Bush to WH reporter: "next time you should cover your bald head"

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/nickrobinson/2007/07/still_guessing.html

Nick Robinson's Newslog

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UPDATE 09:00 PM: If you watched the news conference, you may have noticed Mr Bush's warm greeting to me... He said to me, clearly remembering our last encounter, "you still hanging around?".

At a news conference in Washington last year, the day after the Iraq study group report was published, I suggested that his response would lead some to believe that he was in 'denial' about Iraq.

At the end of today's briefing, the president looked at me, sweating in the swampy conditions, and said, "next time you should cover your bald head". I made the fatal error of answering a quip with a quip: "I didn't know you cared". To which the president said, quick as a flash, "I don't". No Christmas card for me from Washington, then.

[Kerrytravelers]

1. So, I'm guessing this os one bald head * isn't going to rub?

:eyes:

[CottonBear]

2. Bush is the world's biggest asshole.

I don't know how the reporters deal with his insults.
I'd want to slap the smirk right off of his nasty face.

[SpiralHawk]

6. Gigadittoes. He is an asshole. Doesn't care about anybody other than...

his corrupt cabal of republicon crony war profiteering Homelander fascists.

[cui bono]

22. The people who wanted to have a beer with him are the ones he looks down on the most. n/t

[CottonBear]

34. Ain't that the truth. And they're too dense to realize it. n/t

[CottonBear]

36. Yikes! That picture is terrifying.

:scared:

A corrupt cabal of republicon crony war profiteering Homelander fascists is exactly what they are.

[BOSSHOG]

8. I'm bald and chicks dig it

I tell my wife I look a little like Sean Connery, she doesn't quite see it that way but she loves me anyway.

I'd rather be a bald head then a dick head.

got my second planting of tomatoes and peppers in last week. I'd love to be eating home grown creole tomatoes on Halloween.

Satchmo Fest this weekend at the Farmer's Market. Things are picking up in the big easy. Big, big crowds a couple of weekends ago.

[bdamomma]

19. creole tomatoes that sounds good!

do you have a recipe?

[BOSSHOG]

26. Actually

Creole is the name of a Tomato plant which originated in Plaquemines and St Bernard Parishes in South Louisiana. Seeds can be found on the internet; and I know I've seen them advertised on road side stands in Mississippi and Alabama, but the folks in Plaquemines say they ain't creoles if they ain't grown there. They have a very tangy acidic taste to them. They add a nice zip to any dish.

[Bravo Zulu]

41. I was stationed in New Orleans

at the old CG Station on Lake Ponchartrain and was on a mobile boarding team, we used to go down to Plaquemines Parish all the time, and to the blessing of the fleet, they had good food!

[BOSSHOG]

42. Hello My Friend

Your old CG Station on the Lake got beat all to hell by Katrina. I was in the Navy stationed on Dauphine Street and every Friday the Coast Guard Station on Poland Avenue on the Industrial Canal had the best Seafood buffet in town. It was a nice four block walk. Love those Coasties.

[Bravo Zulu]

44. After the CG station on the Lake closed

I was transferred to the new one on the ICW and was on a boat crew, we had to walk across the bridge to get to the boats and sometimes Fats Domino would be riding past in his Cadillac and wave at us!

[Harry Monroe]

47. I miss my Creole Tomatoes

I grew up in New Orleans and remember the taste of Creole Tomatoes. Delicious!!! My great-grandfather, who emigrated from Sicily in 1897, farmed them in Plaquemines Parish (so my dad tells me).

[BOSSHOG]

50. We drove through Chalmette

a couple of weeks ago and the Creole Tomato stands were up all over the place. They really are good. We bought plants back in April and I planted seeds from those plants last week. They are currently growing like weeds. We head to New Orleans about once a month, the tomato fest is our June reason, this weekend its the Satchmo Fest at the Farmers Market. Bringing NOLA back one beer at a time.

[grace0418]

23. "I'd rather be a bald head then a dick head." I wish the reporter would've said that to *.

I wonder what he would've responded to that.

[BOSSHOG]

29. Probably

Fool me once, shame on me, fool me twice, well I'll be damned. Ya know that quick wit of his.

[CottonBear]

32. Hiya BOSS! LOL! "I'd rather be a bald head then a dick head."

:rofl:

I'm sure your bald head is quite handsome! :) Sean Connery?!?! Ooo la la!

