FORT CARSON - Ground Rule 9 for the media covering President Bush's presidential visit Monday sounded more like an edict from Beijing or a banana republic.
Perhaps it is time for us to come out of denial and realize that we have become a banana republic. With the Smirking Chimp in charge.
"Write positive stories about Ft. Carson and the U.S. Army," Ground Rule 9 commanded.
That would have been easier if Ground Rule 3 of the presidential visit had not also forbidden reporters to talk to any soldiers or their families before, during or after the president's appearance.
Ground Rule 6 - "no roaming" - amounted to a heavy-handed smack at the First Amendment. But it was an insult to the intelligence of military men and women and their families as much as it was an indictment of the media.
Standing before a 30-by-50-foot American flag, preaching to a choir of 4,000 uniformed, flag-waving troops, Bush wore an olive green flight jacket with a red and black Fort Carson insignia sewn on it. Family members of the dead gathered to his right. A couple of hundred soldiers sat behind him on the stage.
"This war depends on people in uniform and the support of their families," the president told them all.
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I'm guessing his green flight jacket was his claim to be one of those in uniform. The Emperor's new clothes. He sure has lots of costumes, doesn't he? Dubbie's favorite holiday must surely be Halloween. Maybe he liked to play dress-ups when he was a kid. Hmmmmm...J Edgar liked to dress up, too.
I don't remember ever seeing a president in so many different get-ups. They usually just wore a suit and tie.
Disgusting dickhead. Grow up and get real.
Pardon my French.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
You think they'll make Yahoo scrub this photo?
Tuesday, November 25, 2003
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