Charlotte Church: Bush is a right weirdo ("had no idea where Wales was")

[truthpusher]

http://www.examiner.ie/breaking/story.asp?j=167555035&p=y6755585x&n=167555921&x=

Charlotte Church: Bush is a right weirdo
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Welsh singing star Charlotte Church branded US President George Bush “a right weirdo” and opera legend Pavarotti a “big fat diva”, it was reported today.

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Church, 19, said gaffe-prone Bush had no idea where Wales was when she met him after performing for outgoing President Bill Clinton in Washington in 2000.

“Clinton was lovely, in tune with everyone else, but George Bush just hasn’t got a clue what he’s doing,” she said, according to the Daily Record.

“He asked me what state Wales was in. I said: ‘It’s its own country next to England, actually Mr Bush.’

“If he doesn’t know the rest of the countries in Europe, he could at least know what’s in his own country. I’m really worried about it. He’s a right weirdo.”

link: http://www.examiner.ie/breaking/story.asp?j=167555035&p=y6755585x&n=167555921&x=

[Warpy]

1. George Bush just hasn’t got a clue what he’s doing,” she said

Well, it certainly didn't take her long to get his number, did it?

It's obvious his job is to be out front, placate the fundies, and raise cash from the greedy.

The rest of the government seems to be run by committee.

[jobycom]

2. Oh geeze, eh?

What state is Wales in?

Well, Mr. PResident, we haven't officially conquered that part of the world, but it's on our to do list.

[3waygeek]

23. There's one in Alaska

on the very western tip, but I don't think Charlotte Church has ever been there.

[mbperrin]

28. Population 152, but you missed the really BIG one in

Wisconsin - over 2500!
http://www.wauknet.com/taliesin/

[jobycom]

32. Does Charlotte Church sound like she's from Wisconsin?

Just curious.

[mbperrin]

34. Heavens to betsy, no! She sounds like she's from WALES,

you know, the original one, not one you have to Google for!

I know that, but apparently, Gee-dubya don't!!

[cascadiance]

36. With Bush's roots in British royalty...

... he probably thinks of himself as the next King there... So he probably already feels he's ready to take power there.

Kerry should be able to argue him on that battle as well though...

http://www.rense.com/general50/king.htm

[Fire Walk With Me]

42. She should have said "Shamu is in Florida, Mr. Bush."

http://www.shamu.com/fla/shamu-cam/index.htm

Would Bush have nodded and gone to the next question?

[Obamanaut]

61. That was nice -

now I must clean the coffee spew from my monitor. I really like you people!

[Orangepeel]

62. welcome to DU, usnret88!

:hi:

[0007]

68. Welcome home......

Don't pop too many willies on your cycle young man!

[gauguin57]

69. You're lucky the coffee spew went on your monitor ...

... my coffee went the other way when I laughed at the Shamu comment ... it went up into my sinuses and came out my nose!

[coloradodem2005]

3. Boy is she right.

Funny, I almost would have thought she was RW. But nope. Thank you Charlotte.

[wildeyed]

4. Well see, I was wrong.

I didn't like her. Clearly need to rethink that position.

[bloom]

14. It's funny how a little Bush-bashing

can enhance someone's credibility. :)

[wildeyed]

21. I guess I just dislike the child prodigy artists.

She seemed hokey to me when she first became famous. Plus my repuke father-in-law made me listen to her cd and I just automatically discount anything he likes. But clearly, she is wise and talented beyond her years and I was just being an ass. :P

[Cha]

48. I liked this movie she was in

with Craig Ferguson http://www.netflix.com/MovieDisplay?movieid=60026116&trkid=147042

But, it's kind of a chick flick.

Edit~You might like it.

[yorkiemommie1]

25. me too

i might just buy a CD.

[Karla Marx]

5. Finally, a Church that doesn't love Chimpy

[truthpusher]

11. ba da bing!

[Journeyman]

18. With your wit and keen sense of humor, Karla Marx. . .

you're going to be fun to have around. Welcome to DU.

[Career Prole]

24. Yowza!!

:rofl:

Welcome to DU, Karla Marx...and thanks ever so much for that belly laugh! :toast:

[catzies]

39. Good one! Welcome to DU, and what a great username!

:rofl:

[Booster]

41. Yes, finally a church I can believe in. Smart young girl.

[Cha]

50. Bravissima!

:applause:

[bumblebee1]

53. That's a good one, Karla!!! LOL

[Viva_La_Revolution]

66. Award for Karla Marx!

Funniest DU Newbie comment EVER!



Welcome to DU!

[RPM]

67. hey! I thought it was a church in Charlotte...

I guess i am stupid. :eyes:

[tabasco]

6. Yale must be proud of their legacy graduate.

I wonder if legacy admitees even have to go to classes.

That Church girl growed up real nice ! :loveya:

[regnaD kciN]

7. This is not the first time she's said this...

She was quoted as saying the same thing shortly after meeting him many years ago.

