Posted on 07/17/2006 3:57:32 AM PDT by Dundee
Bush caught out by open microphone
US President George W. Bush has been caught out making candid comments on the Middle East crisis by an open microphone at a summit in the Russian city of Saint Petersburg.
Mr Bush was caught saying that a key to defusing the Middle East crisis was for "Hezbollah to stop doing this s**t". "What they need to do is get Syria to get Hizbollah to stop doing this s**t, and it's over," Bush told British Prime Minister Tony Blair at a leaders' lunch at the Group of Eight industrial countries gathering here.
The president was on camera but apparently unaware that his words were being captured by a microphone.
It was unclear who 'they' were.
Sure doesn't sound like an accident to me. This may be his "we begin launching..." moment.
"I'd like to see more "open" mics around our President. We'd cut through more crap."
This has happened a few times, and so far President Bush's opinion in private is the same as his opinion in public, unlike the previous guy's.
Yeah, I caught it passing by. They had a banner at the bottom "BREAKING NEWS - Bush caught on open mic." but that's not what they were talking about. As if it were something sinister or a gaffe.
LOL
thank you miss manners, what next whining because he uses the wrong spoon for his soup?
That's exactly the scene I thought of when I first read this article. Every time Clinton bit his lower lip, with that. "I feel your pain" expression on his face, I just wanted to puke.
I know that there are a lot of phonies in politics but Clinton was and is the worst of all times, followed closely by his wife.
I arrived at the point very early in the Clinton years where, when he came on TV, I had to turn it off, I couldn't even look at him anymore.
It would be even more colorful if I were golfing. :)
First, S**T is not a nice word, in English, but it is not "profane;" it is not a vain abuse of the Lord's name.
Just which polysyllabic french derived obfuscation would you prefer the President to employ over a perfectly clear straightforward anglo-saxon word that expresses the matter quite well. There is no confusion among either the general audience or the intended target about what the President means. Do you think s**t is inadequately descriptive of the s**t up to which Iran and its Hezbollah proxies are? Don't you think that it adquately describes what will hit the fan if this s**t does not end, forthwith?
Or do you have your nose so stuck in merde that you cannot understand a simple concept like s**t when Hezbollah is throwing it around?
LOL
TOTALLY AGREE ..... where was the ever-charming Clymer word to add to the charm?
;-)
Pick your spots now and then for selective usage. Hezbollah is worse than any curse word could paint them with.
Tell that to George Patton or Winston Churchill.
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
Shalom Israel
That's my President! I Love it too!
Maybe what we need is a President with a George Patton mouth.
I am in the bad habit of using the F word more often as I get older.....I use it as a verb. But, when I do, people listen. Catch 22.
WOW! I'll be right over.
;-)
Excellent idea, Dundee. I second it.
My impression, by the way, is that in Texas, "s**t" is not considered a dirty word, but rather the actual technical term for the substance in question.
There will never be another Clinton. I hope.
Look, I like the President. I don't agree with him 100% of the time, but that would be true of anybody. And I don't care if he swears a little; I was a freaking sailor afer all. He's a good man and a good leader, in a difficult world. Good thing he and Tony weren't talking about their respective nuclear footballs.
Maybe I meant pronoun...LOL
Thanks for posting the transcript. There are a couple inaudibles that I would love to know, like the ones that immediately preceded Blair saying "Syria."
I love the fact that he said "Yo Blair" and the two were talking about conspiring with Angela Merkel to put someone on the spot. :)
It seems like Alan Climer can't enter a room anymore without snickers and guffaws! A real major leaguer. Big time
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