Whitehouse bans Camilla Parker Bowles

[Fovea]

http://www.sundaymirror.co.uk/news/news/tm_objectid=15209578&method=full&siteid=106694&headline=camilla-banned-from-white-house-name_page.html

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GEORGE Bush has banned Camilla Parker Bowles from the White House - because she is a divorcee.

The unprecedented snub has effectively sabotaged Charles's plan to take his bride on a Royal tour of America later this year.

The trip would have been the pair's first official tour as a married couple.

But the US President - a notoriously right-wing Christian and reformed alcoholic - told aides it was "inappropriate" for him to be playing host to the newly-weds, who are both divorcees.

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WTF, Over?

[katinmn]

1. What??????????

OMG. They are f******* nuts!

[atommom]

2. WTF? What about all the divorced Republicans, not to mention

the other shenanigans that have gone on there? Someone needs to get off his high horse.

[Liberty Belle]

3. I guess Rush Limbaugh won't be invited to the WH, then.

After all, he's been divorced 3 times.

What morons...

[sasquatch]

5. He'll just have to leave the stash at the door I guess!

:smoke:

[FreedomAngel82]

33. Maybe we should go through

all the republican Senators and Congressmen and kick them out if they've had a divorce. :eyes:

[Liberty Belle]

42. Kick out all the divorced or gay legislators, and there won't be

many left.

[tridim]

4. Jesus H fucking christ..

This can't be true, can it?

Edit: Anyone have a list of Bush WH overnighters? I'll bet HALF of them are on their second or third marriage.

[CatBoreal]

6. Male Gay Prostitutes...

...are okay in the halls of the White House, but re-married divorcee's are a no no????

:wtf:

[Bluzmann57]

7. They ban divorcees but not a homosexual?

And a homosexual prostitute at that? What a bunch of bull****. I will never ever understand these people and think I'll just quit trying to. Note-I do not mean this as a homosexual bashing, just trying to make a point.

[ljm2002]

40. Don't mean to nitpick...

...but I'd phrase it another way: You mean they ban divorcees, but not prostitutes?

Pretty stark but that's what we're looking at...

[Ezlivin]

8. Too bad the WH doesn't have an IQ test for admittance

Then this problem would be solved, for Bush would not be within 100 miles of Washington, DC.

[katinmn]

9. This, too, will backfire on them.

Aren't something like half of Americans divorced?

Kind of insulting I would say.

[Sanity Claws]

10. Huh?

If he won't have dinner with divorced people, how can he go around canonizing Ronald Reagan?
Frankly you won't have dinner with divorced people, you'll end up eating a lot of meals alone.
Something here doesn't make sense. Could the article be satire?

[Fovea]

22. I wondered that myself.

if it is, it is very subtle.

Not a whiff of onions.

[michael_1166]

29. No, it's not....

...the Mirror doesn't "do" jokes.

[Raksha]

11. HUH???? Is this for real???? n/t

[flyingfysh]

12. Then why invite Prince Charles?

He is also divorced - or has Bush forgotten? He was divorced from Lady Diana.

Trying to impose Bush "standards" on foreigners is bound to backfire.

[China_cat]

37. Yeah, but Diana had the good grace to get herself killed

so Charles can technically claim to be a widower.

[BrklynLiberal]

13. Could this possibly be true? Are they going to bar all the multi-married

legislators and RW pundits from the White House as well? They are going to have some very lonely dinners in the White House.

This is a very short list, and does not include people like Henry Hyde who merely screwed around on their wives.

Assistant Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.),
Sen. Kit Bond (Mo.)
Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell (Colo.),
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (Texas)
Sen. John McCain (Ariz.)

*Ronald Reagan - divorced the mother of two of his children to marry
Nancy Reagan who bore him a daughter only 7
months after the marriage.

*Bob Dole - divorced the mother of his child,
who had nursed him through the long recovery
from his war wounds.

*Newt Gingrich - divorced his wife who was dying of cancer.

*Dick Armey - House Majority Leader - divorced

*Sen. Phil Gramm of Texas - divorced

*Gov. John Engler of Michigan - divorced

*Gov. Pete Wilson of California - divorced

*George Will - divorced

*Sen. Lauch Faircloth - divorced

*Rush Limbaugh - Rush and his current wife
Marta have six marriages and four divorces between them..

