Bush meets with ‘friendly circle’ of military bloggers.
On Friday, President Bush “sat down for a round-table interview” with military bloggers and talked about the war in Iraq. As the Washington Post notes, the blogs at the meeting were “generally pro-Bush and pro-military, and the ensuing reports were highly sympathetic to the president”:
Matthew Burden, a former Army officer who blogs under the name Blackfive, raved about how Bush slapped his hand and called him “brutha.”
“The President was very intelligent, razor sharp, warm, focused, emotional (especially about his dad), and genuine,” Blackfive wrote. “Even more so than this cynical Chicago Boy expected. I was overwhelmed by the sincerity — it wasn’t staged.” […]
When it was all over, the bloggers seemed wowed. “All in all, it was an amazing day for Military.com and one I’ll never forget,” Carroll wrote. “In fact, I’d rank the event a close second to the time I sat in with Cheap Trick. It was that good.”
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One Cheap Trick for another.
September 16th, 2007 at 2:12 pmBrutha Bush:
September 16th, 2007 at 2:15 pm“I want you to want me”
A “friendly circle of military bloggers”?
Sounds like another name for a circle jerk.
September 16th, 2007 at 2:16 pmDid the meeting take place in the Minnesota airport men’s room?
September 16th, 2007 at 2:17 pmCarroll wrote. “In fact, I’d rank the event a close second to the time I sat in with Cheap Trick. It was that good.â€
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Cheap Trick.
A fitting comparison.
September 16th, 2007 at 2:17 pmMatthew Burden, a former Army officer who blogs under the name Blackfive, raved about how Bush slapped his hand and called him “brutha.â€
Sorry, anyway you look at it W has no soul.
September 16th, 2007 at 2:19 pmWhat kind of leader only meets with the tiny minority who support him?
The Bush administration has got to be the most lilly livered dog and pony show thats ever occupied the White House.
September 16th, 2007 at 2:21 pmAmazing how easily people are fooled. Strange how so many can be “honored” by the presence of this phoney human being that has cost so many Americans their lives.
Just once I would like to see someone refuse to shake his hand or meet with him. No wonder Bush still thinks he is admired. Disgusting !!!
September 16th, 2007 at 2:22 pmAnd then those bloggers bent over, squeezed the Astroglide, and let Bush spill his DNA all over their asses.
September 16th, 2007 at 2:22 pm“The President was very…emotional (especially about his dad)…” - - Of course he means his higher Father.
September 16th, 2007 at 2:32 pmMaybe if Bush/Cheney allowed for a little dissent into these “Everything Is Great / We’re Kickin’ Ass” propaganda pushes, they might have at least a shred of credibility. That Bush/Cheney to have to be constantly reinforced through 100% sympathetic audiences and always-positive reports by subordinates makes it clear that they are too insecure to allow even a little dissent into their lives.
September 16th, 2007 at 2:33 pmTP - continue to smear the military.
We will use your HATE and IGNORANCE to bring down your nominee for the White House.
Please nominate anti-troop Hillary. She contradicted herself when she called him a liar and she will be in the same bag as you anti-Americans!!!
September 16th, 2007 at 2:38 pmNobody hides behind the military better than Bush. Chickenshitforbrains.
September 16th, 2007 at 2:41 pmTP - continue to smear the military.
We will use your HATE and IGNORANCE to bring down your nominee for the White House.
Please nominate anti-troop Hillary. She contradicted herself when she called him a liar and she will be in the same bag as you anti-Americans!!!
Comment by Hillary Whacked Vince — September 16, 2007 @ 2:38 pm
We could nominate a dustmop and it would beat whatever goosestepping goon you neonazi’s stand up.
The neocons 15 minutes are just about up, and theres nothing you’re going to be able to do about it.
September 16th, 2007 at 2:43 pmWe could nominate a dustmop
Comment by BARTLEBEE — September 16, 2007 @ 2:43 pm
You mean steaming pile of dog crap not dustmop.
September 16th, 2007 at 2:45 pmLincoln Chaffee just jumped ship. The neocons have destroyed the GOP. May end up being there best achievement.
September 16th, 2007 at 2:48 pmYou mean steaming pile of dog crap not dustmop.
Comment by jb — September 16, 2007 @ 2:45 pm
A steaming pile of dogcrap?
We’ve already got one of those in the oval office.
