- In this issue, we are not publishing our regular "Controlling
the News" because we have received, from a reporter, a number of comments
and observations on life in the Bush White House that we feel are of considerable
importance.
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- It is well known, and published, that George Bush had
a very serious "substance abuse" problem as a young man. He drank
alcohol excessively and extensively. In fact, papers exist from military
medical examiners who recommend that because of extensive, serious ongoing
substance abuse on the part of Lt. Bush and his adamant refusal to permit
any testing, that he not be permitted to fly US military jet aircraft.
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- In his last two years in office, Franklin Roosevelt exhibited
increasing symptoms of advanced arteriosclerosis that severely impaired
his mental functions: Roosevelt would stop in the middle of a speech, drool
on his vest and stare blankly at the papers in his hand. Frantic aides
had to poke at him and point to the script so he could go on.
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- Franklin Roosevelt was President during the Second World
War when acuity of judgment and rational understanding were vital. By early
1944, Roosevelt, according to many of his biographers, was "often
unaware of what he was saying, or what was said to him."
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- Earlier, Woodrow Wilson had a severe stroke while in
the White House and was completely unable to carry out his duties as President.
His wife filled in for him for months although she was completely incapable
of doing so. With all of this in mind, we present:
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- THE MADNESS OF KING GEORGE
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- The following material is from a reporter with access
to the White House and Presidential press briefings. Some of this material
has surfaced before but only in small segments. If any of this is true
and not the product of an unhappy person, we are all in serious trouble.
Ed.
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- "In the current White House, attendance at daily
Christian Evangelical prayer meetings is mandatory."
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- "Vice President Cheney is the de facto President
of the United States. When he arrives at the White House for one of his
"briefings" of the President, all employees are cleared from
the West Wing and especially from the Presidential office suites. Cheney
arrives in an escorted armored limousine surrounded by his own personal,
heavily armed bodyguard and is always shown directly into the President's
office. It is reliably reported by [redacted] that Bush has a thick pad
of lined, yellow note paper on his desk, placed there by [redacted] just
before the Vice President arrives."
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- "After Cheney's departure, the notes taken by the
President are transcribed by [redacted] and prepared as talking points
for the President..." "At some time in the past, according to
both [redacted] and [redacted] the President suffered what one of his aides
called "a very minor seizure" and as a result of this, the President
has a very difficult time following any unscripted conversations. For this
reason, his staff carefully and aggressively protect the President from
"unexpected" questions that he is not capable of answering."
-
- "The President takes oral medication at least twice
a day according to [redacted] because of an unspecified "indisposition'
and this subject is strictly off limits for any casual staff conversation."
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- "At one point during a staff conference, the President
stood up and began to speak in an unknown language. Mr. Rove was able to
stop the President and get him to resume his seat. It was reported by [redacted]
that for a period of time (about fifteen minutes) after this incident,
the President appeared to be 'somewhat confused and very inarticulate.'"
-
- "White House staff members report that they rarely
see the President during work hours and that when they do, he is generally
accompanied by Mr. Rove and almost never either looks at or speaks to members
of the staff. He does not appear to recognize many of the staff members
and almost all contact with these individuals are carried out by his close
aides, especially by Mr. Rove."
-
- "Bush hold as few meetings with the public, including
the press, as possible. We get reams of official papers informing us of
this or that new directive.
-
- Those of us who have an inside track with the staff are
taken to dinner and given the questions to ask Bush. These are questions
he has been thoroughly briefed on and has memorized the answers for. Anyone
who persists in pushing the envelope gets a rocket from the Rove people
and does not get invited back."
-
- "Most of the staff are young, dedicated, almost
fanatical, and very, very Christian. The Ten Commandments are in each and
every office with nice pictures of Jesus accompanying them. I have chatted
up a few of these bright-faced kids and find out that they Love Jesus,
Hate Gays, Abortionists, Moslems, Blacks, Catholics, some Jews, all Democrats,
Liberals, Hindus, Chinese, Frenchmen, Germans, and now, Spaniards."
-
- "There are daily parades of born-agains into the
White House, all chanting the praises of the Lord and Bush, in that order
of course. Most of them want all abortionists hung along with gays (the
Beltway and the Pentagon would be empty) and godless Muslims and Buddhists.
Orwell would have loved this place! Yesterday [redacted] told me in strict
confidence of course, that if Diebold didn't reelect George, the Lord would.
