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Bush's Banned Interview:
An Insight Into Insanity
Posted July 10, 2008 | 02:34 PM (EST)




While surfing the net on 'Stumble', I came across an interview with President Bush on Irish television that caused a bit of a storm in 2004. The interview conducted by the tenacious Carol Coleman of Radio Television Ireland was not aired on American television, and Bush's press officers apparently complained vociferously about the rigorous questioning.

The video shows Bush at the absolute peak of his arrogance -- convinced of his own rhetoric about Iraq, flooded with confidence from international subservience to American power, and high off a crushing military victory that reinforced his childish fantasies of American power and preeminence.

The problem was, Coleman was having none of it, and what transpired was a unique insight into the warped brain of the least respected and most hated president in the history of the United States.

"Mr. President," she asked the stone faced Coleman. "You're going to arrive in Ireland in about 24 hours' time, and no doubt you will be welcomed by our political leaders. Unfortunately, the majority of our public do not welcome your visit because they're angry over Iraq, they're angry over Abu Ghraib. Are you bothered by what Irish people think?"

Other than stutter, the president managed only to answer in vacant homilies about 'the great values of our country.'

"We are a compassionate country," he asserted. "We're a strong country, and we'll defend ourselves -- but we help people."

And that was about the depth of his explanation for the invasion of Iraq. Supremely satisfied with his own answers, Bush expected Coleman to be bowled over with his 'good ol' plain speakin' English', but Coleman, not infected with the American media's insatiable appetite to service power, had other ideas.

She continued to grill Bush about the rising violence in Iraq, increased world wide threat of terrorism, and failure to find the weapons of mass destruction. Flustered and unaccustomed to serious challenges to his power, Bush displayed flashes of anger, and an increased reliance on catch phrases to argue the unarguable.

"These people are willing to kill innocent people," he answered testily in response to questioning about the Iraqi death toll. "They're willing to slaughter innocent people to stop the advance of freedom. And so the free world has to make a choice: Do we cower in the face of terror, or do we lead in the face of terror?"

Coleman cut through the simplistic slogans about evil doers and freedom loving Americans and continued to ask Bush serious questions about the illegal war he had just launched. It fast became evident that this was a man who really had no idea what he was doing -- someone so removed from reality that he failed to even understand what he was being asked.

The world in Bush's mind exists of good and evil, right and wrong, and America and everyone else. He could not fathom anyone disagreeing with his nobility, and simply refused to acknowledge that a different account of reality existed.

The interview took place almost four years ago, but is the perfect illustration of a man elected purely on name recognition, dirty money, and no discernible talent. Four years ago, there were still enough Americans who believed Bush's infantile bluster was charming and direct. Now, even Republicans do not waste their time with him, quietly wishing he would disappear and stop embarrassing their party.

The interview with Coleman should go down on record as definitive proof of Bush's utter incompetence, a priceless picture of a madman who had no business occupying the highest office of the land.

Watch below:

My first experience in watching George Bush while listening to him speak was one of immense gut churning anxiety, which I associate with an internal mental experience I identify now as cognitive dissonance. With Bush, cognitive dissonance occurs in me as an ongoing stream of gut churning anxiety, especially if I listen to him and at the same time try to pretend that what he says is meant to make sense as if he believes it does. That happened before he ever ran for president.

He's not the only person running around loose that does that to me.

Truthfully, I don't know what insanity is. But I know an uncomfortable feeling when I experience it, and that feeling is so programmed into me now that, if I don't prepare myself (see below) I almost throw up looking at a still shot of Bush's face. If I go beyond that and watch his face in motion, along with his words that are supposed to go with the expressions, it puts me in great danger of not making it through the experience alive, or at least that's how it feels.

Now, waterboarding might be a better experience. I haven't tried it, though.

Perhaps it's worth mentioning that a cognition I can perform to get through watching him is to consciously transform his face with my visual imagination into a monkey's. The result becomes an experience of comedy instead of horror. I don't know if anyone can do that while being water boarded, do you?

This is the one I always see. He's mocking Carla Faye Tucker before her execution.

I can see why this interview never made it to the American people! He avoided answering the questions Carol put to him, instead, he gave her nothing but Rah, Rah Rah, you could tell he was not accustomed to people questioning his authority and he didn't like it at all!! He tried to do the Texas two step with her, and she wouldn't let him lead, thats what really pissed him off!! I had the same reaction Ren had, I got this gut feeling the minute I saw his face and his voice made me angry and I felt like someone put their fingernails over the chalkboard. Carol should come to America and teach journalism to everyone of our Anchor people on how to interview!!!