Brave Dave's Idiotic Bush Question [David Gregory Gets Smacked Down Alert]

RUSH: Let's go to the president's press conference. The first question I want to play for you is from David Gregory, who I have a new nickname for: Brave Dave. Here is the question from David Gregory. It's about Iraq, that happened mere moments ago at a Rose Garden press conference.

GREGORY: Mr. President, after the -- mistakes that have been made in this war, when you do as you did yesterday, when you raised two-year-old intelligence talking about the threat posed by Al-Qaeda, it's met with increasing skepticism. The majority in the public, growing number of Republicans appear not to trust you any longer to be able to carry out this policy successfully. Can you explain why you believe you're still a credible messenger on the war?

RUSH: Well, we have Brave Dave, Brave Dave Gregory, a man who supports the troops as much as he supported Don Imus. Imus helped make him a star. When Imus got in trouble, there was Gregory running for the hills. Now, we talked about this yesterday. This business that the two-year-old intelligence dump that the president referenced yesterday is received by the American people with skepticism is absurd. It's received with skepticism by people like David Gregory in the media. Here's the president's answer to the question.

THE PRESIDENT: I'm credible because I read the intelligence, David, and make it abundantly clear, in plain terms that if we let up, we'll be attacked. And I firmly believe that . You know, look, this has been a long, difficult experience for the American people. I can assure you, Al-Qaeda, who would like to attack us again, have got plenty of patience and persistence. And the question is, will we? Yeah, I talked about intelligence yesterday. I wanted to make sure the intelligence I laid out was credible, so we took our time. Somebody said, "Well, he's trying to politicize the thing." If I was trying to politicize it, I'd have dropped it out before the 2006 elections. I believe I have an obligation to tell the truth to the American people as to the nature of the enemy. And it's unpleasant for some. I fully recognize that after 9/11, the calm here at home, relatively speaking, you know, caused some to say, "Well, maybe we're not at war." I know that's a comfortable position to be in. But that's not the truth.

RUSH: We talked about this yesterday, too. I'm still stunned that more people -- I can understand the media. The media, by virtue of the number of questions they asked on Iraq today, is still interested in forcing the president's surrender and defeat. They just want to blow this up prior to the 2008 elections. We talked yesterday about the fact that the people after World War II, our generation, the baby boom generation today, said, "How could the German people have let that happen? What went on?" You could ask the same question of what's going on today in America. How could the American people not understand what's going on? It's not as though 9/11 didn't happen. It did, and you've got Ahmadinejad, who today again has threatened Israel, threatened to wipe them off the map. He's done this frequently.

Bin Laden, Ahmadinejad, al-Zawahiri, it matters not who is on the enemies list. They're telling us plain as day what they're going to do. We've got intelligence here that backs it up, and people in the Drive-By Media just don't want to believe it. It's stunning. You know my theory on this. We know the media is who they are. But in this country, why are so many of the American people -- I'm not sure what the percentage is -- why are they so seemingly removed from this? The answer is, we've got so much prosperity; we have so much affluence that people don't have pay attention to this if they don't want to. It's tough to pay attention. You pay attention to it and act like something's wrong, it requires you to take action or be vigilant or what have you, and some people just don't want to think of it as themselves or their neighborhoods or their country or various cities being threatened on a daily basis. I've always thought it's going to take a couple more attacks to wake everybody up. The president continued, by the way, the answer to David Gregory with this.

THE PRESIDENT: They are a direct threat to the United States. And I'm going to keep talking about it. It's my job as the president is to tell people the threats we face and what we're doing about it, and what we've done about it is we've strengthened our homeland defenses; we've got new techniques that we use that enable us to better than determine their motives and their plans and plots. We're working with nations around the world to deal with these radicals and extremists. But they're dangerous. And I can't put it any more plainly, they're dangerous. And I can't put it any more plainly to the American people and to them, we will stay on the offense. It's better to fight 'em there than here. And this concept about, "Well, maybe, you know, let us kind of just leave them alone and maybe they'll be all right," is naïve. These people attacked us before we were in Iraq. They viciously attacked us before we were in Iraqi. And they've been attacking ever since. They are a threat to your children, David. And whoever's in that Oval Office better understand it and take measures necessary to protect the American people.

"David’s not worried about his kids, he intends to donate YOURS!!"

David Gregory's child

I saw a poll where over 8% believe the WTC towers are still standing. A 2001 Gallup poll showed 33% of people believe in flying saucers. The Flat Earth Society has over 3000 members. According to a 1999 Gallup poll, 6 percent of the US public believed the first moon landing was faked.

And you probabaly run into at least one of them every day!

"And you probabaly run into at least one of them every day!"

On this forum alone!

David Gregory has joined Geraldo “The Warrior Journalist” Rivera on the Axeman’s list. When either of their visages or voices appear on my TV, it automatically triggers a mute button activation.

44 posted on 05/25/2007 10:01:20 AM PDT by Ax (One of Rozerem's side effects is drowsiness. Shouldn't that be a positive?)

Excuse me, but your conception needs revamping. You can pick on small items, however you cannot explain the aroused German nation over the lies and deception perpetrate upon them by the “Allies”. This is what brought National Socialism to Germany. If the concept of an “Armistice” had been followed there would never have been WWII (IMHO).

"David Gregory has joined Geraldo “The Warrior Journalist” Rivera on the Axeman’s list. When either of their visages or voices appear on my TV, it automatically triggers a mute button activation."

Cool. I need something like that for this forum.

Here's what the Allies thought, which was reflected in their treatment of postwar Germany. The collapse of Germany's economy and the inevitable rise of a savior in the form of Hitler can be laid primarily at the feet of France.

David Lloyd George believed Germany had to be punished but not to the extent that it left her destitute.
Woodrow Wilson believed that Germany should be punished but in a way that would lead to European reconciliation as opposed to revenge.
Georges Clemenceau of France had one very simple belief - Germany should be brought to its knees so that she could never start a war again.

We shall agree to disagree.The German people were “betrayed” by the Armistice. Armistice means there is to be no winner only cesation of hostilities. You are ignoring this concept and how it applies to the German people.

Neither America nor England hauled the German industrial base out of the Ruhr Valley. Germany was raped, pure and simple, by France. Vichy France was one of the most deserved occupations in history.

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