Dubya reveals the moment he became pro-life. There's an important lesson here for all of us.

[Bucky]

George W. Bush Tells Matt Lauer About The Grisly Experience That Turned Him Pro-Life
by Hillary Busis | November 8th, 2010 | Mediaite.com

eorge W. Bush’s pro-life stance solidified when he was a teenager in Texas — after his mother suffered a devastating miscarriage and showed him the fetus in a jar, the former president said in an extraordinary interview that airs tonight.

“She said to her teenage kid, ‘Here’s the fetus,’ ” the shockingly candid Bush told NBC’s Matt Lauer, gesturing as if he were holding the jar during the TV chat, a DVD of which The Post exclusively obtained.

“There’s no question that affected me, a philosophy that we should respect life,” said the former president, who had to drive his distraught mother to the hospital at the time.

So here's the takeaway from this little learning moment in life. Do not fuck with Babs. She's mean-as-shit psycho and she will do whatever she needs to take your shit to town. God help me, I'm even starting to feel sympathy for Poppy over this one.

[Zephie]

1. Thats... Really, really creepy.

[livetohike]

2. That family is seriously deranged n/t

[The Backlash Cometh]

23. There's a photo of George Bush I in a bathtub surrounded by his nekkid kids.

[grasswire]

3. much of W's twisted psyche is owed to his mother

His presidency was an Oedipal opus. He ruined the world. Weak and flawed son of a powerful man and a crazy mother, handed the most powerful position in world history. An epic.

[sufrommich]

10. A Shakespearian tragedy come to life. nt.

[Lucy Goosey]

4. What the...?

Who does that? I mean, really, what the hell is wrong with her?

[Warpy]

5. At least she didn't put it into his arms and tell him to cuddle it

but yeah, that's deranged. I'm shocked the hospital allowed her to have it, or that she fished it out of the toilet bowl at home.

That woman is a sociopath. Gagging her after Katrina and keeping her gagged was that family's one gift to America.

[GrpCaptMandrake]

11. No

That's what Rick Santorum did with HIS family's dead fetus.

Really.

Ew.

Just "Ewwwww!" WTF is it with these sick bastard Repiglickens?

[beac]

6. No doubt, Babs is one twisted a-hole, but her little show-and-tell didn't seem to

prevent Georgie-boy from getting his girlfriend pregnant and arranging an illegal abortion for her. Pro-life, my ass. Pro-abortions-for-the-rich-only is more like it.

From the excerpts so far, Bush's memoir is so full of BS it should come with an industrial-strength air freshener.

[Phentex]

7. Too bad she didn't show him pictures of Vietnam...

Babs should be ashamed of him.

[Sal Minella]

19. Too true. But he was prolly shielded from anything so grisly.

[sufrommich]

8. She kept the fetus in a jar? Wow. nt

[Swamp Rat]

9. I thought it was after he murdered all those Iraqis.

:shrug:

[leftstreet]

12. +1

[muffin1]

16. I thought it was when he declined to intervene

on the murder of the mentally handicapped when he was Governor.

Pro-life my ass. God, I still hate that fucker.

[muffin1]

18. I thought it was when he declined to intervene

on the murders of the mentally handicapped by the state when he was Governor.

Pro-life my ass. God, I still hate that fucker.

[phleshdef]

13. Yea, it seems to have been a pretty warped childhood.

Didn't they disallow him to mourn his sister's death or something too?

[YOY]

14. Mother fucker please...

n.t.

[Lex]

21. +1

nt

[YOY]

15. Mother fucker please...

n.t.

[YOY]

17. Mother fucker please...

n.t.

[noel711]

20. This is too far-fetched.. even for Barbara Bush...

when you have a miscarriage, they don't give you the fetus,
the way they might a gallstone. The remains are removed,
and usually incinerated.

Even when the baby is close to full term,
you don't get to take home a souvenir.

I think this is one of those fantasies Bushie got from
the Pro-life movements. They pass all measure of swill as
proof of the dignity of life.

But no way do they send an expelled fetus home with the family.

[Ilsa]

36. It must have dreamed it in a drunken stupor. nt

[racaulk]

38. Those were my first thoughts too.

This sounds more like something Georgie imagined for his book in order to justify or give weight to his "pro-life" credentials (despite having a fondness of war and capital punishment). I have a very hard time believing that this event actually happened.

And if it DID happen, then that just furthers my belief that Babs is batshit insane. Who, other than someone deranged, would do something like that?

That whole tale is disturbing as hell.

:puke:

[loudsue]

44. Some people miscarry at home.

And many years ago, doctors used to come to your home. They did when I was a kid.

[CJCRANE]

46. I agree...

it seems very strange.

[ibegurpard]

55. ok, even if it's not true...he's saying it happened

and how fucked up is that?

[Silver Swan]

60. No, but..

Although I am younger than Barbara Bush, I remember being told, as a prospective mother, that you should save the expelled tissue from a miscarriage that happened at home so it could be examined.

So, while I can understand Mrs. Bush saving it, I cannot understand her showing it to her son.

[Lex]

22. Wow, that's really respecting life right there. WTF?!

nt

[ismnotwasm]

24. For fucks sake

Who the hell DOES that? I had a miscarriage, the LAST thing on my mind was to either keep it around OR show it to my children. That man is a freak and he is NOT pro-life--I loathe that term for anti-abortion, anti-family planning, forced-birth pukes, he's in a class of his own as a death merchant.

Hey Dubya, how many pregnant Iraqi and Afghani women are dead because of your fucked up wars? How many kids? How many babies? How many young men? How many older folk?

How many women and children are dead because of your global gag rule? You sick fuck.

He's pro-life like a spider is a vegan.

[KamaAina]

25. So Rick Santorum is really Babs in disguise?!

:wtf:

[GrpCaptMandrake]

34. And there you have it!

This is probably a bullshit story on DimLeader's part, conflated from stories he's heard about Santorum Family Fetus Playtime.

There is NOTHING that evil goddamned family won't steal!

[Withywindle]

57. You know, the thing is, I don't really have a problem with what the Santorums did.

(in this case, anyway.)


For a family that really wants the child, a miscarriage IS experienced as a tragic death, and I see no reason not to treat the remains with love and respect, as you would do with any body of a loved one. And we used to be much closer to death than we are now. There was a time when most people died at home, when family members were the ones to wash and dress the body and place it in its coffin, when a "wake" meant you literally sat up the night with your deceased relative.

I think rituals like this can serve a valuable purpose, and the sanitized hospital/funeral-home thing isn't necessarily the only right way.

Shoving it in your kid's face to prove a point, though, THAT is fucked up beyond belief. Context is everything.

[sabrina 1]

26. I guess slaughtering hundreds of thousands of Iraqis

is pro-life also.

This is one sick man and to think, even aside from the cheating in the elections, millions of Americans actually did vote for him.

[snooper2]

27. Isn't that sick excuse for a human dead yet..

She can't have much longer left...

[GrpCaptMandrake]

35. Pure Evil is a preservative n/t

[cynatnite]

28. When you have a fucked up woman like that as a mother...it's no wonder you're screwed up. n/t

[Ilsa]

29. Then why did he buy an illegal abortion for his girlfriend in Baytown?

"Respect life" my ass.

[LynneSin]

30. Please change your title to reflect what George Bush is - he is ANTI-CHOICE

He does not care about the value of life after the fetus is born. He would deny education, healthcare and basic standard of living. He would send that born fetus off to serve in a war that has no plans for ending. He would strum a guitar while that now born fetus is drowning.

He is not pro-life - he is Anti-Choice.

[AnArmyVeteran]

31. Babs Bush sure shoved out a lot of sociopaths.

[Ikonoklast]

32. Words fail.

'Psychopathic tendencies' comes to mind.

[kestrel91316]

33. My mom had a miscarriage when I was a kid. We never even knew about

it 'til years later. She certainly never put the stuff in a jar to show us, but then she was a civilized human being who didn't get her jollies frightening and upsetting kids.

[Lucian]

37. He wants us to respect life, yet he had no problems sending US troops to die...

in an unnecessary war.

[defendandprotect]

39. As far as I know both Bush's were always pro-choice ....

Wasn't Poppy a contributor as well to Planned Parenthood --

the revelation came on Poppy when he decided to run with Reagan or later --

but I think Barbara remained pro-choice, didn't she?

Iow .... this may be another grotesque creation from the mind of W --

Especially when we consider he put a war in place based on lies for oil and $$ --

and killed 1 million Muslims or more in that venture.

But -- oops! -- anyone counting Muslim lives in this "Crusade" by W?

[JHB]

40. Rotten apples don't roll far from their trees. n/t

[Mad_Dem_X]

41. Wow. That is fucked up. n/t

[Arugula Latte]

42. Babs is one freaky creep.

And her kids are all corrupt to the core.

Also, I'm surprised she survived the birth of Jeb, with that enormous melon of his.

[guitar man]

43. Utter bullshit

He became "pro life" when he figured put that dent in his skull was where Babs stabbed him with a coat hanger. :silly:

[LeftinOH]

45. Is the fetus-in-a-jar available for tourists to see in Poppy's Presidential Library?

Just imagine what kind of right-wing holy relic that would make.

[walldude]

47. RESPECT LIFE?

Are you fucking kidding me? Really, are you fucking serious? You respect life? :banghead:

[NotThisTime]

48. Who the hell would do that? She's sick... Creepy freaking sick....

[WinkyDink]

53. Well, George included it in his book, so it worked out quite well for him.

[felix_numinous]

49. How dark

and twisted, if it is true, and even if he is making it up.

[WinkyDink]

50. AND she and Poppy played golf when their daughter died.

http://www.perrspectives.com/blog/archives/000351.htm

[Bucky]

51. Another reason this story doesn't track.

Babs is ruthless, but not sentimental. If she ever showed a fetus in a jar to her kids, it was probably just a mean way to scare them into eating their vegetables.

[WinkyDink]

52. Bush himself may be spinning his own memory, but I can easily believe sicko cold Babs did this.

[TwilightGardener]

54. Yeah. As a mother, I couldn't do that to one of my kids. What a nasty woman.

[Withywindle]

56. EW.

Such a creepy, trashy family. (Like the Tudors, but with fewer public executions and more secret assassinations).

[XemaSab]

58. That is the worst thing I have ever heard about a HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE family

:o

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

59. So, where does his getting his girlfriend an abortion fit in?

????

[tsuki]

61. I wondered about that, and the hundred of thousands of Iraqis.

The only life he treasures is his own.

[Terra Alta]

62. Now I know where he gets his lunacy from.

Babs is one sick woman, manipulating her teenage kids like that.

Either that, or Dumbya is lying about the whole incident, which wouldn't surprise me in the least.

[marmar]

63. That story doesn't pass the sniff test.

nt

[Bucky]

64. yeah, well neither did his almost-kid-brother

Hell, neither did his whole 8 years squatting on the oval carpet and the Bill of Rights