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Bush: The Missing Years [W as 007?]
GQ Magazine ^
| August 2004
| Jason Gay
Posted on 08/02/2004 9:23:46 PM PDT by Ichneumon
I can't post the article or excerpts because of copyright concerns, but the latest issue of GQ magazine has a bizarre article claiming that George W. Bush was actually working for the government in a James Bond sort of role during his "missing" years in the National Guard... Check the link.
TOPICS: News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2004electionbias; bush; bushjamesbush; gq; libel; mediabias; nationalguard; slander; thelostweekend; w; watergate
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Personally, I think this reads like something from the National Lampoon, and I kept checking the issue date to make sure it wasn't the April issue. Every paragraph or two there's something totally off the wall, like Bush teaching bodyguards how to fire machineguns while waterskiing in tuxedos, and being the driver for the Watergate break-in... Even though the article claims this is the result of the work of investigative reporters and such, I think it's best to consider this pure satire -- perhaps to see how many Bush supporters fall for it. But hey, it's a fun read.
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posted on
08/02/2004 9:23:46 PM PDT
by
Ichneumon
To: Ichneumon
I wouldn't even call it satire... it's rubbish.
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posted on
08/02/2004 9:24:59 PM PDT
by
So Cal Rocket
(Fabrizio Quattrocchi: "Adesso vi faccio vedere come muore un italiano")
To: So Cal Rocket
Agreed. It's just a lame attempt to make Bush look bad.
To: Ichneumon
This article was posted before @ FR. The article got pulled and the poster got adiosed.
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posted on
08/02/2004 9:28:48 PM PDT
by
stylin19a
(We gotta get out of this place...if it's the last thing we ever do)
To: So Cal Rocket
Jason Gay?
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posted on
08/02/2004 9:29:17 PM PDT
by
zarf
To: Numbers Guy
Agreed. It's just a lame attempt to make Bush look bad. Did you read it in 2 minutes, or are you just presuming? It's actually pretty funny, and doesn't run down Bush. Even the "driver for the Watergate break-in" part was described as the group being misled into thinking they were bugging the offices of some foreign agents. If anything, it makes Bush out to be a James Bond, doing patriotic work for his government. It's goofy, but not an attack.
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posted on
08/02/2004 9:30:12 PM PDT
by
Ichneumon
("...she might as well have been a space alien." - Bill Clinton, on Hillary, "My Life", p. 182)
To: stylin19a
This article was posted before @ FR. The article got pulled and the poster got adiosed. Well, if they want to squash it, fine, but I figured people could use a chuckle.
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posted on
08/02/2004 9:31:56 PM PDT
by
Ichneumon
("...she might as well have been a space alien." - Bill Clinton, on Hillary, "My Life", p. 182)
To: Ichneumon
I clicked the link but never got to the article. I was slammed by pop ups. I had to re-boot. Some diet add took up a corner and I couldn't get to the X to close it out.
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posted on
08/02/2004 9:42:05 PM PDT
by
CindyDawg
To: Ichneumon
Just allow me to daydream about W as a James Bond character. Step aside young Sean Connery, let a real man borrow your tux. Sighhhhh.
To: CindyDawg
I clicked the link but never got to the article. I was slammed by pop ups. I had to re-boot. Odd, I just tried it myself, and it works fine, even after I turned off my pop-up blockers. Do you have this problem often? Some "adware" may have gotten installed into your browser.
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posted on
08/02/2004 9:48:13 PM PDT
by
Ichneumon
("...she might as well have been a space alien." - Bill Clinton, on Hillary, "My Life", p. 182)
To: stylin19a
The article was pulled for copyright reasons, the same reason none of it is posted to this thread. At least that was the reason given on the thread-pulled page. Was the poster "adiosed"?
The article is fun to read and not anti-Bush that I saw.
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posted on
08/02/2004 9:52:14 PM PDT
by
calenel
(Peace Through Strength, and when necessary, Peace Through Victory!)
To: Ichneumon
Maybe it's just my computer. Too bad. I really wanted to read the article. It sounded funny. It doesn't happen with FR but when I open other webbs, sometimes. I'm supposed to have a block. I'll see if my husband will look at it tomorrow. I just get annoyed at the ones you can't close. I don't know if that is where they land or done intentionally. :')
To: Ichneumon
This has a tinge of Forrest Gump to it.
Good fiction. Fun to read.
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posted on
08/02/2004 9:59:14 PM PDT
by
sd-joe
(Bush has power, while Kerry has only ambition)
To: Ichneumon
Funny stuff! My guess is that it's all true except for the part about Pinky Birhman defacing penises.
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posted on
08/02/2004 10:00:05 PM PDT
by
per loin
(This tagline has not been censored!)
To: Ichneumon
To: Ichneumon
After reading the first 4 pages (amusing, and somewhat off-the-wall at times) I couldn't get anything but a sign-up page.
Oh well, it was fun while it lasted. Amusing and somewhat Walter Mitty-ish. Yeah, right, GWB was more influential in GHWB's career that vice-versa could have been. I'm still smiling.
PLEASE, for the sake of humanity, re-elect Bush-Cheney!
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posted on
08/02/2004 10:14:32 PM PDT
by
Don W
(It's not our abilities that make us who we are, it's our choices.)
To: CindyDawg
Maybe it's just my computer. Too bad. I really wanted to read the article. It sounded funny. It's in the current issue of GQ (with Halle Berry on the cover), you can always check it out at the magazine rack the next time you're at the store, that's where I first encountered it.
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posted on
08/02/2004 10:35:34 PM PDT
by
Ichneumon
("...she might as well have been a space alien." - Bill Clinton, on Hillary, "My Life", p. 182)
To: stylin19a
"adiosed" what does that mean?
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posted on
08/02/2004 10:35:42 PM PDT
by
Murtyo
To: Don W
PLEASE, for the sake of humanity, re-elect Bush-Cheney! Believe me, I'm working on it!
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posted on
08/02/2004 10:36:00 PM PDT
by
Ichneumon
("...she might as well have been a space alien." - Bill Clinton, on Hillary, "My Life", p. 182)
To: Leroy S. Mort
fascinating stuff....we'll have to see if it turns up anywhere else......
And I'll be watching that left arm
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posted on
08/02/2004 10:38:14 PM PDT
by
The Wizard
(DemonRATS: enemies of America)
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