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Bush’s Olympics Ad Lib Causes a Stir Abroad
Newsweek Web Exclusive (via MSNBC.com) ^ | 2/13/2002 | Martha Brant

Posted on 02/14/2002 1:29:09 PM PST by OrangeDaisy

Edited on 09/03/2002 4:49:59 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Feb. 13

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: olympicslist
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Does anybody really care what the French think?
1 posted on 02/14/2002 1:29:09 PM PST by OrangeDaisy
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To: OrangeDaisy
f french.
2 posted on 02/14/2002 1:32:07 PM PST by BrooklynGOP
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To: OrangeDaisy
Good grief, this is so stupid.
3 posted on 02/14/2002 1:32:57 PM PST by Jean S
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To: OrangeDaisy
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?

4 posted on 02/14/2002 1:35:08 PM PST by Publius6961
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To: OrangeDaisy
I for one don't.
5 posted on 02/14/2002 1:35:15 PM PST by Maedhros
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To: OrangeDaisy
"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.

6 posted on 02/14/2002 1:35:19 PM PST by Congressman Billybob
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To: OrangeDaisy
Sacre bleu!
7 posted on 02/14/2002 1:35:41 PM PST by stanz
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To: OrangeDaisy
The French need to clean up their own act. Frankly, I don't give a damn what thet think!
8 posted on 02/14/2002 1:36:37 PM PST by teletech
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To: stanz
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"?

9 posted on 02/14/2002 1:37:41 PM PST by Darth Reagan
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To: 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

10 posted on 02/14/2002 1:37:55 PM PST by Congressman Billybob
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To: OrangeDaisy
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"?

12 posted on 02/14/2002 1:39:52 PM PST by Colonel_Flagg
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To: JeanS
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.

13 posted on 02/14/2002 1:40:04 PM PST by Dog Gone
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To: OrangeDaisy
"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?


14 posted on 02/14/2002 1:40:28 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts
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To: OrangeDaisy
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...

15 posted on 02/14/2002 1:41:26 PM PST by Slainte
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To: Publius6961
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?

16 posted on 02/14/2002 1:42:05 PM PST by Jean S
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To: Dog Gone
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!
17 posted on 02/14/2002 1:43:55 PM PST by Cal Riptide
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To: 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?

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!

18 posted on 02/14/2002 1:44:30 PM PST by OrangeDaisy
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To: OrangeDaisy
Is this article for real?
19 posted on 02/14/2002 1:44:30 PM PST by Mr Ducklips
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