The weather sure has been good for gardening this year. Tomatoes at Halloween! Good eatin'!

I recently found a local source for homegrown dried and smoked chili peppers (all different kinds)! This guy up in Hartwell grows hundreds of pepper plants and then dries and specially smokes them. He then crushes them for use at the table and in the kitchen! The aroma is delicious! I'm supposed to give him a call in a few weeks to get some. He just grows them for himself and friends and family so I feel lucky to be a friend of his!

I'm glad that NOLA is on the mend. How is the Slidell rebuilding coming along? I'd love to go to the Satchmo fest but, alas, a NOLA trip is not in my immedeiate future. Hell, no trips are in my immediate future. Oh well, I'm lucky to be busy working and taking care of my horse. I hope to go down to the coast in September while it's still warm.

:hi: Take care! CB

[BOSSHOG]

37. We had(have) some very nice Gypsy Chili Peppers

Very mild, tasty and large. We have a bunch turning red right now, I want to see if they get hotter the longer they stay on the vine. You are killing me with that smoked peppers description. I have an incredible weakness for anything edible that makes me sweat. If traffic is a measure, Slidell is the most prosperous city on the planet. Its almost scary going down there now. Our old house off of Pontchartrain Drive is finally get some much needed work done on it. It took in six feet of water. A sweet little elderly lady has been living in a FEMA trailor parked out front of the house for almost two years.

My wife has the hots for Sean Connery. If she had the hots for John Belushi I'd tell her I looked like him.

[Desert Liberal]

39. Hey, don't put down assholes like that!

My man is a total asshole and very proud of it. Hell, I'm a total bitch and equally as proud about that as he is about his asshole status. Bush isn't an asshole. He's an egomaniacal dickhead! And yes, someone SHOULD slap that stupid smirk right off his chimpy face...

[CottonBear]

40. I agree. Egomaniacal dickhead suits him to a T.

I don't know how is family and colleagues (much less foreign dignitaries) can tolerate his rude and boorish beahvior. I have the feeling that Laura and the twins don't like him very much.

[ceile]

3. *cringe*

What an idiot! :banghead:

[lpbk2713]

4. That's right up there with the sarcastic *shades* remark.

It wasn't that long ago either. He made a snide comment addressed to a member of a Press Corps group implying that he should take his sunglasses off. Turns out the guy was vision impaired.

That Dumbya is a real piece of work. Let's not ever forget the goppers voted him in office not once but twice. That gives you an idea about the goppers poor judgement.

[Trouser Trout]

7. If I heard him Eh eh eh one more time I was gonna put my foot through the screen

People like Bush HAVE to incorporate those subtle( or not ) put-downs to make themselves feel better about themselves. It's certainly pathological, and for a President could be disastrous to foreign relations.

What a total moron.

[MADem]

5. There he goes with the bald head thing, again. But this one was too SWEATY to rub, apparently. NT

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

9. Focusing on a bald head in in the crowd at a press conference

There's nothing funny or amusing about that. Usually when a President makes these types of remarks at a press conference, it's to get a laugh to break the tension. But there's nothing funny (at least to me) in simply pointing out that someone in the crowd is bald. If it's something irrelevant to the questions being asked at the press conference and if it's only privately amusing to Bush and not intended to get others to laugh, then it has no meaning. Bush might as well suddenly talk about things that are completely unrelated to anything in a stream of consciousness manner. And in fact, that's what he did at the press conference. He not only focused on a bald head in the crowd, but he also talked about the toothpaste Gordon Brown used, the age of one of the reporters, and something about a birthday for an unidentified person. These are completely off-the-wall ramblings that have no purpose. They are perhaps things of importance or amusing to Bush in the private world of his own mind. But they sound like the ravings of a madman when he suddenly interjects these random things in a press conference before the American public.

[Trouser Trout]

10. Change the phrase" Sound like the Ravings of a Madman"

To "Are the Ravings of a Madman" and I totally agree w/ you ! If anyone hasn't read Bush on the Couch you should; it explains a lot of what's wrong w/ him, but it is a scary read considering he is in charge.

