President Bush has been recognized for his slips of the tongue, but this is the first time he has been accused of a slip of the finger. On Wednesday’s “Tonight Show,” Jay Leno showed videotape of the president walking away from reporters and thrusting a finger in the air — which one is still unclear. But Leno and his audience came to the same conclusion.
The White House is denying that Bush made the rude gesture. But if he did, it wouldn’t be the first time he has let his true feelings about the media slip out. During the 2000 campaign, Bush referred to a New York Times reporter as a “major league asshole,” apparently oblivious of the microphone near him that picked up the comment.
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It looks like the current “leader” of the free world favors the use of the middle finger.
George Bush is on tape giving the finger before.
http://politicalhumor.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ&sdn=politicalhumor&zu=http%3A%2F%2Fanon.salon.speedera.net%2Fanon.salon%2Fmedia%2F2004%2F10%2FBushUncensored.mov
Stupid is as stupid does.
And I thought Mr Bush was supposed to be a devout Christian
This is not the first time, nor the most notable occasion, on which the Administration’s mask has slipped. Surely folks remember Vice-President Cheney’s suggestion, last year on the Senate floor, that Sen. Patrick Leahey ought to “go f**k himself.”
Some people don’t like being contradicted. That whole sense of entitlement, I guess.
Really good to see that Bush is following through on both his promises to “be a uniter, not a divider” and “restore honor and dignity to the White House.”
If I could get close enough so that W. could see me, I’d give him the little finger, because he’s not good enough for the big one . . .
Dave–W IS a devout Christian, he says so every chance he gets.
Remember WWJD, What Would Jesus Do? Well this is WWWFOFJ . . . Who Would W Flip Off For Jesus.
Hehehe . . . and I’m pretty sure that Jesus wouldn’t be dropping bombs on families in Iraq.
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But we haven’t heard from Nathan or Hank yet . . . let’s see why if you love Jesus you have to support Bush’s war.
It will be forthcoming, I’m sure.
Yeah, be much better to go to church, sing the hymms, wipe tears from your eyes, get BJ’s in the Oval Office while discussing troop deployments with Members of Congress…..oh wait….that was Clinton.
Bisoni, may I point out that a blow job doesn’t get tens of thousands killed?
But back to the original subject.
Due to the nature of my business, I have some very good photo enhancement software. The quality of the pictures we’re seeing on the net is very poor due to conversion. But I can still break the picture down pretty well and if I had to make a judgment, I’d say the digit your looking at is Bush’s thumb. If it’s his “social finger”, Bush has the fattest middle finger I’ve seen, proportionally. Sorry guys, I’m betting it’s his thumb.
Jimmy, I think we actually agree on something. Bush IS worse than Clinton. Congratulations on your breakthrough! What will we agree on next?
It IS better to go to church, and have an affair with an intern RATHER than kill 40,000 innocent Iraqi civilians, 1,800 American troops based on lies, incompetence, and a hunger for world domination that costs $200 billion, while we’re at War with real terrorists that have nothing to do with this.
I saw the video of Bush, it looked more like his index finger than the middle one.
What Clinton did WAS bad. The arrogance of an affair like that is mind-boggling. It was a huge embarrassment to the country and has hurt the party badly.
Al Gore would be our president now if Clinton had kept his pants on and not lied about it.
So . . . that’s the difference between me and Jimmy. I can admit that Clinton wasn’t perfect and made mistakes.
He can’t do the same with Bush.
