Over the past year, what's the longest you have listened to * ?

[burythehatchet]

I just did it for probably almost 90 minutes, well, it might have been more like 5 minutes.

I couldn't take any more.

He is becoming more and more scary to me. Today, a chill ran up my spine when he made certain statements, like this one: "we're going to kill them over there so they can't come and hurt us".
That one statement is, I believe, a window into the national psychosis suffered by 50% of Americans.

Scary and sad.

[amber dog democrat]

1. maybe 3 hours

for the whole year.

I turn down the volume on the car radio when the Chimp squeaks otherwise.
its like nails on a chalk board.

[SSFFMMM]

2. Probably an hour

During his acceptance speech this year.

[speedoo]

3. Maybe 30 seconds.

Every time he starts talking, I look for the remote and switch channels.

If I know he's about to speak, I "pre-emptively" switch.

Cumulative listening time, maybe 5 minutes. Plus what he says in the anti-coWard ads that we are seeing more of every day.

Everything about the man disgusts me. The whiny voice, the phony accent, the immature smirk. And of course the content of his idiotic remarks.

[tom_paine]

4. 15 seconds.

If I want to hear that bullshit, I'll go and pull out old tapes of Ferdinand Marcos speeches.

[burythehatchet]

13. if you are a historian these times must be especially frustrating

[tom_paine]

17. As frustrating as the Nazi or Soviet Eras, though less violent

(lucky us)

Of course, I am not a professional historian, though that would be a very cool profession.

We now live in a nation which is ewssentially a tissue of lies, in which the Tyrannical Rulers lie about almost 100% of things, something I thought was not possible in America.

But it IS EASY in Amerika.

[Commendatori]

5. Depends on how long those Letterman clips are

I read the SOTU in the paper the next day, and couldn't stomach the convention after listening to Zell.

[Xenus Sister]

6. Daily Show/Countdown snippets

That's all I can stand.

[sinkingfeeling]

7. About 15 seconds live and the clips in F-911! n/t

[ihaveaquestion]

8. Almost an hour

I forced myself to watch his inaugural blather - didn't make it to the end though - blech!

[Doomsayer13]

9. 1 hour 15 min - state of the union

[napi21]

10. Almost NONE!

I tried to convince myself that I had to listen to what the pubs were saying because you have to know what your enemy is doing, but I can't! I scream at my TV more with him than I do when Pro Football is on!!!

[RubyDuby in GA]

11. State of the Union

After I was allowed to watch it this year (had to promise not to stroke out - last year I was yelling at the tv so loudly that boyfriend walked out the front door without me seeing and we to the street in front of the house. He could hear me yelling from a considerable distance).

I watched this year, but paced the whole time with my hand over my mouth.

Once a year is all I can take of him.

[flordehinojos]

12. MORE SCARY TO ME, IS A STATEMENT * MADE A LONG TIME AGO

something to the effect that, "I, (Shrub), understand the nature of killers" ... that is a scary statement to me because I feel that in saying it, Bush must IDENTIFY with the nature of killers. As far as I am concerned there is nothing that makes me understand the nature of a killer. I can understand some are poor, I can understand some are angry, I can understand their condition in lives makes them all too unhappy but I cannot understand the nature of why they kill. Bush says he does.

[burythehatchet]

14. Excellent

Along those lines, I had a thought. Remember Karla Faye Tucker? When Bush mocked her and her death sentense appeal, he was revealing something about himself. As we know, bushtail has been born a second time. When he mocked her appeal on the basis of her being born again, he was actually revealing that his religious convictions are a fraud.

How could a born again christian governer not be sensitive to another person's religious experience?

[flordehinojos]

18. wow! The Kerry Campaign should pick up your line of thought and make it an

issue in the campaign. It is powerful!
:yourock:

[burythehatchet]

19. Thanks but I think the Kerry campaign has more than enough ammo

what they're lacking is the ability to control the news cycle. The main reason why Bush is ahead is because they control the news. But right now they've got a tiger by the tail in Iraq. You play with fire you gonna get burned.

[ObaMania]

15. I'm embarassed to say...

.. every stinkin' speech. And I do mean stinkin'. As well as every stumbling, bumbling moment that an edited version found it's way onto the conservative 24/7 media outlets. Oh, and on CSPAN.

:puke:

[burythehatchet]

20. I'll bite.....why? n/t

[ObaMania]

21. Because...

.. I think if you are going to engage in any thoughtful debates what a friggin' moran he is, you pretty much have to be on top of all the idiotic statements he makes as well as lies and promises unkept. Usually the 24/7 and local news waters it down and makes him look literate and like a strong leader... which is pretty much what the "other" guy sees. I need facts, statements, etc.. to be able to shoot their arguments down.

Plus, sometimes it's very entertaining to watch him and the hand picked sheeple in the audience.

[A Brand New World]

16. No longer than it takes to grab the remote

I don't listen to him, or to any of his ads. The remotes get quite a work out. Cannot stand that smirky, smarmy face and voice.

[in_cog_ni_to]

22. Almost...never.

I did listen to the ONE press conference because it was the one where only INVITED journalists would ask KKKRove questions given to them prior to the press conference. I just had to see how it all went down. He called the journalists "in order" from his little list and had the answers written, "in order" for him by his handlers. It was truly pathetic.

I NEVER watch him. If he's on, I switch the channel. I hate the sound of his voice. I hate his fake accent. I hate the way he walks. I hate the way he talks. I hate everything about that man.

[burythehatchet]

25. Ah yes, that one was the classic answer to the question

of whether he could recall ANY mistakes he had made. That one made me squirm in embarassment.

[Zell in Hell]

23. Depends...

With Mike Malloy commentary: Entire addresses

Without Malloy: A few minutes

[DBoon]

24. As long as it takes to turn the radio off

10 seconds at most.

[kaitykaity]

26. I listened to the whole Sept 20 '01 speech.

Other than that, I can barely stand the clips
they play in news reports.

I did listen to the 2004 SOTU, but only because
Malloy was providing a running commentary on all of
the bullshit.

[proud patriot]

27. Totally or individual stints ?

Perhaps around 3 hours total , I watch the SOTU speech,
that's the longest ..Usually it's a race to the remote
unless he's taking questions from the WH press core ,
I will watch those simply waiting for him to lose it .

[burythehatchet]

28. its almost a disappointment when he pulls off a complex phrase

kinda like going to car races to watch the accidents.

This experience where I tried to stomach him for like 5 or 10 minutes was tough because the more I understand the nature of this man the more frightful I feel about our future.

[qanda]

29. About 30 minutes or so

When he addressed the minority journalists. It was better than watching an episode of The Daily Show-- pure comedy!