Documentary film director Michael Moore got a 20 minute standing ovation at Cannes today for his anti-Bush documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 which reveals that President Bush never budged from his mission to read a book to school children, despite being informed three times of the attacks. Finally, seven minutes after he'd been informed the second tower was hit, the president had to be told by a staffer to stop reading because his attentions might be needed elsewhere.
"A sinister cabal of superior writers."
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— go to most recent comments1 - Al Barger
You have to admit that a cute goat CAN be distracting.
2 - felix
Stay the course, after all.
3 - jack e. jett
al:
I have always been a sheep man myself.
I am happy that the president was reading to children.
jack e. jett
4 - Mark Saleski
geez, this is weird...but just yesterday, on my drive home, i passed a couple and their child walking along the side of the road: each person (child included) was walking a goat on a leash.
i do not know what this means.
5 - Joe
Chupacabra bait, maybe?
6 - Tom Johnson
Love the book suggestion. "Meat Goats" - I love that. I wish I had a band just so I could name them that.
7 - CW Fisher
Goat meat baa.
8 - Stately Wayne Manor
UMMMMMMMMM... Cabrito, Muy delicioso.
9 - CW Fisher
Mark -- when you saw the man, woman and child each walking their own goat, did you notice if the whites of their eyes were black? Because if the sclerae are black, that's an apocolyptic vision thing. My own apocolypse burst a few years ago, horrible. But goats are otherwise good. Children used to get their milk from them, just sucking off the teat. It's true, and I have pictures. Somewhere. Then, after they had all the milk and cheese they could put in the fridge, they'd kill the old goat, slit its throat and drain it into a pitcher, and the men'd drink its blood while the poor thing's laying there dying, got one kid on one teat, a puppy on another, and that's all it remembers. It usually misses dinner. And nobody cares. Nobody. If you continue to suffer these visions, write them down, or run screaming through the streets, depending on how far away from here you live.
10 - Mark Saleski
hmmm, couldn't tell ya if the sclarae were black...but the people were walkin' their goats with a daycare center to their left and a used car dealership across the street.
maybe that means something.
11 - Shark
The great irony is that when the first "shots" of the great "War on Terrorism" were fired, the semi-literate Bush was actually reading a book!
Just imagine the odds!
That's like saying that when Pearl Harbor was attacked, FDR was tap dancing.
12 - CW Fisher
Shark, it's more like when Pearl Harbor was attacked FDR was tap dancing and continued tap dancing until he was told to stop tap dancing. To continue the anaolgy, FDR would then have to escape to his bunker and not appear for close to 40 hours, coming out only when people start wondering out loud on the air: Where's the president? We just didn't know W. that well. We didn't know George Bush, when faced with a need to show up in any military situation, will cut and run every time, just as he did in the reserves. Poor thing didn't know what to do until Cheney calmed him down, showed him how this whole al Qaeda thing could be pieced togather to make a suit for Saddam Hussein. And then he perked up, because li'l George jr. always wanted to get the man that tried to kill his daddy. Americans watch too much TV and hire presidents based on looks. This country needs an extreme makeover. First thing we have to do is reassert the place of religion, which is out Out OUT of politics. Jesus Khrist, these freelancers are Nazis. Even the Catholics: there's a bishop who won't let the supporters of pro-choice candidates take communion. Read "democrats." This from the people who raped your prepubescent boy and ruined his life, then ran away and hid behind the skirts of a bishop -- for decades -- while fulfilling his fantasies at will. These phucks must exit now, all of them, all at once, and none of them must ever be allowed back into the debate with their threats and constituencies. We defeated the Taliban and created our own? Not in my country we didn't. DAMN I miss ranting.
13 - boomcrashbaby
My pet goat ate Bush's 9/11 story
14 - El Chupacabra
Hola amigo, just stake him out on the yard and I'll make sure he never eats
ANYTHING again!!! Adios.
15 - craig robinson
Bush wasn't told what to do when the towers fell. The perpetrators (Likely Cheney and Rumsfeld in cahoots with some of their terrorist buddies) forgot to tell him what to do.
16 - ntiviv
I currently have one "pet goat"/companion goat. Used to have two (they were littermates).
We frequently walk our goat/s on a leash--chain, actually, since they are REALLY strong. We wave to all the passersby, who frequently think the goat is a sheep or even a weird dog. Honestly.
HOW DO I LOCATE A COPY OF "MY PET GOAT"?????
Searched Amazon.com and can't find it. Help us!!!
BAAAAA, or as Agnes says, MAAA-AAA-AAA-AAA.
17 - CW Fisher
I wonder the same thing. How to get a copy of this so-called "My Pet Goat." If it actually exists, it's probably out of print.
Must a been some book. Bush couldn't put it down.
I had a friend who had a pet goat who was also a friend of mine, name of Mr. Lucky, so called because he was adopted from the slaughterhouse, a last moment reprieve sort of thing. He was one grateful son of a bitch.
