Bush taunts Blind man

[Dardedar]

The clip:

http://movies.crooksandliars.com/Bush-Sunglasses.wmv

Today, at a presser, this exchange happened with Peter Wallsten of the Los Angeles Times:

Bush: You gonna ask your question with shades on?

Wallsten: Yes...

Bush: But for the viewers there's no sun out here.

Wallsten: I guess that depends on your perspective.

Bush: Touché.

Wallsten is legally blind...

We kid the President. It doesn't look like the reporter minded, but it's just another day of "Bizarro" Bush conferences.

Peter Daou: Bush to a man in a wheelchair: "You look mighty comfortable" ... to which Digby responds, "There's an interesting simple psychology involved in such things. If someone can coerce those in a group to help him attack a single member they become his accomplices. For instance, getting everybody in the press corps to laugh at a reporter's baldness makes those reporters part of the president's gang. And, of course, it intimidates them. If they stray, they too will be subject to that kind of public humiliation. It's the evil fratboy theory of social relations, very primitive stuff. That Bush may be reduced to plying this unconsciously with senior citizens in wheelchairs is not surprising, given his poll numbers."

From a blog:
"George: Uh, yes, I will field a couple-uh, a couple-uh more questions. You there, in the wheelchair, yes you. Could you (heh, heh) stand up? I'm the president here? Show some respect (heh, heh).

Reporter: Mr. President, I lost my legs in an automobile accident. You sent me flowers, or at least your staff did, when I was in the hospital.

George: Errr, right (heh, heh). Did I include a card that said "Break a leg, kid?"

[Barbara Fitzpatrick]

W doesn't know any other way to operate. It worked when he was a kid (his parents either unwilling or unable to stop it). It worked even better when he WAS a frat boy (who's going to mess with somebody whose daddy is...). Why would he give up a strategy that gets him what he wants?