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- G e n d e r G a p p e r s T M
DON QUIXBUSHIE
| Bombastic humorist Chris Matthews of Hard
Ball is fond of telling about the great "setup" that occurred
after 9/11 when the Prince Of Thieves visited "ground zero."
Some pre-planted shill in the crowd called out,
"I can't hear you," and the POT, who can hardly speak his native
tongue without cue cards or teleprompter, called back, "I can hear
you."
The media loved it, called it "a defining moment in his presidency," and played it over and over ad nauseum. Try to think when you've seen them play over even once any one of his many scrambled, incoherent sentences. But never mind, now Chris has a new defining moment to extol that was just as carefully set up. Here's how it went. We are told that a 17-year-old figure skater
chose a seat at random to watch the Olympic festivities. It turned out
that Sasha Cohen had chosen the seat that had been reserved for Bush. Just
imagine that! With all the Secret Service personnel and special terrorist
precautions, it just happened a cutie pie had to move her little butt to
make room for the president. But that wasn't all. Sasha just happened to be talking to her mommy on her cell so it just happened to set up a smarmy conversation for Bush with Sasha's mommy. Bush told mommy that her daughter was being a good girl. Then came the hysterical, historic moment as Bush was about to leave. Sasha: "Oh, can't you stay and watch more of the Olympics?" Bush: "No, little lady, I have a war to fight." Can't you just hear the trumpets, the drums and the stomping of the cavalry horses? Buckles all a-swash, Dubya, who's daddy got him a prime position in the Texas National Guard to avoid fighting in Vietnam, swaggered resolutely away. Typical of him, isn't it? While in the National Guard, he swaggered resolutely away AWOL for many months to avoid the drills and the drug testing. "When the boys came out to play, Georgie Porgy ran away." However, this time, he professed to the "little lady" that he had a war to fight and took off for an Oriental tour ready to tilt at the windmills of his mind. He should have said he had wars to start. Before leaving on this trip, Bush had raised still another windmill to tilt at, he presented his own terribly flawed global warming plan in place of the Kyoto Protocols that most of the other countries had accepted. Included in his itinerary was South Korea, adjacent to one of his Axis of Evil countries. No war here, but they think he's trying to start the Korean War up again and they are not amused. He also stopped in Japan and managed to fumble so badly that he adversely affected their stock market. He didn't know the difference between deflation and devaluation -- lots of Japanese would love to make war on him after that. Like the proverbial dirty bird, he tracked around the countries of the Far East fouling America's image and outraging people that were formerly friendly to us. A loose cannon parading as captain of a maniacal Ship of Fools. From the very beginning of their term of office, Cheney/Bush launched a weird kind of voodoo foreign policy. Part John Wayne-go-it alone cowboy, part isolationist and all bogus, it was a departure from the tradition of treating friends and allies with candor and respect. The Bushies show no tact -- only "battletude."
Oh yes indeed. An evil axis does exist. It is entrenched in the power base of the Cheney/Bush administration. While Georgie tilts at windmills and emotes patriotic gibberish, too many in this land still do not feel the heavy weight of the Ashcroft-Cheney-Rove-Rumsfeld steamroller flattening our democracy to a pulp. 2002-008
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As
Bush prances after his mindless windmills of war, a 60s icon, Joan Baez,
is once again on tour to promote her message of peace. We talk "about
the sense of being rolled over by a steamroller, which is passing off as
the government right now," she said. 