Did Bush Make Pass At Canadian Male Political Aide?

[David__77]

(Ottawa) Details are emerging about a strange meeting involving US President George W. Bush and a senior aide to Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin.

...

It was Reid's job to brief Martin prior to a press conference Martin and Bush were about to give. As the Prime Minister spoke with his aide, Bush wandered over to introduce himself.

...

"Well, what do you do for this guy?" the President asked as he pointed to the Prime Minister.

"Well, you know, sir, I can't really say," Reid said. "It's not that I don't want to. It's just that, you know, I don't really know from day to day."

Reid is known as a "fixer" handing a number of sensitive issues in the Prime Minister's Office.

The President chuckled. "Well, you got a pretty face," he told the surprised Reid.

And, the president wasn't done. "You got a pretty face," he said again. "You're a good-looking guy. Better looking than my Scott anyway."

The other Scott is Scott McClellan, Bush's press secretary.

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http://www.365gay.com/newscon04/01/012504PresPass.htm

[Screaming Lord Byron]

1. I think our consensus opinion was that he was sizing up property.

Like an old slaveowner checking out the latest meat.

[Mari333]

2. OH MY

you wont see THAT on the networks.
That would sink the votes in the bible belt faster then you can say *bUshit.

[radwriter0555]

3. Oooooo VICTOR ashe is gonna get JEALOUS... His longtime

companion... going back to college days.

They were cheerleaders together. Long associated, intimate, confidantes, and so on.

[many a good man]

4. He really thinks he IS royalty !

...in the finest British tradition.

[PartyPooper]

5. How many 'straight' guys tell other guys, "Well, you got a pretty face."?

:eyes:

[David__77]

7. Some of my straight male friends have told me that...

...I have a pretty face. But I travel in pretty open-minded circles! Coming from Bush though, this is strange.

[mistertrickster]

6. He said something strange to that pandering Brit Hume along these lines

Remember when Hume was asking Bush how he gets his news, and he said that he only gets summaries from aides? Here's the Faux official transcript--

HUME: How do you get your news?

BUSH: I get briefed by Andy Card and Condi in the morning. They come in and tell me. In all due respect, you've got a beautiful face and everything.

Brit thought this was awfully funny and dutifully guffawed, but George didn't crack a smile . . .

<http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,98006,00.html>

[David__77]

9. Wow, strange...

I can assume that he meant that Hume is a "good" newsanchor because he's telegenic. That's the only sane-seeming explanation, though of course it's strange to say he is telegenic, because he is not. But "beautiful face" is an interesting term to use.

[AtTheEndOfTheDay]

36. The other strange thing about the Hume thing

Is Hume definitely doesn't have anything close to a pretty face. The eye of the beholder...

[damnraddem]

8. Oh, but Dubya didn't mean anything by it (he never means what he says),

and besides it was just a pass,

and besides, whatever else happens, he wouldn't marry the aide,

and besides, even if he married the aide, it would be in Canada, so marriage would still be 'sacred and safe' in the U.S.

[Emillereid]

10. This is presidential behavior?

[0007]

21. junior never has been presidential material!

[0007]

22. Forgot to add; The other day a (repuke) lady told me that she thought

junior was good looking and ask if I didn't agree. I said he looks like a monkey to me. She said, "is that why they call Bush a chimp?"

[Papa]

11. He's got a thing for commenting on faces apparently.

Not too long ago insulted some reporter by saying "You have a face for radio". His way of saying, "you got an ugly face". Very unpresidential.

[Buns_of_Fire]

12. At least he didn't say, "You shore got a purdy mouf."

(Cue "Dueling Banjos" here...) :evilgrin:

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

15. LOL that was my first thought when I read this though

[qanda]

13. What is *that* all about?

Perhaps the rumors about Bush* and Ashe are true. Bob Stevens, who was anthraxed, supposedly had some revealing pictures of our chimp-in-chief and perhaps that's why he was whacked.

Didn't someone just purchase that building where the first Anthrax attack took place?

