George W. Bush on 9/11: "But the day ended on a relatively humorous note."

Ladies Home Journal:

Peggy Noonan (the interviewer): You were separated on September 11th. What was it like when you saw each other again?

Laura Bush: Well, we just hugged. I think there was a certain amount of security in being with each other than being apart.

George W. Bush: But the day ended on a relatively humorous note. The agents said, “you’ll be sleeping downstairs. Washington’s still a dangerous place.” And I said no, I can’t sleep down there, the bed didn’t look comfortable. I was really tired, Laura was tired, we like our own bed. We like our own routine. You know, kind of a nester. I knew I had to deal with the issue the next day and provide strength and comfort to the country, and so I needed rest in order to be mentally prepared. So I told the agent we’re going upstairs, and he reluctantly said okay. Laura wears contacts, and she was sound asleep. Barney was there. And the agent comes running up and says, “We’re under attack. We need you downstairs,” and so there we go. I’m in my running shorts and my T-shirt, and I’m barefooted. Got the dog in one hand, Laura had a cat, I’m holding Laura —

Laura Bush: I don’t have my contacts in , and I’m in my fuzzy house slippers —

George W. Bush: And this guy’s out of breath, and we’re heading straight down to the basement because there’s an incoming unidentified airplane, which is coming toward the White House. Then the guy says it’s a friendly airplane. And we hustle all the way back up stairs and go to bed.

Mrs. Bush: And we just lay there thinking about the way we must have looked.

Peggy Noonan (interviewer): So the day starts in tragedy and ends in Marx Brothers.

George W. Bush: That’s right — we got a laugh out of it.



NEVER FORGET THIS.
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you do.

he won't let me down in that and he never does.

Just when you think, 'this is the pinnacle of Bush stupidity, this is the apex'; he just goes and adds a few dozen tons of rock!

He's just such a kidder, you know?

You never know when to take him seriously.

Are we going to war with Iran? Ha! That'll be a lot of fun to find out!

month and year?

Although it would have come out in Sept '03.

U crack me up.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/12/2001122...

Re "It's been a fabulous year for Laura and me."

The Patriot Act's been passed, his war plans are going great and he's well on his way to becoming a dictator! What's not to like?

bush saying he had to be mentally prepared??? he is more like mentally unprepared. What a jerk he is.

up the airplane bunk to George HW soon after his open heart surgery.

Not to mention how "comfortable" were the injured people who'd escaped from the Twin Towers that night?

It's always "me, me, me" with Dubya, no matter what the crisis.

"And we just lay there thinking about the way we must have looked."


Utter utter scum.

Nice to see he had his priorities in order.

Would have been nice for him to be in the "war room" trying to figure out what happened and what to do next.... oops! Silly me... He already knew what happened and what he was going to do next. Probably slept like a baby. Everything went as planned and/or expected.

While the rest of the country was in tears watching 24 hour news, * was worried about being "comfortable" and having a good laugh.

know anyone directly involved. What kind of people are they? The bed didn't look comfortable!!!

Colin Powell said so. He said "everybody" takes it.

I'll bet a lot of others couldn't sleep either.

that was funny too, right jr?

They seem to like a good laugh.

Condi said to the faces of the 9/11 widows that it was historical information.

What a laugh. That was a humerous note if I ever saw one.

"It didn't take seeing that Daily Brief to know bin Laden wanted to attack us." Condi Rice, testimony before the 9/11 Commission.
So that makes you Double Dumb Fucks for ignoring the reminder, eh? What diploma mill did that dweeb get her doctorate from, anyway?

rusty egg beater buried in some old guy's back yard too. Condi made connections at Stanford, I guess that's the best you can say about her.

Her mentor was the same guy who mentored Madeleine "It was worth it" Albright.

The one that included "bring 'em on"

What a total piece of shit.

Bush allowed himself to be protected, managed, and whisked out of sight on Sep 11. All day. Never once thinking that it was his job to show his face, take control, and provide leadership. I was absolutely appalled at the time.

Now it turns out that the one time on Sep 11 he stood up to his handlers and insisted on living dangerously was because the bed looked uncomfortable. God.

