King George caught in yet another lie…

When you see a title like that, I guess the first thing one might say is “Tell me something I don’t know?” That kind of frustration with the current adminstration is common but this lie really upset me to the point where I felt the need to express my anger not only for discovering the lie, but the the fact that I had to get it from the media in EUROPE. Watch the following video and tell me if there is something weird about it:

Doesn’t seem too bad doesn’t it? It’s a video of world leaders sharing a drink at the G8 summit last year. This should be a good thing, right? World leaders getting together, talking world stuff, fixing world problems, breaking bread, etc. There’s just one problem, one tiny little hiccup: one of the people sitting at that table is supposed to be a RECOVERING ALCOHOLIC. This same person has been feeding a lie to his people that he hasn’t drank a drop of alcohol since 1986 (his 40th birthday), and yet there he is in the video… having a beer and a grand old time with world leaders. So clearly Bush’s allegation that he isn’t drinking anymore is an outright lie, and this video clearly proves it.

And according to this video, this drinking might have interfered with his duties at the G8 summit as well. The reporter mentions that Bush missed important meetings with African leaders the following morning after this clip was taken. The site it was a ‘stomach ailment’ which we all know is code for ‘hangover’… so the obvious question is: did Bush get so drunk this night that he could not function the next day? Based on how Boy George poured his beer in this clip (very messy) I doubt that was his first drink of the meeting… and to me this is dispicable. It’s one thing to have a casual drink, it’s another to be so wasted that you can’t function or do your job the next morning.

And one question for everyone to ponder. Where was the American media when George W. fell off the wagon? Mel Gibon goes on a bender and they splash his face all over the face, the President misses key meetings that could change or save millions of lives cause of a bender and no one even cares to report it. What am I missing here? This guy is drinking on the job and letting it effect his performance but unless you’re having a fling with a campaign worker like Edwards, the US media doesn’t give a rat’s ass. And Notliberal is still trying to tell us there’s a Liberal bias in the media? If such a bias existed, this story of George’s Alcoholism would have been splashed all over the place, but instead the closest source we have to hear about it from is the BBC and if you listen they didn’t even report it as negative either. They didn’t seem to have a problem with it and bought the stomach ailment story as well.

All I have to say is thank goodness this drunk is only going to be in charge for another 161 days. Hopefully between now and then, he won’t start World War Three…

Peter

Edit: Believe or not, I was fully prepared for the onslaught of the ‘non-alcoholic beer’ (NA-beer) defense. As someone who has actually attended an AA meeting or two, I know for a fact that even NA-beer is considered a big no-no among alcoholics.

NA-beer is still about a half to three percent Alcohol by Volume. Let’s take the President at his word (snicker) that he hasn’t drank alcohol since 1986. An NA-beer (or two or three) would knock out a little kid who’s never drank, which is about where President Bush’s tolerance to alcohol would be after two decades of sobriety.

Hell, try drinking an NA-beer after three months without a drink. I have and I can tell you it’s just as potent as drinking a beer that’s six percent. It left me woozy, like it was three beers.

So sorry guys, the NA-beer defence doesn’t fly…