[Sophree]

25. It's finally being cleaned

It's been sealed since the Anthrax attacks, but is finally being cleaned by a biological-cleanup company and Rudy Giuliani's consulting company.

From City Link: "At a photo op last week, Giuliani and executives from Sabre Technical Services announced that the former offices of The National Enquirer and Star tabloids will house research labs, offices and demonstrations of anthrax-fighting tools. It's unclear, though, if there's a huge demand for these services."

Unless you have gay sex photos of the President or you are a member of the Democratic leadership, I guess.

[styersc]

14. Bush also has a Scottish Terrier- a scotty.

Although I did know a Freeper wingnut back in the 90's who was convinced that the Bush family was in on an international kidnapping ring that abducted young boys from Latin America to be used as sex slaves- but this was before the Bushes became conservatives.

[David__77]

17. Reminds me of the LaRouchies.

They talk about kidnapping sex-rings in high places.

[WhoCountsTheVotes]

26. yeah, so does the Washington Post, NYT, and the Washington Times

It was the WT that broke the scandals of the underage prostitution ring run by high-level GOP operative Larry King and Craig Spence. You can cry "Larouche" all you want, but this was ALL over the press in Bush I's term.

[David__77]

28. Please don't misunderstand me...

Maybe there is validity to the accusations. I just remember reading these things in the LaRouche publications, that's all. I have said before that we shouldn't dismiss something like this out of hand.

[SiobhanClancy]

20. He got that scottie after he invaded the White House...

I've always figured it was a lame attempt at copying FDR:)

[nannygoat]

34. Anybody see Dateline on Friday night? The show was about

underage sex slaves and prostitution in Thailand and Cambodia. It was absolutely disgusting how these young children (mostly girls) are enslaved as prostitutes. They showed girls as young as 5 who were forced to have sex with sicko Americans and Europeans. They also mentioned that there is a new law aimed at Americans who go over to those countries and get caught having sex with children. I was thinking, since Neil * admitted having sex with young girls overseas (can't remember exactly where) while under oath during his divorce proceedings, shouldn't he be one of the first ones arrested? Maybe they'll catch him on one of his future trips...

Disgusting repuke PIG.

[Fridays Child]

43. What speech was it where * perseverated on that issue? The 2003 sotu?

Anyway, since his intentions are always the polar opposite of his words, I have to wonder how many young sex slaves he has "encountered" in his life.

[slappypan]

16. has anyone seen a picture of this fellow?

Does he, in fact, have a "pretty face"?

[Fridays Child]

42. Is it this guy?

[rocktivity]

18. This guy simply cannot speak or act off the cuff

Remember when he said something that caused the Japanese financial market to go bonkers? And remember that photo he took with Kofi Annan?

rocknation

[iverglas]

24. those who cannot make small talk

... should shut up -- the gist of someone's remarks about this idiocy of Bush's. I think that's really it: he just doesn't have the gift of talking easily to people. Of course, that's often indicative of (a) stupidity and/or (b) complete self-absorption.

It can be disastrous for people in public life, if anybody bothers to notice or bring it to public attention.

I remember a canvasser in a local NDP campaign here a few years back, open-mouthed at an incident while she was door-knocking with the candidate. He'd recently taking up running of the non-political kind, and one campaign photo featured him running a marathon in his "I'm running for office" T-shirt. They came up to a door in an apt. building, and he spotted some spiffy track shoes on the mat outside it, and picked one up to examine it as the canvasser knocked. Woman answers door. Candidate: "Are these your shoes?" Voter: "No, they're my son's." Candidate, continuing to examine shoes: "Oh, is he a runner?" Woman: "Who the hell are you and what do you want?" The canvasser could only ask: "What was in his mind??"

Moral of both stories: if you can't think of something intelligent to say, bite your tongue and smile.

.

[petrock2004]

33. wow, are you a Janeite?

:)

your post screams of Pride and Prejudice! - - Mr. Darcy couldn't figure out how to make small talk, and elizabeth was all "well that's your own damn fault cause you don't practice" (booyow!!)

and then... mrs. bennet's all "when in the company of gentlemen, just smile and hold your tongue! it's how i won your father!"

hehehe... i think * needs some etiquette lessons from jane austen.

then again, maybe i'm just a big huge nerd...

