Jerry Springer has never seen Dubya holding hands with an Arab.

[Cyrano]

This morning, I heard Springer going on about George II holding the hand of Saudi prince Abdullah. Evidently, Jerry has never seen photos that have been posted on DU over the years of Dubya holding hands with various members of the Saudi family. It's a cultural thing.

I really never cared whose hand he held, but I do care about the price of oil. And my guess is that their discussions concerned how they could screw us more than they're currently screwing us to the profit of the Saudi and Bush families, not to mention Cheney's profits via Halliburton.

Wake up, Mr. Springer. It's not their holding hands that matters. It's their having us by the short hairs that pisses me off. That, and the fact that most of the American public just doesn't seem to understand who it is that's fucking us.

[tanyev]

1. I was surprised at how big a deal it seems to have been.

I saw at least 2 network news features chuckling about it and then very reassuringly telling me that it is very common in the Middle East, etc. I heard that several of the late night talk show hosts pounced upon it, too.

Just goes to show how much farther television reaches than a book like House of Bush, House of Saud which came out a couple years ago and features several similar pictures. I say good. It's old news to us at DU, but if it's one more thing to make Joe Couch Potato sit up and go WTF?, it's all for the good.

[ComerPerro]

4. Yeah, but you mentioned that the Networks are defending it

As normal, Standard-Operating-Procedure.

So, maybe Joe Couch Potato won't wake up...

[Cyrano]

5. Good point, tanyev.

However, the point is that Jerry Springer focused on that and not that the Bush family has, for years, been in bed with Saudis.

Randi Rhodes has covered this many times,and we must therefore assume that Jerry Springer is as much an imbecile as he appears to be on his "trailer park trash" TV show.

Then again, maybe you're right. If that's what it takes to get through to Joe Couch Potato, WTF. Nonetheless, do we really want a country where the standard for intelligence/awareness/enlightenment are set by Joe Couch Potato?

Never mind. That was a rhetorical question. It's obviously the country in which we live. And that's on a good day.

[0007]

2. FDR, Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton were never ever seen

holding hands with a Saudi.

Jerry Springer is wide a wake and doing a jam up job getting the word out. America does understand that the oil giants of the world have us by the short hair.

junior and his oil friend buddies are porking you man! And its time you wake up!!

[ComerPerro]

3. And the fact that most of the hijackers were Saudi

that should be a cause for alarm, I would think

[tyedyeto]

6. They were?

I thought Saddam was responsible... :sarcasm:

[ComerPerro]

9. Oh, my bad. It was Saddam, after all

[AzDar]

7. I was wondering...Is W the first pResident to be shown holding hands

with a Saudi?

[seabeyond]

8. remember tide into cnn during the election

and how he stepped into our election. supporting bush and his lie,deception, corruption and they werent called on it. just another gonna put a buncj of bullshit in your face, and you all are going to be too stupid to feel, smell or see it to call bush on this

f*in game. we know what the saudi's are all about. i dont respect nor trust the man, but i am suppose to honor the handholding, because it is middle east practice