Now Daddy Bush Slams Bloggers

[thingfisher]

Now Daddy Bush Slams Bloggers
Blames Internet for "ugly climate," echoes vitriolic rhetoric of web haters

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Wednesday, November 15, 2006

During an appearance with his wife Barbara on Fox News last night, George Bush senior slammed Internet bloggers for creating an adversarial and ugly climate, echoing the rhetoric of fellow Neo-Cons and the White House itself in trashing the reputation of the world wide web.

HOST: "Why do you think it’s gotten so adversarial? Tonight is literacy. Everybody comes in from all different sides and wants to help. It seems like oftentimes in Washington, you know, on something we all want to work towards it’s not necessarily so civilized. It’s not so pleasant."

H.W. BUSH: "It’s true but that’s not new really. I mean, you go back in history and you’ll find that there was always adversarial politics. There was always gut fighting. And it’s probably a little worse now given the electronic media and the bloggers and all these kinds of things."

Establishment kingpins and their cheerleaders have increased their level of vitriolic rhetoric against the Internet in recent months, as legislation in both the U.S. and Europe to regulate, stifle and license the Internet moves forward.

The White House's own recently de-classified strategy for "winning the war on terror" targets Internet conspiracy theories as a recruiting ground for terrorists and threatens to "diminish" their influence.

In addition, the Pentagon recently announced its effort to infiltrate the Internet and propagandize for the war on terror.

In a speech last month, Homeland Security director Michael Chertoff identified the web as a "terror training camp," through which "disaffected people living in the United States" are developing "radical ideologies and potentially violent skills."

Chertoff pledged to dispatch Homeland Security agents to local police departments in order to aid in the apprehension of domestic terrorists who use the Internet as a political tool.

The European Union, led by former Stalinist and potential future British Prime Minister John Reid, has also vowed to shut down "terrorists" who use the Internet to spread propaganda.

In the Fox News interview, Bush senior also reveals that his son the current President refuses to use e mail for fear that the communication would get subpoenaed and the e mails would be used to prove “that you were telling the truth and all this stuff.”

Think Progress has the video.

The above was lifted from Alex Jones' site.This nay ranle some, but let's be fair this post is merely printing an interview with no editorial comment. That is for you DU'ers to do.I don't know who the interviewer is but that opening "question' is quite a mouthful of turgid prose isn't it?

One reason Poppie is so bummed about bloggers I guess is that it is through their efforts that the child sex ring scandal known as the Franklin coverup has been publicized at all. It is a horrific story and only hints at a much larger Washington based child sex scandal that has been blanketed from exposure in the corporate controlled media.

Given what we know about the Bush family I find Poppies remarks worthy of complete dismissal. He is a scumbag of the highest degree.

[chefgirl]

1. Nothing new, really

The RW has been trying to vilify 'bloggers' ever since the 2002 elections, maybe even before that.

They have no control over the 'internets' and it scares the shit out of them. Truth always does.

Their constituency of mostly old white men, (Establishment kingpins) who dont understand the 'internets' can be easily scared and confused by calling bloggers terrorists or whatever.

You're right. Worthy of complete dismissal.

There are just too many people who know better now, thank God.

-chef-

[90-percent]

2. anti-internet

is more anti-free speech.

These guys are afraid of too much uncleansed info getting to too many of the masses too quickly.

They just want the internet censored so that they'll control all info through main stream media, just like the good old days of fifteem years ago.

-85% jimmy

[ixion]

3. gee, and *'s 'kinder, gentler shotgun hand' was just peaches and cream

yeah, that's it. :eyes:

[Burried News]

4. Give us better leadership and we will behave better. Until then ...

Lieberman, Senate Homeland Security Chair wanna be
Former CIA director Bush
Homeland Security misdirector Chertoff
and Senator Pat Out of Phase too Roberts

Can all fuck off ... how's that for acrimony?

[tblue]

5. He's a loser. He rode Re*gan's coattails and that was it. We 'liberal bloggers' can't help it if

his kid's a rotten president. Who's fault is that? Look, the Repugs have all 3 branches of gov't and control 99% of the mass media, they got the war they wanted so badly, they've rigged 3 elections, and tried to rig another, and WE'RE the problem. We should shut up and sing, like the Dixie Chicks. Okay. Sure. Sure.

[90-percent]

6. The Internets

The internets are the best thing to happen to a democracy in a free and open country in 230 years. It's a wonderful medium that gives free and open access that previously would have taken forever to find. Trudging through libraries, microfilms, phone calls, and such was pretty damn inefficient!


Anybody that don't like the internets is against free speech and is therefore anti-American, plain and simple.

-85% Jimmy

[Captain Hilts]

7. His guy - Lee Attwater - started it. In between lunchtime trysts and meetings with Bible thumpers.

[Nite Owl]

8. They have managed to co-opt

the corporate media but they didn't count on the internet as making such a difference. They can cover up all the stories by threatening the networks and cable news but somehow we still get the stories out there and they really don't like that. They want utter and complete control, they want the news to report only what is useful to them and he makes this pretty clear. It didn't go their way and we have to be alert to any attempts that they will use to stop truth.

This is one miserable excuse of a family. Poppi is no better than his son(s). He should have been brought down long ago.

[Karenina]

9. Stay tuned...

Carlyle Group will try to "BUY" the "internets" and keep the riff-raff OFFLINE.

[Cha]

10. Yeah, did poopy slam freepville

cause they are a terrorist cell?

[applegrove]

11. Didn't he fire Rove?

[Kagemusha]

12. Wait.. that's all George H.W. Bush said?...

He said maybe it's a little worse with the electronic media and the bloggers?...

He's not even specifying liberals here!! What the hell did everyone get worked up about!?