Serious question: What does "Turd Blossom" mean?

[Caution]

I know it is Bush's nickname for Rove but there must be some story behind it. What is its genesis? Does anyone know?

[kcwayne]

1. It is a reference to the flowers that grow in cow dung

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. Ah.. All this time thought it was the turd itself

[WLKjr]

22. same here

but I had a very nasty image in my head like someone almost crapping themselves but only having a little bit......oh I have to stop mental image not good......


ewww

[Gruenemann]

36. It is. See # 35. eom

[Gruenemann]

35. I don't think so.

I keep hearing this explanation, but in fifty years of living around Texas cow shit, I've never seen flowers growing out of it. Never ran across any such plant in my graduate botany classes either. The only thing that grows out of bovine manure is psilocybin mushrooms.

I think the explanation offered by Helen Thomas of a turd blossom being a juicy cow splat is much more likely--and fitting.

[The Doctor.]

2. From what I gather...

t is a type of flower in Texas that only grows on...

You guessed it...

Crap.

I believe it may also be specific to cow manure.

[NYCGirl]

4. From wikipedia:

George W. Bush has referred to Karl Rove as "The Boy Genius", "The Architect" and "Turd Blossom," a Texan term for a flower which grows from a pile of cow dung.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Rove

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[VOX]

8. There are several links posted above. Welcome, and enjoy your stay.

However long it may be. :bounce:

[uppityperson]

15. snort.

I always pictured a hemorrhoid.

[Mabus]

12. Here are some Dumbya's other nicknames

Bush likes to have nicknames for people, especially ones that are derisive. It's probably a holdover from the days when he branding ass cracks with a coathanger in the Yale frat house ala "Animal House".

As for turd blossom, just do a google search on it.

Tony Blair Landslide
Barbara Boxer Ali
Martha Brant Martita
Frank Bruni Pancho
George H.W. Bush Poppy
George W. Bush Dubya, Bushie
Laura Bush Bushie
Carl Cameron Camarones
Andrew Card Tangent Man
Paul Cellucci Cellooch
Dick Cheney Big Time
Jean Chrétien Dino (as in Dinosaur)
Susan Collins Sweet Susan
John Cornyn Corndog
Candy Crowley Dulce

more at http://www.nndb.com/group/750/000091477/

BTW, all hail Cthulhu!

[Bunny]

25. Don't forget Pooty-Poot.

Can it really be possible that we have a President who calls Russian President Vladimer Putin Pooty-Poot? :grr:

[Mabus]

29. That was on the list

LOL, wonder what Putin calls Bush?

[kcass1954]

28. Went there for a quick look-see and lookit what I see...

"Condoleezza Rice is the second woman to be U.S. Secretary of State, after Madeleine Albright during the Clinton administration. She is the first woman of color to be Secretary of State, and also the first woman of freckle, and the first attractive woman to hold the job."

WTF?!? Who wrote this shit?!? Do they not realize that "attractive" encompasses the whole person? Without taking this to a personal level, and knowing that we women are sometimes accused of being super-critical of the appearance of other women, and admitting that I, too, have physical flaws, I have this to say - Her politics alone make her extremely ugly.

[Mabus]

31. I agree, but...

maybe the person who wrote it has a thing for Howdy Dowdy and Condi (with all her freckles) looks like a black Howdy Dowdy doll to me.

:rofl:

[MsTryska]

39. just to let ya know.....

googling trudblossom - will give you nothing but karl rove hits for the first page, at least.


love that.

[newyawker99]

37. Hi He Hate Me!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[HughBeaumont]

6. Or figuratively . . .

Something beautiful emerging from something repulsive and worthless.

Kind of describes Pigshit's "king-making" M.O.

[Dora]

7. Cowpie Splat

Why would Bush nickname one of his top advisors something so nasty as Turd Blossom?

"Several years ago when (Rove) started getting accolades from political writers as the mastermind behind Bush, the president is known to have bristled.

He once told a journalist that he did not like his aides getting 'star treatment. So he started calling Rove 'Turd Blossom,' which refers to the so-called cowpie splat made by bovine waste when it hits the ground." (Helen Thomas)

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[senseandsensibility]

17. We've all known for years

Welcome to DU. Stick around. You'lll learn lots about the chimp here. Looking forward to your future posts.

[senseandsensibility]

11. That's kinda chimp in a nutshell isn't it?

God, what a sorry excuse for a human being. Not only is he totally talentless and dumb, he can't stand it when the people are responsible for his "success" get any credit.:puke: Oh, but everyone wants to have a beer with him... give me a break. The idiot is stupid, classless, petty, selfish, completely unaware, and vindictive. "Turd Blossom" is way too good a name for HIM.

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[bunkerbuster1]

16. Rove's intelligence and talent is always overblown.

His willingness to fight dirty, lie, steal and betray others is only now being shown the light of day.

Oh, and welcome to DU.

[chaska]

9. It means GWB has the intellectual constitution of an 8 year old.

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[bunkerbuster1]

18. Bush isn't stupid, just lazy and cruel.

He's cultivated a phony Texas accent to make people think he's "jes folks." (As his brother John has a pretend name "Jeb," for the same effect.)

Pampered prep-school brats, all.

[Individualist]

23. Stupid is as stupid does

In a meeting with the President of Brazil, the moron asked "Do you have blacks too?" www.bushwatch.net/9.11special2.htm

If you need more examples, there are many, many more.

[uppityperson]

19. He's not dumb, he is mean and controlling

welcome to DU, the site for progressives. Hope your stay is peaceful and eductational.

Mr.bush is not dumb, he is a mean, controlling person who gets by on a lot of bs by playing the "yuck yuck aren't I a good beer drinking guy" attitude.

[chaska]

32. HA!!! Good one.

[alfredo]

20. Here's the turd blossom comic

Gary Trudeau is a psychic. How did he know Rove would get a raise?

[seabeyond]

21. shit smells like roses. a flower can bloom from his shit.

shit is just plain shit to me

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[Zorbuddha]

26. That's the root of it.

It's a revolting power-trip.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

27. It's from the French: "Mon petite merde fleur"

Bush picked it up from reading Voltaire.

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[A-Schwarzenegger]

34. I believe Bush made an offhand allusion to Candide

at a press conference once if I seem to recall, so from
there you can put 2 & 2 together. I believe he speaks
French with some fluency (Laura and he practice together in
the summer evenings), so he may probably have read Voltaire
in the original. Few people know he studied French
lit at the college and later in his off years. As you
say, he may be dumb but he's not stupid, or visa versa.

[Buns_of_Fire]

40. Yes, I remember that. It was between his long, boring comparisons

between Kant, Spinoza, Kierkegaard, and Rousseau and whether or not they'd prefer Lone Star or Miller High Life.

[redwitch]

41. Get Out!

Pushing A Schwarzenegger ala Elaine Bennis

[Logansquare]

43. Yes, he and Rove modelled their friendship on

l'affaire tempétueuse between Rimbaud and Verlaine. They switch roles on alternate Fridays.

[Buns_of_Fire]

38. The "Classic Comics" version, no doubt... (n/t)

[proud patriot]

30. shit flower

IMHO

[William Bloode]

42. Turd blossom

Is a term of endearment in the south. It is never really used in a harmful manner. Not sure about origins, but it is common throughout the south. Nor is it any new word or nickname, it's a pretty old moniker.