Why Does Bush Have Audiences

[erpowers]

Why does President Bush have any audiences left to which he can speak? Should not have all the people that were at the Hertiage Foundation yesterday been too busy to be at the speech? Considering that they were supposed to be at recuriting stations to join the military and at the State Department signing up to go to Iraq shouldn't there day have been full.

[jamesinca]

1. Bush has audiences because they were assembled

They were assembled because a certain person named Roger Ailes realized that hand picked audiences helped a certain President Nixon have appeal. President Nixon became popular enough to win a second term because hand picked audiences that put him over the 50% mark.

Other than that, all of the people at AEI should be signed up and in Iraq. But Mittens Romney gave the reason why when it came to his own children: they are defending America here at home by helping him run for president.

[Rockholm]

2. Is this a trick question?

[BrklynLib at work]

3. ...to get to the other side?

[havocmom]

4. People as props and propaganda

Seems like bush just speaking into the camera ends up with deer in headlights look and that doesn't sell anything.

Get a vetted, and frequently 'under orders', crowd for him to prance in front of and he comes off better, relatively speaking. He has to have someone besides the camera and the handlers he seems afraid of to preform for.

As to whether the audiences should be doing something more important: Yep, but they have to sell their boy so they invest the time of others to that end. The police that end up doing traffic and security in cities where he speechifies have MUCH better things to do too. The taxpayers in the cities have better things to pay for. All is for the glory of the propaganda with the PNACers. Without the propaganda, they got nuttin.

[AndyA]

5. You're right - it's all propaganda.

From the news media, to newspaper and magazine editorials, to carefully staged "public events", it's all just a bunch of propaganda. America sees and hears what it's supposed to see and hear. Nothing more.

It's a shame that the Bush Administration has to go to these efforts for Idiot to speak, but when you do indeed have an *IDIOT* at the helm, anything less would be reckless on their part.