Bush's WMD Joke at the press dinner

[kstewart33]

I am paraphrasing what I saw on Hardball. Bush is standing at the podium. A slide on the screen is shown of a man (supposed to be Bush) looking behind a piece of furniture. Bush says something like, "maybe the WMDs are over here" and you see the slide. Bush says, "Nope, not over there." "How about over here?" and a new slide shows the guy looking under a table or something.

Bush laughs. The press laughs. Later Bush makes a few other missing WMD cracks.

I wonder what the 9/11 families think about the Joke. I wonder what the guys at Walter Reed are thinking, you know, the ones with missing limbs.

I predict that this is the biggest blunder Bush has made in the campaign to date. The arrogance, insensitivity and just plain ignorance is beyond description.

Move On has new ad material. And so does Kerry.

[Turbineguy]

1. Yeah, just when you think the guy can't be any more

crass. He once again exceeds expectations. I do not know how much air-time this is getting, but considering the circumstances, they should mop the floor with this.

Rummy stood at the briefing this morning with little more than a mouth full of teeth when asked about it. Well, then again he could not very well say: "Hey, the guy's a world class asshole, wadda ya expect?"

[madaboutharry]

6. Crass, that is the word

that truly describes this little man. Everything is a joke to him, the result of never having to bear the consequences of your actions and decisions.

[belle]

13. If he did, I might actually have a shred of respect for the guy.

Ho well!

[Unknown Known]

2. But this is the REAL *bush

Not the phony one we've been force fed for 3 1/2 yrs. I'm just wondering why they're letting us see this now instead of hiding it.

[Kahuna]

3. That is a gaffe of epic proportions. A gaffe like this should..

be enough to lose him the election. There goes his independant supporters.

[gratuitous]

4. You think we'll see this footage as much as the Dean Scream?

Or will it be a one hour wonder, quickly shelved and forgotten?

[EstimatedProphet]

5. Anyone remember Earl Butz?

Sec'y of Ag under Nixon, resigned after telling a racist joke which by today's standards wasn't that much. Why does * get away with this stuff? The things he says are always so hurtful, how does he get away with it?

[carolinayellowdog]

7. He gets away with it because the media backed him in 2000

and they will not admit the mistake no matter how many thousands die or how many billions of dollars we go in the red.

[Jacobin]

9. It was the MEDIA in the audience LAUGHING their guts out.

That to me is way way more disturbing than Smirk being an insensitive idiot.

The fucking press was howling with laughter. :argh:

[Sparky McGruff]

11. By today's standards?

Seems like it would get you fired today, too... Took forever to find his comments; and if this reference is correct, it would still get you fired.

"Jimmy the Greek's" comments were stupid and ill-informed, but somewhat less obnoxious, but would probably still get him fired as well. Both, however, are less nauseating than just about anything that comes out of Rush Limbaugh's mouth...

[leesa]

8. This would be an excellent time to bring back the footage of Bush

laughing about how he won the trifecta after 9-11. Move-On could use all of these heartless greedy "gaffs" in a most effective way

[leftofthedial]

10. that was so tasteless that words fail me to describe it

I hope the families of the hundreds who have died and the thousands who are maimed and their families appreciated it.

That is the kind of scumbag this cretin is. Psychopathic and devoid of all empathy.

[Unknown Known]

12. The one that always affected me the most

was when he stood on top of the rubble of the WTC with the bullhorn smiling and screaming and cheering - only a satanist could have done that.