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Bush, Propaganda Minister O'Reilly and the P-Word
by AL MARTIN

In the latest press conference, Bush looked like a wind-up talking corpse.


When he came on to the podium in the East Room,
there was so much makeup on his face that he looked
like Casper the Ghost. It was definitely too much
pancake. They were trying to hide the red blotchiness
in his upper cheekbones, which is a telltale sign,
which appears when he lies. But they put it on so
thick it made him look artificial and you could
actually see the ridges of it in his upper cheekbones.
And his demeanor - he was so calm, artificially calm,
and he kept moving his head around. He looked just
like my neighbor after he takes one of his Xanax
tablets.

Bush had this artificial calmness and he spoke
in a monotone. He didn't use his hands the way he
normally does. When a reporter got up and asked him a
question, Bush would look at the reporter and then his
head started moving around in this mechanical back and
forth motion side to side.

     His eyes looked dopey and
glazed over. It was the strangest thing, but it's
typical. They had to have had this guy on Prozac
because his demeanor, his physical appearance, the way
he spoke, the way he moved was exactly the way my
neighbor acts after he's taken his medication.

There were reporters there too, all Pro-Bush
reporters. And you could tell the questions were
rehearsed because Ari Fleischer, the press secretary,
was sitting in the front row. They should have had him
off camera. but there he was, holding onto a
clipboard. Every time one of the reporters asked a
question, Ari would look at the clipboard and use his
finger to follow what they were saying to make sure
they were using the approved question line.
Bush spoke very very slowly through the whole
thing dragging out every word. He spoke so
mechanically and slowly it took forever. They must
have used the new Valium gas system in the White House
because the reporters were exactly the same way. They
would stand up s-l-o-w-l-y and ask the questions
slowly. It was very surreal. And they enunciated every
word and spoke slowly and even sat down slowly.

Bush looked like one of those late 19th century
French wind-up mechanical automatons with a painted
white face. The funniest part was at the end when he's
walking off the podium, walking down the East Wing and
you see his back. They always show that at the end of
the conference. All of a sudden you hear this
electronic noise and then you hear all this clapping.
They played a canned clapping tape.

They showed the reporters getting up and milling
around and they were the only ones there. But it was
so artificial and so obvious that it was a canned clap
tape. Even the tone of the room was different so you
could tell. It sounded like a bunch of people clapping
inside of a steel drum.

Then they showed Bush walking down the hallway
and he goes to this door on the left and tries the
knob and it's locked. He looks around and walks across
the hall to the other door and it's open. He looks up
at the camera and gives an "ah ha" look.

At the same time, the Asian markets were trading
very quietly and Bloomberg News was flashing to
different trading floors around the world which were
open -- Tokyo, HongKong, and Sydney. It was a riot
particularly the Japanese on the floor of the Nikkei
and they're glued to this enormous TV screen and then
every few minutes, they'd turn and talk to each other
and then start laughing like hell. They were actually
laughing at him. Then when it concluded, the Nikkei
immediately dropped 100 points, Sydney dropped 50
and Hangseng dropped 50.

The only one that looked alert was Ari Fleischer
and the problem is that although they powdered up Bush
something fierce, they didn't do anything to Ari's
head. They should have put more powder on the top of
his head because every time he moved his head around
it created a flash and glare off the top of his head.
It even seemed to annoy Bush a little bit. He'd give
him this look like "why don't you turn your head down
50 watts?"

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AND

Mass Media Allowed Bush To Script Phony Press Conference
The Official White House Transcript Plus Some Scuttlebutt

3/13/03 12:01:41 AM
WhiteHouse.gov

Washington, DC -- http://www.thememoryhole.org/media/scripted-scrub.htm

Official White House transcript:

We'll be there in a minute. King, John King. This is a scripted --
(laughter.)

Associated Press and New York Times account:

King -- John King? (Crosstalk)

BUSH: This is unscripted.

CNN deleted the comment entirely.

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