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PlanetBev

(4,359 posts)
Sat Jun 21, 2025, 10:00 PM Jun 21

So will the media drool and fellate Trump like they did Bush?

Bush ignored warnings about Osama Bin Ladin. Then, when he stood on the pile of rubble at Ground Zero with a bullhorn, idiots like Chris Matthew compared him to Churchill and FDR.

I need a drink…….

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So will the media drool and fellate Trump like they did Bush? (Original Post) PlanetBev Jun 21 OP
This message was self-deleted by its author tman Jun 21 #1
Why not? They've been at it for nearly a decade SheltieLover Jun 21 #2
Only if it's a Long Island Ice Tea. nt Phoenix61 Jun 21 #3
You got that right PlanetBev Jun 21 #8
I'd give anything for a gummy at this point. nt Phoenix61 Jun 21 #9
It will be worse. Bush had at least a little semblance of credibility right after 9/11, Ocelot II Jun 21 #4
I have never forgiven CNN for their drooling over "Shock and Awe". AloeVera Jun 21 #5
That beginning of the 2003 Iraq War picked up where the 1991 bombing of the Baghdad-Basra roads left off. John1956PA Jun 21 #11
Yes of course! AloeVera Jun 21 #19
I heard a veteran of the 1991 war speak of horrors which I will not repeat. John1956PA Jun 21 #21
Matthews said Bush gave him tingles up his leg. rickford66 Jun 21 #6
Why stop now ? kacekwl Jun 21 #7
Congress now officially spayed and neutered PlanetBev Jun 21 #10
ofc.. Israel owns us.. berkerly6240 Jun 21 #12
Yup misanthrope Jun 21 #13
Do you mean above and beyond their normal drooling and fellating? GoCubsGo Jun 21 #14
Krasnov will drool and fellate himself. GoodRaisin Jun 21 #15
The Xian freaks in my orbit pfitz59 Jun 21 #16
They Already Are WiVoter Jun 21 #17
Question is, how will voters take it? Silent Type Jun 21 #18
They just did - on every channel dalton99a Jun 21 #20
Of COURSE they will. GaYellowDawg Jun 21 #22
Yes, they will/are. His fanboy Jon KARL says *now* his legacy begins, forget the past. & KRASNOV craves the 90% ratings UTUSN Jun 21 #23

Response to PlanetBev (Original post)

Ocelot II

(126,094 posts)
4. It will be worse. Bush had at least a little semblance of credibility right after 9/11,
Sat Jun 21, 2025, 10:07 PM
Jun 21

though he looked pretty damn foolish landing on the aircraft carrier to announce "Mission accomplished," which it clearly wasn't. Apart from the NYT, which beclowned itself with Judith Miller's help, at least some media were pretty critical once the Shock'n'Awe blitz went sideways. But NYT and CNN will be back to their old tricks, figurative mouths shaped like those of inflatable sex dolls.

AloeVera

(3,288 posts)
5. I have never forgiven CNN for their drooling over "Shock and Awe".
Sat Jun 21, 2025, 10:07 PM
Jun 21

I was screaming at the TV that those were human beings shocked and awed into burning flesh and torn limbs. Despised mainstream media ever since. Cheerleaders for war and stenographers for the military.

John1956PA

(4,303 posts)
11. That beginning of the 2003 Iraq War picked up where the 1991 bombing of the Baghdad-Basra roads left off.
Sat Jun 21, 2025, 10:20 PM
Jun 21

The Iraqis were basically surrendering at the end of the 1991 Persian Gulf War when U.S. air power decimated them in their vehicles along the roads as they were fleeing. Most of the media were fine with all of it. Parades here in the U.S. followed.


AloeVera

(3,288 posts)
19. Yes of course!
Sat Jun 21, 2025, 10:41 PM
Jun 21

The Highway of Death. Horrific.

I read a figure of a 100,000 slaughtered around their vehicles if I recall correctly. May have been an exaggeration, but tens of thousands - probably.

That it was possible to perpetrate and then ignore such a war crime tells us everything about the good 'ole USA.

John1956PA

(4,303 posts)
21. I heard a veteran of the 1991 war speak of horrors which I will not repeat.
Sat Jun 21, 2025, 10:58 PM
Jun 21

Embedded correspondents did not see everything that went down.

When the troops returned home in the spring of 1991, many parades took place, and the media covered them extensively.

I think the Bush 41 administration fouled up by seemingly giving a green light to Saddam Hussein to invade Kuwait. I think a diplomat by the name of Glaspy was involved in the miscommunication. James Baker flew to Iraq to personally meet with Saddam Hussein to try to get him to back off, but, by then, it was too late.

Eventually, Saddam Hussein was executed before he could spill the beans on everything that he knew about U.S. involvement in the region over the decades.

UTUSN

(74,826 posts)
23. Yes, they will/are. His fanboy Jon KARL says *now* his legacy begins, forget the past. & KRASNOV craves the 90% ratings
Sat Jun 21, 2025, 11:06 PM
Jun 21

the two BUSHes got at the beginning of their adventures.




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