hume On Walter Reed, etc,” to indulge in self-righteousness, Miss Unbelievably Self-Absorbed! Please respect the narrative flow.
Thank you,
March 5th, 2007 at 6:10 amSnagglepuss the Crone
I’ve been wondering the same thing myself for quite awhile now. We can’t prove these “foul-mouthed” bloggers are trolls in disquise…but it seems offer the Rupblican smear machine something to use against us, rather than promoting a true progressive agenda. After all…”we know them by their works,” which is just Biblical verse for cause and effect is always relavent.
Snagglepuss the Crone
March 5th, 2007 at 6:17 amFirst troops are sent with NO BODY ARMOR… then bush got “busted” underfunding VA benefits by .. what a BILLION DOLLARS… and now Walter Reed…
bush policy on Soldiers…….. better DEAD than FED.
March 5th, 2007 at 7:01 am[...] conservative anchor, Brit Hume frets that the real problem with the Walter Reed Scandal is that it looks bad for the President, health and welfare of America’s military be [...]
March 5th, 2007 at 7:13 amIt is unfortunate that the real people who suffer are the troops !
I would like to have George the 2nd autograph, to say i have the signature of the worse president in my lifetime!!!!!!!
Cheers
March 5th, 2007 at 9:13 amThis Walter Reed fiasco is another example of Repub incompetence! All those folks sporting “SUPPORT OUR TROOPS’ ought to rip those magnetic signs from their vehicles…they are just dupes for Bush and his incompetent administration…remember “money talks and bullshit walks” and there is a lot of the latter in this administration…when does the impeachment process begin??!!??
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March 5th, 2007 at 11:20 amWalter Reed was scheduled for repairs and renovations years ago but your MR. Clinton cut military funding to the bone and the repairs were scuttled. Walter Reed has been scheduled for closure and will be combined with Bethesday Naval Hospital. Get over it or at least get the whole story.
March 5th, 2007 at 11:46 am“This guy is long past the day when he had anything but the foggiest awareness of what the heck is going on in the world.”
This was Hume’s comment about John Murtha. After the Walter Reed comments it seems Hume was confused and was actually tlaking about himself.
March 5th, 2007 at 11:56 amWhat are the “people”? F**king ROBOTS? I’ll bet it more than LOOKS BAD for the soliders and THEIR FAMILIES.
March 5th, 2007 at 12:14 pmThe Neocons will, sonehow, blame this on Clinton, as well!
March 5th, 2007 at 1:09 pmi can only say, and you can trust me, that it was not meant to be an insult,
You’re always insulting me katy… the rest of your post is nothing but insults. You’ve only even insulted me and when I ask you to just ignore me, you refuse to respect that.
I don’t get why you can’t just stop speaking to me… Why is it so impossible for you to respect that?
and so i’m confused as to why it was not ignored…
… or at the least, given a reasonable, mature and educated response…
Insult. Again.
I only give reasonable responses to reasonable people. Try being reasonable (i.e. stop addressing me)
it’s just that “For the trillionth time – stop speaking to me.†is so,
so 3rd grade, or something… i was disappointed… really…
Yet another insult. And the judgmental attitude is really uncalled for.
No, it isn’t. Calling you names would be third grade… Telling someone I don’t like to stop speaking to me is mature. I’m not surprised you can’t get it considering your habitual need to ignore my request.
but then, i guess my phrasing was much too similar to a michael-style,
and that would be a put off… darn… my bad…
Condescention….
but i really did wonder if the moonie times was up to any new tricks…
ah well…
Then why can’t you just google it and find out for yourself? Or ask someone who you haven’t insulted who actually wants to speak to you. What’s wrong with you that you can’t stop speaking to me anymore? I don’t like you. I don’t like how you have treated me and how you continue to disrespect me. Therefore, I have no interest in having a conversation with you. Understand?
thanks… and, good night.
Comment by katy — March 5, 2007 @ 12:04 am
Just leave me alone and there won’t be any drama…. Though I’ve come to believe that you like it.
March 5th, 2007 at 4:49 pmNow that’s just plain funny. From where I’m standing, you keep hijacking this thread, which is about “Brit Hume On Walter Reed, etc,†to indulge in self-righteousness, Miss Unbelievably Self-Absorbed! Please respect the narrative flow.
Clearly you’re standing up your own ass….
It wasn’t me who made this thread about me. It’s the pathetic brats who are obsessed with me. You have a problem with it – take it up with them. I’m going to defend myself. Don’t like it? I don’t care.
Thank you,
Snagglepuss the Crone
Comment by Kathleen Railey — March 5, 2007 @ 6:10 am
Piss off…
March 5th, 2007 at 4:52 pmNOW WHO DOESN’T “SUPPORT THE TROOPS?”
March 5th, 2007 at 11:21 pmThose lying, dispicable republiCONS.
There is all the money in the world for Bechtel, Northrop Grummond and Halliburton (heck, they can even misplace 9 billion!), but not a fraction of what is needed to take care of the service men and women who gave of their lives for this country. It is just a tragedy their commander in cheat lied them into a senseless war. The Spin machine in Washington is going into a Britney-esque meltdown. All the lies and corruption are catching up with them in the tidal wave of corruption. Fox noise channel can spin and Ann Coulter can belch her hatred, but our proud nation will wake up eventually to the insanity. Dick Cheney is still the CEO of Halliburton, he just has a different title, and he thinks we don’t notice. He’s actually right, because all we seem to notice is Anna Nicole and Britney. When Democrats call these freaks out and get fired up, maybe we have a hope of getting a sane country back.
Never forget Eisenhower’s warnings about the miliary-industrial complex.
March 6th, 2007 at 12:21 amEvery fear that he had has come true. The war machine is running the country, and those brave heroes quietly suffering in VA hospitals are paying the highest price.
Enough is enough. We have become a nation of of cowards. Thirty years ago Bush and Co. would have been run out of Washington on a rail. Time to grease it up.This idiot and his henchmen should be run out of office now. Not tomorrow or the next day, NOW! Dispicable bastards.
March 12th, 2007 at 11:16 amI HONESTY BELIEVE its time to IMPEACH, INDICT and IMPRISON The Bush Crime Family!! The Bush Administration has damaged more Veterans than the Iraq Civil War. Bush has easily hurt all Veterans by cutting benefits and letting the VA go to hell! Yes, I am a Veteran, A Democrat, and I VOTE!!
March 21st, 2007 at 8:06 pm