Take Back The Media! TBTM Commentary by Micheal Stinson

WASHINGTON - Six months after he spoke on an aircraft carrier deck under a banner proclaiming "Mission Accomplished," President Bush (news - web sites) disavowed any connection with the war message. Later, the White House changed its story and said there was a link.

A sharp eye at the DemocraticUnderground site noticed how this was made and by who obviously - the WHITE HOUSE.

Keepers of Bush image lift stagecraft to new heights
By Elisabeth Bumiller
New York Times
Friday, May 16, 2003 Posted: 7:08 AM EDT (1108 GMT)

The president's image makers, Mr. Bartlett said, work within a budget for White House travel and events allotted by Congress, which for fiscal 2003 was $3.7 million. He said he did not know the specific cost of staging Mr. Bush's Sept. 11 anniversary speech, or what the White House was charged for the lights. A spokeswoman at the headquarters of Musco Lighting in Oskaloosa, Iowa, said the company did not disclose the prices it charged clients.

The most elaborate — and criticized — White House event so far was Mr. Bush's speech aboard the Abraham Lincoln announcing the end of major combat in Iraq. White House officials say that a variety of people, including the president, came up with the idea, and that Mr. Sforza embedded himself on the carrier to make preparations days before Mr. Bush's landing in a flight suit and his early evening speech.

Media strategists noted afterward that Mr. Sforza and his aides had choreographed every aspect of the event, even down to the members of the Lincoln crew arrayed in coordinated shirt colors over Mr. Bush's right shoulder and the "Mission Accomplished" banner placed to perfectly capture the president and the celebratory two words in a single shot. The speech was specifically timed for what image makers call "magic hour light," which cast a golden glow on Mr. Bush.

"If you looked at the TV picture, you saw there was flattering light on his left cheek and slight shadowing on his right," Mr. King said. "It looked great."

The trip was attacked by Democrats as an expensive political stunt, but White House officials said that Democrats needed a better issue for taking on the president. A New York Times/CBS News nationwide poll conducted May 9-12 found that the White House may have been right: 59 percent of those polled said it was appropriate, and not an effort to make political gain, for Mr. Bush to dress in a flight suit and announce the end of combat operations on the aircraft carrier.

Bush handlers admit that the event was SO stage-managed that the ship had to slow down so San Diego would not be visible to the cameras

************************************ From August of 2003*******************

White House Practicing MINISTRY OF TRUTH Editorializing in Real Time.
TBTM catches them REWRITING HISTORY to suit Bush Gaffes ON THE WHITE HOUSE WEBSITE!

Here's what was there before:

Granted, this is a cut and paste, but it's what was on their page before today.

NOW, Have a look at BUSH REVISES VIEWS 'ON COMBAT' IN IRAQ. By Dana Miibank and Bradley Graham in the Washington Post. August 19th 2003. Where we hear Bush revise his comments. The article catches him in his revisionism right off.

BUT, if you go HERE. You can see that the White House has now CHANGED that page - another LIE by the Bush folks that have made it an Art Form.

Now Go HERE to see the Googled version from today with both before and after shots of the White House page.

Oops! Here is another link sent into us today, looks like they missed onel - Iraq: Special Report. Let us know when they revise it.

Do they think that no one is watching them? In the fine words of Comedy Central's Jon Stewart, "Do they think we are RETARDED?"

Write to the White House and let them know we are WATCHING and demand an apology from them for this 1984 Ministry of TRUTH move. Unreal and OUTRAGEOUS.

This from BUSH who was complaining about REVISIONISM and the MEDIA.

The Karl Rove FAX machine is working overtime, but we aren't buying it. One more reason to IMPEACH BUSH and his Cronies.

PS. WE can supply full page screenshots (rather large) for each of these graphics and more.

UPDATE: These links sent in today:

Note that Dept. of State press release is not revised:

http://www.state.gov/p/nea/rls/rm/c9181.htm

http://www.state.gov/p/nea/rls/rm/20203.htm

But DOD is:

http://www.defenselink.mil/news/May2003/n05012003_200305018.html

also note the link to the WH site at the bottom of the
DOD release.

THANKS TO THE TBTM WATCHER FOR SENDING IN THESE LINKS - YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE...

Now WRITE to the MEDIA and to the WHITE HOUSE and let them know that AMERICA is NOT some kind of ORWELLIAN Playground!