Has anybody here who knows German heard what German

[raccoon]

media had to say about Bush "massaging" Merkel?

[Jane Austin]

1. We looked last night, because I was curious, too.

What Mr. JaneAustin found were English versions, so they were a day or two behind. They were still talking about the "sh*t" gaffe.

The newspapers here just don't get it, calling it "tought talk" when what Bush was really doing was his usual over-simplification of extremely complex issues. We were hoping to see if their German counterparts were more insightful.

I'm most interested to see if the German press falls into the same trap as ours: seeing the "shoulder rub" only as a boundary issue, rather than what Bush accomplished by it; that is, he successfully interrupted and stopped cold a conversation between the heads of state of Germany and Italy.

There was a time when something like that would have started a war.

[raccoon]

2. Yes, disgusting as he is, I think now that I find the media hos

more disgusting.

"The newspapers here just don't get it, calling it "tought talk" when what Bush was really doing was his usual over-simplification of extremely complex issues."

I don't think they WANT to get it; they're putting icing on a dogturd, same as they always do when it comes to Dubya.


"There was a time when something like that would have started a war."

Yes, it would have.

[Tesha]

11. The night is young...

> There was a time when something like that would have started a war.

The (metaphorical) night is young...

Tesha

[supernova]

3. Wierd. Couldn't find anything

at Deutsche Welle (Germany's BBC).

:shrug: http://www.dw-world.de/dw/0,2142,266,00.html

[lectrobyte]

4. I saw this link, but I'm not a German speaker

http://www.bild.t-online.de/BTO/news/aktuell/2006/07/18/merkel-bush-liebes-attacke/merkel-bush-liebes-attacke.html

[lectrobyte]

5. the babelfish of this is pretty hilarious

US president George W. Bush with the G-8-Gipfel in sank Petersburg.


From the rear it creeps verschmitzt at Kanzlerin Angela Merkel (CDU) near, surprises it with a lightning Massage.


How the Kanzlerin reacted to the "dear attack" Bushs, see here...

The stormy US president George W. Bush with the G8-Gipfel

[michael_1166]

6. It has been mentioned in the main news programme of

RTL (a cable channel) yesterday. The way they presented it had a general tone of "we're not sure - is this still funny or is it bad style already?". He hasn't been condemned for it, but he got a marker on their watchlist I'd say.

[Kellanved]

7. More or less nothing

The tabloids mentioned it (that's how it got to DU), but the thing not considered important in any way.

[theHandpuppet]

8. What's German for this phrase?

"If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all." If they didn't say this, they must be thinking it.

[michael_1166]

10. It's

"Wenn Du nichts Gutes über jemanden sagen kannst, dann schweige lieber."

Hope that helps :-)

[donsu]

9. buzzflash had a link but it was in German - something like love

massage

I looked at it but didn't keep the link