War By Teleprompter
George Bush is so strangely and profoundly averse to speaking without a script or taking random questions that today---as a precondition for his appearance---he forced the Council on Foreign Relations to waive its longstanding and well-known policy of having all speakers face questions from the audience. To its immense discredit, the CFR caved.
Maybe it did so in anticipation of the president making some news. So let's look at the word count from his script today:
Terrorists/terror/terrorism: 36
Insurgents/insurgency: 0
Bush did indeed make news, but probably not in the way he'd hoped. It appears the MSM is catching on to this ongoing and worsening linguistic farce, as news reports like this one are finally starting to show up. Reuters and TCR....keepin' it real for you, dear reader.
Maybe it did so in anticipation of the president making some news. So let's look at the word count from his script today:
Terrorists/terror/terrorism: 36
Insurgents/insurgency: 0
Bush did indeed make news, but probably not in the way he'd hoped. It appears the MSM is catching on to this ongoing and worsening linguistic farce, as news reports like this one are finally starting to show up. Reuters and TCR....keepin' it real for you, dear reader.
posted by The Cunning Realist at Wednesday, December 07, 2005
11 Comments:
thank you girlfriend for keepin' it real ;P
Or like a tourist abroad that simply repeats himself louder trying to make himself understood.
Thanks for the reality. Bush out "terroristed" Cheney this week.
I've been having the same "when was the last time he spoke..." thought all this week. Has he ever given a speech in front of something other than a hand-picked crowd or Hollywood backdrop (New Orleans - we will rebuild whatever it takes)? When was the last time he gave a speech from the oval office? It's irritating to watch him speak, flipping the notepages every 20 seconds. Look closely, you can see the big print on the pages. Truly sad.
Have you read Orwell's essay "Politics and the English Language" - some speech writers should pay attention.
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm
To be fair, Clinton imposed the same conditions on CFR when he spoke there. As the CFR chair said in an NPR interview, better to have a president with no questions than no president at all.
That said, the general point still stands: Bush is insulated and packaged to what seems like an unprecedented degree, and if it weren't for the chickenshit quality of our mainstream news media, we'd have staged a recall election years ago.
On the other hand, it was less than a capacity crowd, and CFR had to stow away chairs to make it look like all the available seats were taken. Who wants to see the Bush clown show anyway?
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