The Bush Administration's Wildly Innappropriate "Jokes"

[Stephanie]

1) Some people call you the elite. I call you my base.


2) Pretending to look for WMD under his desk.


3) Rove wearing the "I am not a target" button, with Novak.


4) Purple heart band-aids.



5)

Bush starts New Year with visit to wounded troops
Sun Jan 1, 6:20 PM ET

SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush started the New Year on Sunday by visiting wounded troops, mostly from the Iraq war, who are receiving care in Texas.

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The hospital, which has a burn center and amputee center, has cared for more than 2,340 members of the U.S. armed forces injured mostly in Iraq and also
Afghanistan.

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Bush showed reporters an injury to his forehead, a scrape from "combat with a Cedar" while brush-clearing at his ranch. "I eventually won. The Cedar gave me a little scratch," he said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060101/pl_nm/bush_dc_5

[PA Democrat]

1. I'll bet those triple amputees from the Iraq invasion

got a BIG laugh out of Bush's joke.

[MaineDem]

6. Consider what the GOP did to Max Cleland

They don't value the sacrifice at all!

[ixion]

2. what a mocking little sleaze

:grr:

[Supersedeas]

27. yea, a true mockery of real combat injuries--in a hospital no less

[htuttle]

3. "Little did I realize I'd hit the trifecta"

The 'trifecta joke' HAS to be one of the most innappropriate jokes of all time. I always thought it was a bit like Nero joking about the fire...

[Stephanie]

9. That's #6.

And he couldn't hide his glee.

[glitch]

37. AND to the sound of laughter from his repuke audience.

They just love their funny little cowboy.

[Spirochete]

43. Especially since

Nero started the fire...

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. I cringe every time that pinhead opens his mouth.

And each faux pas is worse than the last. This time, this draft-dodging, AWOL asshat (who likes to wear military uniforms as long as he can put on his own little jammies and sleep in his own bed each night) was trying lamely to establish some common ground with a bunch of terribly injured soldiers by pointing out a little scratch he got "clearing brush"* and joking about it as a "combat injury." It's like he lies awake at night trying to think of the most inappropriate comments for each event he is to attend the next day.

:puke:


*falling off the couch onto the corner of a coffee table after a lengthy visit by his pal JIm Beam

[Straight Shooter]

10. He isn't lying awake at night thinking of these comments.

One of the worst things about bush is that he's stuck in a frat boy mindset. He tells jokes that might be considered funny in a sick kind of way with a bunch of frat boys. He was a clown in his fraternity, although we have to wonder whether they actually thought he was funny or were just patronizing him because of his family connections.

bush never grew up, never learned that other people are important, too, and that they have feelings. To bush, his world consists of "Look at me. Me, me, me."

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

15. Probably true.

It's doubtful that much of anything keeps him awake at night -- certainly not a little thing like a war. I'm just so disgusted that this putz could go to a military hospital full of soldiers who, as a result of fighting Bush's "war," have missling limbs and terrible burns and will probably suffer for the rest of their lives, and then do his little Beavis and Butthead giggle and talk about his little "combat" scratch. He has really outdone himself this time.

[pinto]

5. The "combat with a Cedar" line - at a burn/amputee center! - is pathetic.

[SammyWinstonJack]

25. It''s ALWAYS all about HIM!

He's has to be the center of attention in all situations, even when it's not a good position for him to be in. He's clueless, which is not the least of what he is..

[Nite Owl]

7. Anything that happens to them

is important, they could care less about anyone else. The total self-centeredness, self-absorption of this group is unbeleivable.

[Benhurst]

8. Recommended NT

[graywarrior]

11. The people with him don't look like they're laughing.

[Th1onein]

12. He's a sociopath.

These personality types are inappropriate constantly. To joke about a scratch from "clearing brush" in front of young men and women who have lost limbs is just cold and heartless. What a fucking idiot!

[SmokingJacket]

50. You said it.

I'm nauseated by these "jokes." The only other person I've known who makes similar unfunny, uncomfortable jokes is a diagnosed borderline sociopath.

[Atman]

13. Is there any brush left in Crawford????

Jesus fucking christ, the think we're idiots. How many times can one man clear brush, and be injured doing it, no less? Can't they at least come up with an original story? Like maybe, be accidentally bit himself on his forhead?

