Accidental disclosure of Comical Bush Notes

[troublemaker]

This is wrong in so many ways... here's a pool photo from Bush's fake cabinet meeting press event yesterday.

Someone wrote to Atrios ( http://atrios.blogspot.com/2004_06_13_atrios_archive.html#108752163595772810 ) pointing out that when blown up you can read, on the right-hand page, the list of reporters Bush plans to call on. That's interesting in its way, showing how "surprise free" these events are for Bush. Even the most seemingly spontaneous interactions with the press are as scripted as possible.

But the list of reporters is hardly the headline here. Look at the left-hand page. The first few lines written really BIG across the page say this:

SADDAM WAS A THREAT

SWORN ENEMY OF THE U.S.

DESTABILIZING FORCE IN VOLATILE PART OF WORLD

I understand that talking points are simple by design, but this is a bit much. Bush needs a cheat sheet to remember to say things like 'Saddam was a threat.' We're not talking about the tricky pronunciation of a foreign leaders name... this is a simplistic line of "argument by assertion" that Bush has been regurgitating hourly for almost three years now, and he still has to have it written in front of him.

It's worth noting that Lincoln's Gettysburg Address was written on a smaller piece of paper than Bush's 'Saddam was a threat' cheat sheet. But then again, Abe Lincoln couldn't peel a banana with his toes.

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on edit: Changed headline "disturbing" to "comical"... "disturbing" was too sensationalistic.

Here's the list of reporters as decoded by DUer MERLIN:

Barbara Reichman (AP)
David Morgan (Reuters)
Roger Runningen (Bloomberg)
John Roberts (CBS News)
Bob Hillman (Dallas Morning News)
Ann Compton (ABC News)

More on this topic: (TacticalPeak's original thread from last night)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1809302#1810881