Bush Catches Bass With Crew From TV Show

[True_Blue]

CRAWFORD, Texas - President Bush (news - web sites) skipped a second round of fishing in his ranch pond Saturday with a crew from an outdoors show, though his performance the day before was something to brag about.

"He took the biggest one of the day," a bass nearly four pounds, said Roland Martin, host of the Outdoor Life Network program, "Fishing with Roland Martin."

The president and Martin released several big fish they caught Friday but kept the smaller ones for eating.

Bush had been scheduled to spend Saturday with his father, the former president, and Martin and his crew on the pond at Bush's Crawford ranch.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=544&ncid=693&e=1&u=/ap/20040410/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush

[KissMyAsscroft]

1. Honestly...

Im glad he is on vacation. Why does that dipshit puppet need to be involved anyway? Catch bass, ignore 9/11 warnings....what good is he anyway?

[Jack from Charlotte]

32. Anyone remember the film of the elected Bush driving his speedboat

in the summer of '92? I think the Clinton people used the footage in a campaign commercial with the message being Bush was out of touch during an economic slowdown.

Picture this.....

A voice says..... "On August 6th 2001, just 36 days before the worst attack on US soil in our history, George Bush was given a brief by the CIA entitled "Bin Laden to attack inside the United States." George bush was on vacation at the time he was given this warning. And what did he do that morning? He went fishing. (Footage of AWOL/moron holding up 4lb. bass)

Vote John Kerry!

[goclark]

50. That would be perfect! n/t

[boobooday]

2. Giving the boys time to plot another one?

Just asking.

http://www.wgoeshome.com

[pinto]

3. this is just plain effing embarassing for America....

Busboys staged photo ops in Crawdad TX while Iraq spirals in death and injury is an embarassment to us all.

[Tinoire]

4. Awe... Isn't that cute? The village idiot catches a poor fish

while innocents are being slaughtered on his battle-ground.

Barbara and Laura must be soooo proud. Their idiot caught a fish!

[pfitz59]

5. Man-made lake....

Planted bass. Scuba assistant. Need more?

[asjr]

9. I had the same thought. I can picture

a Secret Service man in the depths of the pond hooking a big ol'bass on the line!

[pfitz59]

21. Pretty much a given.....

Bushies "lake" was hand sculpted and planted with trophy bass. No minnows allowed. Knowing the measures his handlers take, the 'guy in the pond' notion is probably true.

[fishnfla]

27. Nah, any idiot can catch a bass

here's proof

[T Bone]

55. really a pig farm pond that is rarely fished by anyone is EASY pickins

Trust me on this if you want to catch a LOT of fair sized fish fast, ask a farmer if you can fish his pond for 45 freakin' minutes. Anybody and I mean anybody, even someone who can barely get a worm on a hook will reel in 7 or 8 in a situation like that. They bite as soon as the hook is in the water.

[PartyPooper]

58. You're right! I "caught" fish like this when I was a 6 year-old kid.

:-)

[T Bone]

61. farm ponds ARE the best places to take children fishing

that explains this monkey-butt's little trip...

[skooooo]

6. Hope it has mercury.

[BOSSHOG]

7. I guess this is supposed to stimulate the base??

[54anickel]

16. Sure, it gets into how he had to cancel his fishing plans for today to

do "something important" regarding Iraq. Poor guy, had to pass up his favorite passtime to do his effin' job.

[CatWoman]

78. no, silly

it's supposed to stimulate the bass

:P

[MaineDem]

8. As I posted on another thread...

These fishing shows are as fake as Bush's presidency. The fish are caught before the taping so it all looks good.

Smoke and mirrors...things this idiot-in-chief knows so well!

I really hope someone like Moveon or ACT does an ad with the fighting in Iraq, the Marines grieving over the fallen comrades, and Bush fishing and whooping it up with the tv crew. It's enough to make me lose my lunch. Sadly, he makes me feel that way much too often.

[aquart]

10. Is this the same as fiddling while Iraq burns?

[Bill ORights]

83. The comparison is a calumny on Nero

Nero actually put down his musicmaker and hustled to rebuild Rome. He did a fairly good job, too. So when will Dubya put down his organ and rebuild some of his ruins?

Bill ORights

[Cocoa]

11. things "kind of calmed down" in Iraq?

They floated on the pond for about 1 1/2 hours. White House aides told Martin that "things were kind of calmed down" in Iraq and that prospects were good for another session Saturday.


Maybe the aides didn't want to upset Martin, like Bush didn't want to upset the kids reading the Goat Story.

[oneighty]

12. He took biggest Bass of the day.

A US Navy frogman (SEAL) camped out on the bottom of the pond attached said fish to the first one's hook.

