Damn, He Shot Us The Finger

[BeFree]

That ain't right. No president should ever shoot us the FINGER. Who in the hell does he think he is? That's it, he's gotta be done away with.

Goodbye, W_{orst president ever}

[WeirdOne]

1. He's one major league asshole

[Catherine Vincent]

2. Did any of the cable networks show this?

As far as I know, Leno is the one that showed the clip.

[stepnw1f]

3. I Bet Leno Enjoyed Showing Too

I always took him as a Bush supporter.

[Mnemosyne]

4. I thought he was too, but

when Bright Eyes did his number awhile back, he let him finish.
:shrug: :hi:


on second thought, may be a repube, but thinks * is a moran? There are some, my Mom for one.

[RevolutionStartsNow]

12. Leno's a Democrat

This came out during the election season; he just keeps it mighty quiet. He finally got fed up with being called a Bush supporter, so he gave an interview to an LA paper where he admitted he "never voted for any Republican."

I think he's just very careful, knowing that his show is the one that tries to appeal to the middle ground of America (whatever the hell that is, I'm not sure it exists).

[FreedomAngel82]

15. Probably with Leno

I thought he might've been a democrat cause in the first season of "West Wing" he was at some event the season had. My mom loves his show and watches him for his jokes and she always has a new Bush joke to tell. ;)
His interview with Bill Maher was pretty good.

[Mnemosyne]

17. I had wondered with Bright Eyes song.

How long would that have gone on, on faux?! LOL
Great Song! "When the President Talks to God" freeps listen and learn.

Thanks!:hi:

[RevolutionStartsNow]

23. I love that song

It's on my iPod Shuffle all the time.

Bright Eyes has another great protest song, called "Landlocked Blues", on the newish CD I'm Wide Awake It's Morning. Actually there are several political songs on that CD, which he apparently wrote in NYC after the war started.

[Mnemosyne]

25. I love it too and

need to get a copy of his CD. Everyone I've shown his performance on Leno has been impressed and shocked he made it to the end without some kind of "interference".

[RobertSeattle]

5. He's a major league a-hole, but he shot us the THUMB

That's a fact Jack! (Much as I wish it was a finger!)

[BeFree]

8. Now Robert

Do you think he wouldn't shoot us the FINGER?

So, while you may consider letting him off the hook, I won't. As far as I am concerned, he shot us the FINGER!

[RobertSeattle]

9. Bush shows the PROVERBIAL finger to the world

with his arrogance and ignorance, but in this particular video he's physically showing the thumbs up to his sycophants.

[Matariki]

10. that is SO not a thumb

having gone to art school and drawn COUNTLESS hands in many positions i'm telling you no way is that his thumb. his wrist would have to be bent to the right to have his thumb straight up like that - try it yourself. it might be a pen - but NO WAY is it his thumb.

[RobertSeattle]

11. It's a thumb

The world is round
The earth revolves the sun
And Bush did a thumbs up even though it looks like he didn't.

[Matariki]

13. what makes you so sure?

and why are you so adamant about insisting it's his thumb?

i haven't heard any reasoning backing up your insistence that it's his thumb, yet you seem damned sure. how come?

[Stirk]

14. Go frame by frame as he lowers his arm. His hand relaxes and the

thumb moves laterally to the left. It's clearly a thumb as his arm descends.

[RobertSeattle]

19. My own eyes

Once you see it in normal or high resolution in slow motion it definitely is a thumb. He doing a thumbs up with his arms away from the camera and due to pixelation and the angle one (including me for most of the day) can easily interpret it as a middle finger, but it is not.

[Matariki]

20. where did you see the high resolution clip?

[RobertSeattle]

21. I've got the HD feed of the Leno show from last night on my HD Tivo

The video Leno shows of course is from normal (not low resolution from the .Mov video on the internet) resolution MSNBC feeds, but when seem in slow motion (much to my dismay!) it is his thumb. And verified by my Wife who hoped as I did.

[RevolutionStartsNow]

24. Ah, love that HD Tivo!

I didn't record it, but I will watch for the rerun.

I suspect if it's that obvious that it's a thumb, Leno knew it too, but showed the clip anyway because it *can* be interpreted as a finger, and it's funny, damnit!

[bunny planet]

16. Another artist and drawer of hands here. NO way that's a thumb.

And if it is a pen, since when do you hold one up in the air like that. He wanted it to look like his middle finger, even if doesn't turn out to be an actual finger.

[marions ghost]

26. agree

I have also studied and drawn hands in many positions.
Definitely it is his middle finger. Yes, impossible to be the thumb with that hand position.

[no_to_war_economy]

28. I vote thumb

it was my thumb not my finger!

[bling bling]

18. I thought it was the middle finger at first.

But I think it's the thumb now too after closer inspection.

[marions ghost]

29. finger

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the gesture was the usual 'up yours' from our Resident to Us

[NVMojo]

6. Our City Mayor told us to go to hell in a public meeting cuz we were

protesting a water and sewer rate increase, the second one in 8 months. He's a Repuke and his best Repuke friend told him his career wasn't over cuz Dick Cheney said "go fuck yourself" and is still the VP. I hate these bastards.

[mwb970]

7. That's the first thing he's done that I took personally.

The press is my representative, charged with presenting information I want to know. To have our "elected" (ha ha) twerp of a president in effect give ME the finger really brought home just how hateful and horrid this little man is.

[deadparrot]

22. I don't know why many on DU are so outraged.

Haven't we always known that this cretin has nothing but contempt for the American people and press. Whether it was a finger, a thumb, a pen, or something completely different, it shouldn't come as a surprise that the man despises anything related to generosity, acceptance, or equality.

[SammyWinstonJack]

27. No surprise to me.

From his documented one finger salute to his fist pumping before 'shock and awe, to his latest whatever gesture he gave, it's clear that the little worm has great disdain for the American people among others.