He got his own stall, and later took a wife, and together they had a bunch a kids. And old Lucky was as gentle as could be. He'd nudge you, but he knew his own strength. If he wanted, he could kill you pretty easily. I was cool so long as I always made sure to bring him Jolly Ranchers. Otherwise I was not cool, as he explained to me once. You come walkin in here without FOOD? Get your BUTT outta here!
His owner died and his wife called to say she didn't want to see us anymore because we were his friends really, not hers. The goat she took the slaughterhouse.
Which is the problem with luck. It always runs out.
18 - CarlosX
MY PET GOAT - must be a great
reading when the president himself
choose to read it rather than worry
about the twin towers.
I had goats as a kid and they are
lots of fun, they love to jump & play,
but where is our leader when we are
attacked? Reading MY PET GOAT!
Please tell me this man will not
be re-elected.
19 - Tom Johnson
How about reality for a moment: when the news that the towers had been hit reached the president's staffers and secret service agents, it was safer to keep him doing what he had been doing than to rush him out. There was mass confusion in the moments following the attacks and having the president rush out would have done no good other than make more people upset who needn't be concerned. I mean, you all are reasonably intelligent people, right? You do realize there are some things that are beyond the control of the president, such as his own safety, right? Because when an attack like this happens, his secret service agents foremost goal is to ensure that the president is safe, clear the area, and then get him back to Air Force One where they can get him in the air - where he is safest - and ultimately somewhere deep in hiding. Until they can move him, what should he do? Make the children upset? What good would that do? What good does it do to rush him out of the school to wait in his limo - a pretty visible and obvious target moving through a busy city? Keeping him where he was was their only course of action.
I know, it's just not as fun as thinking this is some big conspiracy and/or an example of incompetence, but ANY president in that same situation would have done exactly the same thing. Seriously, all you Bush-bashers who use things like this as an example of why Bush sucks really need to read up on how security around the president works. One would think logic would fill all this in, but apparently logical people are not commenting on this post.
20 - CW Fisher
Tom, it seems I got your goat. Sorry, man. It seems to me that George could have passed the book to an assistant while he did a little business. Like what Dick Cheney was doing. Making decisions.
21 - ntiviv
Tom,
Logical people do read this post.
Just yesterday I was talking to Spock, and he mentioned it and said how brilliant we are and how he wanted to invite all of us to a Vulcan party.
Baaaaa-humbug.
22 - ntiviv
Tom,
Oh my gosh,
I just read you have a GOATEE!
Now this is really a sign.
P.S. A goat would be very happy to lick that honey roasted peanut dust out of your facial hairs.
P.P.S. My pet goat can't read, and she's not 18 yet, but if she were, she'd vote for ABB.
BAA
23 - Tom Johnson
That's fine, Fisher, just brush over everything I wrote to make a snide comment. It just proves what I was pointing out - that your only concern is to criticize the president regardless of how reality actually fits into the situation.
24 - CW Fisher
Johnson -- and I know you called me Fisher just so I'd call you Johnson -- what man doesn't want to be called Johnson -- but I'm not being "snide" nor am I "brushing over" what you wrote in defense of the president. Lord knows he needs a vigorous defense because his staff isn't providing it.
Whatever George Bush was or wasn't
on 9-11, he isn't (or is?) now. Meaning he's different. He doesn't have that scared look anymore. He has a scary look and a proven track record of aggression without hesitation. He has the confidence of a president driven by ideology who won't accept opposition because he sees it as something God deliberately put in his way so it wouldn't be easy.
I've come to believe that Bush is quite serious about his personal relationship with the Lord. I've known many "baby Christians," people who came late to the table, as they say, driven there by some misfortune, often alcohol or drugs. Conversions do happen, lives can go in reverse. But a low-grade psychosis follows every conversion, and it takes years to mature into something useful. The "moral certainty" that Bush brags about is a dangerous idea that never brings peace and always brings war, since people like George exist all over the world, people who sincerely believe that God specifically chose them to invade a neighbor and kill lots of people because they are absolutely certain of their morality. In case you hadn't noticed, that's what the enemy is doing to us right now. Moral certainty is the weapon.
Listen, Tom, if this is about Michael Moore's movie, lighten up. Go see it. Grit your teeth. Fight back if you need to. I didn't make the movie and I'm not plugging it. The only reason I make light of heavy subjects is that I refuse to be dragged into the BC basement where I will be beaten, raped and left for dead. Humor -- and I make no apology for this -- is my way of getting through the stuff that enrages me. I'm less effective without it, and worse, I'm miserable. But I don't mean to imply any disrespect for you or your positions. If I have I apologize.
25 - jwerwin
"My Pet Goat" -- Does anyone actually know any information about this book? Who wrote it? Who published it? What's message of the story?