The news coverage we received was via CNN and BBC, the news report on "The one and only Dai's" link came from another agency.
Good point I did miss the "them" in Metchosin's post, my apologies.
I do not believe I did miss the point regarding what they President was told and when. Evident by my post of ,13 Jul 04 - 01:47 AM:
"...what the President was told that morning was that an aircraft (i.e. THE FIRST ONE NERD) had crashed into one of the WTC Towers, simply that, nothing more - his immediate reaction to that news was that it must have been an accident. It was only after THE SECOND INCIDENT that he was informed that the country was under attack."
The above disproves your: "Teribus was trying to argue that Bush didn't know the country was under attack at the time of Moore's footage because that was only the first plane." - Quite clearly, Yes?
Now let's go to what you reckon was Moores point:
"But he went through about twenty minutes of photo-op, seven of them reading My Pet Goat, before he did anything. That was kind of Moore's point all along."
What would you have done Nerd? What would you have expected him to do? In doing what he did, he took a leaf out of Wellington's book and refused to run around like a headless chicken - as it would appear you would rather have liked him to. He got up, thanked the children and left the classroom and went and talked to his staff, who HAD been in contact with those in touch with what was going on. What would you have preferred - panic, hysteria - he displayed neither - he did appear in front of the assembled press corps at 09:29/09:30 to make a statement, he made that fairly calmly as well.