September 16th, 2007 at 2:49 pmCorrection: there should be their. Sorry.
September 16th, 2007 at 2:49 pmWe’ve already got one of those in the oval office.
Comment by BARTLEBEE — September 16, 2007 @ 2:49 pm
I beg to differ. I believe we would be in better shape as a country if that were true.
September 16th, 2007 at 2:51 pmPsychotics, like Bush, are fixated on a certain view of the world and of their place in it. They ignore any and all information that might challenge their delusions. Gradually, they retreat into the inner recesses of their tormented mind and become dysfunctional.
September 16th, 2007 at 2:51 pmHow ironic that someone with the name “Hillary Whacked Vince” is talking about HATE and IGNORANCE. But I guess when you get down to the Bush supporters that are left, then you are scraping the bottom of the barrel.
September 16th, 2007 at 2:53 pm#20 - stop projecting.
#16 - stop showing how dumb you are. No one, even Lincoln Chafee, ever thought he was a Republican. He is at best, a liberal Democrat, who doesn’t wish death on our troops. Which is better than I can say for anyone in this hate filled blog!
September 16th, 2007 at 2:57 pm#14 - you are the NAZIs smearing the troops who have good things to say about President Bush. You are a PIG and Hitler’s best friend.
September 16th, 2007 at 2:59 pmIt’s simply pathetic. It’s bubble boy looking for a safe venue of ardent supporters and sycophants to help maintain his isolation from reality.
September 16th, 2007 at 3:02 pmThis is what a cult looks like. Remember Jim Jones and how his followers used to talk about him? Or Charles Manson and his “flock”? Or any other cult you care to name?
Blind worship is…… well, blind and there are “None so blind as those who refuse to see.”
September 16th, 2007 at 3:02 pmBush uses and abuses the military at his whim.
September 16th, 2007 at 3:03 pmI love the troops so much I want them to stay in Iraq, scorching their butts off in 120-degree heat, getting picked off by roadside bombs, seeing their kids and spouses for just a few months every 15 months, losing their emotional health, risking life and limb on an undefined mission to bring “success” to a country on the verge of civil war. But I wouldn’t send my kids or go myself because I’m already doing my share to support the troops via this cool ribbon on my SUV.
There, now I’m a Republican.
September 16th, 2007 at 3:08 pmRepublican Party hijacked by incompetence
- GOP Sen. Hagel
Bush/Cheney destroying more than secular countries…they’re destroying the GOP.
Only deluded asshats like Hillary Whacked Vince continue to drink the kool-aid.
September 16th, 2007 at 3:08 pmPlease nominate anti-troop Hillary. She contradicted herself when she called him a liar and she will be in the same bag as you anti-Americans!!!
Comment by Hillary Whacked Vince — September 16, 2007 @ 2:38 pm
You mean the 70%? Yeah, we’re nervous.
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!
September 16th, 2007 at 3:08 pmThe men and women on the ground are not as blind as Bush thinks they are.
Take note of the OP-ED the 7 members of the 82nd posted.
September 16th, 2007 at 3:09 pm( which the Bush reich-wing trolls, bloggers and pundits are swiftboating. )
You are a PIG and Hitler’s best friend.
Comment by Hillary Whacked Vince — September 16, 2007 @ 2:59 pm
Aer you writing to Prescott Bush? I think he’s dead, and no longer a danger to America.
September 16th, 2007 at 3:09 pmNot smart enough to know when you are being conned by another “Cheap Trick”. Damn you folks are dumb!
September 16th, 2007 at 3:13 pmCheap Trick??? BWA HA HA HA. What’s on his second disc David Cassidy? Cheap Trick is the most successful Bubblegum group in pop history and they suck bigtime - now back to the story.
September 16th, 2007 at 3:16 pmhe rates it up there with sitting in with a washed up third rate hair band. nice. on the other hand, bush did edge out insync.
September 16th, 2007 at 3:22 pmironically, Hillary Whacked Vince’s mom is also a cheap trick that rates better than bush.
September 16th, 2007 at 3:24 pmBlackfive is also a homo site where closeted gay men go to pretend they are tough guys.Sorry lads,we are aware of your desire to suckle wiener and play with guns,which are phallic.
September 16th, 2007 at 3:33 pmI beg to differ. I believe we would be in better shape as a country if that were true.
