The Rude Pundit: Bush Taught About American Government by British Reporter

[meegbear]

President Bush's interview this week with Adam Boulton of Britain's Sky News contains moments of such vertiginous agony that it makes one think seriously of the good of getting addicted to heroin in order to make it through the next seven months. But, alas, such things are not practical, so, instead, one has to endure pathetic spectacles like our goddamned President getting schooled on the American judiciary by an English reporter. Here's the exchange on the Supreme Court's decision that restored at least a right or two to those foreigners on extended holiday at Gitmo:

BOULTON: But the Supreme Court have just said that -- you know, ruled against what you've been doing down there.

THE PRESIDENT: But the district court didn't. And the appellate court didn't.

BOULTON: The Supreme Court is supreme, isn't it?

THE PRESIDENT: It is, and I accept their verdict. I don't agree with their verdict.

So a member of the press of another country just explained to the President, in the tautological phraseology Bush favors, that the Supreme Court ultimately decides Constitutional issues and, truly, it doesn't fucking matter what lower courts said. To put it another way: Does anyone really give a happy monkey fuck today about how well the Lakers did in the division playoffs?

And what was Boulton's reaction supposed to be? What's anyone's? That, well, shit, two out of three courts ruled in the administration's favor, so they get the moral victory and "Huzzah" for them? Christ, it's just embarrassing when the asshole at the bar who's been given a curbside beat down to the point that he's pissed himself won't admit he's lost the fight, that, because he got in one or two good licks on the guy whose girl he hit on, asshole's gonna think he gave as good as he got. No - everyone knows when a motherfucker loses. And, apparently, Bush has to be reminded by someone from England.

Prior to that little kerfuffle was this wonderful bit of the interview:

BOULTON: I mean, you've talked a lot about freedom. I've heard you talk about freedom -- I think every time I've seen you.

THE PRESIDENT: Yes.

BOULTON: And yet there are those who would say, look, let's take Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib and rendition and all those things, and to them that is the, you know, the complete opposite of freedom.

THE PRESIDENT: Of course if you want to slander America, you can look at it one way. But you go down -- what you need to do -- I think I suggested you do this at a press conference -- if you go down to Guantanamo and take a look at how these prisoners are treated -- and they're working it through our court systems. We are a land of law.

Unless John Yoo's come up with a new standard for defining "slander," someone oughta tell Bush that it ain't slanderous if it's true. It's just another one of those moments where you realize what a punk ass bitch Bush is, and how desperately he needs to mask his fear and overly inbred cocker spaniel-like confusion with pissant intimidation, like Boulton's a pledge at the Deke house and Bush is the hooded brother with a paddle. Oh, for those crazy, hazing days at Yale.

Bush ended the interview with this stomach-churning threat: "Just remember, there's six months to go and a lot can get done in six months." Man, all of a sudden that smack haze is seeming more tempting.

Addendum: Speaking of living in a haze, Laura Bush was also taking part in the interview. But, really, and, c'mon, who the fuck cares what she has to say.

(Tip o' the rude hat to Crooks and Liars for the interview link.)

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[caledesi]

1. I love the Brits. They don't hold back. NT

[bridgit]

2. g.w. bush *is* the falsity that has slandered America

[jwirr]

3. More than likely any Brit off the streets would know more about things

like Habeas Corpus than *ss. After all that part of our laws came straight from the Magna Carta.

[Divernan]

6. Any Brit off the street likely to know more about habeas corpus than any American

Most Americans could not define or explain habeas corpus if their freedom depended upon it - which is why Bush has gotten by with gutting it. Americans had habeas corpus under English rule, before the American Revolution.

[benedikt15]

4. Two out of three ain't good

You must understand that Mr. Bush is not a lawyer. Mr. Boulton's knowledge of the American judicial racket is obviously superior. But still, there's hope when a foreign reporter can disagree with an American President. I wish he would argue with American reporters.

[InternalDialogue]

5. k&r

I caught snips of that interview the other night.

* wouldn't pass a fifth-grade civics class with his reasoning -- even in his NCLB-weakened schools.


:kick:

[mrdmk]

7. I can say this without hesitation. When the wife and I were in London

a year ago, Brits had a good laugh at our President. They also had another laugh with the mused look on our faces thinking of something to say. Of course I did not get nasty and point out that P.M. Blair liked our President. After seeing this interview, the Brits must be (like the rest of the world) rolling on the floor laughing their asses off.

Of course that last comment is just Bush acting like a bully. Probably the only thing he is good at, acting like a bully.

[XOKCowboy]

10. I got on The Tube a couple of years ago and there was an ad on the wall

with Chimp's image. I forget who it was for or the exact wording but it was clearly making fun of his misstatements. I LOL'd when I read it and got some knowing smiles from my fellow passengers who saw me reading it.

[Supersedeas]

8. access to Gitmo -- how much access -- oppty to interview some/any detainees??

[XOKCowboy]

9. Of course if you want to slander America, you can look at it one way.

There he goes using the "if you're not one of us, you're against us" shit but forgot that doesn't fly in the foreign press. Boulton pwned Bush just by asking what the US Media won't.