Watching Jenna call her parents from the Ellen Show

[CatWoman]

and that girl was absolutely scared to death!!!

Huff Post has the video: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/12/05/jenna-bush-phones-home-on_n_75406.html

[eleny]

1. yeah, what the hell is up with that

[in_cog_ni_to]

7. I think she was afraid he'd say somethin totally ignorant on live TeeVee. Her asking him, "are you

mad, daddy?" was pretty freakin' weird! What parent would ever be "mad" because their child called them? He must be even more psychotic in their private world.

[NMDemDist2]

2. Prezildent sounds drunk already (7:30 local time according to Ellen)

listen carefully, he sounds loaded

[SharonAnn]

9. Yes, he difinitely sounded "under the weather" or "three sheets to the wind".

His tongue was working even worse than usual. I was surprised that he actually pronounced a couple of words that I understood. Many of them I couldn't figure out.

[joeybee12]

3. Ok Ellen, first you tape during the writer's strike...and now this!

She's starting to piss me off!!!! :grr:

[AlCzervik]

4. Jenna knows not to interrupt Daddies cocktail time.

[Mutineer]

5. That's what got me when I watched it too

how scared she seemed. And I don't think she was faking it either.

[spartan61]

6. Too bad she wasn't calling Daddy from Iraq

to tell him she was going on a night mission and "wish me luck."

[zbdent]

21. "Hi Daddy ... yeah, I was ambushed ... and these really nice Iraqi doctors

fixed me up ... what? No, I wasn't raped in the ass ... wasn't that a myth? Didn't you say that it was all hyped up to point out what savages these people were?"

[HughMoran]

8. Seemed almost like they are real humans

I was waiting for her idjut dad to say something moronic.

[Harper_is_Bush]

12. I was charmed by her a bit myself. Maybe it had something to do with her extreme sexiness...

..but her demeanor and responses endeared her to me also.

Her honesty in asking her dad if he was mad provided some insight into shrub as well.

[HughMoran]

15. I would be grumpy if I were Bush too!

:rofl:

Either he's normally a pissant, or he has been in a bad mood lately. :D

[Harper_is_Bush]

10. Ah, so someone else DID notice!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2412712

[TomInTib]

11. Well, that just wrecked a perfectly fine buzz...

Guess I will have to double down, now.

How perfectly un-planned and impromptu.

How perfectly fucked.

Fuck 'em all, Ellen as well.

[Botany]

16. Thank you

To me it seemed real phony.

[TomInTib]

23. Yeah, that was amateurish stagecraft.

What should we expect from a nation that would (way back when) rate the Roseanne show as #1?

Or Friends?

Or Sex in the City?

We are a village of fucking idiots.

[northzax]

13. it was a setup

listen, they knew she was calling "I'm not watching cause you're just taping" sheesh, people fall for all kinds of PR stunts.

[Fleshdancer]

14. I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought that was odd

A grown woman scared to call her parents? Umm...ok. I couldn't tell if it was the spontaneity of the situation or the fact that she was on a show hosted by a famous lesbian that made her think she would be "in trouble".

I can't begin to imagine being in trouble with my parents once I became an adult. Then again, I wasn't born into a family wrapped up in power issues.

:shrug:

[MisterP]

24. well, remember when Ronnie said he wanted to spank Maureen when she was FORTY?

of course, he made his decisions based on jellybeans and planetary syzygies (Quigley manipulated him into the mid-80s Thaw), and fell asleep while being briefed

[ecstatic]

17. I didn't see it, but that had to have been staged

The risk of him saying the wrong thing on live TV was way too great. You know that feeling you get when you're in the middle of talking trash and you're told someone else is on the line?

[Disturbed]

18. She kept saying her Dad would kill her.

What kind of Dead does she have?
Why would he possibly kill her?
Because she was calling from Ellen's show; a Lesbian Celeb?
Silliness, aint it?

[CatWoman]

19. i posted the link in my op

[MiniMe]

20. I think she was more worried about calling them without warning

After all, it was being broadcast to a studio audience. Having said that, I agree, she was really scared. Of course, she didn't have to make the call.

[Stinky The Clown]

22. They could make an album from that ...... "The Dysfunctionals"

She sounded scared shitless and he sounded like a Bruce Dern character.