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Banned Bush Interview

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Banned Bush Interview
The President's handlers foolishly granted a Presidential interview to a non-White House Press Corps journalist, Carole Coleman, the Washington correspondent for RTE, the Irish national television network.

When she asked him pointed, pertinent questions, he became upset when his stock answers failed to satisfy her.

An aide to the President later complained that Coleman had "overstepped the bounds of politeness."

This interview was not shown on American television.

From June 24, 2004.
Jul 9, 2007 10:25 AM
Re: Irish Reporter Carole Coleman's Banned Bush Interview
GWB "overstepped the bounds of politeness" a few times this interview.

He certainly overstepped politeness on a pretty massive scale when he pushed the button on Iraq regardless of how the UN felt.
By: bryan
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I feel like she is the one who overstepped any bounds, when she asks a question and interrupts his answers because she wants to shove her own opinions in...

This was a great interview on GWB's part. GWB didn't overstep any bounds in this interview, which is admirable against an interview who was clearly trying to make him look bad.

Could the description of this link get any more biased?

"When she asked him pointed, pertinent questions, he became upset when his stock answers failed to satisfy her. "

That's really not what happened at all. He wasn't upset with how satisfied she was, he only became upset when she tried to interrupt him.

We live in the United States, not a collective United Nations. So the UN didn't want to take down a dictator, Bush did. I'll respect the decisions of our chosen leader. Invading Iraq wasn't a bad decision. If I remember right the house voted 296-133 giving bush the authority to invade Iraq.

Has Iraq since been mishandled? Sure. But the world IS better off without Saddam in power.

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"I feel like she is the one who overstepped any bounds, when she asks a question and interrupts his answers because she wants to shove her own opinions in..."

This is probably where our opinions differ. In UK and Irish politics and political commentary, discussion is not so one-sided. Watch clips of Jeremy Paxman interviewing political figures - he is 10 times as aggressive and pushy as this woman is. Trying to assert your point with actual facts instead of just saying 'excuse me, it's my turn to talk' is in my view the mark of a better speaker.
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She was trying to have a conversation with him and he couldn't keep up. Its the standard talking point formula for winning debates, if he cant muscle the time to complete the set of rehearsed words, regardless of their relevance to the evolving topic of conversation, then he loses.

Conversing with people like that is so frustrating, I think she handled it pretty well.
By: bryan
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My opinion is that the interviewers job is solely to obtain information from the interviewee. It wasn't meant to be a debate format.

If you know something I don't that leads you to believe she had the right to debate him, then fine. But otherwise - interviews are meant to as ways of assessing through question and answer. not debate.

"She was trying to have a conversation with him and he couldn't keep up."

Do you really believe that? Watch it again, where was he unable to keep up? It's as simple as the fact that she was interrupting him.
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I do believe it, absolutely.

Look. Someone who is quick on their toes can deal with asshole interviewers and not look like a complete moron.

http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/51459/detail/
By: bryan
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Clinton does the exact same thing. Talk loud, to get the other person to shut up, etc. etc. But yet you see his as this great interview.

It's the exact same.
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The difference to me is that Clinton adapts and answers the questions he's asked instead of flailing and stuttering.
By: bryan
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"house voted 296-133 giving bush the authority to invade"

they were tricked, btw.
By: bryan
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I think the point is that while she wanted to engage in an active discussion, he merely wanted to expound boring, cookie-cutter talking points, and George got a little irritated when she interrupted his rhetoric. That's just the nature of American politics, though.
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I can't believe to this day, after everything that has happened, some people STILL like this douchebag...

By: IceLed
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And they don't just simply like him, but they think he's one of the greatest men to walk the earth since Jesus.
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I dont agree with every thing "W" has done but I cant imagine where the world would be if a push over liberal like Al Gore were president.I think he had to put that biotch in her place,she wouldn't let him finish...can I finish.
By: crazyotto
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You can't imagine where the world would be if a "push-over liberal like Al Gore were president?" Let me assist.

A month before 9/11, Bush received a memo that said: "Bin Ladin Determined to Strike in US." When agents urgently briefed Bush on their fears of an imminent attack, Bush dismissed them with the comment: "All right. You've covered your ass, now," according to Ronald Suskind's excellent book, "The One Percent Doctrine."

