Rachel Maddow Show: Matt Taibbi on the Bush Legacy
Looks like the Bush legacy tour has finally ended, thank goodness. Rachel reminds us that despite all of their spin over the last few weeks the P.R. blitz hasn't worked out so well for them. Bush's poll numbers are still in the tank despite their best efforts.
Matt Taibbi gives his views on how Bush will be remembered as well and they discuss his latest article published at Rolling Stone: Bush Apologizes: The Farewell Interview We Wish He'd Give.
Matt Taibbi is one of my favorite guests on Real Time with Bill Maher and he's an equal opportunity abuser at Rolling Stone and on Real Time which probably has a lot to do with why I like him so much. He doesn't pull any punches when it comes to pointing out the follies of our political class regardless of party.
His book The Great Derangement just came out in paperback.
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I have two of his books. "The Great Derangement" and "Smells Like Dead Elephants". I love his writing! He cuts no one any slack.
Vanity Fair has a great article, "Farewell to All That: An Oral History of the Bush White House". It's long but once you get started you can't stop reading. Some of the stuff you already know, but there's an awful lot you don't.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Eight years? Feels more like 800 years. I can't believe I survived it.
I love we "progressives". Bush is about to
go awayremain in the shadow of, the country he has, for all practical considerations, ruined. Matt Taibbi, though entertaining, still misses the mark on this score. The nightmare is just beginning. Americans are still in deep sleep and living in a vivid nightmare, you know, one of those dreams where you want to run, but your feet feel like they're stuck in 2 feet of mud.I think we can't underestimate the psychological lift of waking up the morning of January 21, 2009 to the realization that Bush is no longer in the White House.
Thank goodness the dark Bush years are almost over. I'll be drinking wine Tuesday in celebration.
Is it the 21st century yet?
You need an excuse?
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To the end of darkness as we have known it for the past 8 years! A toast to Barack Obama, may he indeed look backward so as to know how to veer from the deadly neocon doctrine that has been laid as the future they would have us endure. May he also know that his bipartisan hand is being offered to rabid dogs. May we avoid a new darkness and enter a new paradigm of awareness and shine brightly our light upon truth, no matter the discomfort and pain it may cause. To a new day!
(OK - so I offer several toasts - you pick the one you like the best)
The pr blitz wasn't intended to change his current poll numbers, but just to get various statements on the record so he can be judged favorably by history. Unfortunately given the internet there will be far too much contradictory evidence.
Future Historian A: Ahh, look here, according to the presidential archives, and recordings from mainstream news outlets, apparently, this President Bush kept America safe.
Future Historian B: Yes, my learned but gullible colleague, see here, it appears also, despite his statements, the greatest terrorist attack on American soil, at the time, occurred during his presidency.
Future Historian A: How odd he would claim to have kept the country safe!
Future Historian B: Also, note the historical global record and you'll see the man was reviled as a war criminal and was detested by his own people.
Future Historian A: I am ashamed.
Future Historian B: For the record let us merely say he was a president so corrupt, incompetent and worthless his only real legacy was that his disastrous leadership led the country, in its disgust over his performance to finally begin to overcome its legacy of racism and elect a black president.
The internet tubes are a wonderful thing. The Bush Legacy Tour will not be able top whitewash his record with the MSM's help. There are too many of us who read and teach with the help of our keyboards. Reality comes at the speed of light these days and the Republicans don't understand it. We can talk and commiserate and inform so fast that it makes their head spin. Carl Rove could never get Bush elected again. Hopefully he can never slime the likes of Max Cleland ever again. We have the internet tubes and we have learned how to use them. Yippie
Not for long if people can't afford it.
Doesn't matter if its around or not. The data still will be.
but who's gonna see it?
Thats what they do.
I made this poster to commemorate jr's legacy;
http://img131.imageshack.us/img131/8922/legac...
I think it captures his most significant acomplishments.
When angry, count four, when very angry, swear.
-Mark Twain-
Excellent job!
Awesome!
NOBODY 2012
It surprised the heck out of me when Keith Olbermann, did indeed, actually read the one comment from Wilkerson about 'preparing' Condi Rice for the 'testimony' for the 9/11 Whitewash....in the '8 Minutes coverage of the 8 Years of Bush' segment.
Too bad that couldn't have been on earlier in the week when perhaps it would have been repeated on ..... oh, forget it. We know better. But that Vanity Fair issue is due out the first part of February.
Maybe then, some of those 'news-worthy' comment will be noticed.
we'll see.
Wilkerson, not Scowcroft. Good grief, and I have it right in my notes already!
sheesh.
