LOL - Rachel Maddow called Chimpy's codpiece

[CatWoman]

his "little weapon of mass destruction"

:rofl:

[AlCzervik]

1. and she called out Tweety for drooling over ---it---.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

7. Bad tweety, bad bady tweety..... hooboy..... n/t

[WCGreen]

2. Mass distraction would be more like it...

But that is funny....

[TahitiNut]

3. More like his "little weapon of mass distraction"

Absolutely everyone was focused on the turd's crotch ... and still are. Led by Little Head Cheerleader Coulter.

[DURHAM D]

4. She called out Tweety about the manliness hype and Tweety

having Ann Coulter that night on his show to have a circle jerk.

KO responded with a joke about post traumatic stress syndrome in reference to Tweety.

[napi21]

5. I have to admit, THAT was the first thing that caught my eye as being

completely false and a damn show! Tuns out I was right! What an AH for deliberately doing such attempted drama!

[lapfog_1]

6. She shouldn't have said that the crew was dressed to

color coordinate or something (especially while the clip is playing of him greeting the deck crew).

The fight deck crew (and the hanger deck crew) are all dressed in standard bright mono color outfits that immediately indicate what their function is on the ship... nothing special their for bush other than the "honor guard" they formed to greet him... which is also likely standard procedure for any visiting VIP, especially the CinC.

However, as Keith pointed out, the whole rest of the photo op was bogus.

[CatWoman]

8. yeah, I caught that

it's obvious that she's not up on naval SOP.

[Captain Hilts]

13. Let's see, yellow is directions, purple is fuel, red is ordnance, I can't remember. Help me. nt

[lapfog_1]

17. here ya go

just in case you are ever wandering around an aircraft carrier flight deck...

http://www.safetycenter.navy.mil/MEDIA/downloads/FlghtDckAware_CV_03.pdf

[Captain Hilts]

18. Can you tell I'm a submariner's kid? I didn't do too badly...nt

[Rob H.]

9. Actually, she's right about that

From Joe Conason on Salon, October 28, 2003 (emphasis added):

"I know {the banner} was attributed somehow to some ingenious advance man from my staff," said Bush. "They weren't that ingenious, by the way." Heh heh. Over at John Kerry's headquarters, the rapid response team quickly fired off a rebuke to Bush, scolding him for trying to "blame" the sailors for the sign. The Kerry press release includes this paragraph from Elizabeth Bumiller's report on White House image-making in the New York Times May 16:

"The most elaborate -- and criticized -- White House event so far was Mr. Bush's speech aboard the Abraham Lincoln announcing the end of major combat in Iraq. White House officials say that a variety of people, including the president, came up with the idea, and that {White House communications deputy Scott} Sforza embedded himself on the carrier to make preparations days before Mr. Bush's landing in a flight suit and his early evening speech. Media strategists noted afterward that Mr. Sforza and his aides had choreographed every aspect of the event, even down to the members of the Lincoln crew arrayed in coordinated shirt colors over Mr. Bush's right shoulder and the "Mission Accomplished" banner placed to perfectly capture the president and the celebratory two words in a single shot."

There's nothing surprising about this cheap little lie. The entitled always blame the enlisted. It's the American aristocratic way.

[Berry Cool]

11. Yeah, it wasn't the color of their shirts per se that was bogus.

It was the way they were arranged behind him, so you had all the colors scattered out evenly through the group of crew members. You didn't see two guys in the same color shirt standing together. There was a pattern to the way the crew was arranged so the shirt colors were distributed evenly throughout the group of them as they stood behind him.

[lapfog_1]

12. I'm sure she IS right... but the video clip they played when

she made the remark showed bush with the "rainbows" (shooters and the fuel guys and the fire control, etc). so the remark seemed off. If I picked up on that visual juxtaposition then the wingnuts will too.

[Tanuki]

14. I thought the teletubbies were on hand to greet him!

[Poiuyt]

15. Here:

[Beausoir]

10. ROFL! Hilarious. n/t

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

16. KO says: "May 1, 2003 -- a day that will live in bogusness."

:rofl: