President Bush’s bad year so far has been a boon for Jay Leno, David Letterman and Conan O’Brien, who are averaging 102 Bush jokes a month on their late-night TV shows compared with 45 monthly last year. Fueled by the Dubai ports deal and Iraq, Bush’s current rate is still short of Bill Clinton’s 140-a-month rate during the Lewinsky affair. And is it better to be skewered on late-night TV as a hound or a dolt?
Two recent Leno examples:
“Today President Bush said global warming is happening much quicker than he thought, but then his staff pulled him aside and told him, ‘It’s just spring time.’”
“When President Bush was in New Orleans, he said, ‘We pray there is no hurricane coming this year.’ This is what we call faith-based disaster planning.”
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So it’s not global warming we can’t do anything about, as President Bush has said, just springtime.
Funny thing, my lawn was mostly green in January and February, and had I run the sprinkler system it would have been even more green. Last time I checked, January and February are considered winter months. And April temps in the 90’s are hardly “normal” early spring temps, unless one’s talking about the subtropics, or Death Valley.
‘Course if we see more of this, including rain like we’ve been getting this spring, it could be be great for Kansas’s future.
Keep Global Warming coming. No more winters. :)
Better get a second job to pay your electric bill this summer, Joe!
Worth it if I the electric bill is often times much more higher in the winter.
“Worth it if I the electric bill is often times much more higher in the winter.”
Joe? – were you quoting the president?
DD- I an the proud owner of a Bushism daily calender, and you can’t imagine the amount of mindless drivel that the First Fool can deliver! That’s probably the only thing he is remotely good at- what a virtue that abbility is.
The only reason Bush lags behind Clinton in jokes is that it’s getting difficult to make a joke about him that everybody doesn’t just assume is true! He’s his own joke.
gster – I got one in 2004 for Christmas; I didn’t get Bushism daily calender this year – I was disappointed – may have to buy one on my own. My other favorite Bush novelty is my set of playing cards – they are tilted to an almost 45 degree angle – the cards are titled – “2nd Term, slanted futher to the right”. :-)
Jed,You’re right, you cannot satirize satire. I think that was Stephen Colbert’s problem at the press dinner.
DD– I hear that he is on such a roll , they’re considering a Bushism of the Hour calender next. That pit is probably bottomless.
gster: You’re probably right.
Joe:Sorry to pick on ya. I have sworn off doing that in the past, but sometimes I fail when temptation overcomes me. My promises are probably as effective as a teenager’s abstinence oath. :-)
“Keep Global Warming coming. No more winters. :)”
Joe, I know you were just joking, but–you do realize this isn’t true, right? ;-)
Just being snarky, as usual.
“Keep Global Warming coming. No more winters. :)”
Joe, I know you were just joking, but–you do realize this isn’t true, right? ;-)
Just being snarky, as usual.
The last double-post brought to you by Blindness-Inducing Bot-filter®.
Are we going to be seriously effected by Global Warming? Will the human race parish?
I hope and pray that a day is soon coming whereby the only decision the “decider” gets to make is whether or not to wear a damned blinfold!
Viva La Revolucion Blanco!!!!
There are a couple of ‘G.W.’’s causing us a lot of grief and suffering, as I see it. The both produce a lot of hot air.
Letterman’s been doing “Great Moments in Presidential Speeches.”
“but duh ah mub look . . .ah, my . . . that’s de de de . . . ”
When the gods wish to punish us, they give us what we want. Oscar Wilde.
Joe W–
Didn’t you get the memo about the huge space ark that’s going to take us all to Alpha Centuri when the Earth becomes unlivable?
I got my memo.
And the government isn’t going to tell the stupider people because they don’t want . . . oh . . . okay . . . everything is going to be fine, Joe.
Don’t change a thing.
Hahaha! Too funny.
LH was just joking about that space-ark, you know, Joe. Obviously, there is most certainly NO SUCH THING, and I certainly wouldn’t have my OWN confirmed reservation to leave the planet if there WAS such a thing! So forget those all SILLY SILLY things LH said!
He was just being silly. He’s a silly guy, really silly, REALLY silly, but loveable! It was all just made-up nonsense, something he said for the hell of it. Forget he ever said anything at all, okay? The whole thing. Please? Do it for me.
{LH . . . .usted IDIOTA!!!}.
31%.
NOW can we impeach the motherfucker?
Check this out for more stupid things the dumbass in chief has done/said.http://www.dubyaspeak.com/
CF’s an idiot!
Actually, the poll numbers are about right:
http://thismodernworld.com/2887
The problem, as we’ve heard before, is the Congress!
I may be an idiot, but that would make me an idiot who is on the same page as 69% of the American public.
More to the point, I have some pretty stiff competition for the title of Blog Idiot from Joe Williams, for whom the worsening situation in Iraq is proof how much things there are improving.
When the Bush/Rumsfeld/Cheney Hydra loses Joe Williams, it will have lost everything.
CF! I guess you don’t understand or you are too condescending to care, but the use of swear words in a public forum like this is not a smart thing to do.
You should know the rules. If you don’t, then let me explain the reason why we should not post swear words.
Some people view this blog from work or at home with children. Many companies and families install internet filters that block websites if they spider content that are adult (you know what I mean) base. Many of these filters use swear word content as a means to identifying websites that need to be block. Therefore, you have actually blocked this blog from quite a few people to view.
The Wichita Eagle actually prints the topics of this blog in their print newspaper on a daily basis. In other words, they promote this blog website to the public.
Not only have you blocked this website from a few people, but you have also brouth the possiblity of serious complaints by the public who would like to view and post on this blog that this site is not family or work safe.
Plus! Whenever you post a swear word it knocks the search engine ratings way down.
Call Bush an idiot or dummy, but don’t use swear words. The blog administrator will probably have to delete your post.
Also! Just because a majority of the country in a poll disapprove of Bush doesn’t mean that we should automatically impeach a President. We don’t live in a country dictated by mob rule. You should know that.
Joe Williams,
Those are good substantive points.
Points notwithstanding, I will continue to use the full resources of the english language in my posts–profanity included.
It isn’t my job to boost WeBlog’s search engine profile. It’s my job to say what I think. If the editors are concerned that I’m lowering their stat totals, it is their perogative to remove my post. They are the moderators.
Removal is something I always expect when using profanity, by the way.
Final point: if I had said
“31%.
Now can we impeach the miscreant.”
it wouldn’t have been nearly as effective. And anyway, that’s how I talk in real life. If people don’t like it, they can do as raptor does and ignore my posts.
CF ROCKS!!!!!
Williams, I wish I could find one of those old kookaide pitchers, with the original smiley face. I’d bring it to the meetup for ya?
I better start perusing the garage sale ads right now.
And I have long said that “parish” problems will cause freedom to perish long before any foreigners take over our government.
“Just because a majority of the country in a poll disapprove of Bush doesn’t mean that we should automatically impeach a President. We don’t live in a country dictated by mob rule. You should know that.” Joe Williams
Now this is good stuff. Where was the antimob rule sentiment when the gay marrige amendment was an issue? What’s good for the gays is good for the right wing dumbasses. Impeach the dolt.
Keep cursing CF! It doesn’t bother me any. If somebody is reading this at work and the content filters tag him for a visit from a termination notice carrying goon then maybe at their next job they will remember that reading a blog generally isn’t considered productive work by most employers and find better things to do while on the company’s dime. So much for the myth of the republikan work ethic.
Where to start……
Geez k make up your mind. Either you are one of us or your a good little worker bee who insists on eneryone else being good little worker bees. You lost me with that last one friend. To hell with the company and their dime.CF? While this is a blog and not a bible study, I’d say Joe makes an interesting point which I had not considered. IF your posts get us screened out from people who could read them, you are diminishing the reach of your own message… and everyone elses too. That you proudly do not care speaks of arrogance.
And with my last I got profane. It is easy to do. Probably there are always better and more cutting ways to say a thing without going there.
I’ll rephrase. If a company felt the need to spy on my use of the internet, I should not find myself working for that company very long, I’d quit.
I’ll back ya up when you are correct Joe, as you just saw. I’ll call ya out when you are “right”.
That “no more winters” crack was moronic and dismissive and not even worthy of posting.
And with my last I got profane. It is easy to do. Probably there are always better and more cutting ways to say a thing without going there.
I’ll rephrase. If a company felt the need to spy on my use of the internet, I should not find myself working for that company very long, I’d quit. Unless and until employers fairly treat and compensate their workers, I will be the judge of how I use company time.
I’ll back ya up when you are correct Joe, as you just saw. I’ll call ya out when you are “right”.
That “no more winters” crack was moronic and dismissive, ignorant as to biology, deliberatley inflammatory and as such not even worthy of posting. It was in its own way profane.
The meet up promises to be interesting.
Oops, musta hit post before I finished my last.
Actually JR I’m all for screwing off at work. Hell all work and no play makes for a very long day. But should you decide you need to read this (or any other) blog while on company time then you accept the consequences of your actions. The fact is that most large companies and a growing number of smaller ones are monitoring employee use of the internet for inappropriate usage. Remember the NASA official? It was a content filter that caught that dipshit.
And yes I know a court ruled that surfing the internet from work isn’t grounds for dismissal in and of itself. However, looking at porn and/or reading and posting on blogs, or spending all day surfing can be. You want to take the chance you pay the price if you get caught.
Maybe we should ask over in butler county how they feel about employees posting during work hours.