They all wear miniature US flags on their clothes but under the lapels
they have "hidden tokens of the True Faith" and they flip their
lapels with knowing smiles when they meet another True Believer."
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- "In previous administrations, reporters assigned
to the White House press corps were very often permitted to speak briefly
with the President, either at his request or ours. In the present White
House, no one outside of Bush's personal staff is ever permitted to question
him or to speak with him in any other setting than a general press conference
(of which he has held only three in four years!). The President enters
the briefing room, surrounded by aides. He gives a set speech. Specific
questions, known in advance, are asked by favored reporters. The President
gives brief answers and then leaves the stage with no other questions ever
permitted."
-
- "[Redacted] has told us that Bush is irrationally
fearful of a terrorist attack (as is Cheney) and like Cheney, spends a
lot of his time in the White House underground air raid bunker, built years
before during the Cold War."
-
- "I heard Karl Rove say last week (week of March
22nd) that the President never read anything but the Bible. Rove is even
more religious than Bush and when the President was drying out from a lifetime
of very heavy drinking, Rove got him involved with CBS. No, not the television
network but Christian Bible Studies. Bush will do nothing without first
consulting Rove and the Biblein that order. He does not like his father
because he felt bullied by him as a young man. Bush Sr. used to criticize
Jr. for his serious and chronic drinking and dismal grades at Yale (D-.)"
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- "Meals or snacks at the Commissary at the White
House are dismal affairs. Staff members are almost always deeply engaged
in religious conversations and reporters are specifically excluded from
speaking with them. Some of them get pretty loud over soup and ice tea
so it is not difficult to glean their attitudes. It's like going to a forum
at Bob Jones U, a favorite place for thePresident."
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- Excerpts added since April 28th, 2004:
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- "Thank you for publishing my comments. Since you
put these up on your website, there has been a kind of private, muted panic
in the White House. The Bush Gestapo is determined to find out who I am.
Fortunately, I am not a staff member but now I understand the WH is getting
the FBI into the act to do a computer linguistic check on my comments to
compare these with articles I might have written. Way to go with the tax
dollars, Karl!)"
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- "You ought to look into the incident when Bush got
a nasty, deep cut on his head when he "fell off the couch while watching
a football game." Did he land on the dog? Bush is known to fall down
from time to time, according to [redacted] for "no apparent reason
at all."
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- "Yesterday, a senior staff member cornered me in
the press room and wanted to show me that he had no cross under his coat
lapel. I asked him why he was doing this and he replied that some "psycho"
in the White House was "spreading lies" to the media. When I
asked him where this had appeared, and took out my trusty notebook, he
shut up and went off to pray somewhere."
-
- "Latrine rumor has it that a new memo is coming
out, strictly prohibiting any "non-assigned personnel" from entering
into any White House office except by specific invitation and then with
a "guide." So much for the Jesus wallpaper. Everywhere but the
lavatory. One of my irreverent colleagues scrawled up something bad about
the Prez on a wall over one of the staff urinals and now these are under
24 hour video surveillance. Makes certain bodily practices very embarrassing."
-
- "When Sharon was here, [redacted] told me that Bush
basically asked him what he wanted and then gave it to him. No quid pro
quo and Foggybottom (Department of State. Ed) folks were livid."
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- 'One of the jokes here is about the Fabulous Bush twins.
They are not to be talked about because they are following in Dad's uncertain
footsteps. What a family. Two of the children are drunks and the niece
is a raging drug addict who was selling crack in the halfway house in Florida!
I told my editor I was having fun but I would rather cover drying paint.
It's less dangerous, let me advise you. By the way, all calls outside the
White House are tapped and taped."
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- "My colleague from the Mickey Mouse channel has
been telling a great story, but outside the White House. In one of the
top Presidential aide's offices, on the wall, are three big pictures. One,
in the center, is a colored picture of an Aryan Jesus flanked left and
right by smirking portraits of Bush and Cheney. Our commentator refers
to this tableaux as Christ between the Two Thieves!"
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- The White House Responds! Note: Here is a lengthy refutation
of the article on Bush's behavior by a man who states he is a White House
staffer. It is interesting to read but doubtful if it expresses any official
view. It would be doubtful in the extreme if the White House or any other
official governmental agency would ever reply, in any public forum, to
any negative articles that appear in this forum or any other. The standard
attitude of official Washington is that if they ignore us, we will all
go away.