Comment by jb — September 16, 2007 @ 2:51 pm
Thats pretty low, lol.
September 16th, 2007 at 3:33 pmBut fitting, to be sure.
September 16th, 2007 at 3:34 pmAre they bloggers or fluffers?
-GSD
September 16th, 2007 at 3:34 pmFloggers, more like.
September 16th, 2007 at 3:36 pmRepublican Senator Chuck Hagel called the latest “strategy” a DIRTY TRICK.
September 16th, 2007 at 3:38 pmYea. Floggin their frogs.
September 16th, 2007 at 3:38 pmHagel said it was a dirty trick, dishonest, hypocritical, dangerous, and irresponsible.
September 16th, 2007 at 3:44 pmKeep smearing on military people through the election. Show the public who you really are. More Moveon ads please.
September 16th, 2007 at 3:53 pmLosers to the end. We can assume they will stay on the Titanic all the way to the bottom.
September 16th, 2007 at 3:53 pmChimpFluffers of the world, unite!
September 16th, 2007 at 4:00 pmMore Moveon ads please.
Comment by Toliver — September 16, 2007 @ 3:53 pm
Ya know, *sswipe, at this point I have ZERO degree of interest in hearing ANYTHING that comes from a rightie’s mouth. I can’t help but feel the VAST MAJORITY of the country feels the same way. Keep j*erkin’ off, pal. it’s all ya know how to do.
September 16th, 2007 at 4:03 pmBeing willing to defend your country with your life, and to take life in necessary for your country, is one thing.
Wanting to create enemies, just so you can kill them, is an entirely different thing.
September 16th, 2007 at 4:08 pmHey Burden! Wipe the brown stains off your lips. They are not very becoming. They give you away for what you really are.
September 16th, 2007 at 4:08 pmBush’s whole life history is a litany of vileness smf viciousness : from killing frogs with firecrackers as a child, to branding fraternity brothers as a young man, to rubber stamping Texas executions as an adult, to mass murder in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Bush is the biggest killer in the 21st century: he is about one hundred times more deadly than all of the so-called al-Queda terrasts put together…
September 16th, 2007 at 4:16 pmKeep smearing on military people through the election. Show the public who you really are. More Moveon ads please.
Comment by Toliver — September 16, 2007 @ 3:53 pm
Military “people”? You mean the paid mercenaries that frequent military blogs?
And what do you mean by “smearing” them?
Do you mean mocking and insulting those who have been killed who dare to speak out, like every troll in here and the neocons did to Sgt Omar Mora and Sgt Yance Gray, right after they died in service to their country?
You mean like that?
September 16th, 2007 at 4:21 pmYou mean like that?
Comment by BARTLEBEE — September 16, 2007 @ 4:21 pm
Don’t forget Pat Tillman while you’re at it.
September 16th, 2007 at 4:22 pmGeneral Petraeus is NOT military, lets hear more from the people actually doing the work not just pandering and escorting all the Senators around doing the dog and pony show. Petraeus has been kissing up to Bush since 2004 when he knew Iraq was going down hill. Dont even honor him with the title of military, he is a politician with a uniform. He is a disgrace to the military, because he sold out for fame and another star.
Honor the troops by bring them home and not letting one more die or be wounded.
September 16th, 2007 at 4:27 pmRepublicans love the troops the same way they love everyone else.
As long as they shut up, and get in line.
September 16th, 2007 at 4:27 pmLike good little communists.
September 16th, 2007 at 4:28 pmCan we impeach Bush now that he has had his BJ in the Oval Office by a bunch of groupies?
September 16th, 2007 at 4:43 pmOn Friday, President Bush met with a “‘friendly circle’ of military bloggers”
How friendly? Like, circle-jerk friendly??
Hey, Karl Rove(ing hand) keep your roll of quarters AND YOUR HANDS in your pants!!!
September 16th, 2007 at 4:52 pmA new low.
Barf! Just barf.
September 16th, 2007 at 4:58 pm“Admiral William Fallon, chief of the Central Command (CENTCOM), “derided Petraeus as a sycophant during their first meeting in Baghdad last March, according to Pentagon sources familiar with reports of the meeting. Fallon told Petraeus that he considered him to be ‘an ass-kissing little chickenshit’ and added, ‘I hate people like that’….”
September 16th, 2007 at 5:00 pmA new low.
Barf! Just barf.
