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Blackhatjack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-11-06 08:50 AM
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"Mr. Pres. Define 'Islamo-fascism', which you used in your statement"
What are the odds that the White House Press Corp will never ask Bush to define "Islamo-fascism", which he used in a statement recently?

For more fun, ask him to explain the differences between "fascism" and "democracy"?

The White House Press Corp needs to start asking Bush to define these things for them, since Bush obviously has no idea what he is talking about --and it is important to know what Bush thinks these concepts mean when he uses them."
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Evergreen Emerald Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-11-06 08:59 AM
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1. I'm surprised he could pronounce it--let alone define it!
Seriously, he has trouble with his "Sh" sounds--to name a few.
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liberalmike27 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-11-06 09:05 AM
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2. Bush
Bush uses islamo-fascism partly because he is stupid, but I believe it is an attempt to take the attention off of the fact that so many people are now seeing Bush for what he is; a fascist. Calling others fascist takes the attention off of them. It is a technique the use to keep the cognative dissonance vibrating throughout the minds of dumb Americans who believe all the crap he excretes.

Clearly these countries are theocracies, or dictatorial theocracies. Some are kleptocracies, and most are certainly plutocracies. It's a scam, and as usual many Americans are going to fall for it.
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Blackhatjack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-11-06 09:20 AM
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3. The key here is what Bush means by conjuring up this "label"??
If you were a "real news reporter" and you heard the President use a previously non-existent term to describe an individual or group, would you not ask him to define and clarify what he means by using such a term?

It is an indictment of the WH Press Corp that they allow the "President" get by with this.
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fordnut Donating Member (207 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-11-06 09:36 AM
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4. you know if people would get him to defy the meaning
of words that he uses maybe people would actually realize he
is stupid and start thinking we have a moron in office
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Phoebe Loosinhouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-11-06 09:42 AM
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5. It is lunacy for an American President to use a term like that
It is polarizing and inflammatory. It is the buzzword du jour for people like Neal Boortz, Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity who seem to be actively campaigning for world war. I wonder what the President's good buddies in the Arab world think of him using that verbage?
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Blackhatjack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-11-06 10:33 AM
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6. Why not ask Karl Rove what it means? He probably came up with it...
Sounds like Rove.

If not Rove, who?? Bush's speechwriter? Snow??
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Norquist Nemesis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-11-06 10:38 AM
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8. Sounds like Tony Snow to me
and Rove signed on to it.
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wicket Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-11-06 10:41 AM
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9. The right-wing blogs have been using the term for some time
So that's probably where he got this latest talking point.
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tabasco Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-11-06 10:37 AM
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7. It would be better than seeing him define "sovereign."
The Native Americans were laughing their asses off at him right to his face.

What a funny moment. But sad for America to have such an unqualified chief executive (purposefully not using the word leader, because Bush is FAR from having a clue what a leader is).

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