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Bush "can't get enough of fart jokes"

Posted by Melissa McEwan at 8:58 AM on August 22, 2006.


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Via King of Zembla comes this asinine tidbit from Washington Whispers:

He loves to cuss, gets a jolly when a mountain biker wipes out trying to keep up with him, and now we're learning that the first frat boy loves flatulence jokes. A top insider let that slip when explaining why President Bush is paranoid around women, always worried about his behavior. But he's still a funny, earthy guy who, for example, can't get enough of fart jokes. He's also known to cut a few for laughs, especially when greeting new young aides, but forget about getting people to gas about that.
You know, I once had a boss who thought it was the height of hilarity to fart in front of his employees. We didn't regard him as "funny" or "earthy," but as "a total asshole."

And since when is Bush "paranoid around women?" His predilection for disrespecting staffers by letting rip with bodily functions in front of them reminds me of nothing more immediately than his groping German Chancellor Angela Merkel, which wasn't indicative of paranoia, but a complete disregard for anyone or anything but his own whims.

Bush is a bully. Like touching people against their wishes, a superior passing gas in front of them in a professional environment has the same manipulative quality, requiring them, irrespective of their honest personal reactions, to laugh and jolly along someone who's behaving badly. Getting away with acting like such a wanton idiot in front of people who can't complain is just another way for Bush to get those around him to knuckle under. He's a despicable character, and it's pathetic that such antics are treated as "charming" by the media, because he's not jovial--he's mean.

(King of Zembla)

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Melissa McEwan writes and edits the blog Shakespeare's Sister.


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He's not jovial--he's mean.
Posted by: nehark on Aug 22, 2006 8:18 AM   
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And he's a ridiculous slob.

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ieuchler
Posted by: euchler on Aug 22, 2006 8:28 AM   
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Didn't this idiot ever grow up. His treatment of women is just like rape. Rape is not a sexual act, it is a act of violence and power over someone that is weaker than you. He gets in your space to control you and his idea of humor is gross. Someone needs to tell him that this is unexceptable behavior, or do all those around him have the same mind set?

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Bush's "people skills"?
Posted by: tap17x on Aug 22, 2006 8:33 AM   
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Georgie Porgie is as bad with people as he is with policy, that is, below any possible standard, beneath contempt, and out-of-sight lousy. The "people skills" myth may be the last one to go about this national embarassment. There is NOTHING good about the Imbecile-in-Chief. As someone said, he dispells forever the myth of white superiority.

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Since Bush is...sickofsleaze
Posted by: ladybug1@carrollsweb.com on Aug 22, 2006 8:45 AM   
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the by-product of a fart it understandable he would feel a kinship

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» RE: Since Bush is...sickofsleaze Posted by: sirossisofliver
» RE: Since Bush is...sickofsleaze sickofsleaze Posted by: ladybug1@carrollsweb.com
All Hail the Farter in Chief!
Posted by: stoneinthestream on Aug 22, 2006 10:47 AM   
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Ah, I can see it now...Bush meets the head of state of another country--and lets one rip!

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What else would you expect from an asshole?
Posted by: cold2touch on Aug 22, 2006 11:19 AM   
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As if he is capable of anything else ...

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Pull my finger!
Posted by: bettyn on Aug 22, 2006 11:40 AM   
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I can't get the picture of Bush going up to some nation's leader (Ms. Merkel comes to mind here, too.) and saying as an introduction, "I'm George Bush, pull my finger! Go ahead, pull it."

This is the kind of jackass we have representing us around the world. No wonder the U.S. is held in contempt by everyone these days. A total BOOB...and the rest of us are made to look like boobs, too, because we (supposedly) elected this cretin.

Lyndon Johnson used to like to discuss things with aides while taking a crap....the ultimate insult to most of them. Texans belong in barnyards, it's where they feel most at home.

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» In Defense of Texans Posted by: sirossisofliver
» RE: Pull my finger!...sickofsleaze Posted by: ladybug1@carrollsweb.com
Why does Bush hate the French?
Posted by: sirossisofliver on Aug 22, 2006 1:33 PM   
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President Le Petomaine?

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» RE: Why does Bush hate the French?..sickofsleaze Posted by: ladybug1@carrollsweb.com
get over it
Posted by: Moore Hognutz on Aug 22, 2006 1:51 PM   
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I watched the boywonder's recent newsconference last night, and I was not nearly as interested in knowing if he was ripping a few as you all seem to be. What I want to know is whether he was drunk. Or not. Seriously.