The Israeli Mossad is the best intelligence organization in the world because it has no restraints. No Senate oversight committee on intelligence to examine their records or rake them over the coals while under oath. Absent a politically Director.That aside, their absolute strength comes from being able to act upon any plan which advances Israel’s goals of power, money, or expansion. The Mossad can violate UN resolutions, international law, the Geneva conventions, common decency, morality, export torture techniques or ignore the very underpinnings of Judaism.The CIA and Scotland Yard are political organizations, answerable or hamstrung by others who have something to lose. Elected officials or politicians whose career could be ruined by wrongdoing.The United States became a superpower, not by just its military might but rather due to an inherent weakness in the Soviet system of communism and division in its political structure on how to advance that system worldwide.Israel does not have any of those problems. Ariel Sharon said: “I want nothing to do with the religious Parties in Government.”David Ben-Gurion, the first Prime Minster of the newfound Israel, the man who set the practical application of Zionism in motion understood: Absolute ruthlessness was the only means by which Jews could attain power, and from 1948 to date Israel has not varied from that conviction.Jews were the most hated people in the world for over 3000 years, but Zionism offered a way to overcome that stigma. David Ben-Gurion set about working the “holocaust,” anti-Semitism, the need for a “Jewish homeland,” all were exploited to garner money, support and power. By naming Arab resistance “terrorism” the stage was set. Israel was now being heavily advertised as the victim.In a few short years, Arabs realized that a cancer was growing in their midst. A malignant cancer was spreading through the Middle East. That cancer was Israeli Zionism, with its tentacles, Mossad agents. The ill-equipped Palestinians were being slaughtered, their land was being confiscated with the blessing of the United States and the Arabs, though determined to kill the cancer were not equipped to do so.But advancement was stalled and “terrorism” {Arab resistance} was deemed a local problem. Though the United States had involvement in Israeli expansion, help was limited, not enough. Israel tried to take Lebanon but was chased out by Ronald Reagan.Something had to be done. The US need for Middle East oil kept an uncomfortably cozy relationship between Saudi Arabia and the United States, much to the Jews chagrin. The Saudis represented much needed US interests in OPEC……….Something had to give.The unthinkable was unfolding in Saudi Arabia.A somewhat distant relation to the Royal Family, Osama Bin Laden, complained that the rulers were not religious enough. He, and a few of his following stragglers were booted out. The Taliban in Afghanistan finally took them in.That offered the Mossad the chance of a lifetime. The opportunity to take terrorism worldwide. Bombing US Embassies throughout the Middle East did not get the United States to take the bait.The Mossad clearly understood that an attack on American soil was the only thing that would take their ploy of “terrorism” worldwide.Then along came George W. Bush.Elected by only one vote in the Supreme Court, but nonetheless he was behind the desk in the oval office and had a father who had used the full force of the American military in the Middle East. Mossad had agents inside Bin Laden’s organization saw to it that, with or without his permission, plans in the Mossad back in Israel were being perfected for the attack of 9/11. They now had a “patsey.”One attack is all it took. With Zionists placed firmly around Bush, writing his speeches, controlling his words, determining his actions, the “gift” was complete. The preamble for Israeli expansion was delivered by President George W. Bush, in televised speech reading script written by Israeli agents in the White House.The precision of that attack 9/11 is the signature of the Mossad.The precision of that attack on the London Tube is also the signature of the Mossad.The “fumbling” to setoff another bomb in the Tube is the Arab Signature. Go figure.The “evidence” being “discovered” is a Joke. Nobody is that sloppy. Unless it is set-up for somebody to find.Though support for the so-called “war on terrorism” is waning in America the precision attack by the Mossad on the London Tube is actually propping-up some of the sagging support for Israel’s war of world conquest.So expect something new and very clever.That is besides the current ongoing misdirection from Israel away from Zionism, and to an all out assault on Islam, Muslims or anybody with brown skin.Currently the only topic on America’s Zionist owned newspapers and TV, which Americans are being bombarded with every single day, is a complete dissection and partitioning of Islam. What was the most peaceful religion in the world, now has, according to American Zionists, all sorts of varying degrees or levels of violence. Each division or category now has gazillions of parts. Whodathought. All that with nary a mention of Israeli brutality. Bush asked Sharon to please stop selling out top military technology to China. Sharon told Bush to FO.Seems a bit one-sided.In order to take America back, the best place to start is the second most powerful Lobby The National Rifle Association. {NRA} The most powerful Lobby in America is Aipac { American/ Israeli Political Action Committee}
Could someone PLEASE tell the Mossad where Ed lives so they can put him out of his (and our!) misery?:-)
Ed, you’re starting to wear us out. Can’t you state an opinion in just a paragraph or two?
Gee, And miss all the Zionist and their pigs squeal?
The White is catching a lot of heat. Much more than is being reported. Bush may be stupid, but he’s also human and subject to react to that barrage of heavy heat. So maybe he flipped everybody off. Big deal.
And that will be the least of our worries compared to the next decision coming out of the White House.
Ed,
Take it wasy on the “Israel was Behind 9/11″ posts. And don’t cross post the same thing to multiple articles.
To the point of “so what” – yeah, I’m of the same opinion. But I can just imagine the the outrage the Republicans would’ve spouted if, say Clinton flipped off people a few times while he was President. I think I can hear Sean Hannity now..
Every time he used the oval office to bang Monica, he flipped us off.
Things that don’t hurt us don’t matter. What the Zionists do matters.
China now has a cruse missile, which they can launch from a submarine 9000 kilometers, with our warhead, our guidance system and can blind our best radar array. The Israelis sold it to them. …..That hurts..
Bush has been in his a actions flipping the middle finger at any but the wealthiest (and their little toadies like Jimmy Bisoni) since he was selected. If he did flip the bird I’d call it a slip of admission. Maybe the first bit of honesty we have seen out of the “man”.
Instead of riling at me about postings, why not educate yourselves to a real crisis. We need to take our country back from Zionist Jewish goons. Who do they think they are? A so-called “ally” that brings us real danger, as we pay all the bills for them to loaf? Israel is the enemy, make no mistake about that. Israel creates “terrorism,” and threatens the security of United States by its brazen actions. With “friends like this, who needs enemies?
Now Read: http://csmonitor.com/2005/0801/dailyUpdate.html
Oh come on guys! You have been flipping each other off on these blogs for quite some time now. Who cares anyway?
Before Ariel Sharon got his fangs into Bush’s neck, the US torpedoed a multibillion dollar deal the Jews were selling China. Top secret technology they had stolen from the Pentagon. That was back in 2000 before Sharon got to bush. Now Sharon brags to Haaretz that he can do anything he wants to the United States. When does America fight back?
Before Ariel Sharon got his fangs into Bush’s neck, the US torpedoed a multibillion dollar deal the Jews were selling China. Top secret technology they had stolen from the Pentagon. That was back in 2000 before Sharon got to bush. Now Sharon brags to Haaretz that he can do anything he wants to the United States. When does America fight back?
Does anyone recall Vice President Nelson Rockefeller getting his photo on page one of everey (liberal) newspaper in the country in the mid-70s, in response to some protesters? He not only paved the way for Vice President Cheney’s little expletive on the Senate floor last year, but allowed one guy in 1976 to beat the rap for throwing a finger at a cop. So Bush may be forgiven for “invoking the third.” Heck, it’s like any morning on Kellogg.
LOL. Ed provdes us with endless entertainment:
“Before Ariel Sharon got his fangs into Bush’s neck…”
Just conjure that image! I can see the surprise in Bush’s face as the secret service grabs their walkie talkies. “Vampire in the West Wing! Repeat, Nosferatu in the West Wing!” Never saw that one coming!
Sharon kinda DOES look like a fat vampire.
What’s disturbing is the fact that you read Ed the Head’s posts!
I am amazed how the public (in general)continue to be surprised by George W. Bush antics. While I respect the office of presidency, George W. Bush (the man) is an arrogant bastard. If you get beyond the Busy dynasty and follow his childhood to present, you will find it difficult not to reach the same conclusion. For the record, I am a life-time republican. My comment is not politically motivated; just brutally honest.
Anyone who calls the President of the United States, “an arrogant bastard,” does NOT respect the Office, despite their half-hearted attempt to justify their hatred by claiming to.
BTW – why would anyone re-dredge a year and a half old topic?
Tough crap GS. Bush has brought shame and disrespect to the office. HE is the one who has dragged it down.
Using your logic any German who said bad things about Adolph Hitler disrespected the office and therefore was a traitor.
Not necessarily.
Hitler was rounding up German citizens and executing them. The closest America has come to that – and it’s truly PALES in comparison – is the siege, and subsequent murder of the Koresh compound folks.
Welcome to you and you said it T banks. Where DID you find this one? Hard to believe I could hate bush more now than I did back then. But I do.
GS,
I’ve heard you describe Cindy Sheehan (sp?) in MUCH harsher words than, “arrogant bastard.” She received attention from the media only because of her “office” as Mother of a soldier who was killed, and her ridiculous antics.
So when you demeaned her were you demeaning all mothers? I don’t think so. I’ve seen you defend mothers.
She used that honorable “office” poorly. Bush uses his honorable office poorly. I respect the office of president and hold George W. Bush in contempt. Don’t even suggest that I can’t do both! You may not be able to, but I can and do.
GS – your heroes at Waco were killed by Vernon Howell. NOT by Clinton. You should direct your anger toward Howell. HE torched the compound.
Linda – no, she is not demeaning all mothers. Just mothers who have lost sons in Bush’s war.
Cindy SheeRidesHerSonsCoffin can’t be described in terms derogatorily enough for me.
But, she surely does NOT represent ALL mothers, now does she? Her husband even divorced her over her fanatical Sheenanigans. lol
Just the fact that she sucks the same breath as the mother’s of soldiers killed in battle who STILL uphold their child’s sacrifice is a damn shame.
She kissed the leaders of countries we are at loggerheads with.
The BEST I can say about that waste of skin, is that her fifteen minutes of fame is dwindling and before long the average American will say, “Cindy who…..?”
George CrackHeadBoozerMoronSatan Bush can’t be described in terms derogatorily enough for me.
But, he surely does NOT represent ALL presidents and former presidents this country has had.
Just the fact that he sucks the same air as the soldiers killed by his evil is a damn shame.
The BEST I can say about that waste of skin is that he will forever stand as a beacon of just how evil a man can be.
Wow GSheridan You ARE lower than low. People grieve in many ways. Cindy Sheehan has chosen to try and make her grief make a difference. To maybe save another mother or mothers the walk in her shoes. Who the hell are you to judge that? What would you think of me if I denounced those mothers in support of the war? It’s easy to do ya know. I can easily say, “Well, they are trying to alleive their suffering by justifying it as some great cause. Doesn’t seem to trouble them much that that cause will get others killed too. Hell that just reaffirms its “value” But I don’t do that. You try and afford Cindy Sheehan the same.
I guess GS would claim that Jared Estes is exploiting his wife’s tragic death:
http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/news/local/crime_courts/16892121.htm