Bush speech, a post-mortem
June 29, 2005
Faked, from AmericaBlog: "ABC's Terry Moran just reported that the only time Bush got applause was in the middle of his speech when a White House advance team member started clapping all on their own in order to cajole the soldiers into clapping, which they dutifully did... So even the applause was fake."
The speech in numbers, from the folks at ThinkProgress:
- References to "September 11": 5
- References to "weapons of mass destruction": 0
- References to "freedom": 21
- References to "exit strategy": 0
- References to "Saddam Hussein": 2
- References to "Osama Bin Laden": 2
- References to "a mistake": 1 (setting a timetable for withdrawal)
- References to "mission": 11
- References to "mission accomplished": 0
Faked, from AmericaBlog: "ABC's Terry Moran just reported that the only time Bush got applause was in the middle of his speech when a White House advance team member started clapping all on their own in order to cajole the soldiers into clapping, which they dutifully did... So even the applause was fake."