[Sal Minella]

18. The natural brush around Crawford was obliterated long ago.

The Forest Service now imports brush from the Brazilian rain forest and transplants it around the Fantasy Ranchettaette for him.

[DBoon]

26. sort of like Maria Antoinette's fake peasant village?

nt

[Richard Steele]

24. "BRUSH" is the Secret Service code name for his Crawford liquor cabinet.

B*sh keeps clearing it,
and the maids keep restocking it.
It's an epic battle of wills.

[Deja Q]

14. Notice the three around the pres. None of them is genuinely happy.

[0007]

45. 'Tis the ol' South Park look of disbelief.

How would you feel lying there with a missing leg, 80% of your vision gone, no feeling in either arm and this schmuck stands up in front of you and points to a scratch on his forehead?

[im10ashus]

16. Real knee-slappers, aren't they?

Nothing like using the war as a basis for your daily jokes. I am sure the wounded are real thrilled to have such a parallel drawn to their experiences in battle.

[H2O Man]

21. I think the guy

is funnier than Dave Chappelle.

[im10ashus]

22. Funny!

Now if we can only get "W" to admit his nervous breakdown too and have him run away to some foreign country and give up his job at "Comedy DEFCON 5" and we will all be a little happier. Happy New Year Water Man!

[seabeyond]

17. these three listening. they all cant look at bush. they put themselves

far from what he was saying. they disconnected. you can see in their eyes, they have gone to those they have treated. this is NOT a good picture for bush. look at those people, their faces, how they have subdued their energies within self, to be unconnected from bush at this moment. look at different pictures when bush has hold of his audience. they will look at bush, they are engaged. these three are purposely un-engaged. very interesting. good to see. people DIDN'T think this was a funny story

[Neil Lisst]

19. He surrounds himself with sychophants who make him think he's funny.

They laugh at every dumb thing he says, and that makes Bush think he's a comedian. That little smug look he gets is conditioned from years of ass-kissing by staffers, always laughing when he gives them the cue.

He gets that pathetic look - half smiling, half demanding approval - and then his audience gives him the obligatory "uh-he-he."

[tanyev]

20. Like a 5 year old showing off his "owee".

You think those amputees have it bad? Look what happened to ME. ME,ME,ME,ME,ME!



:grr:

[Octafish]

23. Lucky me. I hit the Trifecta!

Inside, he must weep for his country.

June 19, 2002

Bush's "Lucky me, I hit the Trifecta" joke

Please give us a break

In his political speeches, Bush has been compulsively repeating his tasteless joke about "Lucky me, I hit the trifecta" because the 9-11 attacks gave him the justification he wanted to raid the Social Security fund. It's almost too weird to even contemplate. Can he not see that he is joking insensitively about how the WTC-Pentagon attacks enabled him to justify yanking out money paid in by working people for their retirement and giving it to his buddies in the defense industry? Characterizing it as a "win" for himself is venal. How do the families of those killed in the attacks feel about that? How can any American look upon this man as a "leader"?

An editorial in The New Republic points out that there is no record of him ever saying that he would not break into the Social Security fund "except in case of war or recession..." until August of 2001. It had always been a straight promise with no conditions that he would never do it. How strange is it that a few weeks before the attacks he suddenly started setting up a condition for breaking his promise not to dig into the Social Security fund, and his condition just happened to be fulfilled by the attacks.

These were attacks he had warnings about, personally, and failed to take even minimal precautions against. Is there really any mystery about all this? What smoking gun are we waiting for? What has the guy done right?

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SOURCE:

http://www.davidcogswell.com/MediaRoulette/TrifectaJoke.html

Leavenworth is too good for traitors.

[gulliver]

28. No one will call him on this.

This is the exact sort of thing that a Dem leader could gig Bush on, but no one will. The "asshole" issue is off limits. We need some Dem leader to be caught on an open mike calling Bush an asshole.

Cough. Asshole. Cough. Cough. Asshole.

Nominated.

[Jara sang]

29. You for got Bush's Letterman heart surgery "jokes"

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2000/03/01/politics/main166937.shtml

Bush shot back with "It's about time you had the heart to invite me," an apparent reference to Letterman's recent bypass heart surgery.

{snip}

Leaving that joke, Letterman brought up one of Bush's many slogans: "You often say: I'm a uniter, not a divider. What does that mean?"

Without hesitation, Bush continued to goad Letterman: "It means when it comes time to sew up your chest cavity, we use stitches as opposed to opening it up." The remark produced more boos from the audience.