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- Not likely. TBR referred this White House-based series
of comments to the reporter who has been forwarding his insights to us.
His responses may be found following each paragraph in highlighted italics.
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-
- From : Scott W.
- Sent : Tuesday, April 27, 2004 2:20 PM
- To : tbrnews
- Subject : New artical is not factual
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- Dear Sirs
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- I am a DISA employee working at the Whitehouse, here
is my Non Partisan view on this article. (Non-Partisan? There are no atheists
in foxholes and no non-partisan staff in the White House. I have a copy
of the hiring guide for staffers. It's hysterically funny and I am sending
you a copy. No gays are allowed and you have to profess your belief in
Almighty God, Jesus and (probably) Our President. In that order.)
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- "In the current White House, attendance at daily
Christian Evangelical prayer meetings is mandatory."
-
- (Not True, Only Sr. Staff )
-
- (Sorry, buddy, but true. I don't know where you work
but everyone else has to attend a daily prayer meeting in their own area.
By the way, this is illegal. Not in a public office that is but do you
think the wacko Reverend Ashcroft will mind? I think not. He holds his
own PrayerBreakfasts in Justice.)
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- "Vice President Cheney is the de facto President
of the United States. When he arrives at the White House for one of his
"briefings" of the President, all employees are cleared from
the West Wing and especially from the Presidential office suites. Cheney
arrives in an escorted armored limousine surrounded by his own personal,
heavily armed bodyguard and is always shown directly into the President's
office. It is reliably reported by [redacted] that Bush has a thick pad
of lined, yellow note paper on his desk, placed there by [redacted] just
before the Vice President arrives."
-
- (Not True, Our office is in corridor b7 next to the presidential
staff offices, this only happened once, on 9 11 ) (I have never been in
the White House when de facto President Cheney makes his Imperial entrance
but I have been repeatedly advised about this from a number of staff members.
Perhaps your writer goes home early because Cheney comes in later at night.)
"After Cheney's departure, the notes taken by the President are transcribed
by [redacted] and prepared as talking points for the President..."
-
- (No info ) "At some time in the past, according
to both [redacted] and [redacted] the President suffered what one of his
aides called "a very minor seizure" and as a result of this,
the President has a very difficult time following any unscripted conversations.
For this reason, his staff carefully and aggressively protect the President
from "unexpected" questions that he is not capable of answering."
-
- (Only can say that we would have heard something in the
five years I have been there ) (Bush's little medical problems are not
a secret, believe me. I personally have seen him with a vacuous stare on
his face and once saw him stagger while en-route to a meeting. Your writer
doesn't say what he does in the White House. Maybe he comes in after hours
and polishes the floors or does the blinds.)
-
- "The President takes oral medication at least twice
a day according to [redacted] because of an unspecified "indisposition'
and this subject is strictly off limits for any casual staff conversation."
-
- (Meds yes, Not True, no one has ever stated that anything
that the President does personally, is off limits )
-
- (Really? The President, by your writer's admission, does
take drugs. He has to do this at least twice a day according to [redacted]
who works in the Presidential outer office. And yes, no one on the staff
is permitted to discuss the President or his problems, medical or physical,
with "Outsiders" and I have a copy of an official memo on that
signed by Rove himself.)
-
- "At one point during a staff conference, the President
stood up and began to speak in an unknown language. Mr. Rove was able to
stop the President and get him to resume his seat. It was reported by [redacted]
that for a period of time (about fifteen minutes) after this incident,
the President appeared to be 'somewhat confused and very inarticulate.'"
-
- (Not True, This has been a rumor on the internet for
years, ) (I have never heard Bush "Talk in Tongues" but my main
source was in the room when it happened. Probably your writer was not allowed
into senior staff briefings when the President was present.)
-
- "White House staff members report that they rarely
see the President during work hours and that when they do, he is generally
accompanied by Mr. Rove and almost never either looks at or speaks to members
of the staff. He does not appear to recognize many of the staff members
and almost all contact with these individuals are carried out by his close
aides, especially by Mr. Rove."
-
- (In Fact Not True, He tries to greet most Whitehouse
staff Daily, I get a Afternoon every once and a while )(If Bush greets
staff daily, I have yet to hear about it. As I said, he is chaperoned by
senior staff and looks like a man who is visiting another planet when he
moves around. Bush is such a haughty bastard that I can't see him giving
a lowly staffer 'an Afternoon' and what does that consist of? Bush sitting
down with a GS 2 over tea and cucumber sandwiches and discussing the WMDs
he's about to fly into Iraq just before the election?)