The comment about Pavarotti is new, though. On behalf of big fat divas (particularly of the male variety) everywhere, I must protest! ;-)

[DIKB]

8. How sad.

Being corrected by someone 1/3 your age. Yup we have a dumbass representing us to the WORLD.

[supernova]

10. Smart girl!

:D And a lovely singing voice, too. :D

[Big Kahuna]

9. And huge...

tracts of land! Sorry :)

[sellitman]

16. You forgot....

Cute as a button too! :applause:

[supernova]

20. Yes, she is cute

and classy.

I heard that when she was still at home, eventhough she made millions, she still lived off a $50/week allowance.

She's definitely got her head screwed on straight.

Memo to me: buy a couple of CC CDs.

[DuaneBidoux]

12. Aren't wales in the ocean?

[LiberalVoice]

13. Smart and gorgeous! nt

[K8-EEE]

15. LOL!!! She And Galloway Are Bush-Busters For Sure

I think I love Wales.

[neuvocat]

17. Oh well, at least he didn't ask what ocean they were in.

Wales...whales...

<rimshot>

[Botany]

19. The man is clueless ....

But we've got a big border in Texas, with Mexico, obviously -- and we've got a big border with Canada -- Arizona is affected.
Washington, D.C., Jun. 24, 2004

from dubyaspeak.com

[deadparrot]

22. Does this make anyone else want to cry?

Seriously, put your personal feelings for ** aside for a moment and dwell on this: the leader of the free world doesn't know what (or where) Wales is.

It's so depressing and scary. And we have three and a half years left. :scared:

[annabanana]

31. 3.643 years

sigh...

[Digit]

35. Call me funny, but I prefer my leaders to be more intelligent than I am

This is pathetic!

[chookie]

26. I love this woman

Ms Church not only has the gifts of a magnificent voice, artistry and personal beauty, but also the gifts of intelligence, insight and good sense.

I wish her a happy life and a long, rewarding career.

[warrior1]

29. Confession

I've bought all of her CD's. Now I see I was right about this young woman and hell can she ever sing. Nailed bush too. Excellant.

[Catherine Vincent]

27. OMG! I love this woman!

But this pretty singer better get ready for attacks from bush loving right wingers.

[Zorra]

30. Commander Cuckoobananas probably does not know what continent

the country of South Africa is on.

WH "Jeopardy" game:

CommanderCuckoo bananas for $10: "Continent that South Africa is on."

"Uh, uh, could you please, uh, uh, I don't read much, uh um,.."

Baaaannnnnt.

Next.

[Rainscents]

33. I bought her first CD when she was 12 years old.... She has incredible

voice! She is true Christan, not like Bush, he is fake.

BTW... She is also very beautiful and I now have all her CD!

[arikara]

37. Wales... hmm, I wonder if there are any black people there?

:rofl:

I have her Voice of an Angel CD, and indeed she does have the voice of an angel.

[JawJaw]

58. LOL - Beat me to it, arikara!

the answer is yes



http://www.bhac.org/index.html



BTW, Charlotte fans may be shocked to hear that she has temporarilly put her classical singing career on hold - her latest single "crazy chick" has more of a Motown feel (!) It's quite good, actually - I'm pleased that she has not gone down the "commercial dance diva" route, which would have been more predictable.

[tenshi816]

59. I heard Charlotte Church's new single on the radio the other day

when, funnily enough, I was actually in Wales (driving back to Yorkshire from Cardiff) and I heard her new song on the radio. I had read a while back that she was changing her musical direction and wondered at the time if she would go down the same path as so many other young singers, all heavy production, synthesized sound, droning vocal and relentless bass, and was relieved that she chose not to to do that. On her new single, there are actually (gasp!) musicians playing real instruments, her voice is beautiful and the song is really catchy.

The tabloids over here have given Charlotte Church a fair amount of grief for the last few years, mainly for the reason that she had the nerve to stop being a sweet 12 year old musical prodigy and grow up. Every romantic liaison she's had and every tiff she's had with her mother have been examined in depth by the tabloids, she's been followed on holiday by paparazzi looking for topless shots, photographed being drunk at her 18th birthday party (and let's face it, if every kid who got drunk at their 18th birthday party was in the news, there wouldn't be time for anything else), and just generally hounded by the press. All because she dared to become an adult. She's had a rough ride and has still emerged with her head on straight.

Good for her, and good luck to her. It's hard for an artist to change musical genres because so often the listening public want things to stay exactly the same. It will be a shame if someone with a voice like Charlotte Church doesn't succeed in the pop world when so many lesser talents (I'm talking about you, Britney Spears, and all your musical clones) make millions.

[olddad56]

38. I've seen those wales, them fish are huge.

[chookie]

54. Grammar error

The correct phrase is "I seed them wales, them fish is huge."

