BUSH GONE WILD

THE GEORGE BUSH INTERVIEW with Laura Bush alongside on The Today Show showed Bush for what he is. [story] [transcript] [video] .Talking with Matt Lauer, Bush looked like a wild child who wanted out of the principal's office before he could pee his pants.  No lectern could hide what is all to obvious these days.  Even acting like a President is hard work for Bush.

But this much could be seen watching the tape of NBC's broadcast during Bush's 14-minute pre-sunrise interview, in which he stood unprotected by the usual lectern. The president was a blur of blinks, taps, jiggles, pivots and shifts. Bush has always been an active man, but standing with Lauer and the serene, steady first lady, he had the body language of a man wishing urgently to be elsewhere.

The fidgeting clearly corresponded to the questioning. When Lauer asked if Bush, after a slow response to Katrina, was "trying to get a second chance to make a good first impression," Bush blinked 24 times in his answer. When asked why Gulf Coast residents would have to pay back funds but Iraqis would not, Bush blinked 23 times and hitched his trousers up by the belt.

When the questioning turned to Miers, Bush blinked 37 times in a single answer -- along with a lick of the lips, three weight shifts and some serious foot jiggling. Laura Bush, by contrast, delivered only three blinks and stood still through her entire answer about encouraging volunteerism.

BUSH OFTEN SAYS the nation is lucky to have Laura Bush as First Lady.  Bush is lucky she was there yesterday.  The Heretik witnessed a series of Nancy Reagan moments yesterday.  When Reagan was getting hammered by the media and was fumbling for an answer as to what he was doing, Nancy could be heard whispering to him, "We are doing all we can."  And thus spake Reagan.

BUSH LOOKS WILD these days.  No matter how his aides try to keep him caged, it is clear something is not quite right.

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[Simian Brain] I wonder if this sort of reporting is indicative of the press' understanding that the words used by the Bush administration are generally not true, so they play kinesthesiologist and document every tick, lick, stumble, jitter, and glance, while we get to be the shrink examining the data for evidence of a human being beneath the poli-bot language.

THE HERETIK KNOWS words say one thing, but the body never lies.  All the lies are having their effect on Bush.  A man who didn't know he was doing wrong wouldn't act this way.

MORE PEOPLE NOTICE what The Bad Irish Reporter did previously.  The President doesn't like it when others won't comply by reading the same script he returns to again and again. Dan Froomkin has more at Photo Op Bites Back

PLUS Pepper says Let Me Hear Your Body Talk

Comments

[Mimus Pauly]

I wondered if anyone in the "media" would ever pick up on Bush's body language. Clearly something is bothering that man, and deeply so. For a while I've believed Bush has no conscience. But what if he does? That's even worse...

[Paul Hooson]

In all fairness, Bush did hold the hammer in right direction, not backwards or upside down, so all the coaching work of Karl Rove is showing some promise when it comes to staging photo-opts. If Karl Rove is sent away for any crimes, I honestly don't know how Bush will be able to dress himself in the morning.

But the two best photo-opts of Bush so far was when he visited Louisiana after the disaster and two well dressed women who weren't even residents of the area, who drove to a badly damaged area to loot clothing from damaged homes were used for a Bush photo-opt.

But the granddaddy of all Karl Rove planned photo-opts was the use of an empty warehouse where a giant canvas was painted to appear as a factory full of American manufactured goods to be shipped out. To the television cameras this painted canvas looked real. It is an old Hollywood set trick, where mountains or valleys are often merely a painted canvas that fools the viewer into thinking they are seeing a mountain or valley. Empty boxes from goods made in China had phony labels pasted on that said "Made In USA". And White House staffers put on costumes and hardhats, pretending to be cheering factory workers while Bush gave a speech on how the strong the American economy was, and ignoring the fact that over 30 million American jobs have been lost to China where labor is only 24 to 40cents and hour labor and the Chinese currency is undervalued by nearly 40% by valuation against the American dollar rather than floating against world currencies. China claims it will "adjust" this currency valuation. But we'll see.

My Website is worth checking out today. I point out the history of Britain in it's 40 year losing war in Iraq after WWI, including the use of mustard gas against entire villages that failed to contain insurgents in Iraq. In 1958, Britain was forced out by a bloody Arab socialist inspired rebellion, inspired by the Arab socialist leader of Egypt, Gamel Nasser's successful rebellion in that nation. Britain lost control all throughout the MidEast.

In Iraq, the U.S. has already used 530 napalm type bombs since the first Gulf War. These 750 lb. gel fuel bombs, the Mark 77's have been officially denied by the Pentagon, but pilots report dropping them 530 of them in Iraq. Only the U.S. and Russia still have these modern and more lethal version of napalm bombs in their military inventory. All other of 193 nations of the world have signed a U.N. treaty banning such terrible weapons. The photo-opt of Bush putting a few nails in a home contrasts against a bloody war in which the only user of WMDs in Iraq is the U.S.

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[Diane]

May have been the mosquitos. They've been deadly since Katrina.

I thought about driving down there, but I figured I would have had to have done so at the crack of dawn, and I'm not a crack of dawn kind of girl. Also, I'm sure I would have been arrested, which would have been inconvenient, although the parish jail just happens to be right down the road from Habitat for Humanity.

[the farmer]

In all fairness, Bush did hold the hammer in right direction, not backwards or upside down,

But thats about it... plus Bundle Boy has got one of those 16oz pussy hammers. Looks like one of those things you can buy at Ace Hardware for $2.99. And he holds it like a girly-man. Jeeezis.... everyone uses pneumatic tools these days anyway. Espcecially pneumatic hammers. For framing and roofing etc. G.W. is the guy you send to the dump with a load and hope he can find his way back to the job site. And then, even if he returns with your truck in one piece, ya sorta always hope he'll just quit when the weather gets too hot. Hes the guy who is really good at drinking beer after work.... but always has his girlfriend call in "sick" for him the next morning.

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