Posted on 01/23/2006 3:54:22 PM PST by BurbankKarl
WASHINGTON -- President Bush has long cultivated the image of a macho rancher, frequently donning his boots and Wrangler jeans to clear brush on his sprawling Texas property. But he was decidedly noncommittal today — and even a bit nonplused — when asked for his reaction to the most talked-about ranching film in years: "Brokeback Mountain."
"I hadn't seen it," Bush told thousands of students and professors at Kansas State University, responding to a query from an audience member. "I'd be glad to talk about ranching, but I haven't seen the movie."
The movie, featuring the love story of two gay cowboys, this month won the Golden Globe award for best motion picture drama and top honors from the Producers Guild of America and is showing remarkable success — even in conservative, red-state towns and cities that helped reelect Bush.
But if Bush intends to see it, he showed no such desire today when the young man in the crowd raised the idea toward the end of a lengthy, unscripted and unexpected question-and-answer session.
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"You would love it," the questioner persisted. "You should check it out."
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LMAO! I am slow this morning. When I saw your ping I just assumed this was the GLAAD thread from yesterday.
We stopped by my mom and dad's a while back and the Brokeback Mountain commercial came on. My dad seeing the commercial, thinking it's just a cowboy movie says, "Is this movie supposed to be any good?" My mom says, "It's about gay cowboys." The look on my dad's face was priceless. It was very similar to the "Not this shit again" guy. LOL!!
"Now they are gay ranchers? "
As long as they aren't "Jolly Ranchers", which would ruin an otherwise great candy.
More like raunchy film.
Next Hollywood will do a movie on two gay NASCAR drivers - whatever gives the finger to conservative Americans.
It was a setup, I heard more on a clip on Chicago radio WLS, they played more of the clip & while Pres. Bush was speaking, someone in the audience yelled out "How do you feel about Will & Grace being cancelled".
Some real smarta$$es in that audience.
My kind of guy
I hope you mean that in a political sense...
I was speaking about the president, I may be a senior female but never too old to enjoy the rugged type of man.
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