Really Bush* gotta be first; first in jogging match; biggest fish; biggest asshole.

Bush* has never grown up me thinks.

180

[MaineDem]

13. Good Lord, the White House asked for this

From the article:
Officials at the Outdoor Life Network said the White House had approached them.

Bush has been courting the millions of voters who fish and hunt.

[Gemini Cat]

14. I'm sure all of the families and friends

connected to this weeks dead, will be thrilled to hear of the bushie's stunning fish news.

[Amaya]

15. .....

Bush had walked to the pond that day, "dropped a line and caught a nice crappie, about a pound and a half, and let (Bush's Scottish terrier) Barney sniff at it a little bit," Martin said.

What a f*ckin' yutz! Off fishin' and relaxin' while people die :mad:

[madaboutharry]

17. The phoney president

catches a fish on his phoney ranch in a phoney pond stocked with fish while on a phoney boat (brought by the film crew). This is like the phoney flight suit and the phoney camera shot off of San Diego and the phoney turkey in Baghdad and the phoney supporters told to take of their ties so they look like "just folks" and.... oh never mind.

I really want to scream.

[louis-t]

18. anyone else catch the irony?

"let the big fish go and kept the small ones for eating".

[Ravy]

25. Nice! I missed that. (n/t)

[RoyGBiv]

29. Yes

I thought maybe I was crazy, but no, that's really what it said.

[Lisa]

67. "let the big fish go"

Just like with bin Laden, eh Georgie?!

[Barrett808]

19. "The White House did not release a photo of Bush fishing"

The White House released a photo of Bush meeting with his national security team Saturday.

White House spokesman Scott McClellan said Bush had spoken with Gen. John Abizaid, head of U.S. Central Command, and Paul Bremer, the U.S. administrator in Iraq.

The White House did not release a photo of Bush fishing.

Nice little editorial dig at the end.

[Whoa_Nelly]

20. Threats of hostage decapitations

always makes me want to go fishing </sarcasm>
:mad:

[pinto]

44. ouch! that gets to the heart of it....thanks for the post...n/t

[NashVegas]

22. Talking Points Memo on this

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2004_04_04.php#002831

"department of troubling juxtapositions"

[PartyPooper]

23. Will Babs cook the fish for Junior? I've heard she's a 'gourmet cook'!

Maybe she can make fish sticks for her precious little boy.

:evilgrin:

[frank frankly]

24. burn in your own hell

:puke:

FUCK YOU BUSHCO!!!

[Tuttle]

26. Give a man a fish: feed him for a day...

teach him how to fish and a repuke will make it cheaper for some guy in India to do the fishing for now on.

Tut-tut

[belle]

73. Smack him in the face with a fish and it's a lot more satsifying.

[9215]

76. LOL! Good one

:thumbsup:

[Ruby Romaine]

28. best line in the article-

He said, `I've been busy, all these crises,'" Martin recalled.

[Kool Kitty]

84. "I've been busy, all these crises."

Oh, poor baby! Are we supposed to feel for him, that he has so many crises to handle? I would like to remind him that 99% of his problems are of his own doing. (When I think of him fishing, I get the mental picture of the pic someone has in their sig, with W's face on Gollum's body, smacking the fish against the rock, like Gollum did.)

[Palacsinta]

30. Are you freakin' kidding me!!!

He's FISHING while I just signed my foster kid's will and life insurance papers? She enters (I DO NOT want her to do this, but she's 27!!) the military on Tuesday! May God have mercy on his soul, 'cause I've having a hard time doing it!!

[JoFerret]

31. Did he hook his own face

and is that how he got the scratch on his right cheek?

[GoddessOfGuinness]

80. He was fishing for bass...not ass

:evilgrin:

[jab105]

33. Clearly, Iraq can go to fucking hell...Afghanistan can be forgotten,

afterall, OBL is there, and that's just not important...we can have troops dying every day fighting in a place they shouldnt be in the first place...the budget can have a $500 billion debt which means that anyone under the age of 50 is in a toss up about S/S benefits...and the economic "recovery" can be the weirdest and slowest ever seen after a slowdown...

But, heck, if Bush can fish, then he must be a damn good president...

[T Bone]

57. Bush hooks fish in stocked pond, in other news OSAMA still not caught.

'nuff said...

unless I think of something else to say about this pathetic bastard.

[frylock]

34. something else for the freepers to jack off to..

right up there with their brave president throwing out that pitch after 911.

[Lorien]

35. Bush fishes while Iraq burns

The new Nero has outdone the old. :grr:

[buycitgo]

36. nero.......fiddle.......burn

[Lorien]

41. Same thought, same moment!

:toast:

An article was posted yesterday that said that * has spent 43% of his presidency ON VACATION! Other than movie stars, what other working people in America can do this? I spend 13 hours a day, six days a week working (post on DU while I'm scanning artwork), and I'm just drawing %$#@&* cartoons for Disney for my bread and butter- this joker is supposed to be LEADING THE FREE WORLD and he doesn't spend HALF the time working that I do? WTF!

To top it off, he won't spend more than TWO HOURS in a joint testimony with his puppetmaster before the 9/11 commission? Calling up and outdoor sportsmen's show and having them see him catch a fish is more important than finding out why 9/11 happened and stopping future attacks? Iraq is CRUMBLING, and he's playing at his pond? We need to HAMMER these lazy, arrogant,contemptible SOBs with this crap! It's unforgivable! He has betrayed the office of the presidency and has/ is failing in his duties to protect America. ENOUGH!

[shanti]

74. and ahnold's doing

the same thing here in cali. :grr:

[pinniped]

89. Arnie was/is inHawaii...

but at least he did something noble on his vacation. Unlike that stupid fake Texan POS.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/04/10/BAGII63A6V1.DTL

HAWAII
Schwarzenegger a real-life hero in saving swimmer

Mark Martin, Chronicle Sacramento Bureau

If it was an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie, the swimmer in danger most likely would have been surrounded by sharks or fighting with an aquatic robot.

Instead, Schwarzenegger, the former film hero and current California governor, calmly helped a distressed swimmer return to shore this week at a Hawaii beach after the man told him he was cramping up in the water, the governor's press secretary confirmed Friday.

more:

[Dulcinea]

87. A Kerry commercial waiting to happen!

"...Bush spends 43% of his time on vacation, but can only allow 2 hours WITH CHENEY to testify before the 9/11 commission..."

Are you reading this, MoveOn or Kerry folks???

[Dulcinea]

88. A Kerry commercial waiting to happen!

"...Bush spends 43% of his time on vacation, but can only allow 2 hours WITH CHENEY to testify before the 9/11 commission..."

Are you reading this, MoveOn or Kerry folks???

[JCMach1]

37. Billy says 'Bush went fishing while Iraq burned'...SHAME on you!

[PartyPooper]

38. From the article: "The President was very relaxed."

He's always relaxed! Gimme a friggin' break. He doesn't work!

:mad:

[Geeky_boy]

39. WMDs found in Crawford

Details concerning the bait used were omitted from the report for national security.

But Colin Powell released this satellite image as definitive proof that the pond was stocked with bass as recently as a month ago:

[Corgigal]

40. Also about keeping the small ones

and throwing the big ones back. Have I been doing it wrong for my whole life? I thought you did the opposite or is their a republican/democrat way to fish too?

[buycitgo]

43. steely dan is prescient on this, sorta

Throw back the little ones
And pan-fry the big ones
Use tact, poise and reason
And gently squeeze them

Hot licks and rhetoric
Don’t count much for nothing
Be glad if you can use what you borrow
So I pawn my crown
For a ride uptown
And buy it back tomorrow

[ewagner]

91. How very Republican

Let's see here:

Throw back the big ones, cook the small ones....

Like let Kenny Lay go free but convict Martha?

Like Reduce taxes on the wealthy and cut programs to the poor?

yeah...that's pretty Republican.

[Lorien]

42. Holy crap! check this out:

(if you haven't already read it in the article)
(snip)

The TV host said Bush is "a very accomplished fisherman. He handled the tackle really well and caught three fish," Martin said. "He complains he doesn't fish there enough; so he misses that a lot."

They floated on the pond for about 1 1/2 hours. White House aides told Martin that "things were kind of calmed down" in Iraq and that prospects were good for another session Saturday.

Then Saturday proved a perfect example of what happens when the president's job gets in the way of his hobby, Martin said.

(snip)

I think my head's gonna explode!

:grr: :nuke: :grr:

[susu369]

51. Things were kind of calmed down....

Meanwhile, from Riverbend Blog:

http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/

"The American and European news stations don't show the dying Iraqis… they don't show the women and children bandaged and bleeding-
the mother looking for some sign of her son in the middle of a puddle of blood and dismembered arms and legs…
they don't show you the hospitals overflowing with the dead and dying because they don't want to hurt American feelings…
but people *should* see it. You should see the price of your war and occupation- it's unfair that the Americans are fighting a war
thousands of kilometers from home.
They get their dead in neat, tidy caskets draped with a flag and we have to gather and scrape our dead off of the floors and hope
the American shrapnel and bullets left enough to make a definite identification…

One year later, and Bush has achieved what he wanted- this day will go down in history and in the memory of all Iraqis as one of the bloodiest days ever..."

