'Couric & Co.' Also Notes Mayans 'Cleansing' Site of Bush Visit

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NewsBusters previously reported that the AP, NBC's "Today," and ABC's "Good Morning America" reported as a curiosity some Mayan priests who complain that President Bush brought evil spirits with him to Guatemala.

Well, CBS's Peter Maer didn't want to be left out apparently. He wrote up a little something at "Couric & Co.," Katie Couric's e-sandbox on CBS's Web site.

Maer's account, like the others mentioned, seems to leave out two key facts for their readers.

1) Just how bloody ancient Mayan rituals were in the bad old days.

It's a bit inconvenient to the media storyline to remind audiences that while the Mayan priests attack President Bush as bloodthirsty, they're engaging in bloodless renditions of pagan rituals that resulted in the deaths of perhaps millions of innocents over hundreds of years.

2) "Bush is the devil" rhetoric is not only cartoonish, it's unoriginal.

Last September in a speech to the United Nations, Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez called President Bush "el Diablo" and made the sign of the cross as he complained that the air at the speaker's podium in the UN General Assembly stank of sulfur from the American president's visit the day prior.

At the time the disrespectful gesture made by Chavez on American soil earned bipartisan condemnation, including critical words from longtime Bush critics such as the liberal Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.).


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Anything to insult Bush. Anyt

Anything to insult Bush. Anything...

The dogs bark, but the caravan moves on.

- Arabian Proverb

The devil's in the details...

The devil's in the details...

...and that would be all the leftist media....

They never stop.

Exactly. To support that kind

Exactly. To support that kind crap about our president is disgusting. It seems that nothing is beyond our "liberal" press. They are sickening. Couric and company deserve to be despised.

NEVER,NEVER trust a liberal

couric

The American people are starting to wise up , just look at the ratings of all the network news or lack there of.

Term limits are the answer.

Gorbal warming is a sickness, not a science.

They weren't really Mayan p

They weren't really Mayan priests. What MSM didn't tell you. They had been hired as extras by Mel Gibson for his Apocalypto movie and made off with the costumes and props and wanted a chance to play out the scenes Gibson didn't let them have. Oh yeah, and Hugo Chavez paid them for their time & trouble and promised them parts on Venezuelan TV as soon as he has total control over programming.

Now, wouldn't a rapist bring

Now, wouldn't a rapist bring evil spirits?  I'm looking but I find no reference to Mayan priests performing a cleansing after Bill Clinton's visit in 1999.  This seems a little inconsistent.  Possibly these priests could clarify what "evil spirits" are and who can bring them.

sheepble

what else would you get from a place called "k'hatt'ies Litter Box"??

Another not Christianity religion the msm kc-lib loves.

Another not Christianity religion the msm kc-lib loves, just because it outlines Bush hate.

rofl - They're gone man, totally gone.

We should have hired these &q

We should have hired these "Mayan priests" to cleanse the UN after the speech by Comrade Chavez, and then followed up with a tankerful of Lysol.

If the little heathens (literally) don't like the way Bush treats illegal aliens, there is a simple solution: those who would be illegal aliens can keep their butts in their own country.  Problem solved.

Frankly, I don't see the problem those fake preists have with Bush.  He is apparently unwilling to secure the border, and he seems to be in favor of an amnesty for illegals, or, at least not doing anything about the problem.

"A communist is someone who reads Marx.  An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx."  Ronald Reagan