Report from inside the White House - scary, scary, scary!!

[Emillereid]

If the report below is true (and it does concur with lots of other stuff I've seen from a multitude of sources) we are indeed in big do-do. The TBRnews site is worth taking a look at. Does anyone know how reliable it is?

http://www.tbrnews.org/Archives/a876.htm

Note: 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 that Bush has a thick pad of lined, yellow note paper on his desk, placed there by just before the Vice President arrives."

"After Cheney's departure, the notes taken by the President are transcribed by and prepared as talking points for the President..."

"At some time in the past, according to both and 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 because of an unspecified "indisposition' and this subject is strictly off limits for any casual staff conversation." ...more...

If this report if true, it goes a long way to explain Dubya's incoherent answers during last week's so called press conference.

[BlueEyedSon]

1. Dupe....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1442857

[bobbieinok]

2. this is interesting but site appears to be a holocaust denier site

[JHB]

3. It's part of Willis ("Liberty Lobby") Carto's network of publications

Carto is one of the original RW nutballs, and his wingnuts hate the Bushies because their stance on Israel.

These guys can turn up interesting stuff from time to time, but you really do need to cross-check them and verify to separate the wheat from the chaff.

[amandabeech]

4. I had a brief e-mail correspondence with Walter Storch,

who runs this site on just this topic because there are links to denier sites, specifically "The Barnes Review," a denier publication. (Someone on DU referenced the site and I checked it out.) He wrote to me to say that in fact he was running an anti-Holocaust denier site. The actual name of the site is the "Barnes Review News," and there are some stories very critical of the The Barnes Review.

Storch also wrote that the bizarre photo on the home page is a distorted view (or simulated view) of David Irving, the very controversial historian turned denier, with his nose punched in.

Storch also claims that he prints lots of things that other journalists won't, and that he gets lots of unusual submissions, like these reports. He's located in Europe, maybe Luxembourg or France, if I recall correctly, and not subject to U.S. libel laws. The site runs through a server in Vancouver to protect him from suit.

The whole behind the media series is available on the site. I have no idea about its truth, but as fiction, it is compelling.

[Emillereid]

5. I just clicked on the picture of Lewis and it links to an article

that in essence beats Lewis up. Also most of the archived links to articles seem to lead to articles that have been posted on DU from reputable news sources such as AFP, guardian, reuters, etc. People should be more careful about shooting the messenger. Even a screwball can be right about some things.

[JHB]

6. Then he REALLY needs...

...to be more clear about what he's trying to say.