Bush joking about not finding WMD's - Gaffe of the year.

[MikeG]

We have to keep this going. This is worse than Dukakis in a tank or Ford freeing Poland, and W's dad marveling over a supermarket scanner. This is joking while braver men than Bush are dying in Iraq. Thank God Kerry said something. Voters please rid us of this abomination of a president.

[htuttle]

1. "Gaffe of the year"? No way

It's only March.

I'm sure there are worse ones to come.

[mouse7]

19. At least it lowers "YEARGGGGHHH!" to #2

Thank God. I really felt horrible for Gov. Dean for that.

[sampsonblk]

23. Bigger than than Kerry's and Dean's??

Dean's so-called scream and Kerry's "I voted for it before I voted against it" are pretty hard to beat.

[July]

26. You're kidding, right?

Bush's remark is a callous and insensitive slap in the face to all who fought (and fight), and especially to all who were wounded and DIED in his misadventure in Iraq.

"Pretty hard to beat"?

[leftynyc]

27. I think you're twisted.

Laughing while soldiers are dying for a lie..Why don't you try asking the families of those dead soldiers what they think?

[PA Democrat]

29. As Chris Matthews asked

I wonder how that "joke" would play to the men and women at Walter Reed hospital with horrible injuries as a result of Bush's "hilarious" search for WMD's?

[leesa]

36. Boy, your mind is certainly a prisoner of mainstream media!!

Dean did NOTHING wrong or inappropriate, all that happened was that Bush's media TOLD you he did something wrong and you swallowed it. Duh!

[hippiegranny]

37. huh?

are you for real?

[dawn]

39. Hahaha,

you are so funny! (you have the GOP's sense of humor...which is non-existent.)

[John BigBootay]

40. Grow up, you guys-- it was mildly funny,

self-depricating and offered in a forum where it's expected to lampoon one's mistakes.

What's most annoying is how desperate dems are looking to nail Bush with ANYTHING that will possibly, remotely, conceivably make him look bad.

Who's being humorless here?

[NormanConquest]

41. But he hasn't admitted he ever made a mistake!!!!

That's the point.

[John BigBootay]

43. I beg to differ--

He has not admitted a lie, but he has admitted that he relied on intelligence that was not accurate.

In my book, that is a "mistake."

[NormanConquest]

44. Yeah, pass it off on CIA

And yet he still wants to take credit for liberating Iraq. Real big of him. :eyes:

[Redleg]

55. NormanConquest? Don't you mean "Rape of Angland?"

Just a little history humour. I guess I'm one of those who would have liked to see Harold Godwinsson defeat William.

[NormanConquest]

61. William was a pretty big klutz

I'm surprised he even made it across the Channel.

Yeah, my userid is a pun...nice to know there are other Brit history buffs out there!

[Redleg]

68. Welcome to DU, by the way.

The Anglo-Saxon era is pretty much the only era of Brit history I am familiar enough with.

[Mike Daniels]

45. And if a Democratic president had been in office.....

and did the exact same thing would you feel the same as you do at this point.

I seriously doubt it.

I'll admit, I voted for Bush in an area that was overwhelmingly Democratic more out of a protest against something about Gore that I can't remember anymore. That said, I was willing to give Bush the benefit of the doubt as to how he would handle the job.

At this point however, even if I had planned on voting for Bush again this year (I'm not) I wouldn't vote for him now based on his insensitive conduct during the press dinner and I'll tell you what....If a Democratic president had done the same thing I would vote against him as well.

The leader of a country that sends his citizens off to fight a war should have a certain sense of decorum in dealing with issues that relate to that specific conflict. Bush has shown time and time again that not only does he lack any sort of decorum but with this stunt he has shown himself to lack even the most basic sense of good taste and common sense that a president should have.

O.K. my rants over.

[John BigBootay]

47. Doubt away, Mike-- I'm not a flaming partisan.

I'm fair to everyone, even republicans (which I am NOT) so your attempt to implicate me as a Bush or Repub supporter is a failure.

[Lars39]

48. I expect a CIC to have RESPECT for the dead. His comment mocks them.

This was not an off-the-cuff remark that could be skewed, this was part of his planned comments, and it matters not who his audience was.

[lapislzi]

49. It was in the poorest possible taste

We are talking about sending men and women to their deaths.

It is not funny. No way no how.

[Beetwasher]

50. Too Bad the Jokes on US!! It's Not Self Deprecating At All! What CRAP!

He pulled a fast one on the country by lying about Iraqi WMD's and sent hundreds of troops to their deaths over a lie. Now he jokes about it? How is it self deprecating? He's rubbing our noses in the fact that he pulled a fast one on us. The WMD lies were NOT mistakes. They were cold and caluculated propoganda. "Ooops, no WMD's, hahahahahaha, see, I can joke about it, so it must be no big deal..." BULLSHIT!!

[Redleg]

54. Mildly funny? Not for my nephew who is in Baghad right now.

I believe the joke illustrates Bush's supreme arrogance about WMDs and the reasons for war in Iraq. It's as though he is saying "WMDs? We don't need no stinking WMDs."

[ignatius]

58. Lies and war are not funny.period. He continues to show a lack of

judgement that is mind numbing. The man could not run a 7-11, let alone a country.

If he wanted to show himself in a "humurous" way, why not use falling off the scooter, or falling off the sofa while eating pretzels, or dropping his dog, or putting on a flight suit in his Top Gun wannabe photo-op.

I am sure there are about a million more, since everything this man does is a sick joke.

[slinkerwink]

71. hey---you sure you're a Dem?

[mike1963]

2. There are far too many evil bastards who think it's "funny."

It's the "fuck you I got mine" syndrome at work. And I have no idea how to fix it.
:grr:

[Redleg]

57. LOL- I will have to remember that syndrome.

It seems so applicable to these smug GOP bastards.

[grannylib]

3. Hey what'd Kerry say, I missed it?? Tweety is not pleased, nailed some

guy from ChimpCo campaign tonight.

And that was no gaffe, that was just another glaring indication of the complete...God, I can't even think of a word to describe the depths of...empty...corruption and soullessness...
Don't know that there is one.
Brainless, heartless, dickless, reckless, fucking CLUELESS little imbecile, holy shit....

[MikeG]

5. I hate to say it, but read the Drudge Report. He actually has it.

[LittleApple81]

10. But then directly underneath he has an attack on Kerry's joke about Bush I

FLASHBACK: KERRY JOKES ABOUT 'ASSASSINATIONS'
Thu Mar 25 2004 17:45:05 ET

snip...

But Kerry himself has had trouble with pushing the humor envelope.

"Somebody told me the other day that the Secret Service has orders that if George Bush is shot, they're to shoot Quayle," Kerry joked in 1988. The Massachusetts Democrat then said, "There isn't any press here, is there?"

[scottcsmith]

12. Oh, please Drudge

Does Drudge really think Kerry's comment is comparable to what Bush said? I'm sure right-wingers will latch onto this new "revelation" since they're so fucking stupid.

[Blasphemer]

13. God, they are so predictable...

Yes, I'm sure joking about Quayle's unfitness for the Presidency is equal to our current unfit pResident joking at the expense of the victims of his ill advised war :puke:

[Stephanie]

14. 1988

cute

*edit* - it's so old, it's not even the same bush.

[scottcsmith]

15. If Drudge were intellectually honest...

He'd remind his readers of the time Jesse Helms said, of Bill Clinton, that Clinton had better bring a body guard if he came to visit North Carolina military installations.

And Jesse Helms was not joking.

[Stephanie]

32. Yeah, but we don't want to give them any ideas

Those wingnuts who are still desperately trying to believe in bush despite all evidence that he is a lying crook should not be reminded of Helms' tactics.

[bowens43]

17. that's hilarious!!

[THUNDER HANDS]

30. yeah but that's actually funny

"There isn't any press here, is there?" is the joke part.

Bush was not only lame. But he repeated the joke three times.

[July]

52. Is this what we're building up to in this thread?

And has this been confirmed as factual at a CREDIBLE site?

Let's not forget the out-of-thin-air bimbo eruption that wasn't, brought to you by the same Drudge.

[July]

53. LINK to someone other than Drudge?

Why should we patronize Drudge's site? I wouldn't take anything Drudge says about Kerry as truth, particularly after the non-stop smears that included a FALSE report of an affair.

If Kerry said this (and I don't think it's nearly in the same ballpark as Bush's comment, BTW), it should be available somewhere other than Drudge (or World Net Daily). Let's see a credible source.

[LunaC]

16. Tweety was in surprisingly rare form

Tweety asked the Pug Shill if Smirk would be willing to tell those jokes to the soldiers wounded in Iraq. Tweet apparently has spent some time in a military hospital and will be doing an Iraqi Wounded story this week. I'm assuming the experience of seeing the human toll of Smirk's madness has given Tweety a new perspective. He was uncharacteristically pissed at Smirk for lying about WMD's as the basis for war. I admit to applauding Tweety today...he took a step towards the light.

[Stephanie]

42. Matthews is a republican

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Once upon a time, George W. Bush suffered under the stigma that his younger brother, Jeb, was the smarter of the two. So you might not expect the president to draw such distinctions when speaking of other prominent people's brothers. But during a visit last week to promote home ownership in Montgomery County, Pa., here's how Bush introduced Jim Matthews, chairman of the county commission and younger brother of MSNBC "Hardball" host Chris Matthews:

"Chairman, I'm glad you're here." Then the prez observed: "He is the smart brother." The crowd laughed.

Bush called it "an inside joke." Jim Matthews, a Republican Party activist and former mortgage banker, said he didn't consider it a slight against his older brother, who worked for top-dog Democrats for 15 years -- including stints with President Jimmy Carter and House Speaker Tip O'Neill -- before becoming a louder-than-life TV talker.

<snip>

Truth be told, both brothers (who look so much alike "it's scary," says Jim) voted for Bush in 2000. "Chris has said Bush was the first Republican he voted for for president," Jim told us. "I think it was disappointment with his long-term friend Al Gore. I think he voted for Bush because he was more true to himself and who he was than Al Gore was. I'm proud of that."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16282-2004Mar22.html

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

[fearnobush]

4. Abomination of a president. The boy king laughs at our dead.

An other example of the heartless selected one.

[jmags]

6. It certainly wasn't very presidential.

[salinen]

7. But this was no gaffe!

Imagine how many puke eyeballs read the script and approved? Satan has stolen a Mother Theresa outfit.

[MikeG]

8. This is one you'll get madder about the more you think about it.

Imagine how a relative of a soldier killed in Iraq feels.
This one is going to stick for a long time. Please lets all wrap this one around his fucking neck.

[lapislzi]

51. It is actually making me more upset the more I think about it

There were family members of a soldier who was killed in Iraq on Democracy Now this morning. They didn't find it too funny.

I wound up crying my eyes out on the way to work.

Shame, shame, shame.

edited: coherence (d'oh!)

[cornfedyank]

9. yea, i put in my time, proudly so

i had thought that remark from Meet the Press was his lowest, most insincere. beat him with his own words. attack him on the left and the right. and don't forget to ask "Then why not pay for it?"

[fearnobush]

11. Welcome to DU!!!!

[MichaelUK]

18. Eh?

Being in the UK I miss all these great little pieces of news.
Could someone please put up a link to what Bush said?

[Sztaz]

20. Here's the link

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/03/25/bush.broadcasters.ap/index.html

Seriously. Real Funny. Mr. President, I ask you to make that joke in the face of the thousands of family members of service members that have died looking for those WMD's you insisted were there.

[newyawker99]

59. Hi Sztaz!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[DeepModem Mom]

21. deleted

[DeepModem Mom]

22. How about an apology from the assembled correspondents...

who laughed at the joke? The whole town needs a reality check.

[leftchick]

24. absolutely right DeepModem Mom!

Bill hummer from cnn acted like he was the annointed one since he was THERE to see the boy king* make his funny! :puke:

[Jacobin]

28. Yes. I'm more outraged at the sycophantic press than

Smirk, who we all know is a sociopathic dweeb.

The media enables and helps make him more psychopathic.

They are worse than he is because their erstwhile job is to the government's watchdog and they are nothing more than the cheering squad for his disastrous maladministration

[kentuck]

25. I don't know but it would make a great Democratic ad....

...The Repubs would already be using it if Kerry had made such ignorant comments.

[SendTheGOPPacking]

31. It's on the news again this morning.

Getting a lot of play here

[MrBenchley]

33. And let's not forget

that it's of a piece with his earlier "trifecta" joke...

Those of you with long memories may remember that Reagan tried to joke away the Lebanon car-bombing where he got 270 Marines killed for nothing, by comparing it to what goes wrong when your kitchen is remodeled...

[SendTheGOPPacking]

46. I don't recall that one??

:shrug:

[SmokeyBlues]

34. Yep, let's make him wear that 'joke' like a stinking old overcoat!

Also, as another poster pointed out, the 'joke' not only was a slap to the face of American soldiers fighting in Iraq, but also a kick to the throat of all Americans. You see, two nights ago, *hole and company showed the world just how gullible and stupid a large segment of this country is.

There was a 'joke' and it was on all of US.

[MitchMind]

35. The people are beginning to see.

How many of dubya's fiasco's have gone unnoticed much less unpunished?
If the shoe were on the other foot and Clinton was making jokes about the brave dead the neo-cons couldn't find enough tar and feathers to suit them.
This arrogance will be bush's downfall. He's gotten way with crap that would have impeached God himself.
But these misdeeds are adding up.
The Ambassador Wilson/ Valerie Plame CIA outing
Paul O'Neill's assertion that Iraq was first and formeost on bush's mind from day one in the White House.
Now we have Richard Clarke's book asserting pretty much the same thing and going even further into the machinations of the bush cartel.
One of the most respected unpartisan gentleman in Wsahington is now feeling the full fury of the bush attack machine.
But we have have heard it all before and so has John Q. Public. I think the people of this nation are finally shaking away the cobwebs
and coming to. Won't it be fun to watch bush's concession speech.

[hippiegranny]

38. welcome to du,

mitchmind, and yes, i think junior's concession speech will be the one exception i'll be able to make in my vow to never look at his smug smirky mug or hear his fake texas accent without feeling like i'm about to explode.

[newyawker99]

60. Hi MitchMind!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[yellowcanine]

56. Check out a freeper take on the WMD "joke"

This is funny as hell. This guy really is clueless

To: Reagan Man
To be fair about it, it wasn't a smart move by the President. There are no excuses in my book. Another example of giving the loyal opposition more ammunition to use against the Bush campaign. Dumb.


I guess you've never heard of the traditional October surprise?

Do you really think President Bush is that dumb? Every single time the Dems "get ammunition" against him it blows up in their face.

Now, I don't KNOW anything for sure, but I'm pretty confident that there has been WMDs found, and they haven't been reported yet. Before you ask, here's several possibilities.

-Once found there was so much that it is taking this long to catalog it all.

-Some have been found and they don't want to tip off HVT's possibly still hiding in Iraq that we have them.

-They know where they are and are waiting to spring them when the Political advantage is maximized.

Or I could be wrong, but I don't think I am.

[ElementaryPenguin]

62. Kerry ads should show this - side by side with Shock and Awe footage!

The Fool War Chimp's political instincts are amazingly horrible!

:puke:
:wow:

[Mustang22]

63. Give me a break

Cmon guys.. It was a Joke. We dont need to be wasting Time and enegery trying to nail Bush over it. There are other more serious things we could be doing. The correspondence dinner has been known for such self-knocking jokes. He wasnt hurting anybody but himself.
And Kerry's joke about killing qualye was just a joke too. But if your going to take things serioulsy, Take both of them seriously. Lets cut the partisan Crap. If we are gonig to beat Bush then we need to stop grasping at straws and focus on more important issues.... I just got back from Afgan.. and I dont take offense to it. Lets move along

[Catherine Vincent]

64. Bush* is the only fool that would joke about a war where

people die everyday because of his damn lies. This is not partisan crap. Only the bush buttkissers don't want to talk about this. And I don't believe you just got back from Afgan. I don't know who in the hell you think you're fooling. Try another message board where the bush buttkissing is good. You won't find that here.

BUSH IS A DISGRACE!

[Mustang22]

66. wow

Ok, If you want to spend all your time trying to bash Bush over this.. go for it.. But dont say i didnt warn you.. As far as your moranic acusations about bush buttkissing. If you would have actually read the post thoroughly you would have say that im not buttkissing but simply pointing out that this isnt a issue that we need to be fighting over. Its pointless.. As far as you not believing i served in Afgan. I couldnt really care less if you believe me or not. I did my time. But alas. This is my last post here. I got better things to be doing with my time then people arguing my service.... By the way.. Did you know Kerry was in vietnam?

[vetwife]

65. Mustang ..Welcome Home

But...you were not in Iraq and the Afgan war is where some believe we should have been..not on trumped lies about WMD's in Iraq. The body count and body bags are too high in Iraq to joke about.1 is too high. Was he joking when he said, This would be a heck of a lot easier if this were a dictatorship and but only if I was the dictator? Was he joking when he showed pics of him in a jump suit recently hanging out with true military personnel in Alabama ,,saying this should stop the democrats saying I was never in Alabama. How many people have to die for this JOKER? My husband was with the 101st in Vietnam..while Monkey Boy was drunk somewhere between Alabama and Texas. Someone's son, father, brother, sister, Mom, thought they were keeping America safe from WMD's and this JOKER is looking under his desk for them in jest for political grins. As my Mama used to say. There is a time and a place and always use good taste. He did neither. He is the joke..He is the punchline...
If Trent Lott could lose his spot for his remark...then George Bush needs to be censured for his ! I won't lighten up...How do you ask a person, Are you ready to be the last person to die in Iraq? Using Kerry's analagy.
Tell the familes of the dead who don't even get a decent greeting or honor for their dead coming home at Dover for their bodies to be buried that Monkeyboy was joking. I think the laughter has ceased !

[Mustang22]

67. Thanks!

I guess im a little imune to that. One of the first things they trained us was not to ask why. but to do. When i signed up for the Army I took that chance. I dont have the luxury of asking why im there. All i am told is what im supposed to do while im there. And even though i dont agree with the reasoning for going to war. Its my job nonetheless.


But the only point i was trying to make is. No one outside the Core democrat scene is going to care about bush's joke. So its a waste of enegery in my opinion. Thats all i was trying to say.

[burrowowl]

72. Let's say that if people can't see

how he is mocking them and not being 'self-deprecating', we are in serious trouble.
Yes, there are more serious issues to treat.

And by the way, welcome to DU!:hi:

[diamond14]

73. Hi Mustang22...thank you for your service.....

we're glad you joined us....don't let the rough stuff bother you....

:hi: :hi: :hi:

most people here are VERY UNHAPPY about what bush* has done to America...3 million jobs lost under bush*, 40 million without healthcare, 580 American troops dead and NO WMD, Social Security gone, stock market stagnant....

there are many people here who are Veterans and also Military Families....

my nephew is in Iraq right now...my younger brother's wife is in Iraq (leaving him with 4 young kids)....my cousin was KILLED in Vietnam (HM3 Navy Medic, silver star, purple heart, 19 years old, DEAD...couldn't even vote, but died in the service of our country)....my uncle fought in Korea, my dad in WWII....

anyhow...welcome aboard....
:bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[burrowowl]

70. Good explanation

vetwife!
Glad to see you frequent DU as well as SmirkingChimp.
You are Grrreat!

[vetwife]

74. I feel good here as well !

Glad you are following my posts. I got a call from a lady who saw me on C-Span and she led the march and one of the plaintiffs on the crawling up the supreme court steps. She wants to join forces.
Catch you on Guy James...I asked her to call in.
Thanks for recognizing my vetwife username.
Just like you, another fighter for the cause !

[diamond14]

69. bush* desecrated the OVAL OFFICE..(still photo from video)

America, America...the JOKE'S ON YOU !!! haha, no WMD....thousands were KILLED....funny?

bush* desecrates the OVAL OFFICE