Jeb Bush: Crying Out Loud

[seafan]

Charles M. Blow at the NYT:

But there is something else that I also follow when it comes to Bush: his penchant for saying “for crying out loud,” particularly when his back is a bit against the wall and he realizes that what he’s saying will be found controversial by some. It seems to be his way of dampening backlash before it happens.

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It has become something of a parlor game for me to note whenever he says “for crying out loud,” which always seems to signal some level of exasperation. And, somewhere around that phrase, he seems to say something interesting, sometimes something careless, nearly always something that makes news.

It’s one of those subconscious things that speakers do — like scratching their nose while telling a lie or taking a drink of water when listening to a question that makes them uncomfortable — that journalists learn to pay attention to.

On his opposition to changing the name of the Washington Redskins:

“It’s a sport, for crying out loud. It’s a football team.” He continued, “I’m missing something here, I guess.”

For instance, while in Berlin during the summer, Bush addressed turmoil in his campaign, saying:

“This is an adjustment based on the skills of people that I got to know during the last three months. … It’s June, for crying out loud, so we’ve got a long way to go.”

When complaining that the Democratic presidential candidate Martin O’Malley should not have apologized for conflating “all lives matter” with “black lives matter,” Bush said:

“No, for crying out loud, no. We’re so uptight and so politically correct now that we apologize for saying lives matter?”

When a Democratic National Committee spokeswoman asserted in March that Republican hopefuls were being disingenuous in their attacks on Hillary Clinton over her email, and specifically asked “what emails has Jeb Bush not turned over?” Bush responded that he was “totally transparent. I have a BlackBerry as part of my official portrait, for crying out loud. There was nothing to hide.”

In August, Bush complained about the impracticality of building a border wall between the United States and Mexico, a plan advocated by the Republican front-runner. Bush detailed his own plan, which included beefing up the border patrol and local law enforcement along the border as well as using more technology like drones and GPS. Yet he demanded, “But do it as a conservative, for crying out loud.”

He was asked at a campaign event in Florida in July about his commitment to overhauling the immigration system. “Yes, for crying out loud,” he said. “It’s a broken system used as a wedge issue for political purposes.”

“Megyn Kelly is a top-notch journalist. And the fact that she asked the guy tough questions … I mean, if you’re running for president of the United States and you think this is tough, try dealing with Putin for crying out loud.”

“There’s a lot of differences amongst ourselves but the differences pale in comparison to the differences that I have with Hillary Clinton, for crying out loud.”

I've notice this phrase as well:

From NBC News:

"As president I would approve the XL pipeline for crying out loud," he said. "That is the lowest hanging fruit I've ever imagined."

From the Times:

Calling for the repeal of a four-decade ban on crude oil exports:

Speaking before employees of Rice Energy, with supporters seated on the flatbeds of two well-placed pickup trucks beside him, Mr. Bush also assailed President Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton for opposing the Keystone XL pipeline, among other positions likely to be popular with the conservative base.

“Where’s the marching band, for crying out loud?” he said, accusing “radical environmentalists” of demonizing businesses like Rice, a natural gas and oil company. “This is what we should be doing.”

From Politico:

Bush laid out five policy priorities that, he said, would reinvigorate America: Energy security; improving the regulatory system, simplifying the tax code; immigration reform and a “radical transformation” of the education system. That could put America on the path to entitlement reform, he said. Such policy shifts could fix America’s “crisis of opportunity.”

“We’re not France, for crying out loud,” Bush said. “And the crisis of opportunity is, we’re not seizing the moment. We’re not aspiring to be young and dynamic again.”

"Disrupt" is another of Jeb Bush's favorite buzz words, that bodes ill for the rest of us. As is "for sure", in his syntax. That nearly always means the opposite, we've noticed.

“As it relates to my brother, there’s one thing I know for sure,” he said. “He kept us safe.”

Jeb! Bush cannot understand why his numbers have tanked. HE was supposed to shock and awe everybody else away from the race, with his SuperPAC millions. HE was supposed to slide in on his family's name and political connections and mega donors' dark money.

Pretty much all he's left with now is FOX so-called News, and Karl Rove's white board.

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December 1, 2014

Note to Jeb! Bush: It's all over but the crying.

[Orsino]

1. Bushes of his generation tend to bristle when questioned in any detail.

Any risk of exposing their lack of preparation panics them.

[Octafish]

2. Stuff happens.

For crying out loud.

[hifiguy]

3. He's sinking like a stone.

I honestly think he's even dumber than Little Boots.

[Octafish]

4. I'm going to try and remember to use 'For Crying Out Loud' more often and see what happens.

A little experiment, without the cruelty, for crying out loud.