LOST IN TRANSLATION

LOST IN THE WILDERNESS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
George Bush Speaks One on One with a British Reporter on the Eve of the G8 Conference in Scotland and Reveals More Truth in His Code Words and Trouble Points.  Why this gets lost in translation in the American Media is a harsh commentary on information accurately provided to the American public.  Maybe straight up questions in a British accent trip Bush the Boy President up.  In hearing Bush in this British ITV interview, if one looks at what Bush says narrowly, you can clearly see his narrow concerns.  Certainly typical words and phrases give him away as he talks about the environment, the scuttled Kyoto Agreement on Greenhouse Gases, and G8.  Things go downhill fast.  Highlights mine, lowlights all George.

TONIGHT: Do you accept that climate change is man-made, sir?
PRESIDENT BUSH: To a certain extent it is, obviously. I mean, if fossil fuels create greenhouse gases, we're burning fossil fuel, as is a lot of other countries. You know, look, there was a debate over Kyoto, and I made the decision - as did a lot of other people in this country, by the way - that the Kyoto treaty didn't suit our needs. In other words, the Kyoto treaty would have wrecked our economy, if I can be blunt.

To a certain extent, obviously. Obviously gives away that Bush is caught off guard. That British accent has pulled a concession out of Bush that five years of his Presidency have denied or worse tried to rewrite. 

Everybody gives Bush a pass on having to sound like he actually should make sense, but the next sentence is a death sentence: . I mean, if fossil fuels create greenhouse gases, we're burning fossil fuel, as is a lot of other countries. If?  Bush is calling rewrite again or should. 

By the way is Bush trying to  blur truth with a broad brush.  The last time he said by the way when it mattered was when he said he released all his National Guard Service records which by the way, he did not.

Our economy?   Bush tries to cover by going blunt macho man at the end.  Our economy to George Bush is his economy, the economy of nineteenth century polluter plutocracy more than it is a twenty first century democracy.

If you look at Bush in this light when he says our economy, you realize quite quickly which American economy he seeks to save.

--snip--
TONIGHT: But Mr President, if I may, the predictions about global warming - and I hear what you say - are very dire. The UK's chief scientist says that it probably poses a bigger threat than global terrorism. Isn't it, therefore, irresponsible for you to say, as you've done, that you walked away from Kyoto and you won't order cuts in carbon dioxide emissions because it would damage America's economy?

PRESIDENT BUSH: I walked away from Kyoto because it would damage America's economy, you bet. It would have destroyed our economy. It was a lousy deal for the American economy. I felt there was a better way. And that's why --

TONIGHT [interrupting]: But is that putting American industrial economic interests above the global interests of the environment?

PRESIDENT BUSH: No, I think you can do both. See, I think you can grow your economy and at the same time do a better job of harnessing greenhouse gases. That's exactly what I intend to talk to our partners about. I don't think you can expect any American leader to wreck the economy, nor as an ally and a friend of America and a trading partner of America should you want us to wreck our economy.

On the other hand, what you would want us to do is to use our investment capacity, as well as our research capacity to come up with new ways to power our economy, new ways to energise our economy. And that's precisely what we're doing, and I look forward to sharing those ideas.

Secondly, the Kyoto treaty wouldn't work unless all nations were involved.
--snip--
TONIGHT: They are expecting, many countries are expecting international legal binding agreements on cutting greenhouse gas emissions. Can they expect your support in doing that?

PRESIDENT BUSH: If this looks like Kyoto, the answer is no.

 

One thing Bush's handlers consistently try to avoid is any situation in which Bush can get interrupted. Once Bush gets interrupted he usually goes to stump speech mode, often getting stumped himself.  See?  See is another tip off. See, I think you can grow your economy and at the same time do a better job of harnessing greenhouse gases.

See.  Grow your economy.  Harness greenhouse gases?  A challenge goes out here now to anyone who can make any sense of that sentence at all.  See?  See is the word uses to explain his overarching vision for the world, most memorably last uttered in: See, I'm a war president.  But now you can see something else.  See, the president isn't making any sense.

WHOSE ECONOMY IS IT ANYWAY? Bush paints a dire picture for our economy if we lived by the standards other countries have adopted to protect the world's air, but the truth is certain industrial friends of Bush and his policies benefit, but we do not.  Bush has changed certain Cabinet agency rules without consultation with Congress to benefit his friends high above the dirty air while the rest of us are stuck with a bad bill of health.

Our economy, your economy. Our air, your air.  Our economy is ours, yours is yours.  Our air is our air, but we do not realize it is also yours.

BUSH ANALYSIS OF ENVIRONMENT
Why Kyoto didn't work. I walked away from Kyoto. Why Kyoto doesn't work now. Secondly, the Kyoto treaty wouldn't work unless all nations were involved. Why Kyoto won't  work in future. If this looks like Kyoto, the answer is no.

RELEVANT LINK
[GUARDIAN UK/INTERVIEW SOURCE]
[BBC G8 OVERVIEW]
[BBC G8 EVENT/PROTEST PAGE]
[LIVE 8 LIVE/ONLINE]

Comments

[KathyF]

Today the news here led with "Bush says no quid pro pro with Britain on global warming" meaning just because Tony backs him up in Iraq Bush doesn't feel compelled to answer Tony's pleas to save the world from global warming.

I think Tony needs to say, "If you're not for us you're against us" and then mount a proper invasion.

[Fenria]

LOL, its amazing how talking points oriented Bush is, like a trained dog. It's as if pavlov's bells go off when he sees a reporter and he goes into canned speach mode...and lest you slightly disturb him out of this mode, it becomes clearly evident that he has the I.Q. of a small rodent.

God forbid Bush has to have an original thought or a spontaneous converstation, I think, after much stuttering, his head would burst like an over pressurized balloon.

[Night Bird]

Heretik, brilliant!

And might I add bluntly that bush shall be remembered as the president that cared NOT for his country, but rather for himself and his pnac friends.