If Gore were president, maybe he would have acted.

We know what Bush did. Nothing.
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"I cant imagine where the world would be if a push over liberal like Al Gore were president"

we wouldnt be in iraq. if the attack had still happened maybe we'd be looking for bin laden. the entire world probably wouldnt hate us the way they do now. gore probably would have listened to people with real military experience.

these are my best guesses. since we cant know for certain it's all up for endless debate, but we do know what did happen with the other douchebag in power.

also, why should the president be coddled? are you upset she may have hurt his widdle feewings? great use of biotch by the way. frankly, if i was in her position i'd of said fuck it and took the oportunity to slap him. cant imagine it wouldve ended well but it someone needs to do it.

it seemed like she waited for a pause to ask the next question and he cut her off before she could get it out.
By: raubhi
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The interviewer is a prick. The first rule of any sort of journalism is to try as much as possible to leave personal stake or opinion out of anything, and she clearly did not do it. I don't know how they do things across the pond, but the interview reminded me of some FOX News interviews I've seen.

As for Bush himself, he may not be the most articulate person in the world, but I think he is genuine in his beliefs that what he is doing is for the best. The war is still happening, as is his presidency. Don't be so quick to judge his actions.
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When should we judge his actions? After another thousand dead? Ten thousand?

We were lied into this mess for oil, its far passed time to start asking these questions.
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he's been in office for 6 years of massive fuck-ups. if he actually is genuine in his beliefs and thinks he's having a positive effect on anyone but his investors then he's more of an idiot than i am.

i didnt see a comparison between this interview and a fox news interview because she asked real questions and didnt just try talking over him. on top of that when he realized he fucked up a response and yelled 'can i finish?' to backtrack she stopped talking.
By: raubhi
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Carol was only questioning Irish views on Bush and his war. Most Irish people have strong emotional ties to and family in the USA. Many Irish work for US MNCs. But 100,00 Irish people (of a population of just 4 million people) had just marched to protest the war. Carol would have been fired if she did not ask these awkward questions. If Ireland and the USA are such great friends, why are we not allowed to ask the hard questions.
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Bryan, you'll make a great pet one day.
By: meehan
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I hate to say it but life is clearly not as innocent as we've all been comfortably fooling ourselves into believing. Bush is an evil SOB. But we are all capable of being evil. There is some major eff'd up ess happening in the world today. But that doesn't mean it should be avoided. Great change in history has always been marked by blood. I hate a lot of the personalities involved in the right wing crusade against anything not "American" and by "American" I mean whatever the right wing agenda chooses to define the word as at any particular time. The fact is the US has become lethargic and needs to change a lot of things, (personally I think we should outlaw obesity for starters - fat people cause a lot of problems). As awful as our situation in the world is today, we must embrace it, completely and make the best of it. I love peace. I love living in the US. I love my Scotch-Irish American heritage. I love and adore Arab people and their culture. I feel like the real enemy that we are facing is greed and corruption. As is evident in China's food supply right now. So if freedom and democracy has to be spread... fine then spread it - we shouldn't stand in its path. Its got a relatively proven track record. Is it the best system to embrace? Is it better than socialism? Maybe, maybe not, but the gears are turning and I feel it best to just facilitate the general direction we are heading and at the same time weed out the greed and corruption however that is possible. I am well aware that a temporary peace could have been achieved had we not unleashed a crusade led by a corporate agenda overseas. Had we just instead waited for the next "domestic attack" and dealt with it then, the world perhaps, might be more at ease. But being at ease, or more accurately, comfortable, does not necessarily mean the world has secured peace. It is necessary for everyone's perspective on the world and peace to be relatively aligned in order to facilitate a world without international hostility. People are so set in their convictions that there will have to be a lot of blood shed before world peace can be achieved. Surely even our own blood must be shed and perhaps in ways that we don't agree with and can't even anticipate. If the goal is peace and it is truly being worked towards, than we must be ready to sacrifice everything. Especially what we are comfortable with.
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