*Rep. Bob Barr of Georgia - Barr,
not yet 50 years old, has been married
three times.
Barr had the audacity to author and push
the "Defense of Marriage Act." The current
joke making the rounds on Capitol Hill is
"Bob Barr...WHICH marriage are you
defending?!?

*Sen. Alfonse D'Amato of New York - divorced

*Sen. John Warner of Virginia - divorced
(once married to Liz Taylor.)

*Gov. George Allen of Virginia - divorced

*Henry Kissinger - divorced

*Rep. Helen Chenoweth of Idaho - divorced

*Rep. John Kasich of Ohio - divorced

*Rep. Susan Molinari of New York - Republican
National Convention Keynote Speaker - divorced

[ClintonTyree]

28. Kkkarl Rove, bush's brain...........

wouldn't be allowed in by these criteria either. I find this utterly insipid and hypocritical if true. This can't be true, even bush isn't that stupid. Is he?

[Alizaryn]

14. This has to be a joke, right?

[Chicago Democrat]

16. These "evangelicals" know nothing of honor and what is "right"

Getting a divorce is somehow a problem, but its OK to start wars based on lies. Yeah right, talk it over with Jesus in Heaven and I think your stay there will be a short one.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

15. Madness.

Utter barking madness.

[Dookus]

17. this is so ridiculous on its face

it's not worth believing for a minute.

[Skittles]

20. thank you

it is silly

[charlyvi]

39. Totally Ridiculous....

Why would Charles want to take Camilla for a royal tour of America?

[spanone]

18. She should count her blessings.

[peacebird]

19. this is not a joke - it's freaking unbelievable

:wtf:

[tx_dem41]

21. I find it a little suspicious that not one...

other paper in the WORLD has picked up this story (according to Google News search).

[Fovea]

26. yes, I was suspicious too

and it was not in the 12 hour zone,
so it seemed doubly inappropriate for LBN.

I really can't say how accurate it is.
Any regular Sunday Mirror readers?

[Swamp Rat]

23. Is this a fiction propagated by the Sunday Mirror? n/t

[tx_dem41]

27. No other paper in the WORLD has picked up the story yet.

I think it is fiction.

[SoCalDem]

24. Umm... St Ronnie of Reagan AND the inimitable Nancy were BOTH

D I V O R C E D ....and Nancy was the object of Ronnie's adulterous affair...and was pregnant when they married..

But He was acceptable as presidential material..

Charles does not NEED "permission" from the WH to visit the US..His "post" is ceremonial anyway..

They should just go to Canada, for the pomp & circumstance, and then visit here, with a deliberate shunning of DC :)

[roguevalley]

25. half bush's siblings are divorced. what the hell?!

[11cents]

30. Obvious horses**t. And nothing to do with American politics

Hate campaigns are the bread and butter of the British tabloids. This looks like part of a hate campaign against Charles and Parker-Bowles, an attempt to humiliate them. The story is obviously ridiculous.

[jpak]

31. Who the hell would want to spend time with the Chimp

and Pickles on their honeymoon anyway????

Are they giving them an out NOT to visit????

[SpringsCoral]

32. Sunday Mirror is like your National Enquirer!!

I live in the UK and we know this isn't true. It's been disproven in legitimate news sources for the last 2 weeks!!

[Fovea]

36. Thanks

can you post us a URL to debunk this stuff?

[ProgressiveConn]

34. This should be a massive snub to our British allies.

But it wont be. =(

[mr blur]

35. Not at all!

We don't want her here, either, Or him. Or any of the whole sad, arrogant, useless bunch. I don't care whether they're divorced or not or that their ancestors used to sleep with each other or even that they're dumb as a box of rocks. I just wish they'd go away.

[ProgressiveConn]

44. Yay for republicanism.

Just a good idea labeling such a bad party.

[s1rkull]

38. WOW

Unbelievable. While this isn't as damaging to the world as, say claiming that global warming isn't occurring or that we're not contributing to it, this is truly hypocrisy at its finest.

[Rex]

41. This is a joke right?

King George II tells the Brits to stay out of Merica. Vacationing in America - blech!

[pacifictiger]

43. this has got to be

a tongue-in-cheek piece, surely. It does highlight rather nicely the stupid ways in which Shrub implements policy decisions.

[atommom]

45. It does, indeed. With an administration that brought us Freedom Fries

and Freedom Toast, you never know what to expect! :eyes: