Carlyle Group dumped Shrub, but Mark WAHLBERG found him "charismatic/charming"

[UTUSN]

The 2nd item is old, but is a different take on Shrub's "humor". But TWO weeks after 9-11, Shrub was his giddy, dopey self.

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http://www.nypost.com/seven/03102007/gossip/pagesix/pagesix_u.htm

Good For Laughs

MARK Wahlberg is no Republican, but he does admire President Bush's sense of humor. "He was extremely charismatic and very charming," Wahlberg told Movies.com's Jeanne Wolf. "I went to the White House two weeks after 9/11, and as soon as I came in, he shakes my hand and goes, 'I bet you were gonna come in here and tell me, dammit, you need to do this and you need to do that, but then you look at me in my nice blue suit and you end up thinking, 'Well, God, you're really good-looking in person, Mr. President.' How can you not laugh?"




http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3994.htm

.... In a column posted yesterday on Salon.com, Joe Conason writes: "Preferring to avoid public scrutiny for obvious reasons, executives at the Carlyle Group usually say nothing about their firm's connections with the Bush dynasty. But last April 23, Carlyle managing director David Rubenstein spoke quite frankly about the comfy sinecure he provided to George W. Bush more than a decade ago -- and how useless Bush turned out to be. Whether he knew it or not, Rubenstein's remarks to the Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association were recorded."

Rubenstein said, "We put (Bush) on the board and (he) spent three years. Came to all the meetings. Told a lot of jokes. Not that many clean ones. And after a while I kind of said to him, after about three years - you know, I'm not sure this is really for you. Maybe you should do something else. Because I don't think you're adding that much value to the board. You don't know that much about the company.

Rubenstein continued: "He said, 'Well, I think I'm getting out of this business anyway. And I don't really like it that much. So I'm probably going to resign from the board.' And I said, thanks - didn't think I'd ever see him again. His name is George W. Bush. He became President of the United States. So you know if you said to me, name 25 million people who would maybe be President of the United States, he wouldn't have been in that category. So you never know. Anyway, I haven't been invited to the White House for any things." ....

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[hlthe2b]

1. Some found Hitler to be "charismatic & charming" as well...

Ditto for Ted Bundy.....:eyes:

[AlCzervik]

2. since it's from that unquotable rag i'd take it with a large grain of salt.

[Tinksrival]

3. interesting

I hadn't read those two quotes. Thanks. Such an ASS, our Presidenta Pissypants

[riderinthestorm]

4. This isn't funny.

"I went to the White House two weeks after 9/11, and as soon as I came in, he shakes my hand and goes, 'I bet you were gonna come in here and tell me, dammit, you need to do this and you need to do that, but then you look at me in my nice blue suit and you end up thinking, 'Well, God, you're really good-looking in person, Mr. President.' How can you not laugh?"

Does anyone else think this is funny?? :shrug:

[NYCGirl]

6. I guess you have to preference it in your mind with the fact that Mark Wahlberg

is really good looking, and probably has heard that a lot from other people.

[senseandsensibility]

7. No.

It's unfunny, just like every supposed "charming" or "funny" quote by the chimp. I have yet to hear one funny or charming thing he ever said. And I have even started topics on this board asking for an example. Nada.

[Canuckistanian]

8. This is the man who thought his 'trifecta' joke was HILARIOUS

No, people laugh at Bush because he's a clown.

His "wit" usually consists of fart jokes and lame put-downs of other people.

[leftofthedial]

5. Umm, two weeks after 9-11,

shouldn't king george have had something to do besides crack wise with celebrities?

[Atman]

9. k&r

Wahlberg's an idiot. But I expect that from him. He's just and actor and doesn't pretend to be anything more than an actor. I expect our president, however, NOT to be just an idiot actor.

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[driver8]

10. Ted Bundy was also charismatic and charming...

that's not always a good thing.

[TahitiNut]

13. Yep. Ted Bundy, Benito Mussolini, Fulgencio Batista, Hannibal Lecter, ...

... psychopaths are often "charismatic and charming."

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

16. So was the Hillside Strangler

which was actually two psychopathic cousins who worked together, Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono, Jr. One was handsome and charming and the other was brutal and cunning. They were responsible for seducing, kidnapping, torturing, and murdering at least 14 young women on the West Coast in the 1970s, one as young as 12.

[rustydog]

11. I understand that Ted Bundy could be Charismatic & Charming

That didn't make him any less a monster that he was.

[Cha]

12. Well, Mark Walberg, you can think

that this person is responsible for a lot of Deaths along with The Dick of Death and you can think :wtf: does he have he have to smile about?..Unless, of course, he's a sociopathichimp?

This was two weeks after 9/11? Well then, I think ol' bush's approval ratings by his collective Boss was 90%..but a lot of shite has come down the pike since. I wonder if you would find the murderous wanker so "charming", now?

[NYCGirl]

14. Considering Wahlberg contributed to the Kerry campaign, I guess you have

your answer.

http://www.newsmeat.com/celebrity_political_donations/Mark_Wahlberg.php

[Cha]

15. Yeah, I figured..I just wanted to get

that out there. Mark Walberg is too cool to be fooled by bush very long.

[UTUSN]

17. However, the gossip item is reporting on a RECENT interview he gave, and

DOES open by saying, he's "no (Rethug)". But your earlier question, why would somebody responsible for so many deaths and mayhem have anything to smirk about, is the operative one. And why doesn't Mark ask it instead of apparently STILL being seduced by "charm/charisma."

[Virginia Dare]

18. Just about as useless as he is now...

and that's exactly how he handles his Presidency. Shows up to meetings and tells a lot of dirty jokes.

I think I'll go crawl into a corner and cry now.

[Bjorn Against]

19. I would have liked to heard that quote in context...

I have a feeling it was probably the one nice thing Wahlberg could find to say about Bush. From everything I can see the guy is much more sympathetic to our side than he is to Bush, commenting on his sense of humor says nothing about what he thinks about Bush's policies.

Has anyone seen I Heart Huckabees? Watching that movie certainly makes it seem like Wahlberg is one of us, even if his character in that movie was obviously satirical in nature it seemed as if he meant to make us laugh at ourselves rather than to make others laugh at us.

[UTUSN]

20. You're a tough taskmaster, but you're correct. Here's the original source/link

The last line -- "I said to him, 'You know what? You're kind of right.' He's extremely funny. I just wish that he'd done a better job." -- mitigates, but ONLY somewhat. He STILL finds Shrub "extremely funny," and even the "I just wish that he'd done a better job" is pale.

Now, I did not intend a bash-WAHLBERG thread. I glean political bits from whatever crosses my path. He put money with us, and is, I'm sure, a good Dem. I just ferret out ANY word by anybody that is positive in whatever degree of Shrub.


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http://movies.go.com/moviesproxy/jeannewolf?columnid=878801

Better Looking: Mark Wahlberg
or President Bush?

He felt fine saying the line "I don't much like the President": "When I met President Bush, he was extremely charismatic and very charming. I went to the White House two weeks after 9/11, and as soon as I came in, he shakes my hand and goes, 'I bet you were gonna come in here and tell me, "Dammit, you need to do this and you need to do that, but then you look at me in my nice blue suit and you end up thinking, Well, God, you're really good-looking in person, Mr. President." ' I said to him, 'You know what? You're kind of right.' He's extremely funny. I just wish that he'd done a better job."

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[Lisa]

21. I'd be laughing too -- at Shrub

A comment like that shows what an arrogant dunce he is -- kind of like the drunk guy at a party who thinks he's God's gift to women. (And meanwhile the women are whispering, "Did you hear what that moron said?! Hahaha!")

I suspect that Wahlberg is being sarcastic. ("Kind of" right -- as in, NOT!)