With Saturday Night Live airing a re-run/compilation show, I thought I'd provide a flavor of the comedy stylings of former President George W. Bush -- made possible by a Vanity Fair article posted April 28 about Bush's post-presidential life. “George in Real Life: George W. Bush takes on his most daunting challenge yet: his own legacy,” by Nancy Jo Sales, is informative -- if you can overlook or get around the incessant and gratuitous belittling remarks from Sales who treated Bill Maher as an expert on Bush's legacy.
She did, however, helpfully relay three jokes Bush delivered during his first public appearance on March 17 in Calgary. So, conjure up a drum roll...
♦ The former President says that his first day home in Preston Hollow, the suburb of Dallas where he and his wife moved in January, he kicked back on the couch and hollered, “Baby, free at last!” To which Laura responded, “‘Yeah, you’re free to take out the trash. Consider it your new domestic policy agenda.’” Big laugh. A woman at my table mouths, “He’s so funny!”♦ “Barney made a deposit in the yard,” he says, adding that when he bent down to retrieve it with a plastic bag, he got to thinking, “I was dodging this stuff for eight years — now I’m picking it up!” The crowd goes wild on that one.
♦ Onstage in Calgary, Bush played up his winning down-to-earthness with a story about taking a trip to his local hardware store, where the owner, Kyle Walters, offered him a job as a “greeter.” “And a guy in there says to me, ‘Hey, did anybody ever tell you you look like George W. Bush?’” Bush said. “And I said, ‘Yeah, man, happens all the time.’ And the guy says, ‘Oh, that must make you mad!’” Big laugh there.
—Brent Baker is Vice President for Research and Publications at the Media Research Center
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Cute by half.. Expect
May 3, 2009 - 00:24 ET by bigtimerCute by half..
Expect nothing more...nothing less...just consider the source.
...or is this funny to others?
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→ Dang funny
May 3, 2009 - 00:36 ET by Cool ArrowMy knee is sore from slapping it so hard.
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Can you imagine how shallow
May 3, 2009 - 01:26 ET by EdhenryCan you imagine how shallow your life has to be to write such drivel, using jokes from the tee-hee crowd, so you can be accepted in your co-dependent world of the manhattan literary crowd.
Then of course the gratuitous swipe at Sarah Palin.
W and Sarah: real people, doing big things and exhibiting real family values, on the world's stage. Journalists: making money on belittling real people with juvinile personal attacks.
I couldn't even read the
May 3, 2009 - 05:58 ET by motherbeltI couldn't even read the whole thing...but in the stuff I read, I fumed. He took every opportunity to get in a dig:
seemingly at peace with the world, which, some would argue, he left so much worse off.
trying to forge a comeback for a failed figure and his party.
the Iraq war, Abu Ghraib, Guantánamo Bay, Hurricane Katrina, domestic spying, torture, and on and on
For most people, however, this prediction [that people's opinion of him will improve with time] still sounds a little
optimistic, if not downright delusional. “I think [Bush] and his
advisers understand the low perception of him, but they have a refusal
to accept it or come to grips with it,” says former White House press
secretary Scott McClellan. [big surprise there!]
And that's when my head exploded.
They might say "Wow, that sucks!" But at least they'll say "Wow!" -Duff Goldman, the Ace of Cakes
I read the whole thing and
May 3, 2009 - 12:52 ET by redmikeI read the whole thing and the author is obviously Libtarded.
"seemingly at peace with
May 3, 2009 - 19:53 ET by Jerry"seemingly at peace with the world, which, some would argue, he left so much worse off."
Among those who feel President Bush left the world worse off...
When asked if he went to war with Iraq to derail the impeachment vote: “I don’t think any serious person would believe that any President would do such a thing." - President Clinton (Dec 1998).
Hmmmm
May 3, 2009 - 06:28 ET by DontFeedTheTrollsWho would I rather have for a neighbor, down-to-earth George Bush or haughty, nose in the air, Barry Obama?
Tough choice that.
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The only way you can get
May 3, 2009 - 08:09 ET by dmntd1The only way you can get Barry as a neighbor is to get someone else to buy the land for him.Scary thing is, there are lots of people that will buy land for him, just for a minute of shoe-leather-kissing. It's despicable.
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Re Barry
May 3, 2009 - 08:52 ET by slickwillie2001Speaking of the Bamster, can we put out an APB for the missing Presidential sense of humor? Is it possible for one with skin so thin to have a sense of humor?
Obama has a sense of humor.
May 3, 2009 - 12:51 ET by redmikeObama has a sense of humor. Look how angry he gets when he gets asked a real question. I find that funny.
Of course, this classic
May 3, 2009 - 13:57 ET by gopcongressOf course, this classic performance at the WH Correspondents Dinner by George Bush and his NBC Tonight Show double, actor Steve Bridges, sets the Gold Standard for presidential humor.
http://www.youtube.c...
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→ Obama walks into a bar
May 3, 2009 - 17:52 ET by Cool ArrowDid he ever pass one?
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