Comment by George — September 16, 2007 @ 4:58 pm
So ture! How deep should the ditch be that GW BOTCH must puke into and drown in be?
I’m thinking 3″’s…He’s a shallow guy, right?
September 16th, 2007 at 5:04 pmOn Friday, President Bush met with a “‘friendly circle’ of military bloggersâ€
How friendly? Like, circle-jerk friendly??
Hey, Karl Rove(ing hand) keep your roll of quarters AND YOUR HANDS in your pants!!!
Comment by dixie blood
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Friendlier than that. Apparently, Bush invited them into his inner circle.
September 16th, 2007 at 5:10 pmFriendlier than that. Apparently, Bush invited them into his inner circle.
Comment by Starve-A-Bush_Feed-A-Beaver — September 16, 2007 @ 5:10 pm
Isn’t a bush or beaver an “inner circle?”
September 16th, 2007 at 5:21 pmThe bubble boy continues to surround himself with 28%ers who will kiss his ass and lick his boots. No wonder he is a delusional sob.
September 16th, 2007 at 5:53 pmBush is a coward. He has proved it over and over.
September 16th, 2007 at 5:56 pmHe can’t face truth, justice or the American way.
I was overwhelmed by the sincerity — it wasn’t staged.†[…]
If it wasn’t staged, there would have been more bloggers there than their hand-picked pro-Bush crowd of bloggers.
I would really like to see Bush face the public just one time. But he’s too big a chicken shit to actually face the people he is screwing over. Every appearance he does is carefully controlled and only people who love him (picked from the 28% of morons in this country) are allowed within 50 feet of him.
September 16th, 2007 at 6:37 pm“Petraeus has been kissing up to Bush since 2004 when he knew Iraq was going down hill. Dont even honor him with the title of military, he is a politician with a uniform. He is a disgrace to the military, because he sold out for fame and another star.”
It is no secret that Betrayus wants to be President. Everything he has done since 2004 when he interjected himself into the 2004 Presidential race (a real no-no for people in the military) has been aimed towards enhancing his image as a Republican. He could care less about we the people and he could care less about the military. All he cares about his his political future. Hopefully, he won’t have one. I really don’t want a President named Betrayus.
September 16th, 2007 at 6:40 pmA textbook case of Stockholm Syndrome?
September 16th, 2007 at 7:00 pm“the blogs at the meeting were generally pro-Bush and pro-military.”
I served in the U.S. Air Force during the early 1970s.
I’m anti-Bush, pro-military, anti-Iraq War, and totally for going after any of the al Qaeda criminals responsible for the 9/11 attacks, wherever they might be hiding.
In the military, we had a term that describes all the right-wing bloggers at this staged Bush meeting…brown-nosers. Brown-nosers always sucked-up to authority figures, waiting to be petted as if they were some pet dog or pony.
I didn’t have any time (nor respect) for sycophantic brown-nosers while in the military, just as I don’t have any time (or respect) for them now. They never question authority. They blindly follow orders. How un-American. How unpatriotic. How un-democratic. And if done by a U.S. citizen who’s a civilian, how utterly dangerous for our fellow citizens serving in the U.S. military at this time.
But at least we now know some of the sycophantic right-wing “military” bloggers who have helped damage our military so much, and who have helped cause the deaths (and maiming) of so many U.S. soldiers and Iraqi citizens.
September 16th, 2007 at 7:53 pmBush is too big of a pussy to meet with his critics, which comprise over 70% of the country.
September 16th, 2007 at 7:55 pmHe’s going to have to live the rest of his life either attending staged events with the 25%ERS®, or in hiding.
We’ve got to find a way to change this meme:
The implication is that “anti-Bush” = “anti-troops”.
Anti-Bush does not mean anti-military, and especially not anti-troops.
–Kibitzer
September 16th, 2007 at 7:57 pm#70, um, yes it does.
September 16th, 2007 at 8:09 pmComment by Hillary Whacked Vince
Vince whacks off to thoughts about his mom.
September 16th, 2007 at 8:24 pmHmmm. Bush holds a round table discussion with military bloggers, and they are raving about his intelligence and sincerity.
What kind of koo-aid did they serve to this bunch?
September 16th, 2007 at 8:25 pmKing George and his Blights of the Pound Table
September 16th, 2007 at 9:09 pm#72 - actually, Vince was murdered by Hillary’s henchmen. They have no video footage of Foster leaving the White House. Because the bloodlusting babykiller had him offed for f-in up travelgate.
