The Bush Administration -- A Committment To Excellence

Brady took a bullet for Ronnie. End of vote.

 

Well, for respected for that, yes (and the subsequent work on gun control he and his wife have done).
Influential? Well, he was only in that post for over 2 months.
For influential, I vote Salinger.

 

You are all just a bunch of Bush Bashers and America haters. I give her credit for admitting it, but having read a few daily press transcripts from the WH, that has to be one of the toughest gigs there is. Not only are you asked questions about situations throughout the globe, you have to answer them the way the administration wants them answered. But what do you expect, she's a former TV journo.

 

To be fair, the other listeners were playing easier games. She was playing "Not My Job," where they deliberately ask questions about things they don't expect that person to know. Her category was "You're Cast Away on the Island of the Misfit Toys," and they asked her three obscure questions about "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer."

But yeah, I heard her go on about the Cuban Missile Crisis and went, "Wait...is she serious?"

And the goal is not to win "something" for the listener. It's to win Carl Kasell's voice on their home answering machine!

 

Bullshit. It's high school-level American history, tops.

 

Can't we bash Bush and be ambivalent about America?

 

Apparently not.

 

Sorry, but that shows a complete lack of historical perspective that is essential for someone who's going to be the public face for the administration.

 

With sweeping generalizations like this, it's no wonder you're a Billo fan...

 

The Bush Bashers and America-haters part was sarcasm. Honestly, the right did a hellava job labeling critics as Bush Bashers etc, immunizing a vast segment of the population against hearing many criticisms that have since proved to be valid.
In a "real" administration, something like this would have been a big thing, but compared to billions of unaccounted for war funds, nukes that aren't there, being wrong on war and lying to the American people, not knowing about the Cuban Missile Crisis is just a drop in the bucket.

 

I find it utterly astounding that any of you are surprised by this. Where the hell have you all been the last seven years?

Shit, I'd have to see ironclad evidence before I'd believe that Fredo knows the difference between the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Let's keep in mind, this is the same man who, while in Australia, referred to the country as "Austria," and included it in OPEC. That he's hired this dipshit as a press secretary ranks well down the list of fuckups.