The Felon-in-Chief Meets His Biggest Fans
by KTKJune 12th, 2007
Righties have been making much of Bush’s enthusiastic reception in Albania this week. Echidne of the Snakes has this hilarious outtake from Albanian TV news, showing Bush posing for pictures at a public event, then walking a rope line hugging and touching hands with people in the crowd. Within ten seconds, somebody steals his wristwatch. (I think you can actually see the hand that does it.)
The bizarre thing is, neither Bush nor the Secret Service appear to notice this.
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I’d seen the video,I don’t think anyone does it deliberately.It may fallen,since he’s very much interested to shake the hands with everyone…
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“I’d seen the video,I don’t think anyone does it deliberately.”
Sakthi, don’t take anything KTK says seriously. KTK is so full of hate and rage that he will take any opportunity to spew his bile at anyone who has anything positive to say about President Bush.
Sakthi:
On the countdown clock on the YouTube video at the link above, the watch is clearly visible at 3:15, just after he enters the crowd, and is clearly missing in the long sequence beginning at 3:01. There’s a spot at 3:10 - 3:08 in which a couple of hands come out of the crowd and are not grabbing his arm like most of the others, but are sort of scrabbling at his wrist from above. It looks to me like one of them snatched it.
I thought of it as just an amusing incident, but it’s becoming a political hot potato. Tony “Pinocchio” Snow issued this statement:
“Asked at Tuesday’s briefing if the presidents watched was lifted, spokesman Tony Snow answered, ‘No, it was not. It was placed in his pocket…the president put it in his pocket and it returned safely home.’ Snow says a careful review of video of the scene confirms no pilfering.”
True to form, it’s absolute horseshit. I would have bought the suggestion that it fell off during rough handling by the crowd, until they had to fabricate this lie. If you watch the video, the watch is clearly visible as he enters the crowd, and clearly missing about 10 seconds later, during which time his hands have been in the crowd without a break. If it fell off, fine, but then they wouldn’t have had to say he personally put it in his pocket. He obviously didn’t - they’re obviously lying - and what a stupid thing to lie about. Why not just go ahead and cop to the fact that the only people in the entire world who claim to like Bush played him for a mark and stole his watch?
And now they’re denying it ever happened! It’s yet another case of “who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?” that makes us once again question, if they can’t even admit the truth about obvious things, why would they expect us to believe them about anything else?
“the fact that the only people in the entire world who claim to like Bush played him for a mark and stole his watch?”
This is the kind of reasoning that is fueled by unreasoning hatred. If it happened in a liberal country where Bush was hated, would it prove that liberals are a bunch of thieves? You liberals are pathetic.
I see Fred is still playing the same old song, even though he and the rest of the Chimpletons have been nothing but wrong. How pathetic it is, to worship a monkey who cannot wipe his own behind.
I am somewhat less surprised than many seem to be about the Albanians’ reacrtion to the moronic monkey. Remember, this is the country that raised several generations under the thumb of Enver Hoxha, a one-man show that even Stalin and Kim Il Sung would have been hard-pressed to top. Chimpy would like to BE a Enver Hoxha, so the more “nostalgic” Albanians probably respond to that. It’s really too bad that Enver was, compared to Chimpy, brilliant.
The bigger irony is that Chimpletons like Fred would just LOVE to live in the kind of country Albania used to be. Their worship of the moronic monkey makes even the most fervent Hoxha fanatic look lukewarm in comparison.
Your mother must be so proud.
You keep talking about people’s mothers. Is this some strange insecurity for you?
It does, in any case, make for a convenient dodge when you want to avoid actually addressing the content of a discussion, though.