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8 October 2004
The following exerpts are from Bush's one hour campaign speech which was shown
without interuption on the big 3 cable news channels.
The excerpts were humourously but truthfully parsed by the Jon Stewart Show.
I found it difficult to believe that Bush,
the greatest advocate for the wealthy class,
would tell the wicked truth about their unfair economic advantages so boldly
without the mainline media picking up on it.
I just had to review the original tape for myself. It's on the original tape.
We can only assume Bush thinks
he's helping his case because he's using these lines at campaign rallys before
cheering republicans, who also don't get it.
The president refering to Senator Kerry's plan to finance health coverage by
raising taxes
on the richest 2% of Americans:
Now the Senator's proposing higher taxes on more than 900 thousand small
business owners... He says the tax increase is only
for the rich. You've heard that kind of rhetoric before.
The rich hire lawyers and accountants for a reason, to stick you with the tab. -- George Bush -- Jon Stewart then proceeds to parse Bush's conflicted sentences for some kind of rational interpretation: Let me get this straight, 'Don't tax the rich because they'll get out of it'. So your policy is 'tax the hard working people cause they're dumb asses, they'll never figure it out'. So vote for me good night. Does the president think it's mid-November, he's already lost the election and now he's on SNL doing self depricating humor or is it a Freudian slip effort to get out of the presidency because its 'too hard'? The White House had gotten the full hour uninterupted network time by duping the networks, claiming they needed the time for a 'Major Presidential Policy Address'. It turned out to be a campaign rally with only a re-worked stump speech with loud trained responses from the pre-selected crowd. The network execs must be fuming, but why didn't they call the president on it? Why didn't they at least advise viewers how the president had acquired the free network time under false pretenses as they played the sound bites all day? Don't you think the Bush campaign should at least fork over to the cable news networks the price of a one hour commercial at the same rate businesses were paying for 30 second spots in that time slot. My calculator just broke, damn it :) Now let me see, um, um, why was it I, a life long Republican changed parties this last April? Um, um, let me see.....could it be..... 400+ Billion Dollar Deficits. A Medicare Plan that Breaks the Federal Budget and Medicare itself. A Plan to spread Democracy throughout the Middle-East Catches Fire, Whoops. Pre-emptive First-Strike Threats against Emerging Nuclear Powers. Uh, Let me see now, why is it North Korea re-started its Nuclear Weapons Program after these threats from the U.S. President? Could it be they're scared SH*TL*SS! Why might Iran want them too? Couldn't be they really believe this president's rhetoric about pre-emptive war? Let me see now...
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