[Stephanie]

30. I remember that.

It was just appalling. People were booing, Letterman was dumbstruck. It was really really strange - hostile.

[Jara sang]

31. I remember it too. The strange thing is this.

I remember thinking that Bush would be sunk after that and would never be elected in Nov. 2000, however like a week later he appeared on Oprah Winfrey's show and she completely gave him a pass. Oprah fucking kissed his ass! Somebody in the audience screamed hostilities at Bush and Oprah had the person removed. Oprah dropped the fucking ball on this, she endeared Bush to millions of bored housewives across the nation.

[Bushy Being Born]

33. Yes, THAT I remember seeing!

What a smooch fest that was!

[WinkyDink]

47. Is Oprah, or is she not, a BILLIONAIRE??

'Nuff said.
And it's always all about HER, too. I just love those disgusting anecdotes of hers about how she loves coupons and bargains. Give me a break.

[Bushy Being Born]

32. Holy sh*t, I can't believe that...

But I'm not surprised. I don't remember seeing or hearing about it though. If anyone has a clip I'd be grateful. Might help convert a few more people.

[tabasco]

34. # 2 converted a former republican I know.

Looking for the WMDs joke turned a hard republican into an independent.

It really shows that Bush doesn't give a damn about the death and destruction he has caused.

[salin]

35. referring to 911 gleefully as "I hit the Trifecta!" (per giving him

the rationale to push huge deficit spending and put SS back in financial risk.)

[mopaul]

36. they laugh now

someday soon they'll forget how

[ryan_cats]

38. Where are his handlers?

Where are his handlers? They can't seriously consider letting him get off script. Does the dipwad even know how inappropriate his remarks are? Was someone jamming his ear piece?

Moron can't even get a simple photo op correct. I bet his controllers cringe as much as we do when he's speachifying/lying.

Where's uncle Dick when he needs him, geesh?

[Stephanie]

49. His handlers think he's a laugh riot

Or anyway they let him think so.

[Helga Scow Stern]

39. The look on the face of the uniformed soldier speaks volumes...

[Marnieworld]

40. "Things would be a lot easier if this were a dictatorship... "

"... as long as I was the dictator."

This lovely anti-American sentiment was expressed by the newly chosen President-elect in December of 2000. He has said it again I believe but this is when I first heard it. At the time I was amazed that he did not know how unbelievably inappropriate that was for an AMerican president to say. Now we all realize that he meant it and he has since taken steps to make that a possibility. Truth in jest. My nomination for #7.

[mandyky]

41. Yeah this is the one that bugs me the most!!

Gawd, I despise this critter. How did he get to be prez again? LOL

[grytpype]

42. "combat with a Cedar" more like combat with a bottle of Chivas

[petgoat]

44. He may have won the battle with the cedar; he's clearly losing the war nm

[Lisa]

46. "there's one terrible pilot"

Bush claimed, more than once, that this was what he was thinking when he saw the WTC on fire. I don't know which is worse -- that he would be so callous as to actually have that thought in his head as those people were dying ... or that he would think other people would be amused to hear it.


You can learn a lot about someone, from what s/he laughs at. Bush likes playing mean-spirited practical "jokes" which are at the expense of others -- tricking people into drinking water which he tells them is contaminated, or hurling a football at a reporter's face. He likes to humiliate people in public -- and when he refrains from doing so, his staff and visitors are so relieved that they fawn all over him. When I first heard about the nasty side of Bush's personality, in 2000, I hoped that he would be professional enough to restrain it. Evidently not.

[Stephanie]

48. "heh, heh, heh"

According to that Vanity Fair article, he likes to put reporters in the back of his pickup and then drive fast over bumps to see if he can bounce them out. This is an adult?

[pointblank]

52. He is an adult

in physical form only.

The "adult" part isn't what gets me so much, as we all know some supposed adults who have less sense than a two year old...What gets me is that he is the fucking PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!! (or at least the 'acting' president)

His presidency to me truly is the fabled "eighth wonder of the world"...How can even HALF of a population of the supposed worlds only remaining superpower support such an obviously bumbling moron to be its representative to the rest of the world and our number one policy maker? I just dont get it. :-(

[leftchick]

51. He also called his base "The Haves and the Have Mores".

fucking scum of the earth he is. :puke: