Bumiller: "I am here to tell you (Bush) reads the newspapers"

Most assuredly. Read her stories. She doesnt even try to hide her bias. If I read an egregiously propogandistic piece in the Times, and I didn't notice the author, I think to myself "Bumiller", then look, and I'm always right.

Unless of course, she was in bed with him on a regular basis.

Too may teams and too many sports. Can't keep up with so much information.

God in heaven haven't they done enough damage? He's an incurious dolt who has heart full of a hate and messiah complex "god picked me to lead". He doesn't read. He doesn't want to read. All he wants is for people to kiss his butt. All day long. That's all he wants. Sniff his butt like he was a boss mandrill and declare it smells like the sweetest perfume in the world. That's all he wants. And to kill. By proxy of course but he does like the killing bit. But that doesn't leave time to read newspapers.

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an account I once read concerning the failed attempt to assassinate Adolph Hitler in the rail car. The propaganda that came out of the failed attempt is frighteningly familiar.

As you recall, Hitler escaped the attempted assassination virtually without a scratch. Goebbels who was apparently there also, took great care to tell the newspapers how miraculously the glass, wood and debris flew all around the room but seemed to part and go around Hitler. Sub-text: Hitler was protected by divine providence. He was God's anointed.

Bumiller writes of Bush* in the same way. Everything he does is perfect. Everything he does is part of a (divine) plan.

We'll look back on this era as the Dark Ages of American Journalism.

perfect description, particularly the "killing" comments.
He is a psychopathic mass murderer.

SULLIVAN: I've actually been told that by a member of his own family.

I take it this is Andy Sullivan?

Do you suppose he has some contact with the Bush* twins?

I don't want this thread locked so I'll refrain from some humorous speculation..... :evilgrin:

yes

And I believe him when he says Bush only reads the sports pages. That's an allegation he's made more than a few times before.

It's a sad day when they have to turn to a NYT shill to convince Americans that their President indeed reads the news. :eyes:

I'd take Sullivan's word before I took Matthews....or Bumiller...
or Woodward...or Judith Miller....

most people don't read either.... more sad

the corporate leaders who bought his office for him!

Remember how old Bill used to read the paper to the the Monkey, because it was so famously reported that he did not read it himself??

Thanks Bumiller for clearing that up. :eyes:

Geez, where has integrity gone in this country? Is nothing "sacred" anymore -- everything available for a PRICE?

Makes me want to take a friggin' (cold) shower!

she knows he reads because "he" and his staff complain about what is in the paper. Gee. Don't you think it is possible that his staff might TELL him what is in the paper so he can complain?

It drives me crazy to watch these shows and have noone call people on thier assumptions. Must be the lawyer in me. I want them all cross examined on live TV.

Of course, think Coulter and how if anyone questions her assumptions she just starts yelling and attacking. But at least people might start to draw the correct assumptions. Instead, here you have Bush himself saying he doesn't read, then some journalistic hack saying "I know he reads the papers" and the next thing you know. . .the myth becomes reality and everyone now "knows" Bush is well informed.

(She also tried to explain by saying he reads the headlines and the first few grafs "like all well informed people do." Yeah. I read the headlines and first few grafs of stories that do not interest me. for the rest of the stuff I read the whole article. Oh yeah, and a couple of books a week, most of them non-fiction current events or history.

But you'd think the war mongering leader of the free world would do more.

... to, "Well, ok, his staff reads the papers. Or maybe his wife. Hell, I dunno."

Damn! I'm convinced!! :eyes:

Is the propaganda being catapulted?

I have not spent a penny on the Times since I learned the truth about J. Miller.

Good lord, I thought it was his wife defending him, or his mother.

She really, really wanted to convince everyone that Bush is smart and he does read the newspapers.

Her editor should be calling her into his office for a long, long chat today.

If she slips even a millimeter from One True Path, she will lose all her access. And does she have access! I predict in 2010, Elizabeth--sorry, that's "Elisabeth"--will come out with a book detailing all of the insider material that she omitted for the previous decade of covering George W. Bush. She will hope that by that time, folks will forget all about her weekly valentines she wrote to Bush in the Times.

Her puzzling assertion that she knows for a fact, and apparently personally knows for a fact, that Bush reads the newspapers, how he reads the papers, what his habits are down to how many paragraphs he routinely reads, is just beyond belief. I don't know that level of detail about Mrs. gratuitous' newspaper reading habits, and we sit at the same breakfast table.

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