... naaaah :D

[iverglas]

40. heh

Actually, I'd heard/read someone else (maybe even here at DU) make that comment -- those who can't make small talk shouldn't -- and it reflected exactly what I thought. I know from experience; I've certainly said some dumb things when trying to chit-chat cold, I must say. ;) Whoever I read may well have been consciously or unconsciously quoting Jane. I didn't know I'd come quite so close back (bite your tongue) to the mistress's own admonition!

I was fortunate to come to Jane Austen very late in life so I still have much of the pleasure left -- and so far have actually only read Persuasion, after seeing the movie. The movie was awful; the best part was looking at the places I'd visited in Bath, all dolled up in 18th century spendour. I went with a very Janeite buddy -- a middle-aged, Cambridge-educated effete sort of white Jamaican. For the first 20 minutes he kept telling me what was going on. Then there was silence for a while. Finally, having had no luck following the proceedings, I said something like "who the hell is that?" "I dunno," he replied; "I didn't read that far."

Anyhow, Bush should probably learn what Jane meant when she said that someone was "condescending", which she meant as a good thing. As Dr. Johnson had put it a few years earlier in his Dictionary, to condescend was to "depart voluntarily from the privileges of superiority; sink willingly to equal terms with inferiors" -- or the first part of Oxford's definition, "behave as if one is on equal terms with" a person, without the "while maintaining an overt attitude of superiority".

If yer gonna engage in small talk with an "inferior", commenting on his pretty face is pretty much condescending in a bad way, besides being really dumb.

.

[Lisa]

19. Did Bush mistake him for Scott Brison?

Brison's a cabinet member who's openly gay. I'm wondering if Bush assumed this was the Scott he'd heard about -- I can just see Rove snickering "oh, that Martin's got a gay guy named Scott working for him, hahaha" -- and Bush decided to have a little fun by taunting him.

This is only supposition on my part, BUT Bush has been known to needle gays before (e.g. right on the floor of the Texas Legislature) -- plus he loves making it look like he's "in the know" about sensitive background issues. His first meeting with Jean Chretien, he blurted out an apparent inanity about going fishing with him someday, and smirked. Chretien was uncomfortable because he'd criticized Brian Mulroney about all his fishing trips, buddy-buddy with George's dad. People up here suspected that Mulroney had fed him that info (the families apparently socialize together ... Poppy and Bar were guests of honour at Mulroney's daughter's wedding).

News flash to Dubya -- Scott Brison being gay is NOT a sensitive issue in Canada -- so puerile jokes just make you look like a fool. And I happen to know, from someone who used to work for Paul Martin, that he's protective of his employees ... he doesn't think it's funny when outsiders try to embarrass them ... keep doing that, Mr. Bush, and the chill in the air at your upcoming state visit won't be due to a passing frontal system.

[Malva Zebrina]

23. Oh probably

Did Bush Make Pass At Canadian Male Political Aide

Laura is too bent up and too invovled in smoking and reading cheap paperback romantic novels , expectations fo her next trip to foreign places where she can wear her upholstry gown , fresh from the halls of the oval office, and lined to boot and that will, indeed show of her gravity challenged chest to it's best adavantage, not to mention the puffy backside enclosed in a too tight skirt or slack. Does this backside grow within a week? I mean , it is always looking fatter and fatter and the clothing encasing it is always too tight and too revealing of a big fat ass.

[Nlighten1]

27. You shore got a purty moufff....

What a moron.

[Sapphocrat]

35. Exactly my first thought, too...

So is he going to chase him up a hillside and force him to squeal like a pig?

[foreigncorrespondent]

38. Ooooooooooooooo!

You did it to me again. I now have dueling banjo's going through my head.

[MrPrax]

29. He wants to hire him away...

It didn't work out too good with David Frum...but another Canuck 'spinmeister' might do the 'trick'--pardon the pun



I had my Fifteen minutes and I stole a line from Churchill!!

