Tweety sputtering over Bush "reconnecting" with a "bullhorn moment"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

This seems to be his main concern on "Hardball"...

Looking for a "bullhorn moment," asking David Gregory "CAN HE DO THAT TONIGHT?"

Gregory, looking a little befuddled, replying "Well, Chris, I don;t know if he can do that TONIGHT, and I don't know if the White House EXPECTS him to...this just begins the process."

[WI_DEM]

1. how he has gotten so much mileage out of picking up a bullhorn

is beyond me. I once spoke into a bullhorn and it didn't make me into some kind of hero.

[samdogmom]

4. Don't forget--he was a cheerleader!

Bullhorn/megaphone--same difference. Who cares? A bullhorn does not make a leader!

[Skittles]

8. the media forgot about him sitting in the classroom

looking like a deer in headlights, then running around the country hiding in airplanes and rabbit holes. They forgot all this and created the myth of GWB as a "great leader". That was not surprising but it disgusted me no END that 90% OF THE FRIGGIN' COUNTRY FELL FOR IT and allowed him to invade Iraq because of it. It will forever make me sick to think about it.

[Pithy Cherub]

2. Tweety is certainly a rank talking athletic supporter of bush's.

:rofl:

[Jim Sagle]

3. More like a chickenshit bullshit moment.

Same as all his moments.

[despairing optimist]

5. No bullhorn with Rove in New Orleans. Look for bull from the other end.

[Crunchy Frog]

6. Maybe he could make Tweety happy if he went prancing about

in a codpiece again. I guess his "I gotta make a weewee" moment just didn't cut it for him.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

9. Tweety in L-O-V-E, May 2003:

http://www.msnbc.com/modules/chrismatthews/050303.asp?0cb=-s1W109515

MATTHEWS: Let's go to this sub--what happened to this week, which was to me was astounding as a student of politics, like all of us. Lights, camera, action. This week the president landed the best photo op in a very long time. Other great visuals: Ronald Reagan at the D-Day cemetery in Normandy, Bill Clinton on horseback in Wyoming. Nothing compared to this, I've got to say.

Katty, for visual, the president of the United States arriving in an F-18, looking like he flew it in himself. The GIs, the women on--onboard that ship loved this guy.

Ms. KAY: He looked great. Look, I'm not a Bush man. I mean, he doesn't do it for me personally, especially not when he's in a suit, but he arrived there...

MATTHEWS: No one would call you a Bush man, by the way.

Ms. KAY: ...he arrived there in his flight suit, in a jumpsuit. He should wear that all the time. Why doesn't he do all his campaign speeches in that jumpsuit? He just looks so great.

MATTHEWS: I want him to wa--I want to see him debate somebody like John Kerry or Lieberman or somebody wearing that jumpsuit.

Mr. DOBBS: Well, it was just--I can't think of any, any stunt by the White House--and I'll call it a stunt--that has come close. I mean, this is not only a home run; the ball is still flying out beyond the park.

MATTHEWS: Well, you know what, it was like throwing that strike in Yankee Stadium a while back after 9/11. It's not a stunt if it works and it's real. And I felt the faces of those guys--I thought most of our guys were looking up like they were looking at Bob Hope and John Wayne combined on that ship.

Mr. GIGOT: The reason it works is because of--the reason it works is because Bush looks authentic and he felt that he--you could feel the connection with the troops. He looked like he was sincere. People trust him. That's what he has going for him.

MATTHEWS: Fareed, you're watching that from--say you were over in the Middle East watching the president of the United States on this humongous aircraft carrier. It looks like it could take down Syria just one boat, right, and the president of the United States is pointing a finger and saying, `You people with the weapons of mass destruction, you people backing terrorism, look out. We're coming.' Do you think that picture mattered over there?

Mr. ZAKARIA: Oh yeah. Look, this is a part of the war where we have not--we've allowed a lot of states to do some very nasty stuff, traffic with nasty people and nasty material, and I think it's time to tell them, you know what, `You're going to be help accountable for this.'

MATTHEWS: Well, it was a powerful statement and picture as well.

Thank you very much. Terrific round table. Lou Dobbs, thanks for coming; Katty Kay, again. Fareed Zakaria, good luck with your book. Paul Gigot, editorial page editor for the Wall Street Journal.

I'll be right back to ask the big question: What should the Democrats do to have a chance against this very popular president? Be right back.

MATTHEWS: It's great getting your e-mails; keep them coming.

[slor]

7. tweety just wants a "bulldog" moment...

with the chimp and gannon.

[FrenchieCat]

10. So Matthews is shillin' again.....

what else is new? :eyes:

[jbfam4]

11. e j is priceless

E J's comment. Like the shampoo commercial: You don't get a second time to make a first impression.