I am talking about grounds for impeachment, and so far as I know, flatulence don't count, funny or not.

At least two of the three presidents we impeached were strongly in debt to booze. Can't we talk about this instead of farting around?

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» RE: get over it...sickofsleaze Posted by: ladybug1@carrollsweb.com
» RE: get over it Posted by: Bibs
an empty house is better than a poor tennant
Posted by: Moore Hognutz on Aug 22, 2006 2:05 PM   
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See what I mean?

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Remember Chairman Mao?
Posted by: BobM on Aug 22, 2006 4:33 PM   
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Chairman Mao, another conscienceless leader who was responsible for the deaths of a great many innocent people, liked to do the same thing.

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» RE: emember Chairman Mao? Posted by: dangerouslysane
Ah, the upper class twit--right out of Monty Python's Flying Circus!
Posted by: dangerouslysane on Aug 22, 2006 5:02 PM   
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Ever since the first Bush administration, I felt quite strongly that no amount of wealth could conceal how lacking in actual wit and class the Bushes actually are. Despite the fondness for things like joy-buzzers that Poppy is reputed to have, I felt that at least he seemed pretty sane, even if I didn't like or trust him as president. Even so, there were many comments about Poppy's syntax problems. The incident where he vomited on the Japanese minister of trade was unfortunate and embarrassing, but now one wonders anew.

This one, however, has seemed really unbalanced in the past couple of years, especially. Last summer (before Katrina), I got the impression that he was really heavily medicated. Then a tabloid published a front-page headline that Dubya fell off the wagon, hard, which seemed to explain the impression.

In the past few months, sound clips from press conferences have not been reassuring. This is not simply awkwardness, or misspeaking--he does not seem to have a grip.

The boy ain't quite right. Purposely releasing gas for fun and intimidation is disgusting and infantile. This goes beyond the usual overgrown frat-boy grossout behavior that some elitist types engage in. People who have not developed beyond the anal stage (about 2-3 years--hope a shrink can give the correct ages here), are still inclined to manifest this obsession. Possibly, it could be that that was the age at which Dubya last felt truly happy and secure. Just wait till he goes back to his Oedipal stage!

Oh, wait a minnit! That's part of what was behind his lying us into Iraq.

I bet that Cheney doesn't allow him to get away with it!

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as my buddy the rev. rod likes to say...
Posted by: aislinnluv on Aug 23, 2006 4:57 AM   
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... the best part of w. ran down his momma's leg

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Now available: "Pull my finger" Farting Bush Doll
Posted by: lambert on Aug 23, 2006 6:31 PM   
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For only $19.95:

The "Pull My Finger" Farting Bush Doll.

Lends new meaning to the phrase "gag gift," doesn't it?

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Not exactly NEW information regarding George...
Posted by: Bozwell on Aug 27, 2006 3:14 PM   
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The
gaseous passings" of our CIC, not exactly a new item in his repertoire as his MOTHER recounted how when she and #41 were entertaining the Queen(of England) , George let one float at the dinner/banquet table and giggled with pleasure...course, some have streched about and claim there is family tree connectivity , so perhaps such is allowable in the family.....The fella is a misfit most definitely to the position...any shaking their heads even more remembering how he claimed that besides being a compassionate C, a uniter not a divider also claime HE and his would "restore" dignity/respect to the "office".....yadda, yadda and yee-uckers for all the scmukers who bought those lines...They got what THEY dserved but the majority of us knew better then and even know more "better" now !!!!

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Bush's WMD is a fart
Posted by: hapetyme on Sep 3, 2006 2:29 AM   
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I bet he jokes that way, referring to it as WMD or IED. I know he's a complete moron, but fart jokes. This is proof that he has the mentality of a 2nd grader; actually that is offensive to 2nd graders, because they eventually grow-up. When he speaks (slurs), he sounds like a dry drunk - not being able to concentrate because he's thinking about his next drink. The first lady is heavily medicated fo sho. I don't know if anyone watched the 2004 RNC on CSPAN, when Bush's daughters addressed the Young Republicans - both were stoned, red-eyed, and giggling out of there minds. See if you can find it somewhere, unbelievable. We have a first family of losers - won't they please go back to Texas. They have done enough to embarass us all.

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