Bush & Cheney testify...and no one will be recording it.

[Thomas Veil]

Link to article. (http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/108323610387250.xml)

Unlike the commission's televised hearings that produced some sharp exchanges, Thursday's meeting will not have cameras or a stenographer in the room and there will not be any record of what was said beyond note-taking. That eliminates the possibility of anyone playing to the television audience, as some analysts say happened with witnesses and commissioners in earlier sessions.

"If they thought it would help him, they'd televise it," James Thurber, director of American University's Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies, said of White House advisers.

I'd say Thurber's closer to the truth than the spin that "eliminates the possibility of anyone playing to the television audience".

So there will be no completely objective record of anything that those two say today. Charming. Just charming.

I swear to God, it's like having Nixon back.

[miloblithe]

I swear to God, it's like having Nixon back.

At least Nixon had a sense of humor, not to mention doing a lot to make the world a safer, less violent place.

I don't understand how anyone has any respect for this president and his unbelievable cowardice.

[numediaman]

I have inside information that Bob Woodward will be hiding under a table with a tape recorder, so all is not lost.

But I want a video record of this interview. I want to see if Chaney's lips move when Bush speaks.

[zimv20]

i, too, am stunned by what the public will let bush get away with. doesn't anyone get that his administration is completely accountability-free? don't people realize how ****ing important it is to have accountability w/ power?

[mactastic]

And here I thought I'd never miss the days of the special prosecutor statute, nor the thought of a president testifying on video and under oath.

I'll be interested to see the reactions of the people present. Will Bush field the majority of questions as has been advertised, or will Cheney be the one giving most of the substantive responses?

[blackfox]

But I want a video record of this interview. I want to see if Chaney's lips move when Bush speaks.
I take it you have seen this:
http://www.onion.com/index.php?issue=4016
(right-hand side)...lots of good stuff, current issue too...