LAist: Spike Does The Right Thing

Daniel

Fri, 01 Sep 2006 19:34:04 -0800

"You see middle-class Americans with feelings who deserved help and didn't get it." Yeah, I hear ya. Back when I thought it was just poor people, I was all like, "screw them." But now that I know that some of them are middle class--with feelings, even!--I am hopping mad, I tell you.

tony

Wed, 30 Aug 2006 13:44:08 -0800

thats our Bush!

Kate

Wed, 30 Aug 2006 09:40:34 -0800

I don't have to watch this movie to cry. I saw the NBC news last night with Bush speaking to Brian Williams, when he said the following (from MSNBC): (I had to go read it there to make sure I heard what I'd thought I'd heard) "BUSH: The key for me is to keep expectations low. WILLIAMS: Is that what everyone doesn't get? BUSH: I don't know, Brian, what they get or don't get. Here's the thing: The great thing about the presidency is that you are totally exposed. And people spend a lot of, particularly if you're making decisions, and hard decisions, people spend a lot of time, not only analyzing decisions, but analyzing the decision maker. And I understand that, but a president must never let that get him off track. WILLIAMS: Even if you're frustrated that we're getting something wrong? BUSH: You have to do what you, if we're getting something wrong, we change it. WILLIAMS: How have you been read wrong? BUSH: I don’t know. I frankly don't pay that much attention. I don’t want to hurt people’s feelings, but… WILLIAMS: Still not watching television, huh? BUSH: I watched a good baseball game." So it seems that Mr. Bush has not seen TV coverage of the disaster, the people trapped in attics, on rooftops, dead in their wheelchairs. Yes he has gone there, but for photo ops in select locations. I'll watch Spike's movie someday, but the person who needs to see it most is watching baseball games.

The Holywriter

Tue, 29 Aug 2006 17:19:21 -0800

A whole year later and the same leaders are in charge. Maybe this doc will change that for 2006 and beyond.

ted

Tue, 29 Aug 2006 17:07:01 -0800

I'd like to see the pro-Bush Iraq documentary, the pro-Bush Katrina documentary... in fact, I'd like to see anything pro-Bush right now because I need a good laugh after all the misery this man has fostered.

cancan

Tue, 29 Aug 2006 16:05:17 -0800

but bob, do you think there was anyone in the gulf coast states affected by Katrina who think Bush did a good job? when you make a documentary about katrina, maybe you can find those subjecs to interview...

bob

Tue, 29 Aug 2006 15:47:04 -0800

Spike had no need to Bush-bash. By selecting to interview only people with a "Bush-Bashing" agenda, he let his subjects do the bashing for him.