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CHILEAN WHINES (Agent Trotta, Pres. Bush, and What Really Happened - WSJ)
The Wall Street Journal Best of the Web Today ^
| November 22, 2004
| James Taranto
Posted on 11/22/2004 1:30:55 PM PST by GretchenM
The [APEC] summit in ... Chile, was the site of a ... kerfuffle... over the weekend, as the Chileans picked fights with the U.S. Secret Service and lost. The first ... involved Nick Trotta ... in President Bush's security detail. As the president ... entered ..., "Chilean officers, who appeared to be waiting for the moment, stepped in front of Trotta, blocking him from entering," ...
U.S. officials said Chilean police had been chafing for a week about a demand by Secret Service agents that they control the president's space...
... amid a flurry of half nelsons, one Secret Service agent wound up jammed against a wall. "You're not stopping me! ...I'm with the president!" an unidentified agent can be heard yelling on videotape...
... The president, who is rarely alone ...turned and walked back to the front door unaccompanied, facing the backs of a sea of dark suits. Bush, with his right hand, reached over the suits and pointed insistently at Trotta. At first the officials ... did not realize it was the president intervening. Bush then braced himself against someone and lunged to retrieve the agent, who was still arguing with the Chileans. The shocked Chilean officials then released Trotta.
Trotta walked in behind Bush, who looked enormously pleased with himself. He was wearing the expression that some critics call a smirk, and his eyebrows shot up as if to wink at bystanders.
The Post quotes Marcelo Romero, a Chilean reporter: "All of us journalists agree that President Bush looked like a cowboy. It was total breach of protocol. I've seen a lot of John Wayne movies, and President Bush was definitely acting like a cowboy." Apparently some journalists think that's a bad thing.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: agenttrotta; apec; bestoftheweb; chile; gaucho; honchowithponcho; jamestaranto
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posted on
11/22/2004 1:30:55 PM PST
by
GretchenM
The original source was "The Best of the Web Today" Email written by James Taranto; the source linked atop this thread is to the Washington Post article that Taranto quotes.
2
posted on
11/22/2004 1:32:16 PM PST
by
GretchenM
To: GretchenM
It just gets better! What a month! Thank God.
3
posted on
11/22/2004 1:33:05 PM PST
by
evets
(God bless president George W. Bush)
To: 1Peter2:16; 2Jedismom; 2Trievers; 4mycountry; 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub; A_perfect_lady; ...
Thought you might like to see the story behind the headlines, in which a Chilean reporter says,"All of us journalists agree that President Bush looked like a cowboy. It was total breach of protocol. I've seen a lot of John Wayne movies, and President Bush was definitely acting like a cowboy."
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posted on
11/22/2004 1:34:16 PM PST
by
GretchenM
To: GretchenM
Marcelo Romero, a Chilean reporter: "All of us journalists agree that President Bush looked like a cowboy. It was total breach of protocol. I've seen a lot of John Wayne movies, and President Bush was definitely acting like a cowboy." Mr. Romero ought to see a surgeon about the removal of his intestinal blockage. He would feel so much better... Go W!
5
posted on
11/22/2004 1:34:21 PM PST
by
BigEdLB
(BigEd)
To: GretchenM
I like the fact that he acts like a Cowboy.
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posted on
11/22/2004 1:35:11 PM PST
by
KEmom
(My President's a Cowboy!!)
To: GretchenM
"All of us journalists agree that President Bush looked like a cowboy. It was total breach of protocol. I've seen a lot of John Wayne movies, and President Bush was definitely acting like a cowboy." Apparently some journalists think that's a bad thing. And that is why we love him!!!
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posted on
11/22/2004 1:36:41 PM PST
by
retrokitten
(I heart Tony Snow)
To: BigEdLB
Mr. Romero ought to see a surgeon about the removal of his intestinal blockage. Should he choose the cranial or the rectal surgeon?
8
posted on
11/22/2004 1:36:44 PM PST
by
KarlInOhio
(In a just world, Arafat would have died at the end of a rope.)
To: GretchenM
9
posted on
11/22/2004 1:36:44 PM PST
by
MEG33
( Congratulations President Bush!..Thank you God. Four More Years!)
To: GretchenM
Let's hear it for Cowboys!! YAY!
10
posted on
11/22/2004 1:36:57 PM PST
by
Soaring Feather
(http://www.poetbentfeather.com)
To: GretchenM
The Post quotes Marcelo Romero, a Chilean reporter: "All of us journalists agree that President Bush looked like a cowboy. It was total breach of protocol. I've seen a lot of John Wayne movies, and President Bush was definitely acting like a cowboy." Apparently some journalists think that's a bad thing. Sorry Marcelo, watching John Wayne movies does not make you an expert on this. If he was acting like a John Wayne movie you'ld either have a sore jaw or a smoking hole in you, Pilgrim.
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posted on
11/22/2004 1:37:07 PM PST
by
pikachu
(The REAL script)
To: GretchenM
No one is going to say if Trotta was carrying the football or not, I see...
12
posted on
11/22/2004 1:37:16 PM PST
by
Southack
(Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
To: KarlInOhio
I am not sure. What do you suggest?
13
posted on
11/22/2004 1:37:34 PM PST
by
BigEdLB
(BigEd)
To: GretchenM
And I am enormously pleased with our President!!!!
14
posted on
11/22/2004 1:37:47 PM PST
by
OldFriend
(PRAY FOR MAJ. TAMMY DUCKWORTH)
To: BigEdLB
That reporter's whining about a breach of protocol makes all chilean men come across and weakling sissy boys.
To: GretchenM
Those Columbian fellows are lucky they didn't get shot.
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posted on
11/22/2004 1:38:06 PM PST
by
wvobiwan
(Touchdown! Suckers walk...)
To: evets
Yes, thank God, and let's GET OUR HONCHO IN THE PONCHO HOME!
To: GretchenM
Uhhhh... Hey Chilean Journalist - The Breach of Protocol was by Chilean Security, not President Bush, so get over yourself.
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posted on
11/22/2004 1:38:18 PM PST
by
Chad Fairbanks
(01010010 01001111 01010100 01000110 01001100)
To: KEmom
Ditto on the Cowboy!
Maybe its the first time they met a politician who acted as a man first.
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posted on
11/22/2004 1:38:54 PM PST
by
Stashiu
( Yeah, I am a Vietnam Vet, not a War Criminal.)
To: All
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posted on
11/22/2004 1:39:15 PM PST
by
JesseJane
(Air France flights 1192, 491, 288, 751, 216, now boarding...)
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