Welcome to a mildly musically explicit edition of the Best of Left podcast with clips

today from Weight Weight Don't Tell Me, Ring of Fire, The Young Turks, The Onion Radio

News, Counter-Spin, and the Colbert Report.

Roxanne this week a new book came out by Ron Suskind suggesting that the White House

forged a letter to back up their pre-war claims about Iraq. Well there are

other revelations in the book. It turns out President Bush early on in his

term got very upset about the way his big cabinet level meetings were going

specifically. He was upset that the participants in the meeting were always

doing what? You know this. No I don't. I just have a lot of dozens of wonderful

answers. Telling the truth. No. Was it something as simple as say taking notes? I

know I know he was very upset he'd never wanted cell phones. No or calls. Not

that. That's all true but no. Give your hand he had to keep clearing his

throat and pointing at the big seal on the back of his chair. Not calling him

Mr. President. In fact they weren't doing it to him at all. That was the

problem. They weren't talking to him. Instead they were talking to Dick

Cheney. Exactly right. He was upset because everybody was addressing their

remarks to Cheney instead of to him. Oh Cheney had them all covered. Yeah he was

the one holding the gun. Apparently after a few such meetings the president

told Cheney that he was upset that the participants and these would be people

like President Bush's Secretary of State and President Bush's Secretary of

Energy and President for all we know President Bush's own mother. They were

addressing Vice President Cheney instead of President Bush. Plus Bush was

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