The Post reports:
“What they need to do is get Syria to get Hezbollah to stop doing this shit, and it’s over,” an irritated Bush said with his mouth full as he buttered a piece of bread.
Nine short paragraphs later:
Bush has been on the wrong end of this before as well. During a campaign event in 2000, Bush forgot his mike as he pointed out a reporter in the crowd to Dick Cheney and called the journalist a “major-league …” well, jerk. Cheney concurred: “Big-time.”
The rules are gradually becoming clear: “Shit” is a-ok — when the President says it. “Asshole,” though? It’s a family newspaper, young man.
Also, an alert reader caught this, from the transcript, on the subject of Kofi Annan:
BUSH: “I don’t like the sequence of it. His attitude is basically ceasefire and [then] everything else happens. You know what I’m saying?”
More evidence, as if more was needed, that Bush has been hammered all week. Not that we’re judging — we’ve been drunk since the aborted censure hearings.








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the world's exploding, lots of people are dying, and our talking heads talk semantics. you don't give a shit about word selection when you're dead.
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