Please run your posts through spell checkin future or I will contact the moderators and have you banded. (ha ha)

[The_Casual_Observer]

40. Surly bush has heard of Tom Jones?

Or read Dylan Thomas?
Or watched The Prisoner?
Oh forget it.

[alarcojon]

64. Or at least he's ogled Catherine Zeta-Jones?

dumbass

[stlsaxman]

65. March 2003 i went to the Portmeirion for a Prisoner convention

by way of Amsterdam...

Porthmadog and the surrounding lands are absolutely gorgeous.. walking back to my b & b late at night in absolute darkness with nothing but stars overhead and the occasional bleating of sheep...

anyhoo here's a cool link- http://www.portmeirion-village.com/en/features.php?id=24&MID=38

Since i was 11 years old (when it first aired here) The Prisoner has been my favorite television show. Going to "the Village" was a hajj for me. I've often joked that as the Portmeirion was my "Mecca"- Amsterdam was my "Gomorrah" ;)

p.s. it would absolutely ruin the place to think that Dubya even knew that it existed!

[RaleighNCDUer]

43. Well, it's understandable.

She's too purty to be a furriner.

[Gyre]

44. I can't get over the fact that he graduated from Yale and Harvard

Such an obvious testament to the power of money and graft. I'll bet Stanford grads are taking a little time every day to thank god he didn't "graduate" from their school.

Yale and Harvard; you are whores.

Gyre

[Merope215]

46. Yeah...

I go to Yale. Believe me, there are lots more rich conservative idiots like him in the pipe. 30 years from now, look out. :scared:

[realcountrymusic]

45. Charlotte, meet Natalie

Maines, that is. Watch -- they will burn her CDs and ban her records. She and NM should do a duet tour called Babes Against Bush.

Her voice is too plummy for me, but technically she is awesome as a singer.

rcm

[Cha]

47. THis is classic bush

embarrassment..I'm glad Charlotte Church busted him..this bears repeating.

My sister and her family are going to Wales in 2006 and tour the surrounding area..I can't wait to tell her this story.

[dandrhesse]

49. Good for her! I like to hear stories of people having "real" reactions to

the bs he spills daily. I mean when I say I lived in New Mexico people sometimes ask stupid things like: do you need a visa to get in? (no kidding for real people have asked me this) but then those people were not posing as a president of the United States!

[Strawman]

51. My Welsh father will get a kick out of this story

Thanks for posting.

[bitchkitty]

52. Ha! I love it.

It's really upset the Freepers, hahahaha! They're desperately trying to find a bad picture of this lovely young lady, slamming her looks, brains and morals. hahahahahaha! Such pathetic pieces of shit they are.

[K8-EEE]

55. BWA ha ha....they still have DENNIS MILLER!

He's super impressed with GWB....and...unemployed.

[Poor Richard Lex]

56. I love Charlotte Church

she was a child phenom and is an amazing talent.

Glad to see she has a good head on her shoulders too.

[Kenergy]

57. LOL! n/t

[BooScout]

60. When this happened...

I remember thinking at the time how stupid Bush was.

Since I am married to a Welshman, I am sad to say, that most Americans don't have a clue that Wales is a country all by itself west of England. I can't count the times I have had to explain to people where exactly Wales is and that yes it is indeed a country.

[pinniped]

63. "He is a weirdo all right." "He is a right-wing weirdo."

The POS thinks Wales is something that swims in the ocean.

What a dumbshit the sheeple voted for.

"I’m really worried about it."

Join the club Ms. Charlotte.

==“He was horrible, really nasty. He was a pig and I was supposed to do a duet with him.==

I don't know who she's referring to here. Could be Pavarotti or that POS*.

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[BooScout]

71. Uhhhhhhhh....

I think you are the only one that took it that way, lol.

[Name removed]

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[FlaGranny]

74. No states in Europe or rest of world?

Two definitions of the word "state" according to OneLook Dictionary:

"noun: the territory occupied by a nation"

"noun: a politically organized body of people under a single government"

Also, the word "country" has the same two definitions. A state and a country are one and the same.

I'll bet people "over there" would be very surprised that they don't live in states.

P. S. I'll bet that G. W. * doesn't know that either.

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[jimshoes]

77. Plausible

but fallacious argument. As Arte Johnson of Laugh In used to say... "Very interesting... but stupid."

[FlaGranny]

72. That's funny!

When has * EVER asked "what kind of a state is (take your pick of any country)in?" - and ask it of a singer, no less. Doesn't sound like * vocabulary at all. But I can imagine him thinking a singer is a good person to ask such a question. Geez!!

Edit to change wording a bit.

Second edit: He obviously doesn't even care enough about the state of any country to ask, anyhow.

[mvd]

76. Right on, Charlotte!

Yes, she grown up nicely (looks-wise,) and her voice has only gotten better. It's too bad that it takes a young pop singer from Wales to speak out like this, but it does provide a refreshing change from Britney Spears.