'Distracted, disjointed and dumbed-down'
Wednesday, August 23, 2006
Yes, that would be the man pictured above. That isn't from some lib, it's MSNBC talking head conservative Joe Scarborough, who actually ran a segment on his show last week called "Is Bush an Idiot?".
He goes into more detail on the mental meltdown of Dear Leader on his blog, and doesn't hold back. Joe thinks the best course of action is to simply hide Bush away for the rest of his term to avoid embarrassing the GOP.
Scarborough revisted his "Idiot" segment on his show and got slammed by a winger for attacking the president on his mental faculties -- or lack thereof. Jamie Holly @ Crooks and Liars, which as the video.
...the George Bush of 2006 seems to be a far cry from the man I spoke with in 2001, or the back-slapping governor who charmed the hell out of me when I visited him in the Texas governor’s mansion in 1999.
These days the President seems distracted, disjointed and dumbed-down in press conferences. His jokes fall flat and are often inappropriate.
And like Reagan, George W. Bush seems to be getting worse with age instead of better.
...In the case of Bush I wonder whether there no one in the West Wing that can tell their boss he needs to spend more time in front of a teleprompter and less time watching ESPN.
Has anyone told him that making jokes about pig roasts after being asked about the bombing of the Beirut airport is not how a Commander in Chief acts in front of the international press corps?
Has anyone considered keeping the President away from the press altogether if he is no longer up to the task of answering questions?
Terry Holt seemed to be rather upset with the whole "idiot" thing. True, Scarborough is a political reporter and that would make him the "scum of the earth" according to Terry. What is really interesting though is how defensive Holt gets over people questioning the mental capacity of Bush and denounces it by saying America doesn’t want to hear arguments asking if the President is an idiot or not. I wonder if he gave the same criticism when right wing pundits called our former President a rapist?
