Bush’s Olympics Ad Lib Causes a Stir Abroad

Newsweek Web Exclusive (via MSNBC.com) ^ | 2/13/2002 | Martha Brant

[OrangeDaisy]

Feb. 13

[OrangeDaisy]

Does anybody really care what the French think?

[BrooklynGOP]

f french.

[Jean S]

Good grief, this is so stupid.

[Publius6961]

I must confess that I was surprised at those words when he spoke them.
I seemed that he ad-libbed them and after no immediate negative reaction I assumed he had been allowed to do so.

So if a future head of state ad libs again, what are they gonna do? Arrest him and try him in Belgium?

[Maedhros]

I for one don't.

[Congressman Billybob]

"The French, the French, They fight with their feet,
And f**k with their face."

Homer Simpson had it right. "Cheese-eating surrender monkeys."

Congressman Billybob

Phil & Billybob on air in the mornings.

Billybob on the Net, weekly.

[stanz]

Sacre bleu!

[teletech]

The French need to clean up their own act. Frankly, I don't give a damn what thet think!

[Darth Reagan]

I declare open the Games of Salt Lake City, celebrating the Winter Olympic Games

And this was the phrase they were excited about? Sounds like it was written by a committee of diplomats. Wouldn't, "celebrating the 19th Olympiad" be better than a construction which says "games . . . celebrating . . . games"?

[Congressman Billybob]

Missed a closed caret and dropped a line. Here it is, correctly:

The French, the French,
A marvelous race.
They fight with their feet,
And f**k with their face.

Billybob

[Colonel_Flagg]

A former rugby player, Rogge is trying to keep the focus of the Games on the athletes. He’s even sleeping on a cot in the athletes’ village.

Isn't that "against protocol"?

[Dog Gone]

I've had it with the Olympics. The people who run them are egomaniac America-haters.

The people who try to get the Olympics in a particular American city are trying to line their own pockets with taxpayer money.

The judges are crooked.

The athletes aren't amateurs.

A pox on all of them. Take the Olympics to some foreign country and leave them there.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

"But to some foreign visitors and members of the International Olympic Committee, who knew nothing about the changes to their beloved protocol, "

Sheeesh! When these frogs squat, do they crap protocol?

[Slainte]

Who'd have thought Ricky Nelson was such a sage?

But it's all right now,
I learned my lesson well.
You see, ya can't please everyone,
so ya got to please yourself.

It's also clear that there is a substantial portion of the world's population who has nothing better to do than find trivial things to be offended at.

And finally, if I were the French, I don't think I'd complain too loud until we figure out what's up with the skating judge...

[Jean S]

I seemed that he ad-libbed them and after no immediate negative reaction I assumed he had been allowed to do so.

Allowed? Who would/could have stopped him?

[Cal Riptide]

Let's see.......collaborated with Nazis, Maginot Line, Vietnam, no guts, wouldn't allow our jets to fly over France when we bombed the crap out Libya. How about USELESS!

[OrangeDaisy]

I declare open the Games of Salt Lake City, celebrating the Winter Olympic Games

And this was the phrase they were excited about?

I heard that everyone has been requested to say "Olympic Winter Games." The word Olympic must *always* be first. Radio personalities Rick & Bubba joked about this for an entire show last week, but pointed out the the IOC had broken their own rule! I noticed Bush stumbled over this phrase, but I thought he said "Olympic" first. This article quotes him saying "Winter" first. It's all so absurd!

[Mr Ducklips]

Is this article for real?