Media Whores, in Stalinist/Goebbels fashion, pretend Bush's "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED" photo-op NEVER HAPPENED.

Does it get any more BLATANLTY WHOREISH for the "major media" to REFUSE to CONFRONT President Bush on his many gross failures and abject incompetence?

Could it get ANY more INVERSE of the truth, than for White House Press Secretary (and former FOX 'news' celebrity blabbermouth) TONY SNOW to TRY TO BLAME THE TROOPS for the "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED" banner at Bush's infamous USS Lexington photo-op (the one where the Lexington was forced to steam in circles, just out of sight of land, to justify Bush making his oh-so-brave S-3 Navy jet landing on the carrier) - even though THAT canard (media lie) has been DISPROVED months ago?

- "Tax cuts will benefit middle-class Americans" when they focus almost exclusively on the top 2%...
- "Clear Skies" to mean allowing coal plants to spew millions MORE tons of toxins into the air...
- "Healthy Forests" to describe WHOLESALE, slash-everything-in-sight logging...
- "dedicated to mine safety" to describe GUTTING mine safety standards....
- "No Child Left Behind" to describe UNFUNDED, DICTATORIAL federal education mandates...
- "The case that Saddam has Weapons of Mass Destruction is a SLAM DUNK!" to describe Cheney and Bush CHERRYPICKING intel, even including the LUDICROUS claim that Iraqi RADIO CONTROL AIRPLANES would come crashing into American homes!
- The massive, wholsale DISENFRANCHISEMENT of Democratic voters, under the cover of "Democrat's VOTE FRAUD!"
- going all the way back to the 2000 election, when Texas Gov. George Bush pledged "A more BIRPARTISAN tone in Washington".... IN THE SAME SPEECHES where he DERIDED "Washington officials"!

ON ALL the above issues, and DOZENS of others, the SIGNATURE element of Bush-Republican political success has been the WHORE MEDIA INVERTING the truth, and not even asking the simple "compare and contrast" questions THAT WE WOULD EXPECT OUT OF 10th graders!

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Snow Falsely Claims That Bush Said ‘Just The Opposite’ Of ‘Mission Accomplished’

In today’s press briefing, White House Press Secretary Tony Snow tried to distance President Bush from his infamous “Mission Accomplished” speech, claiming that Bush said “just the opposite” of “Mission Accomplished”:

I think the public ought to just listen to what the president has to say. You know that the mission accomplished banner was put up by members of the USS Abraham Lincoln, and the president, on that very speech, said just the opposite, didn’t he?

For that May 1, 2003, Bush stood in front of a large banner that read, “Mission Accomplished.” In the opening of his speech, he declared, “Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed.” He called the “battle of Iraq” a “victory.” In his radio address shortly after the speech, he boasted, “I delivered good news to the men and women who fought in the cause of freedom: their mission is complete and major combat operations in Iraq have ended.”

Additionally, as Bob Woodward reported in October, then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld had to pressure the White House to take out of the speech the actual phrase “Mission Accomplished,” but he couldn’t “get the sign down.”

In Oct. 2003, then-White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan admitted that the White House — not members of USS Lincoln — had “take[n] care of the production of the banner.”

Full transcript below:

QUESTION: Tony, this goes to your previous acknowledgment that the president is aware of public anxiety about the situation in Iraq.

What would your guidance be to a public that has seen the president stand under a mission accomplished banner, proclaim an end to major combat operations, a vice president talking about the last throes? How should the public go into viewing this speech tomorrow?

SNOW: I think the public ought to just listen to what the president has to say.

You know that the mission accomplished banner was put up by members of the USS Abraham Lincoln, and the president, on that very speech, said just the opposite, didn’t he?

He said it was the end of major combat operations, but he did not say it was the end of operations. Instead, he cautioned people at the time that there would be considerable continued violence in Iraq and that there would be continued operations for a long period of time.