Bush Cracks Jokes, Dems Not Amused

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From CNN and AP: President Bush made some jokes at the Radio and Television Correspondents' Association dinner. Some of the jokes had to do with weapons of mass destruction:
There was [a photograph showing] Bush looking under furniture in a fruitless, frustrating search. "Those weapons of mass destruction have got to be somewhere," he [Bush] said.
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Now it turns out that some Democrats are upset. From CNN and AP again:
"This is a very serious issue," Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe said Friday on ABC television. "We've lost hundreds of troops, as you know, over there. Let's not be laughing about not being able to find weapons of mass destruction."

"They're not there. That is the issue. We should not take it to a new step to make fun of the situation," McAuliffe said.

Democrat House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi told reporters Thursday she has treated the subject with respect and doesn't find it funny.

"I had thought that that was a little casual about a serious subject, but now the president has made it open season," said Pelosi, who attended the dinner.
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I may not be Bush's number one fan, but--DAMN--give him a break, folks! The Radio and Television Correspondents' Association dinner has a history of exactly this sort of thing, and what Bush did doesn't strike me as being much different from what other presidents have done at the dinner. Besides, what Bush did is milder than some of the quips on the same subject coming from comics like Leno and Maher.
 
Brown said:
Besides, what Bush did is milder than some of the quips on the same subject coming from comics like Leno and Maher.
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True, but then Leno and Maher didn't invade Iraq. As Andy Borowitz (sp?) said on CNN this morning, "I'll go a long way for a joke but I never invaded Iraq for one"

I'm sure in a few years time well all look back and laugh about the lives lost and the billions of dollars wasted :D
 
I cound see familes of dead soilers taking offense. WMD was the driving force beghind the invasion.

Do you think a 911 joke wouldve been ok.
 
Uh, Brown, dude, a sh!tload of people are dead as a result of this fiasco, and now Bush is cracking jokes about it...

If you had a close friend or loved one who died in Iraq, wouldn't you be a tad POed?
 
Tmy said:
I cound see familes of dead soilers taking offense. WMD was the driving force beghind the invasion.

Do you think a 911 joke wouldve been ok.
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Actually I think he has made jokes about it. Well, sort of. I remember some news report a while back where he was joking that he "Hit the Trifecta" with 9/11, Enron and the Stock market crash all at once. (Can anyone provide more details?)
 
If Bush saved orphans from a burning orphanage, Terry McAsswipe would be offended. This guy is in my top 5 political asswipes list along with Tom Delay, Tom Daschle, Charles Rangel, and Henry Waxman. Useless fact devoid shills the lot of them.
 
Brown said:
I may not be Bush's number one fan, but--DAMN--give him a break, folks! The Radio and Television Correspondents' Association dinner has a history of exactly this sort of thing, and what Bush did doesn't strike me as being much different from what other presidents have done at the dinner. Besides, what Bush did is milder than some of the quips on the same subject coming from comics like Leno and Maher.
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Ditto here Brown. I also thought that anything said or done at this dinner is "strictly off the record" .

Charlie (but don't quote me on that) Monoxide
 
You walk a line at the correspondents dinner.

You want to look like someone who can laugh at himself, but you don't want to look like a buffoon.

You want the press to think you're a nice guy, so they can continue throwing you nice big fat creampuffs right over the plate.

This one, because of the war thing, well, it didn't need to be done by the president himself.

Better to have someone else make that joke, and have the president politely laugh, if you ask me.


But the dem's getting falsely self-righteous is stupid too. I guess that's why Terry did the attack, rather than Kerry.
 
If he told them the cure to cancer, liberals would still hate him, moan, pout, cry, whine, protest, and hate the world for not being miserable with them.

Too bad for them that life goes on, and most people choose not to live life angry about anything.
 
American,

Spare us the evasive action "dems hate bush" ramblings.

Do you think the joke was appropriate?

Today I read a story about how 2 US soldiers were killed in Iraq. What really disturbed me was that the story was placed back in the 2nd section of the paper. Were getting used to these deaths. Another Nam?
 
The joke wouldn't have been an issue if it wasn't election year. I think the Kerry camp saw an opportunity to score some points, so they went for it. I thought the joke was pretty funny, and I didn't take offense, but I guess I could see how it would be offensive if you were a solider or if you had lost a loved one in Iraq.
 
The White House photographer is always taking pictures. It is well known that some of these pictures are not very flattering, and many of them never get published.

Reagan may not have been the first president to do so, but he attended the Correspondents dinner with a slide show featuring himself (and Nancy, too) in some rather embarrassing circumstances, and Reagan would narrate the show with jokes about what the photos purported to show. (Example: the photo showed Reagan explaining something to Gorbachev. The actual subject Reagan was discussing with Gorbachev was nuclear war, but Reagan provided the following caption: "You see, Mikhail, if they don't deliver the pizza in 30 minutes, I get it free!")

Clinton, if I recall correctly, once showed a movie of himself doing unusual things, and it was well-received. One year he tried his hand at stand-up comedy without a visual presentation, and discovered that it is harder than it appears.

Nixon made a rather famous joke about White House photographers and the unflattering photos they take. He spoke offhandedly about White House photographer Ollie Atkins always taking pictures. "I'm afraid he'll catch me pickin' my nose!" Nixon quipped, and he chuckled at his own remark. (Moments after lightening his mood with that joke, Nixon went on national television to somberly announce his resignation from the office of president.)
 
Simply astonishing. This reminds me of a similar incident where Bush was on a radio show mimicking the voice of a lady on Death Row who was soon to be executed.
 
My thoughts:

1. I'm pretty left leaning, and my reaction was that he gets a pass on this. An unscientific poll of my co-workers suggests they think otherwise, including those who gave me funny looks for saying it was a bad idea to invade Iraq. But geez, it's the Press Club dinner, which has a certain history and....

2. Hmmm. The Press Club dinner. What goes there, stays there. Kinda like Vegas. Or, if you prefer, kind of like White House background press briefings.

3. Imagine. Just imagine, if Clinton had made this joke.





I still say it's no big deal. I'm perfectly comfortable attacking Bush on his policies, rather than his comedy.
 
I figured out why this is so offensive to some people. You have to realize there are certain political woo-woos who:

A. Believe WMD were the only reason we went to Iraq
B. The president (probably knowingly) misled us into the war based on the ficititious WMD

For these sort of pathetic people, this is the equivalent of Bush committing high treason and then cracking a joke about it.

Just ask JJ. I bet he is up in arms about the failure of the rest of us to see the importance of this.
 
This guy is in my top 5 political asswipes list along with Tom Delay, Tom Daschle, Charles Rangel, and Henry Waxman. Useless fact devoid shills the lot of them.
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I admire your stance. I think the country would be significantly better off if everyone could admit that there are some pinheads on both sides of the aisle.
 
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