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.
There have been a growing number of comments about the persona of
George Bush. Paul O’Neil, his Secretary of the Treasury and
others have written about the difficulties of communicating with
the President.
He is described at
basically disconnected in conversations. Bush has said that he
does not read, getting his information solely from his aides and
only in abbreviated form. Bush does not give press conferences,
preferring to make short statements instead.
I have seen Bush at
a press conference held in Monterrey, Mexico, aired on CSPAN. He
was appearing at a joint conference with Mexican President Fox. A
reporter from Reuters asked Bush a simple, non-offensive question
and Bush became alarmed, couldn’t answer directly and struggled
to make some kind of coherent reply. He merely repeated several
slogans and stumbled about in a thoroughly alarming way until Fox
rescued him.
Others have seen
similar incidents of total dysfunction on the part of the
President when confronted with any kind of a question requiring
either knowledge or thought.
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.
After we published
some of the comments by a current White House reporter, we
received a large number of communications, among which were three
from persons with medical backgrounds.
All three strongly
suggested that their visual observations of the President, coupled
with published reports, indicated to their trained eyes that the
President had some kind of a disorder that was either physical or
psychological or both.
One suggested that
we get a definition of Alzheimer’s Disease and two commented on
serious and permanent brain damage that can be caused in some
people by excessive drug or alcohol use.
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.
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.”
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:
THE
MADNESS OF KING GEORGE
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.
"In
the current White House, attendance at daily Christian Evangelical
prayer meetings is mandatory."
"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."
"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."
"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.”
“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 Bible…in
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-.)”
“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 the
President.”
Excerpts added since April 28th, 2004:
“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!)”
“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.”
“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.”
‘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.”
“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!”
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.
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.
From : Scott Wieduwilt swieduwilt@earthlink.net
Sent : Tuesday, April 27, 2004 2:20 PM
To : tbrnews@hotmail.com
Subject : New artical is not factual
Dear Sirs
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.)
"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 Prayer Breakfasts in Justice.)
"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 has a 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 Bible…in 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
Wieduwilt
Note: Another
response to our article appeared on April 27th and is
of considerable interest.
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