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essentially many of our finest democratic leaders endorsed him as well with their unquestioning support and lawless disregard for past crimes.
here's to looking forward towards the memory hole.
Funny thing, we keep getting daily at least one pro-boosh letter a day in the editorials of the Dallas Morning Nudes, and despite the name that signs it, they all seem to be written by the same person, using the same arguments in the same order, especially, we haven't been attacked since 9-11.
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that there have been more than four major attacks attributed to "Al Queada" on our allies on the war on terror, Britain, Australia, Spain, India.
Bush stated that we're united in the war on terror in a global coalition.
United we stand, divided we fall.
Despite Bush's valiant effort, al-queda has regrouped and is stronger than ever. Lets not forget the taliban, they've regrouped as well.
Has anyone ever stopped to think that maybe the reason we haven't been attacked since 9-11, is because of OBL's bad health? Maybe they just simply aren't planning terrorist attacks at such large scale, while they wait and see if OBL gives up the ghost.
I wonder what kind of resultant power struggle within would follow?
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Has anybody stopped to think that maybe OBL did NOT plan 9/11?
Better late than never to see the truth about Bush and the obstructionist GOP in the main stream media!
Matt Taibbi hit it out of the park especially pointing out Bush's severe psychological problems. It's very clear that all George W. ever wanted to hear was he did something right for a change, especially from his dad. Instead all he ever heard was, "George you moron, why can't you do anything right like your smart brother Jeb?"
1. I helped to strip the remaining wealth from the middle class by endlessly dumping money into every major financial company that claimed it desired more money. The most recent 1.8 trillion to Bank of America should lift their stock back above the .10 cent mark.
2. I laughed in the faces of others who asked that I hold the prior president accountable for intentional slaughter and torture. I pointed up and said "Look! Up in the sky! Its the future!
3. I delegated Iran to Hillary and our AIPAC dogs and she crammed a nuke so far up that country's ass that India and China won't have to pay for heating for a few years.
The Economist on the Bush Legacy http://www.economist.com/printedition/display...
When you're a conservative and The Economist nails you that can't be good.
So what if we were not attacked after 911, we were attacked on Bush's watch. So even in national security he was a miserable failure. Furthermore if one actually believes Bush kept us safe after 911, safe how? He protected us from Bin Laden so he could run America in the ground himself? With protection like that, who needs be concerned with Al-Queda?
I fully support the fact that he won't be in the White House in 3 days.
Bush moving out and Obama moving in.
That would be a fun real-time video to watch on-line.
"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn
They had his number real early
Some stuff you can't make up!
"Bush's poll numbers are still in the tank despite their best efforts."
Try as they did to sugar coat their shit, people still realized it was shit.
He'll always be remembered as the worst president ever and a war criminal. He earned it.
Is it the 21st century yet?
Bush Apologizes: The Farewell Interview We Wish He'd Give:
W. comes clean - on his dad, Condi's farts and the time Dick waterboarded the house boy
Some stuff you can't make up!
Can you say Tabibi babbles Biblically real fast ten times?
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He's one of those "journalists" whose approach to any assertion that 9/11 is not what Bushco wants it to be is "Lalalalalalalalala! I can't hear you! I can't hear you!" When he finally was pinned down to a debate on 9/11 with David Ray Griffin--well, read it for yourselves.
http://www.alternet.org/story/100688/the_ultimate_9_11_'truth'_showdown:_david_ray_griffin_vs._matt_taibbi/
Taibbi's not a journalist. At best, he's an entertainer.
You did not inherit a recession, you lying little piss-ant. And that wouldn't be an excuse for ending on one. Fuck off.
And no, Matt, we do not have to give him credit for America not getting attacked again. They didn't attack you again because they got what they wanted. It couldn't have gone better for them.
I will be so glad to be able to watch our president speak without saying "Shut up...oh, shut up...go away, you stupid !@#$%" the entire time he's on, like I just did with the sickening bush clips in this video.
Did Matt ever correct his statement about the Plastic Turkey.
MATT TAIBBI: It was a plastic turkey.
AMY GOODMAN: Was it actually plastic?
MATT TAIBBI: Yes. Apparently it was a plastic turkey.
AMY GOODMAN: It was plastic?
MATT TAIBBI: Yes. That was actually reported in the -- in another part of The Nation, in the daily outrage column online. But, yeah it was a plastic turkey, apparently. Which is even funnier. The famous shot where he's holding the big turkey, apparently that's a plastic turkey.
Here is the NY Times correction
An article last Sunday about surprises in politics referred incorrectly to the turkey carried by President Bush during his unannounced visit to American troops in Baghdad over Thanksgiving. It was real, not fake.
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