Foomkin: Bush Thinks The War Is A Joke (Bush 'Attacks' Reporter With IED Disarming Robot)

[Hissyspit]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2007/04/05/BL2007040501012_pf.html

Is Bush taking all this seriously enough? Or is it all just a game? In his tour of the deadly-serious training facility yesterday, Bush repeatedly joked around, with journalists serving as the brunt of his humor.

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Rutenberg left out what happened next, but local reporter Tatiana Prophet of the Victorville (Calif.) Daily Press was fascinated by the conduct of the White House press corps, and wrote a story about them: "While this administration has been characterized by a ban on reporters' questions outside of a formal news conference, the media nevertheless have a familiarity with the commander-in-chief. . . .

"'Rutenberg, come over here,' Bush said to New York Times reporter Jim Rutenberg. 'Put your hand up right by the claw.'

"The 'claw' was a robot arm of the Talon 3, a diminutive robot designed to disarm improvised explosive devices, which have become the biggest threat to troops involved in the Iraq War. . . . "Rutenberg, kneeling in the desert dust, was a good sport as the president sent the robot toward him, to laughter from the soldiers and the media as well."

Nothing like a little physical abasement to keep the president in good spirits.

Via Americablog: http://americablog.blogspot.com/2007/04/bush-thinks-war-is-joke.html

[HereSince1628]

1. Like we didn't know this from the nicknames and bald-head rubbing

Bush is a psychopath with no sense of his own capacity to be wrong or to cause harm.

[geardaddy]

2. Jeezus, * is like an older

brother/bully type. He needs someone to humiliate the shit out of him.

[hobbit709]

3. Why is it everything he does

makes me want to :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

[MagickMuffin]

4. Of course this is ALL a BIG JOKE to him

he doesn't have ANY skin in the game...
But he's making a KILLING with ALL his investments

edit: incomplete sentence

[Ilsa]

5. So the job of the WH press corps is to entertain the little emperor

until tony snowjob gets back?