NPR Game Show Aired Fake Interview With Bush Audio Book, Smeared Bush as White House Drunk
Since National Public Radio somehow missed out on an author interview with George W. Bush -- they did portray his presidency as a horror film -- NPR's Chicago-based weekend game show Wait! Wait! Don't Tell Me! mocked the former president by "interviewing" clips from his audio book, or as they called it, "A Fake Interview with a Real President." Bush's decision to tell about how he gave up drinking after his 40th birthday in 1986 is apparently a lie, if you're a public-radio comedian. Game-show host Peter Sagal mocked Bush as a drunk in the White House (MP3 AUDIO)
SAGAL: Thank you, everybody. With President George W. Bush's memoir, "Decision Points," coming out this week, naturally we reached out to invite the president on for an interview. Now this was the response we got, for real, from his former press secretary Dana Perino, quote, "That's hysterical. You guys are so funny," and then a smiling emoticon. So instead, we'll be interviewing George W. Bush's audio book. So welcome to WAIT WAIT, this is a big honor for us. Now, you tell some great stories in the book. Tell us about your first week as president.
BUSH: I had a few beers with the guys on Monday night. On Tuesday, I’d fix my favorite after dinner drink, Benedictine and brandy. I had a couple of bourbon-and-Sevens after I put Barbara and Jenna to bed on Wednesday.
SAGAL: Well, yeah, you've earned a celebration, I guess. But then you got down to business, right? Tell us what you did next.
BUSH: Thursday and Friday were beer-drinking nights. (Laughter)
SAGAL: Well that's remarkable, that's some first week. How did you manage to fit all that in while being president?
BUSH: You put your teeth on the edge of the mug, tilt your head back and the beer goes down your throat.
SAGAL: There's a really touching story, Mr. President's audio book, in your book about your meeting your wife. What went through your mind the first time you saw the future Laura Bush?
BUSH: Here's the head and here's the body. It's a girl.
SAGAL: President Bush's audio book, thank you so much for joining us on WAIT WAIT...DON'T TELL ME!
But I got to say, you've gone from the nation's highest office to a quiz show on NPR, of all places. So what's going through your head right now?
BUSH: Bush, what did you do wrong?
SAGAL: Thank you so much. President Bush's audio book joining us. (Soundbite of applause)
This is a bit of a trend. It mirrored a David Letterman routine that ABC's This Week highlighted on their "Sunday Funnies" segment this weekend:
DAVID LETTERMAN: Great presidential memoirs. Watch.
NARRATOR (FEMALE): "Personal Memoirs," by Ulysses S Grant.
NARRATOR (MALE): One side or the other had to yield principles they deemed dearer than life before it could be brought to an end.
NARRATOR (FEMALE): "Decision Points," by George W. Bush.
BUSH: I'm drunk at the dinner table.
NARRATOR (FEMALE): This has been "Great Moments in Presidential Memoirs."
Can you imagine these networks cracking a bunch of jokes about President Obama's youthful coke-snorting? It might get in the way of their presenting him as bound for Mount Rushmore.
PS: This is the same NPR game show that joked in 2006 that Karl Rove ordered the killing of liberal Rep. Jack Murtha, and that Rove's rear end is Dick Cheney's undisclosed location. In 2009, Obama adviser David Axelrod appeared on the show and joked that one of the contenders for White House dog was conservative beauty queen Carrie Prejean.
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If these clowns want to make
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Tue, 11/16/2010 - 7:03pm.
If these clowns want to make like a for profit radio station then I say defund em.
DEFUND DEFUND DEFUND
Submitted by Paarl on Tue, 11/16/2010 - 7:10pm.
now!!!!
paarl
I was listening to that
Submitted by guefy on Tue, 11/16/2010 - 7:33pm.
When I heard it (live) I found it to be offensive to recovering alcholics that they would endulge in beer drinking. Sickening.
I already had contacted all concerned, as though it will do any good.
These folks are really very
Submitted by dr-go on Tue, 11/16/2010 - 7:44pm.
witty and intelligent with all of their many ways to mock Bush! It's just amazing and ever so creative! However, their one problem is that all of this became quite boring 8 years ago. Nevertheless, if it makes them feel good, well......go ahead.
DEFUND!!!
Submitted by MidAmerica on Tue, 11/16/2010 - 7:57pm.
DEFUND!!!
Turn off NPR's financial tap now!
Submitted by Mary Louise Turner on Tue, 11/16/2010 - 7:57pm.
After this latest bash-Bush episode, it is obvious: Defund National Progressive Radio and its evil twin the Progressive Broadcasting Service, now! Please!
Just another
Submitted by HockeyKid on Tue, 11/16/2010 - 7:58pm.
angry liberal bald guy. What passes for humor among these people is truly demented.
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
These are the same people
Submitted by Tugboat Phil on Tue, 11/16/2010 - 8:39pm.
that adore public officials that leave a woman to die in a submerged car, bang underage male Pages, serve as a recruiter for the Klan, live in the same house as a male prostitution service....as long as they are Democrats.
You bastards. You hypocrites.
Submitted by Tailgunner on Tue, 11/16/2010 - 9:02pm.
Why don't you dig into Hillary or Bill Clinton's books? Maybe you could do a courtroom style cross-examination of the contradictions between Bill and Hillary's stories or a parody of the robotic way Hillary recites her reaction to Bill's infidelity.
And of course there's a gold mine in both of Bill Ayers'...I mean Barack Obama's books.
How about NPR do a rap act on how Obama related his drug use; 'a little 'blow' when I could get it'. That's what you were all accusing Bush of doing...here you have the unabashed admission right here by Barack Obama.
NPR (News from the Peoples' Republic) is nothing less than a propaganda organ for the Democrat Party.
Americans should not be forced to support views we find abhorrent with tax dollars forcibly taken from our pockets.
CANDIDATE Obama: 'Yes, we CAN'.
PRESIDENT Obama: 'BECAUSE we CAN'.
Tailgunner, "a little blow"
Submitted by Radical1979 on Tue, 11/16/2010 - 9:07pm.
Tailgunner, "a little blow" can ascribed to Obama and Clinton.
OMG.
Submitted by Tailgunner on Wed, 11/17/2010 - 11:00pm.
Touche'.
CANDIDATE Obama: 'Yes, we CAN'.
PRESIDENT Obama: 'BECAUSE we CAN'.
President Clinton's brother
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Wed, 11/17/2010 - 11:05pm.
President Clinton's brother described his coke habit as his brother having a nose like a vacuum cleaner. That is a bit more than a little blow.
Oh. THAT kind of 'blow'.
Submitted by Tailgunner on Thu, 11/18/2010 - 1:27am.
I had something else in mind when you mentioned Clinton.
(I remember that line too. I also think it was Gennifer Flowers or one of his other floozies who quoted Bill saying he'd snort up so much coke at parties that his hair would 'itch uncontrollably'.)
CANDIDATE Obama: 'Yes, we CAN'.
PRESIDENT Obama: 'BECAUSE we CAN'.
They are so worried now they
Submitted by Radical1979 on Tue, 11/16/2010 - 9:04pm.
They are so worried now they don't know what to do with themselves. They are realizing that when the dust settles after O's presidency (one term please God), history will appreciate GWB, and excortiate Obama. I love it.
More offensive on NPR
Submitted by Apache on Tue, 11/16/2010 - 9:25pm.
That show is a bit too lame anyway. But if you thought that was offensive, you should have heard Garrison Keillor's little skit about a bimbo dating Rupert Murdoch for his money and waiting for him to die. She hits him in the head with a golf ball which send him (in his cart) rolling into a building. She hopes he is dead so she can collect but instead he suffers brain damage and forgets who he is. He is then given a brain transplant where he then starts acting as how liberals imagine themselves. Keillor is then offered a job running Fox News by Murdoch but also offered to run off with Murdoch's bimbo. Yes NPR is nothing but a class outfit with wicked sense of humor [/sarc]. It's like a cheap audio version of Robot Chicken for ageing asshats.
What passes for socialist
Submitted by jdhawk on Tue, 11/16/2010 - 9:51pm.
What passes for socialist humor, comrade. With crap like this just imagine how long NPR would last without taxpayer's ladling cash their way.
Boy, I can't wait until next week. I understand, that the NPR program, Wait! Wait! Don't Tell Me!, will feature Duhbama, A Real Interview with a Fake President . . .
Evolution
Submitted by Abraxos on Tue, 11/16/2010 - 10:13pm.
If evolution were true, there would be no liberals.
That has to be the Quote of the Day!
Submitted by 26CX on Tue, 11/16/2010 - 10:22pm.
You are wise beyond your years, Grasshopper.
not one more dime
Submitted by michiganruth on Tue, 11/16/2010 - 11:09pm.
why are we paying for this junk? defunding NPR should be one of the first orders of business of the new House of Representatives.
Defund the bastards
Submitted by RealVet on Wed, 11/17/2010 - 6:28pm.
These people are sick. This is the ultimate in liberal bias. enough is enough. NO MORE TAXPAYER MONEY TO THESE LIBERAL ASSCLOWNS.
A fake interview from
Submitted by Cowboy on Thu, 11/18/2010 - 1:53am.
A fake interview from NPR.
Anybody surprised?
DEFUND Communist NPR NOW!!!!
Submitted by ArrowSmith on Sun, 11/21/2010 - 1:26am.
Do we need to even debate it? I believe the very first House GOP bill is to do exactly this. Unfortunately it's only symbolic as the CommieDem Senate will just sit on it.