Another staged Bush event
So Bush had a chit-chat by satellite with 11 soldiers in Iraq. The initial claim was that this was an unscripted pow-pow, and we were getting real people's spontaneous views. That claim had to alter somewhat when rehersal tapes were made public. oops.
As a scandal it's small potatoes. It's pretty funny though, and for 5 glorious minutes, regular news channels get to be The Daily Show. It's enough to make one wonder whether the Daily Show can even improve on it.
Anyway I wouldn't have commented, except the post-spin is just too funny:
"No one intended to tell them what to think or how to express themselves" (italics added)
That's not a denial that they were told what to say. (It was some sort of accident?)
"...we certainly regret the perception that they were told what to say." (again my italics)
Perhaps the most backwards (and yet sincere) remorse ever. They don't regret any of their actions, but do regret that we were able to perceive them. Incidentally, they could have said: "...we certainly regret the misperception that they were told what to say." However the stated version is likely correct.
posted by Lanky_Bastard @ 3:48 PM
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Heh.
More to the point, is this any less stage-managed than any airing of "Meet the Press." You really never see the network newscasters ask people questions for which they have not been prepared ahead of time.
I wouldn't know Tiger. Maybe the majority of what we see on TV is a sham. I like to think some of what we see is unscripted. The only evidence I have to the contrary are myraid instances of politicians answering some question other than the one they were asked. - Presumably that wouldn't happen in a scripted event.
As I said, I would have let this slide without mention except the semantics of the post-spin struck me as ironic.
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