[badgerpup]

49. Bush was trying to regain the advantage.

Gordon Brown wouldn't playing footsie or ball with him...wasn't playing along the "We're such good buddies, we use the same type of toothpaste" schtick that he was accustomed to receving from his poodle Blair.

Mr. Brown had NO intention of playing along here...he's not the second banana in a tragi-comedy team; he's the Prime Minister of a sovereign nation, and he persisted in behaving as such.

Bush got flustered, so he had to put somebody else on the spot in order to reassert himself as 'da chimperor man'.

[WinkyDink]

51. He cannot control all of his needs and impulses, including his (sexual?) fetish for bald heads.

[Bitwit1234]

11. Once again we see the lack of character of this pretender to th presidency

Seriously. Have you seen any other president slur people the way bush does. He truly does think he is a dictator. That he rules everything. Before he sneaks out of office I would love for this congress to get some spine and bring down something he has done. Humiliated the asshole for once. Let him know how it feels.

[librechik]

12. ..."You're making me horny" (part edited out of transcript)

Bush is a sucker for those bald heads.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

13. Maybe Jeff rejected him and he's off of all bald heads now? eom

[Kingofalldems]

14. Keith should be told of this

[Enrique]

15. Bush can't stand the temptation

he's going to mandate burkas for bald guys.

[Buns_of_Fire]

46. That's what I think. Why aren't these guys given hats or something beforehand?

You just KNOW one day, Chucklenuts is going to lose his self-control, leap off the podium, and give one of these guys the head-rubbing of their lives, right there in front of the cameras 'n' God 'n' his momma 'n' everybody. Then he'll use the Ted Bundy defense and say that all those advertisements for Hair Club for Men caused him to do it.

[bdamomma]

16. enough with the frat boy ignorance you stupid a$$!

[riona]

17. He has a one-track mind

Cover up, cover up, cover up.............

[WinkyDink]

52. Oooohh, I LIKE that one! Bush DOES reveal himself, sub-consciously.

[baby_mouse]

18. He's such a hideous little creep!

How could ANYONE have voted for him?

[Lex]

45. Anyone else would've been punched in that smart mouth

by now I think.

[RedEarth]

20. What an asshole........

[Catherine Vincent]

21. Where is that photo of Bush rubbing all those bald heads?

Maybe he was trying to protect the reporter? :)

[Bryn]

24. Wow! Bush continues to say stupid things!

Make a list here.

[glitch]

25. Such wit! Such repartee! No wonder Laura adores him so. nt

[Richard Steele]

53. He's about as sharp as a sock full of wet hair. Dumber than two flat rocks. nm

[Az]

27. So what happens if all the reporters do their job and question him

Does he cut them all off and just stand there for the entirety of the press sessions?

Stand up and do your jobs people!

[L. Coyote]

28. Greg Palast is getting on Bush's nerves!

:rofl:

[Firespirit]

30. This is classic bully behavior

This little sh*t insults and degrades people like this in order to discomfit them, make them uneasy or upset. It's a form of control. He does it deliberately; I am convinced of this. The "man" is a sociopath.

[YOY]

31. Yes well at least nhe reporter won't be remembered as the "worst bald reporter ever"

History seems to be steering for the "Worst American President Ever" for Bush in retirement. Plenty for him to ponder over in his hideyhole once he's done.

[walldude]

33. He's just mad because if he were bald

everyone would see the point on his head. That or he's helping his buddies Rush, Billo, Sean, and Savage who's advertisements seem to all sell hair growth formulas or penis enlargement. Says, much about their audience...

[madrchsod]

35. bush is still on the first page on bald head fetish page on google.....

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=bush+bald+head+fetish&spell=1
bush bald head fetish - Google Search


http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=+bald+head+fetish&spell=1
bald head fetish - Google Search

[MotorCityMan]

38. Did someone slip * truth serum?

"I didn't know you cared."

"I don't."

Says it all.

[Bravo Zulu]

43. "*" Earning A's in People Skills at Andover

Bu$h in a wig



bu$h taking a nap

[Imagevision]

48. Bush is coming apart, he's got 15 more months of bad news? he'll do a meltdown just

a matter of time which is going to be thrilling to watch this asshole blow it!

[WinkyDink]

54. Maybe Little Georgie was intro'ed to Skull Fetishes by Grampa Prescott, alleged thief of

Geronimo's Skull (and Bones).