So maybe they couldn't put together an emergency TV message live from AF1 (although this is the administration that spends millions of dollars on staged photo-ops so you 'd think they could at least put some of that communications expertise to work). But even the sound of a President's voice could have helped calm people down and reassure the nation that the world wasn't coming to an end. I remember how upset people were at DU, as the hours dragged by and Bush showed no signs of emerging from his hidey-hole.

I watched that sorry attempt at propaganda (the White House-endorsed "DC 9/11" movie) where they tried to convince us that Bush got mad at being whisked away. It ended up looking like an ineffectual hissy fit ... if he were really in charge, they'd have listened to him! So either he wasn't in charge ... or he is lying about his reaction that day, and never wanted to be out there leading the country.

And to think I even worried about whether he was okay.

I love that Rumsfeld is reading crap at his desk all bored that morning then the Pentagon is HIT, and next we see RUMMY RUNNING along side a guy on a stretcher and HE'S HOLDING THE IV BAG! It's not like he had anything to do that morning..

But the best was, in the AF1 when someone, I think it was ARI comes rushing into the pRez's "office" and says, "Sir, there's a Plane that could be considered a Threat.."

Bush jumps up and says, "Is it a Credible Threat?"

I was on the FLOOR laughing, so goddamn phony..

Don't forget that IN that movie Cheney ORDERS FLIGHT93 SHOT DOWN, and I bet you haven't see that anywhere else since.. remember the guy that made that movie was a right winger and they even used CANADIAN money to Make the film, that's what kind of Cheating shits they are..

It really is a Funny movie, as it's SHEER proganda, and on such a trailer park mentality.. they even used the guy that was the Bush in "That's My Bush" created by the South Park guys, so the whole movie I'm waiting for this guy to act like a comedian..

I have to get another copy of that film, gave the one I video taped to a friend and never got it back, it's freakin HILARIOUS! (Considering the circumstances)

It really is a Funny movie, as it's SHEER proganda, and on such a trailer park mentality.. they even used the guy that was the Bush in "That's My Bush" created by the South Park guys, so the whole movie I'm waiting for this guy to act like a comedian..

OMG, that sounds absolutely hilarious! Where can we get this? It's a must-see, in my book.

I hadn't even heard about it.

Trailer park mentality propaganda. OMG!!




Cher

... on the DVD! (Only, don't do it on a full stomach.) If anything, it's even better than a "Mystery Science Theatre 3000" critique.

The filmmakers are so pro-Bush I thought that they were doing a satire like Stephen Colbert ... but it turned out that they were SERIOUS. They spend the whole film just patting each other on the back for how clever they are. But they were so eager to make Bush appear godlike that it actually got in the way of a sympathetic portrayal -- and they didn't even realize that. So much for their Hollywood credentials ... one would think that they would at least have some rudimentary skills in storytelling and how to create sympathetic characters. Evidently not.

DC 9/11 isn't even decent propaganda, it's so poorly done. "Casablanca" is proof that you can have a propaganda-ish flick which is also excellent on its own merits. About the only story that would seem halfway plausible and appealing would have Bush starting out as a doofus but maturing (that old Hollywood standby) ... but heaven forfend them showing flaws in their hero. So the character starts out as a plaster icon and has no place to go from there.

Suffice it to say that their version of "drama" has Bush uncapping a Sharpie marker with his teeth, to show how firm and decisive he is. And the scene where he is all fatherly and reassuring towards a nervous and indecisive Cheney! Has to be seen to be believed.

And you're absolutely right -- they did make the film in Canada, getting tax credits from my home province to do so.

I ended up feeling sorry for Timothy Bottoms. He seemed uncomfortable on the commentary track, with all the Bush adulation from the filmmakers. He ended up talking about the itchy rash that afflicted him (I swear I'm not making this up) during the shoot. Maybe that accounts for the strained look on his character's face? By the way, some of my friends in the Santa Barbara area say that his whole family are big-time Dems who are active in the local party ... so I'm not blaming him for either taking the role or having it turn out to be such a fiasco. Not his fault that the filmmakers gave him such ludicrous lines ... or subbed in footage of the actual Bush at crucial points, destroying his character portrayal.

The whole thing reminded me of that "Red Dwarf" episode where the egotistical Rimmer makes a film about his life ... and his friends are totally shocked at how contrived his version of reality is.

Coming toward the White House? I'm confused. Not only did they have all aircraft grounded by that time, how in the hell does an airplane head toward the White House on that day?

Oh well, either way, they just crack me up.

out of the coutry since all planes were grounded.

The military controllers had to know where they were so the fighters wouldn't shoot them down. I don't get that at all... I think they made this whole story up as a 'good human interest story on the Prez' for the LHJ...

all aircraft in U.S. airspace had been grounded and/or accounted for by about 11:00-12:00 noon that day.

I live outside D.C. and the fighter jets were buzzing the city all night long.

This is complete bullshit, the entire story.

You know...one of those planes that carried his so called enemies out of the country via his special orders!

If I wasn't MIHOP before I am now--*the bed looked uncomfortable*

This F-er should be tarred and feathered.

A really funny story to tell the grandkids someday.

I remember not being able to sleep AT ALL on 9/11.

The Bushes are sick people.

friggin routine would be affected would be on that night. I am just struck dumb.

I'm Canadian and I stayed at work till 4 a.m. activating several hundred satellite phones on 911 so they could be driven down to NYC. I was so devastated at what happened that I was thrilled to have an opportunity to do one small thing to help and I wouldn't have been able to sleep even if I had gone home.

That bush would simply want to keep his routine and laugh about his appearance is beyond the pale.

Jesus Christ this is an unbelievable article.

Pickles in her PJ's with a cat in hand being whisked to the bunker, Chimp with Barney and a smirk. I swear to Christ. . .

FUKIN DYING IN THE RUBBLE.

that's why they didn't find lots of whole corpses. or survivors.

and the Pentagon across the street was still smoking, and this guy's laughing with a cat on his lap, about to nod off.

And I don't believe she had a decent sleep for weeks afterwards. She is furious at Bush because the airline people knew something was up, as early as August ... and knowing that Bush had been given the information but ignored it because he was on holiday is VERY frustrating and disappointing to her.

I've heard of "black humor" being used to alleviate stress, but Bush's comments suggest he was under NO stress at all and didn't understand the seriousness of what was going on (or that he was at the very least partly responsible for how chaotic things were). Imagine, joking about "there's one terrible pilot" as a plane crashed into the WTC ... or even thinking, in subsequent months, that people would find his remark funny.

rolling on the floor
dumb is as dumb does

the floor....because I'm thinking the same thing.....this is supposed to be funny? This ain't even funny.

There was nothing effin' "humorous" that day, not even by what any of us was wearing to bed that night, for cripe's sake! I can remember holding my Chihuahua in bed, praying, with my eyes wide open, feeling angry and helpless. I WASN'T worrying about what I was wearing! This Chimp has got to be the dumbest retard to ever hit the White House!

That bastard. I suppose it didn't bother him to disrupt the routine of every other American.

"The process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalysing event -- like a new Pearl Harbor."
--Project for the New American Century

is that Condi says something very similar in her testimony to the 9/11 Commission.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

"Silliness" and "charm" after conciously leaving the doors wide open for a hideous attack on America.

Sleep well in your familiar, fetid bed steaming with its comforting stench, you freak of human nature.

He lies about everything, what in gods name makes us believe he didn't lie about 9/11?

Thousands of people were killed that day and they continue to only think of themselves. They feel no remorse, no regret and no sense of empathy. All they can worry about is how "stupid" THEY look.

I'm sure FDR was just laughing his ass off the day Pearl Harbor was attacked.

The psychologists at Nuremberg said that the nazi's were monsters. They gave a description as to what a monster was: a person who is unable to feel empathy.

I loath, hate and despise this worthless thing* that is called a human* which is impersonating a president.

moron* - our own Ivan the Terrible.

but that is another discussion huh?

He would have said something as insensitive as "now that's quite the wake-up call!" as the bombs started falling on Pearl Harbor. Or "what a great luau!" as the ships burned.

An absolute, complete, bastard!

The night of September 11th, my wife and I were wide awake in bed, glued to the TV like EVERYONE ELSE IN AMERICA EXCEPT GEORGE BUSH.

I was utterly horrified to realize that when I heard a plane fly overhead that night, it wasn't a routine inbound flight to KBOS or KBED, but it was an F-15 Eagle armed to the teeth there to protect us as best as it could.

And he's there laughing?

to DU!

I remember lying in bed at midnite and the first fighter jet flew over and I freaked out and ran to the window. I remember talking to my husband and saying 'that sounded like a fighter, not a commercial plane, right?'

They did at least 3 flyovers that night. (We lived near Boston at the time.) I actually got out of bed at 4am to go on the back deck and tried to 'look for the plane'. Couldn't see jack, but that's how unnerved I was.

I guess Deciders don't feel that level of insomnia like we normal humans do...

Yeah. A rat-nester.

I remember what I was doing the night after the attacks too. At the time I was living in the UK, where I felt no personal threat...and yet I lay awake most of the night, alternately crying for those lost and worrying helplessly what might happen to my country next. We'd had friends and neighbors by all afternoon and evening and I certainly didn't stop to think about how I looked to them -- somehow I think they probably understood my puffy eyes and weary shell-shocked look!!

I have nothing but contempt and a deep abiding hatred for the Bushes** and their superficial, self-absorbed moments of "humor".

I'd freak out every time I heard one...

My husband was lying there next to me, he was staring at the ceiling. I kept getting up to check on the kids...

Good to see our Decider was hard at work. And that when the Secret Service finally DID do their job, that he promptly blew them off because "the bed didn't look comfortable". You arrogant bastard... "They got a laugh out of it..."

I feel sick.

I live just outside of D.C., less than 10 miles from the Pentagon as the crow flies, I saw the smoldering ruins of the Pentagon on my way home that evening, and I didn't sleep a wink that night, I too had fighter jets buzzing the house all night long.


I was definitely freaked out. I kept seeing those people jumping out of windows in my head over and over again.

Scumbags, both of them.

I'm near Dulles. I normally hear the sounds of the passenger jets as they prepare to take off. The night was unnaturally quiet without those sounds.
The stacked planes normally form "the constellation of Dulles". Those stars did not shine that night nor the following two nights.

A friend who works the gates still had to report for work, even though there were no flights. One of the passengers on one of those non-flights refused to open his briefcase for inspection before boarding the plane. Her super let the man go anyway. Friend suspected the briefcase was full of US currency the man was taking back to Saudi on the non-flight.

lots of those that never made it to the public conscience, eh?

Like you, I remember one of the most eerie things afterwards was the lack of noise from commercial air traffic overhead.

as opposed to the Christian Dior designer sheets on the upstairs bed.

Wonder how he would have slept six nights on a roof in New Orleans? Pity we'll never know.

Edited to include: Or in a ditch on a summer's night in Crawford?

I slept in my Hyundai (all 6'1" of me!) in the lot by the grain silo across from the Peace House...that counts too, right?!!

Ya notice he don't vaca there no mo'.

Something mister bush will never have.

(6'1"...how cool; are you a super model?)

a LOOOONG time ago. Here's one of my proudest days...Camp Casey, last August:

http://thismodernworld.com/1035

Send it to everyone who thinks * is compassionate.

that Tom Tomorrow referenced: http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/message/index.php?mes...

....cold hearted cynical horrid thing I've ever read. Those f...ing a..h... b......s - how could they make light of anything that happened that day??? I knew I loathed and truly and so completely hated that b.....d but until now I didn't realize how much I f...ing hate that thing.

9-11 didn't happen for them at all, did it?

for a human being) has a less than somber tone here as well. Instead of sensing that Mr. and Mrs. Chimp are digging a big hole for themselves with their inane comments and steering the conversation back onto a serious note, she slips in the "Marx Brothers" reference, egging them on further.

There is nothing funny about 9/11 and there is something seriously wrong with all three of these idiots.

Isn't it funny how most Americans went to bed a bundle of frazzled nerves, or devastated emotionally, or couldn't sleep at all that night, but the man who actually was RESPONSIBLE for America's security was focused on those trivialties and whimsies, and slept like a baby?

Of course, I know that's the point of the post, but I like to state the obvious, for the benefit of the dense...

Seomething she's been paid by the GOP for years to do, make up fairy tales.

George and Laura were probably so blind drunk that night, they couldn't see the noses in front of them, contacts or not.

I'm sure he was well-rested on the morning of 9/11, when his "mental preparedness" told him to sit there like a lump when informed that our country was under attack.

This pinhead has never been prepared -- mentally or otherwise -- for anything in his life.

puppeteer$, most of 'em member$ of the BFEE itself, others from think-tanks of complete ignorant$ about everything, except how to defraud the middle-class taxpayers, up to their grandchildren and beyond... and beleive me, thi$ is all they're super-expert$ at).

Typical "Let them eat cake attitude."

They aren't human. They're demonic. They find joy and pleasure in the pain of others. And we wonder why the man loves his wars...

That our president. What a heartless wonder.

I was transfixed by the TV all morning. By lunch, I couldn't stand anymore, so I decided it was best to get to work on my roof, which I happened to be in the middle of replacing during the wonderful stretch of sunny weather. But while on the roof, my minds-eye kept replaying the images from NYC and DC - the explosions, fires, and collapsing buildings. As I nailed-off the plywood sheathing, lemme tell ya, I took out my anger on those nails. I knocked the shit outta every nail I drove that day - as a result, I expect a tornado couldn't budge the roof from my house.

I don't recall laughing or even cracking a smile that entire day...

what a sick son-of-a-bitch! He thinks 9-11 ended on a fucking laugh?

I canNOT believe what I just read. I wrote several different sentences here, then deleted each of them, because none of them could convey the depth of my revulsion and outrage. This is just fucking sick.

Im sure they would have been cracking up if their slut daughters were in there. How reprehensible are these people?

"I knew I had to deal with the issue the next day and provide strength and comfort to the country, and so I needed rest in order to be mentally prepared. "

The last I checked, the wimp was in hiding for three days...

been a "comforter"(he loves to perceive himself as one, why, in God's name, I do not know) ON SEPTEMBER 11!!

And it was BILL CLINTON who went to NYC on SEPTEMBER 12, when AWOL A-HOLE was still "nesting". Which IS what a CHICKEN would do, NO??

up.

Tsunami? 3 days.

Katrina? 3 days.

911? 3 days

What else cuz I KNOW there's more.

wished for "New Pearl Harbor" just in time for him to become the little king Georgie of the world?

little lord pissypants "got a laugh out of it."

I imagine a few psychiatrists could explain what's going here. My family was in shock, got very little sleep and the LAST thing on our minds was how we looked to others....."We just lay there thinking about the way we must have looked". It boggles the mind!

the suffering of others---because they DO NOT RECOGNIZE the autonomous EXISTENCE of others! People are to work and make them and their cronies rich.

That. Is. IT.

the activities of LBJ upon his return to DC the day JFK was assassinated. He spent the evening meeting with and/or calling members of congress, cabinet secretaries, the chief justice, etc. Finally retired to his room at 1:30 where he met his senior aides who remained until 3:00 AM discussing the day's events.

Compare that with bunnypant's recollection - and weep.

Please, God. You're not making it easy for me to believe in You.

The President gets a belly laugh and goes to bed at 11pm.

I've pulled all nighters for a $9/hr bank job. This fucker is running the country and his priority that night is finding a nice place to sleep.

All commercial flights were grounded. CAPs - combat air patrols - were in the air over DC. Maybe the FBI's Cessna 172 was flying around. But that's pretty much it.

Remarkable how his wife just goes right along like the robot she is.

real fuckin funny Shrub.

The only thing I can laugh at about that day is when I had just awoken to those horrible images on TV, after working the night shift and being called from work by my girlfriend, and I heard someone outside my bedroom window walking around my yard. Wild thoughts of a full blown attack on America started going through my head (think of the movie Red Dawn)...I grabbed my shotgun and ran to the front door to have a look.... and it turned out to be the lawncare guys ...That I can now laugh at myself about...I spent the rest of the day glued to the TV, dazed and occasionally crying...and I certainly DID NOT sleep that night.

it was freaking Field Marshall Montgomery, LOST, during Operation Marketgarten.

He took 'em to the attic for the night and scrammed w/ the wife & kids to the neighbors house.

So, Pointblank, you never know...

that is, if wasn't having an outright orgasm at all that delicious death and destruction

for your substantial reporting and analysis.

So much death in so little time. He really. really. really seems to like death. Fascinated by it. Revels in it. Goes out of his way to cause more.

Then makes more jokes about it.

Puhleeeeeze. Maybe he should have gotten off of his ass and stoped reading "My Pet Goat" or, perhaps, he could have found the nerve to get off Airforce One instead of flying all over the country? Strength and Comfort, my ass. The man really is a psycho and to think he would think THAT day ended on a humorous note. I cried for WEEKS after 911 and he found humor in something the very day 3000 citizens died. I have no more words to express how I feel about that rat bastard.

They kept revising the estimate as people made it home on foot.

I swear this goon would laugh at pictures of Auschwitz. "Hey, looky at the funny stripped pajamas."

Actually, I read this article when it first came out. Must have been in some waiting room because I don't ordinarily read LHG or GH or whatever. Tried talking to some folks at the time about it. Like, are these statements of a person with a rational mind? Didn't seem to make an impression. Guess I wasn't using a big enough megaphone.

And what a hard day it was. (It's hard work, you know.)

Reading that book with the hard words to the kids, getting interrupted in the middle. I imagine it was pretty hard to ignore your aide whispering to you while you were trying to read out loud.

Then having to go from one hidey-hole to the next before getting home for the night. I glad they slept well.

Too bad about 3000 Americans never had a chance to go to bed that night, or ever again.

K&R.

... is completely absurd, next to the grief of the people who were lying awake waiting for their loved ones, losing hope that they would ever come home. That girl I know ... she was in bed with the flu, when her husband left for work, and didn't wake up until after the events of that morning. She'd give anything to be able to say goodbye.

been comforting the nation, not wondering about his bed!

The president of the US is President at all times and especially in times of crisis.

"...what a SICK FUCK."


Fucking chickenshit sociopath doing this "Princess and the Pea" bullshit while thousands of frantic rescue workers are looking for buddies and survivors and bodies in the rubble and Manhattan is getting covered in flyers looking for lost loved ones and the whole rest of the country--hell, the world!--is staring at the TV in shock and crying....

And he doesn't even realize it's fucked up! He's bragging about it! Heheheheh, our routine got disrupted and it was funny!

Yeah, tell that to the people who'd give anything to have their spouse or partner sleeping next to them again on a bed of fucking rocks!

unless there was HEAVY sedation??

i know i wasn't able to sleep for the next few days!

The nation, on the other hand, was sleepless for days.

On one of the worst days in the history of my country, Bush laughed.

He's the same turd who thought he hit the trifecta on 9-11.

What comes out of his mouth...

CRAZY MONKEY

That's just sick.

And they tell us we're the ones that have "no respect for human life" (abortion and all that shit)...uh, well I havent heard a liberal (or any sane person) say that 9/11 was FUNNY!

Chimpy=America Hater

K&R

Never mind those whose loved ones had died, but at least they had a chance to love. And it is better to have loved and lost.

No doubt they're meant for each other.

that is one of the most amazing details to me.

Who else in the whole fucking country was in bed at 10PM on 9/11?

No one I know.

There could be only one reason -- because he knew he was safe.

The fact that he was so jovial also indicates that he doesn't have the capacity for empathy.

Put the two together and it appears more like MIHOP than LIHOP, because with the latter there would still be that sense of not knowing -- which I imagine almost everyone else in the US had -- whether there would be further attacks and whether he was in danger. But he was so totally unconcerned he went to bed early.

This goes along with his writing in his diary when he went to bed that night (from Paul Thompson's 9/11 Timeline) that this was a new Pearl Harbor....right out of the playbook of the PNACs.

I couldn't sleep well for days, and felt such horror, heartbreak and grief there's no way I could have laughed and joked around. I don't personally know anyone who didn't react like I did.

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