--snip--

Today I despise this phony man than ever before...and I hope this story will stay in the news because anyone with one ounce of common sense should be able to figure out The Potemkin Village Idiot does not give a rat's ass about anyone but his corporate fat cats.

I'm sure the parents of Thomas Hamill will be glad to know things were kind of calmed down.

Enjoy your crappie, bu$h*.

[MO_Dem]

52. Heehee!

They are implying that Duh?bya knew how to handle a fish hook--doesn't say anything about whether they had to tell him which end of the hook was sharp BEFORE the cameras started shooting.

[T Bone]

60. 3 fish in an hour and half on a stocked farm pond ?

He is a fucking shitty fisherman. that is way fucking bad.
That is pathetic. Of course he is too, and sick.

[Kool Kitty]

85. He complains about not fishing enough?

There's an easy way to remedy this, W-RESIGN. Then you can fish every ding-dong day.

[grannylib]

45. With his environmental record, better catch 'em while you can;

he is destroying the habitat and waterways so badly we won't HAVE any fish soon; and better not eat 'em, what with the new levels of mercury allowed and all....
Fucker.

[JoFerret]

56. His fish may be the only ones not toxic.

Like a gated community and off the grid for the rich.

[TacticalPeek]

46. What!? No pictures? I can't imagine why not.

His daddy preferred bonefishing from his cigarette boat during Iraq War I (the progenitor of Iraq War II).

Ah, le noblesse oboneheaded.

[pinniped]

86. Is that G. Gordon Liddy's brother or what?

n/t

[xxqqqzme]

47. wow they had a boat!

I thought he walked on water!

used a fishing pole - didn't part the water 'n just pick up the fish??

[HEyHEY]

48. Bass - trophy fish of the dumbhick repuke

Libs go for quality and a fish that requires a challenge - trout.

[Citizen Daryl]

49. Our "Aristocracy" Piddles While The World Burns. n/t

[demgrrrll]

53. Coming up next...Nero W. Bush aka Lord Satan with the Bass Masters

and now a word form our corporate sponsors.....

[NMDemDist2]

54. even the fish on the ranch stink

Bush had walked to the pond that day, "dropped a line and caught a nice crappie, about a pound and a half, and let (Bush's Scottish terrier) Barney sniff at it a little bit," Martin said.

ROFL

[daleo]

59. So the media is feeding right out of his bass-hole

It figures, nothing new here.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

62. I had no idea that bass would bite on a news crew....

guess I have been doing it wrong all these years. No wonder I suck at fishing, I use lures and various other bait.

I will have to try that news crew idea, there are far too many of them anyway.

[joe1991]

63. Shrub = Weapon of Bass Destuction

I'm sure our soldiers in Iraq that have a few minutes to get on the internet are cussing at the resident bass-turd, big time.

[tlcandie]

64. But the American public bought it hook , line and sinker....

eom

[Danieljay]

69. damn..that was good! eom

[nodehopper]

65. does anyone else feel INSANE reading this?

[Lorien]

70. You bet

after all this week's maddness, it's almost too much to bear.

[Lisa]

66. did he wear Lance Armstrong's yellow jersey when cycling?

Hey, he's dressed up as just about everything else so far!

[David Zephyr]

68. Our Soldiers Are Dyin', Condi's Lyin' & The President's Gone Fishin'

The parents, spouses and loved ones of every soldier in Bush's World War should be fuming at the notion of this bastard fishing while our soldiers are facing death in an unwinnable situation.

Soldiers are dyin'
Condi's lyin'
And Bush has gone fishin'.

[Obamarama]

71. What...he didn't turn the fish he kept into 5,000 fishes like Jaysus?

I'm highly disappointed.

[shanti]

72. wait a minute...

:puke:

much better!

[Calico Jack Rackham]

75. Birds of a feather

[FlaGranny]

77. The headline of this story

shockingly stands out as ridiculous, tucked in with the other headlines on the LBN page.

Nero indeed.

[kskiska]

79. "While Bush Fished…"

Just think of the treasure trove of books still to be written long into the future on this debacle.

[tedzbear]

81. Geez! Can't Karl Rove get anything right???

The emperor fishes while Iraq burns.

[sprockets]

82. Bass beats Bush in debate n/t

nt

[susu369]

90. And just what is Condoliesalot doing?

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/11/opinion/11DOWD.html

"W. kept fishing and denouncing Saddam, while Condi sat for a glam Vogue photo shoot and interview."

[Champ]

92. Hahahahaha

:kick: