Thar She Blows!
Oct. 1st, 2004 09:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
semiotic_pirateLook out! Mt. St. Helen is gonna let loose again! Gotta love that volcanic action.
Watched the debate last night with my sweety. Faithfully watched it from my favorite PBS station, so that I wouldn't have to deal with idiot talking heads from the networks... ESPECIALLY foxnews, sheesh. What a farce! Did you see the look on poor ole Dubyas face every time Kerry mashed his face into the poo he's put this country into?? He looked just like a perturbed Capuchin monkey! I swear!
"When the networks (flouting the debate rules) cut to Mr. Bush while Senator John Kerry was speaking, the president had the hunched shoulders and the peevish, defensive look of an incumbent under heavy attack... The cameras demonstrated that Mr. Bush cannot hear criticism without frowning, blinking and squirming (he even sighed once). " New York Times
That sourpuss face was just too much. Next thing I expected was for him to start rolling his eyes like some spoiled little rich kid brat. At least I got to hear him stumble (read: crash and burn yet again) over the word nuclear. You could tell Kerry was baiting him, talking about proliferation and disappearing WMD and so on. When Bushie first said it he blurted it out really fast, as if we wouldn't notice it wasn't pronounced right. Then he settled into it and figured, he didn't hear murmuring from the crowd that he would practically drawl it the next time. Heh. Didn't say it again for the rest of the night though.
I knew it would be a great broadcast when I got a look at the SINGLE moderator, NPR/PBS guy Jim Lehrer, along with the set-up that neither candidate had any prior knowledge of the questions to come. And what questions they were! Heh.
And of course, there was my favorite line of the whole night: "The future belongs to freedom, not fear." (Kerry, of course.) Followed by our incumbent scuttling off the stage.
Ahhhh. I love the smell of fear and loathing in the evening.
Watched the debate last night with my sweety. Faithfully watched it from my favorite PBS station, so that I wouldn't have to deal with idiot talking heads from the networks... ESPECIALLY foxnews, sheesh. What a farce! Did you see the look on poor ole Dubyas face every time Kerry mashed his face into the poo he's put this country into?? He looked just like a perturbed Capuchin monkey! I swear!
"When the networks (flouting the debate rules) cut to Mr. Bush while Senator John Kerry was speaking, the president had the hunched shoulders and the peevish, defensive look of an incumbent under heavy attack... The cameras demonstrated that Mr. Bush cannot hear criticism without frowning, blinking and squirming (he even sighed once). " New York Times
That sourpuss face was just too much. Next thing I expected was for him to start rolling his eyes like some spoiled little rich kid brat. At least I got to hear him stumble (read: crash and burn yet again) over the word nuclear. You could tell Kerry was baiting him, talking about proliferation and disappearing WMD and so on. When Bushie first said it he blurted it out really fast, as if we wouldn't notice it wasn't pronounced right. Then he settled into it and figured, he didn't hear murmuring from the crowd that he would practically drawl it the next time. Heh. Didn't say it again for the rest of the night though.
I knew it would be a great broadcast when I got a look at the SINGLE moderator, NPR/PBS guy Jim Lehrer, along with the set-up that neither candidate had any prior knowledge of the questions to come. And what questions they were! Heh.
And of course, there was my favorite line of the whole night: "The future belongs to freedom, not fear." (Kerry, of course.) Followed by our incumbent scuttling off the stage.
Ahhhh. I love the smell of fear and loathing in the evening.