[legin]

30. another way of doing the story perhaps

Bush 'bisexual' claim denied by spokesman

27 January 2004
By I.M. Fishy

Scott McClellan, Bush's press secretary, today dismissed as lies reports that George Bush had made a pass at a strikingly handsome male aide of Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin.

The alleged incident happened following a breakfast between Bush and Martin at the recent summit in Monterrey, Mexico. As the two leaders discussed issues dividing the countries, Scott Reid, Martin's senior strategist was called in.

According to an unnamed source who was also present at the meeting, Bush wandered over to introduce himself to Scott Reid. After asking about the 35 year olds position within the Canadian government, Bush is alleged to have said to the surprised Reid, "Well, you got a pretty face". Bush is then supposed to have continued "You're a good-looking guy. Better looking than my Scott anyway," referring to the White House spokesman.

"I didn't know what to say," Reid is alleged to have later told reporters.

Scott McClellan, Bush's press secretary strongly denounced as lies the reports about the alleged conversation. "These are lies spread by certain elements within American society whose sole aim is to remove Bush from the Presidency by any means what so ever." He added "George Bush is involved a long and very happy monogamous relationship with his wife that has given birth to two beautiful children, and baseless accusations like this are just an indication of how low the other side will sink."

[legin]

31. The last paragraph is a bit tough

probably needs a bit of work, but I was getting in character, and you got to get the other side to read it to.

[legin]

32. And thanks to the Jerusalem Post for the ideas n/t

[Poiuyt]

37. Now we know why bush is compensating so much...

http://www.bettybowers.com/isbushgay.html

[banana republican]

39. I didn't know * was gay...

[Edge]

41. I think Bush was too stupid to realize...

that he was making passes.

[RBHam]

44. Brrring, Brrring

"Hello, Prime Minister's office. How may I help you?"

"Hi. This is the White House calling. President Bush would like to talk to Prime Minister Martin."

"OK. Just a minute, I'll connect you...(click) Sir? President Bush is on the phone..."

"By all means! Thank you, Patty. Please put the call right through! Ahem...

(click)Hello, Paul Martin here."

"Please hold for the President, sir...(click)"

"Paulie Canuck? You there? Hee, hee...you remember that nickname, Paulie Canuck?"

"I....er....yes, Mr. President. Quite endearing, really..."

"Yeah! Heh, heh...you don't want to know what I called that Cretin guy..."

"Um, you told me what you called him at the conference. I've been willing myself to forget it..."

"Well, enough chit chat. I s'pose you'd like to know why I called?"

"That would be nice, Mr. President..."

"Okay. How'd you like to visit the White House next month? After all, now that we're friends again..."

"That would be quite an honour, sir. As I recall, you never extended that courtesy to my predecessor..."

"Pre-do-who? Yeah, well, you're with us not against us. I never trusted that French-speaking retard...what's wrong with his face anyway? Ugly sum'bitch..."

"Excuse me, sir. But I must protest, he was a democratically elected representative. Surely, you could display more respect..."

"Ugly is ugly, Paulie. Speaking of that, I'd like to ask for one favour..."

"Okay, what would that be?"

"You make sure you bring that that boy with the nice bone structure. with ya, y'hear? (paper rustling) Scott Reid?"

"Well, of course. He's a trusted and vibrant member of my staff. I remember that you made a comment about him. Compared his, um, appearance to your own press secretary, Mr. McLellan, as I recall…"

"Vibrant? Does that mean he likes...y'know...flowers?"

"Err...I'm not that intimate with his personal life..."

"Heh, heh...leave that to me...I mean...okay! Thanks, Paulie! See ya next month. Gotta go...God told me that I got a Crusade to lead...and flowers to get...do ya think he'd like a nick name? Hmmm. Scottie Violets? Hell! I'll think of somethin'...(click)..."

"Quite. (click) Patty?"

"Yes, Prime Minister?"

"Put me through to Scott Reid's office. I'm going to have to ask him how far he'll go for the sake of his country."

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