This reminds me of that scene in the Lion King where Scar is trying to explain his planned coup to the hyenas but they’re too stupid to understand that the plan is not to destroy the office of the king, but to install Scar as king in Mufasa’s place.
Only, Scar is a lot smarter than George W. Bush will ever be. Bush surrounds himself with this echo chamber in order to hear good things about himself, and not hear a single critical word about his failed presidency.
President Bush invited ten talk hosts into the Oval Office for an hour of conversation today –Glenn Beck, Bill Bennett, Neal Boortz, Scott Hennon, Laura Ingraham, Lars Larson, Mark Levin, Michael Medved, Janet Parshall and me.
And just imagine the brain trust that would surround a Democrat president meeting with liberal talk radio/media personalities: Michael Moore, Janeane Garofalo, Al Franken, Randi Rhodes, Barbra Streisand, Jerry Springer … yes, it boggles the imagination.
As if a wingnut would possess an imagination beyond a tiny looping animated GIF of the Twin Towers.
Sorry, slick but there has yet to be such a meeting nor will there be.
Lincoln and Kennedy famously surrounded themselves with competent men who disagreed with them. Bush does the exact opposite–surrounds himself with dolts who agree completely.
Take Back America ring a bell?
Looks to me like Rove now understands that the “message” is going to need to be personally driven the next two crucial months, ‘cos all the wheels have dun fell off the Bush cart, and it is dragging the rest of the GOP carts down into the quagmire, and the cart-riders are screaming.
This motley group of propagandists, liars, and criminals (Sean Hannity, for example, went on a nationwide tour on behalf of Bush-Cheney ‘04 in October, in spite of direct FEC statute prohibiting such an act 60 days before an Election) were the main reason for Bush’s victory in both ‘00 and ‘04, and Karl Rove knows it.
They delivered hundreds of thousands of votes in places like Florida and Ohio, as the tried-and-true methods of the Big Lie, the personal destruction of the opposition, and endless droning repetition are used on the mostly moderate to turn them into right-wing GOP nuts.
These hosts are like the drivers for the GOP base, and Rove MUST make sure they stay in place in the caravan, otherwise they will all go down into the quagmire together, since Rove has made damn sure they they are all tied together with steel chains.
Hey Mike, you idiot. I can REALLY see Jeanine Garofalo or Randi tellin people how serene and majestic and committed Hillary CLinton is.
You are an ass, and you know nothing about Liberals. Think about herding 100 cats into a car, and you get the idea of how likely Liberals are to toe the Party line.
We are nowheres near lapdogs, nor are we anything like this group, that wore their Lewisnky-model kneepads, and dutifully each took turns sucking off the Preznit.
Bush’s right wing media foot soldiers.
He needs to catapault some more propaganda:
http://www.toostupidtobepresident.com/shockwave/catapultpropaganda.htm
Jesus on a cheese sandwich. Glenn Beck and Michael Medved in one room together.
And that room was in the White House. At the behest of the President.
[Insert snarky remark here]
Seriously, too stunned to snark.
–WKW
Good God, what absolute simps. The Quorum of The Dead-Enders.
President Clinton didn’t need to surround himself with a room of radio hosts echoing back his ideology to him. He was a popular president with widespread support, not a space filler without the confidence of the vast majority of the American people.
President Clinton didn’t need to surround himself with a room of radio hosts echoing back his ideology to him.
That’s because there aren’t enough successful radio hosts who agree with his ideology to fill up a room.
I do recall him regurlaly meeting with ABC’s chief political correspondent: George something-or-other.
Clinton didn’t NEED talk radio. He didn’t need media robots to echo his talking points. He didn’t need propaganda like that because he was supported by the vast majority of Americans because he was a good president.
I do recall him regurlaly meeting with ABC’s chief political correspondent: George something-or-other.
Har-har har, it is to larf.
Once more:
Dem candidates meeting with citizen bloggers @ Yearlykos = BAD.
Meeting in the White House (the PEOPLE’s House) with right-wing pundits, coupled with reachouts (or is that reacharounds) to wingnut bloggers = GOOD.
Looks like we got another Bush-leg-humper in “SaveFarris” to join Mike! Great, glad to see ya. Now F.O.A.D.
“And just imagine the brain trust that would surround a Democrat president meeting with liberal talk radio/media personalities”
You would actually HAVE to imagine it because no Democratic president ever met with radio talk show hosts to pow wow anything as serious as a war. That would insanely stupid, which puts it right in line with right-winger support.
“That’s because there aren’t enough successful radio hosts who agree with his ideology to fill up a room.”
Is this a concession then that the so-called liberal media like NPR (which had radio hosts last time I checked) is yet another right-wing delusion and does not actually exist? Good.
This was another instance of the sturmabteilungen getting their marching orders from Bush. They probably got the talking points for the September report that doubtless will claim success and demand another 5 years of disaster and fiasco in Iraq.
It’s no accident that “Witch” Janet Parshall is the talk show hag for the “Salem Radio Network. . .” Can it be that the several hundred people who make up Dubya’s circle of White House advisor’s, their staff employee’s, cabinent member’s, staff and nuclear family’s, don’t occassionally mutter under their breath, “oh, I know he didn’t just say that. . . , or “do we really have to stay here for his final year?”