* pulls out the I am smart card.

[Botany]

"I was in Crawford and I said I was looking for a book to read, and Laura said, 'You oughtta try Camus.'
I also read three Shakespeares."
-- George W. Bush

and for the few who haven't seen this, *'s summer reading list.

http://www.booktv.org/misc/081706_bush.asp

[acmavm]

1. Yeah, he read three 'books' by Shakespeare. I didn't know that

Shakespeare also wrote comic books.

[samsingh]

30. actually i think he said 3 Shakespeares

what are 3 Shakespeares? did he mean plays?

[RB TexLa]

2. But did he have his "I'm smart and very serious" glasses on?

[TahitiNut]

3. Shakespeare was a novelist??

Gee ... who'da guessed? :dunce:

[bluerum]

5. yeah,, he wrote several versions of

"The Collected Works of William Shakespeare".

Very prolific.

He also translated his own material.

[NOLADEM]

4. Who is he trying to fool?

This is right up there with Robertson's astounding 1 ton incline squat, and is just as impossible.

I think someone told him the saying about Chimps in a room with typewriters eventually writing a Shakespearian sonnet and got confused(er).

And what is the point of this whopper? Is he trying to woo the Classics Department? Seems to me reading sissy Shakespeare would alienate his knuckle dragging base.

[LibDemAlways]

6. He never said he read "three books" or "three plays" by Shakespeare...

only that he read "three Shakespeares." Shakespeare is a brand of fishing tackle. Maybe he read the name off his pole while waiting to land a big one.

[Arkansas Granny]

14. LOL! That was my first thought, too!

[Botany]

20. LOL

[Eurobabe]

36. BWAHHAAAAA!!!

[jimshoes]

7. Obviously someone misunderstood

the chimp, more likely he said "I've had three shakes and a beer".

[Justice Is Comin]

8. No I think he meant he was reading

a book out by Shakes pier. That, My Pet Goat...he never got to finish it.

[karlrschneider]

23. He had the Shakes on his plane...

...

[petronius]

9. Did he pronounce it 'KAM - uss'?

As for the 'Shake spear' - he probably thought it was "The Idiot's Guide to Starting New Wars", and it took him three volumes to realize his mistake...

[stepnw1f]

10. The Book Reading Must Piss Off Ditto Heads

I'll have to spread this far and wide since we all know how ant-intellectual they are.

[OneBlueSky]

11. LOL . . . Bush couldn't get through ONE of these books this summer . . .

hell, he couldn't get through one of them in a year . . . with the possible exception of the two baseball biographies (Ruth and Clemente), maybe . . .

besides, where in hell would he find the TIME to read all this stuff . . . he is, after all, the president -- and he spends an enormous amount of his time campaigning around the country . . . between that an whatever time he actual puts into his job (minimal, at best), there just aren't enough hours or days to read this many books . . . especially by someone with limited reading skills and an admitted lack of interest in the world around him . . .

I'd love to see some reporter ask him some questions on the content of one or more of these books . . . just for kicks . . .

[hashibabba]

12. He meant he read the book jackets, not the books.

I agree, the reporters should ask him some questions on these books he supposedly read.

[rasputin1952]

13. I find it less than credible that bush would read Camus' "The Stranger"

The whole premise behind the book is to get the reader to think, something that bush seems entirley incapable of...can you imagine him trying to pronounce, much less explain Existentialism?

Cliff Notes if anything for this clod...

[walldude]

15. Did you see the Williams interview? He asked * to tell him

what Camus was about, * stammered for a sec and that's when he replied "I also read 3 Shakespeares." Are our President learning?

[guinivere]

16. Good grief. Too late for the smart card.

He's already said he doesn't read. There isn't a sensible soul on earth that will believe this crap. If he's so hot on reading now, he should try some of those reports and papers on his desk that have been gathering dust.

[AlCzervik]

17. "Yeah ok i'll have 2 double cheeseburgers, 3 Shakespeares and a diet coke"

he talks like he's going through a window at Burger king.

[Bucky]

18. **Pssst-- Mr President. Shakespeare didn't write 'My Pet Goat' **

In the 2000 campaign someone asked Bush what his favorite children's book was when he was growing up. He responded, "The Hungry Hungry Caterpiller."

That book was written in the mid 1970s - Bush would have been a college graduate and possibly on his way to Harvard Business School when he first encountered it. But in Bush's defense, he was still making his noted youthful indiscretions at the age of 40.

[hedgehog]

19. There are only 2 Shakespeares on that list!

I could believe some of these books. The mystery series look like what might be lying around Crawford. American Prometheus at 784 pages? No way!

On edit - if he did poorly in school and stumbles when he talks because he's dyslexic, how could he be doing this much reading? If he's not dyslexic, what is his excuse? Jerry Ford was dyslexic and he never sounded like *!

[ComerPerro]

21. and then the moron, trying to sound smart in an interview

adds an extra syllable to the word "eclectic" and uses it completely incorrectly.

Apparently his very "ec-e-lec-tic" reading list includes three similar books by the same author.


The misuse of the word suggests that he might be trying to look smart while actually being a complete fucking moron.

The mispronunciation, and the proud way he trotted it out, proves to us that its a new word to him, thus reinforcing the idea that he might be a total dipshit.

[karlrschneider]

22. I would love it if somebody would ask him to recite a few lines from

MacBeth's soliliquy.

:evilgrin:

[EstimatedProphet]

24. It goes a little something like this...

Tomorrow, and the day after that, and the day after that even,
They still happen,
until I get raptured up into the middle of the air, anyway;
And in the past people have died. I wish they hadn't! But there's not much I can do about that anyway, is there? Cuz that's the way life works.
Life's kinda short and dull; it's like there's this bad actor,
And he doesn't know how to act very good and messes up his lines,
So he gets thrown out of the show. He's gone, and no one cares because he was bad, y'see? He's outta there. It's kinda like a story
I told, back when I was a kid, that scared all the other kids,
They got a laugh out of it, then we took the nerds on a snipe hunt.
Heh heh heh...

MacBeth Ch V v. 19

[karlrschneider]

27. LOL! There's a triple entendre/confusion for Chimpy!

Hahahahaha

[EstimatedProphet]

28. With apologies to Hamlet:

The satire's the thing
Wherein I'll catch the personality of the wannabe King.

[Marr]

32. Well, Brian WIlliams did ask him summarize Camus.

Bush changed the subject and talked about how he came to be in posession of the book.

[flordehinojos]

25. was the version of the three shakespeares that bush read, written in

Middle English or was it a translation into a Modern English version?

[EstimatedProphet]

26. It was probably middle school English

[flordehinojos]

33. LOL

:rofl:

[Olney Blue]

29. I wish he would read his PDBs and the Constitution.

[Eurobabe]

35. ROTFL, that's a good one!!

[samsingh]

31. Shakespeare the Novelist, not the Playwright

[Eurobabe]

34. Is Bush turning into a Liberal Elistist? EGADS!!

That'll piss off the CONS. Why he should be readin' the BIBLE!!!

[Fridays Child]

37. His summer reading list? I call extreme bull shit.

It is so obvious that somebody came up with a list of books to make that little idiot appear to be a well-rounded reader. I'll bet that he hasn't read a single book from that list. And how transparent and juvenile is the whole thing, anyway? Not only have they given the list a brand name--President Bush's Summer Reading List--but some of the books on it are required reading for high school students.

He is such an embarrassment.

[EFerrari]

38. Trial balloon. BushCo figures, if we swallow this, we'll swallow

anything.

Someone needs to ask Chimp what he thinks about Hamlet's inaction. lol