-
- "Bush hold as few meetings with the public, including
the press, as possible. We get reams of official papers informing us of
this or that new directive. Those of us who have an inside track with the
staff are taken to dinner and given the questions to ask Bush. These are
questions he has been thoroughly briefed on and has memorized the answers
for. Anyone who persists in pushing the envelope gets a rocket from the
Rove people and does not get invited back."
-
- (Some of this is True, But has been since JFK )(Well,
here we have some confirmation, don't we? Bush's "Press Conferences"
remind me of the old Howdy Doody shows. When he is led into the room with
an army of aides, Bush looks like a scared kid going on stage for his first
school play in which he plays the rabbit. Believe me, these are rigidly
controlled events and you had better not upset Rove's apple cart while
Bush is stumbling through a speech. [Redacted]said to two of us last week
that Bush is having a bad time now even reading from the prompter. The
opinion here is that whatever he has is progressive,)
-
- "Most of the staff are young, dedicated, almost
fanatical, and very, very Christian. The Ten Commandments are in each and
every office with nice pictures of Jesus accompanying them. I have chatted
up a few of these bright-faced kids and find out that they Love Jesus,
Hate Gays, Abortionists, Moslems, Blacks, Catholics, some Jews, all Democrats,
Liberals, Hindus, Chinese, Frenchmen, Germans, and now, Spaniards."
-
- (Not True, First of all I am a 41 yr old, half Cuban,
Non Religious Male with a Jewish Grandmother, and A-Political, with no
party affiliation. There are some really open Christian staffers but the
writer fails here, he is writing with out knowledge of the Christian beliefs
or the makeup of the Staffers in the Whitehouse. I counted Monday and Tuesday,
all ethnic backgrounds. Here is what I have found - 13% Black, 14% Hispanic,
5% Chinese/Asian, 7% Mid-Asia (Persian or Indian), 7% Jewish, 4% Mid-Eastern,
2%American Indian 48% European) Some I was able to tell ethnicity, some
people I know well, some I had to ask, and I admit I guessed on a few.
-
- -- I have showed this article to several Sr. Staffers
and the NSA Asst. Director (just incase this paragraph may constitute as
a hate crime ) most likely just an idiot
-
- (This is a good one. Here we have a low rank staffer
doing demographics on the staff and telling you that I don't know about
the CHRISTIAN backgrounds of other staffers. Well, I admit I don't go around
asking about Jesus but that is all you can hear in the canteen and around
the offices. Your man hasn't commented on all the large colored pictures
of Christ in all the private offices nor the posted copies of the Ten Commandments
in all the private offices. Oh my! Our boy has actually reported me to
the NSA people for, My God! A hate crime! Well, this shows you where he
is coming from. I have just profaned his little tin God and he is stamping
his footsies with anger. His own ethnic background (I don't recall discussing
ethnic backgrounds but perhaps he hasa guilty conscience or is an exhibitionist)
is not of any concern. We aren't discussing race here but a brain-damaged
President and his staff full of Pentecostal idiots.)
-
- "There are daily parades of born-agains into the
White House, all chanting the praises of the Lord and Bush, in that order
of course. Most of them want all abortionists hung along with gays (the
Beltway and the Pentagon would be empty) and godless Muslims and Buddhists.
Orwell would have loved this place!
-
- Yesterday [redacted] told me in strict confidence of
course, that if Diebold didn't reelect George, the Lord would. They all
wear miniature US flags on their clothes but under the lapels they have
"hidden tokens of the True Faith" and they flip their lapels
with knowing smiles when they meet another True Believer."
-
- (I had heard the Condoleezza Rice was laughing hysterically
over this part, again this shows the real agenda of this article, this
man is a Bigot and an idiot)
-
- (I am a bigot and an idiot? Listen, if your writer actually
works in the White House and doesn't just walk past it on his way to rake
the leaves in Lafayette Park down the street, he had better take a course
in writing. I have seen better literary skills from my son's fourth grade
class than this joker produces. He has heard that Rice was laughing? Look,
believe it that after my little comments ended up on your site that there
was major fecal matter flying around the White House. Questions were asked
of everyone, computers were checked out, phone logs read through and the
press was subject to subtle questions. I believe your writer will get the
sack for writing to you. The one thing these nazis will not tolerate is
for one of their own to break ranks and staffers are forbidden to discuss
any White House activity outside the White House. I can get away with it
because I am not a government employee.)
-
- "In previous administrations, reporters assigned
to the White House press corps were very often permitted to speak briefly
with the President, either at his request or ours. In the present White
House, no one outside of Bush's personal staff is ever permitted to question
him or to speak with him in any other setting than a general press conference
(of which he has held only three in four years!). The President enters
the briefing room, surrounded by aides. He gives a set speech. Specific
questions, known in advance, are asked by favored reporters. The President
gives brief answers and then leaves the stage with no other questions ever
permitted."
-
- (Some of this is True, But only specific reporters have
had access to any president, nothing new here, always like this) (Here
we have some more confirmation. If you are not a 100% Bush supporter or,
more important, if your employer is not, you don't get near George W. All
of the Q & A during the "Press Conferences" that are televised
are scripted in advance with in-house press members given specific questions
to ask, questions George is fully primed to answer. They will not recognize
a hands up from any member of the press who is not in the script.)
-
- "[Redacted] has told us that Bush is irrationally
fearful of a terrorist attack (as is Cheney) and like Cheney, spends a
lot of his time in the White House underground air raid bunker, built years
before during the Cold War."
-
- (Technically true, but there is no longer an underground
coldwar air raid shelter under the Whitehouse, True, they do not spend
a lot of time together, but this is a common procedure during a time of
war. )
-
- (There is such a shelter and I have seen the armored
door that covers the entrance to the corridor leading to it. This is always
under military guard. Bush spends a lot of time down there because he is
scared the Arabs will blow up the White House. Scuttlebutt here says, pretty
unanimous indeed, that Cheney (who is a weird one at best) spends all of
his time in a bunker just outside of the Beltway. They think this is a
secret but it isn't. By the way, maybe your writer would like to comment
on this bit: Cheney had his annual medical checkup recently but no one
will release the findings. His heart problems are so bad that he could
peg out at any time. Since he runs the President, this would be a disaster.
Imagine, what would Bush do if Cheney died? He would be without his own,
real Father. He'd probably declare war on the Eskimos because of all their
oil.)
-
- "I heard Karl Rove say last week (week of March
22nd) that the President never read anything but the Bible. Rove is even
more religious than Bush and when the President was drying out from a lifetime
of very heavy drinking, Rove got him involved with CBS. No, not the television
network but Christian Bible Studies. Bush will do nothing without first
consulting Rove and the Biblein that order. He does not like his father
because he felt bullied by him as a young man. Bush Sr. used to criticize
Jr. for his serious and chronic drinking and dismal grades at Yale (D-
.)"
-
- (NOT True, I know for a fact that he just finished, "Supreme
Command" by Eliot Cohen )
-
- (Now this is know is nonsense. No one connected with
the White House, be it press or staff, has ever seen Bush read anything
and he himself is on record as stating that he never reads anything. He
also said, and I looked this up, that he depends entirely on his staffers
for any information. He might read children's books to little kids when
he is hiding out from 9/11 but I personally have no knowledge of Bush being
any kind of a reader. He does not get daily newspapers, almost never watches
television and one of my better connected colleagues who actually meets
with Bush once in a while, says that you cannot, and must not, discuss
anything with him other than the weather, his dogs or baseball.)
-
- I am tired, and frankly I am somewhat disgusted with
this whole article. I have seen a lot of hate of Clinton in the past, I
had to write similar rebuts on Republican sites defending the Clinton "Presidency"
no the man, I am doing the same here, I must, I work for The President
of the United States, not the Man. I must say, I find your Hate for the
Man 10 fold over the Republican Hate for Clinton, and more so your hate
of Christians. And I am disgusted with the lies and slander
-
- That you publish as fact, just to tarnish a man and a
presidency. I find that un-American. (Un-American? Give me a break, bozo!
In case you were unaware of it, this is the United States and we do have
freedom of speech here. Lucky Senator McCarthy is dead or I might be investigated
for being Un-American! I guess by his definition, all Democrats are Un-American
and tbr news certainly has to be Un-American because of all the things
you publish. Just keep it up and ignore the real bigots.)
-
- Good Night
Sir. Scott W.
-
- Note: Another response to our article appeared on April
27th and is of considerable interest.
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