can't take him anywhere
Jul. 18th, 2006 01:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sophiaserpentiaSo, yesterday the mass media was very amused by video of the President speaking with his mouth full of food and candidly using an expletive, heard over a mike he didn't know was on. "Teeheehee! He said 'shit.'"
Cenk Uygur mentions this part of the conversation which did not make it to the mass media:
Uygur describes this as third-grade dialogue, but with all due respect to third-graders, i live with a fourth-grader and his dialogue a year ago was much more intelligent than this.
"Russia is big and so is China." Wow, really? I never knew.
There is a whole industry dedicated to disseminating "Bushisms" -- the "OMG how funny" slips of the tongue President Bush makes on a regular basis. Some of these are... huh, just read them.
Maybe he has a speech impediment or learning disability or something, in which case, you know, i want to be sensitive. Maybe he has a nervous condition when speaking in front of audiences and it's unfair to judge him based on his public speaking. Goodness knows, lots of people would freak out in front of a microphone.
Okay, sensitivity disclaimers aside... for Christ's sake, has there ever been anyone in the White House so utterly inarticulate? Dan Quayle looks like freaking Einstein in comparison. Bill Clinton, for all his voluminous ethical lapses, could talk. He could, as they say, sell snow to an Eskimo.
And now i see this, from a couple of you: pictures of President Bush giving German Chancellor Angela Merkel an uninvited shoulder massage. In the last photograph, he looks dumbfounded, as if he is completely surprised that a serious interpersonal boundary violation like this should draw any negativity. "Hey, he was trying to do something nice!"
Cenk Uygur mentions this part of the conversation which did not make it to the mass media:
Bush: "Gotta go home. Got something to do tonight. Go to the airport, get on the airplane and go home. [to Chinese President Hu Jintao] How about you? Where are you going? Home? This is your neighborhood. It doesn't take you long to get home. How long does it take you to get home?"
(Reply is inaudible.)
Bush: "Eight hours? Me too. Russia's a big country and you're a big country." [to someone else] "It takes him eight hours to fly home." [to a server] "No, Diet Coke, Diet Coke." [back to second person] "It takes him eight hours to fly home. Eight hours. Russia's big and so is China."
Uygur describes this as third-grade dialogue, but with all due respect to third-graders, i live with a fourth-grader and his dialogue a year ago was much more intelligent than this.
"Russia is big and so is China." Wow, really? I never knew.
There is a whole industry dedicated to disseminating "Bushisms" -- the "OMG how funny" slips of the tongue President Bush makes on a regular basis. Some of these are... huh, just read them.
Maybe he has a speech impediment or learning disability or something, in which case, you know, i want to be sensitive. Maybe he has a nervous condition when speaking in front of audiences and it's unfair to judge him based on his public speaking. Goodness knows, lots of people would freak out in front of a microphone.
Okay, sensitivity disclaimers aside... for Christ's sake, has there ever been anyone in the White House so utterly inarticulate? Dan Quayle looks like freaking Einstein in comparison. Bill Clinton, for all his voluminous ethical lapses, could talk. He could, as they say, sell snow to an Eskimo.
And now i see this, from a couple of you: pictures of President Bush giving German Chancellor Angela Merkel an uninvited shoulder massage. In the last photograph, he looks dumbfounded, as if he is completely surprised that a serious interpersonal boundary violation like this should draw any negativity. "Hey, he was trying to do something nice!"