September 16th, 2007 at 9:16 pmYeah, this “Blackfive” guy claims to be from Chicago. ‘Cuz there’s all sortsa support for the war here in Chicago, lemme tell ya.
He’s probably from DuPage County … they all like to say they’re from Chicago, they just wouldn’t want to actually, y’ know, live there.
September 16th, 2007 at 9:23 pm#72 - actually, Vince was murdered by Hillary’s henchmen. They have no video footage of Foster leaving the White House. Because the bloodlusting babykiller had him offed for f-in up travelgate.
Comment by Hillary Whacked Vince
bullshit. If “they” had it that then hillary would be in jail. you neoconwackjobs spent 80 million dollars and ten years sniffing around every corner of the clinton’s and all you got was an entrapment perjury charge. The only people who think the clintons got away with anything are braindead chickenhawk pussy scumbags. in other words you. the only first lady to ever kill someone is laura. idiot.
September 16th, 2007 at 9:31 pmHow on earth is AWOL coward faux pilot bush any military member’s effffffing brutha???
September 16th, 2007 at 9:39 pmAnyone who watched the “gathering of bi*ches (who wannabe eagles)”…
…at there counter-protest in D.C.
…heard their “Declaration of War” against anti-war American Patriots…
…the Bushites are dangerous cultists…
…especially the pro-war mongering militarists…
…words of WARNING/WISDOM to all: Liberal Progressives…
…be prepared to defend yourselves against the enemy at home…
…the right wing FASCISTS are HERE!
…keep your eyes on Move America Forward, Gathering of Eagles and other right wing EXTREMIST groups…
…they’re threatening violence…
…and YOU have to defend yourselves because the Bushite gov’t won’t…
…email your Congress persons and Senators (if they’re Democrats)…
…and tell them to use the Patriot Act to moniter democracy’s enemies right here at home…
September 16th, 2007 at 9:46 pmThey all love the anti-christ.
September 16th, 2007 at 10:43 pm“A textbook case of Stockholm Syndrome?”
Comment by curmudgeon
More like Sadie/Masie. They like being abused.
September 16th, 2007 at 11:14 pmWe’ve got to find a way to change this meme:
As the Washington Post notes, the blogs at the meeting were “generally pro-Bush and pro-military
The implication is that “anti-Bush†= “anti-troopsâ€.
Anti-Bush does not mean anti-military, and especially not anti-troops.
–Kibitzer
Comment by Kibitzer
I read this on a bumper sticker:
“Support our TROOPS
Not HIS oops.”
We must divorce the administration from the troops at every available turn and opportunity. Drive the wedge of reality between the cabal’s suckling off the teet of goodwill of the troops.
September 16th, 2007 at 11:44 pmAs the Washington Post notes, the blogs at the meeting were “generally pro-Bush and pro-military, and the ensuing reports were highly sympathetic to the presidentâ€:
And this is different from the anti-war Demdidates embracing MoveOn because……?????
September 17th, 2007 at 1:41 amWhen has Bush ever met with anything other than a ‘friendly circle’?
September 17th, 2007 at 9:24 am“the president was very intelligent, razor sharp, ….”, hey Cletus, you too God-damned dumb to see when you’re being patrozized?
September 17th, 2007 at 9:46 amMusta been a ROTC officer, form CletusCollege somewher down Souf.
Go play with your ‘little green footballs’.
moron.
Gawd… Nobody is arguing that Bush doesn’t come off as personable and fun to hang out with (when you agree with him). That’s how he got elected, after all, but “connecting” to the conservatives and misguided centrists. But all this gushing over him as of late… what’s the deal? I’ve never seen so many man-crushes!
September 17th, 2007 at 11:37 amHey Peter #84, When do you see Hillary or any of your lefties get in front of non-sympathetics? When does Hillary get asked tough questions? Hey Hillary, if you didn’t even know who was blowing your husband how do you expect to know what is going on as predident?
ROTFL
September 17th, 2007 at 12:59 pmthere shouldn’t be enough days that someone is kicking the living crap out of his stinkin’legacy. i want to know every day that he is the sour, bitter, miserable old man he deserves to be.
September 17th, 2007 at 9:09 pmSeptember 17th, 2007 at 11:00 pm