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George Bush Jr. Makes Annual ‘National Embarrassment Joke’ At G8

Oh George Bush is having quite a grand time at the annual G8 conference in Japan. He’s not molesting Angela Merkel this time, but he is embarrassing everyone: “The American leader, who has been condemned throughout his presidency for failing to tackle climate change, ended a private meeting with the words: ‘Goodbye from the world’s biggest polluter.’ He then punched the air while grinning widely, as the rest of those present including Gordon Brown and Nicolas Sarkozy looked on in shock.” Punched the air? Best George W. Bush imagery ever. NEED SECRET VIDEO. [Telegraph]


2:11 PM on Thu July 10 2008
By Jim Newell
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  1. jagorev says at 2:14 pm, July 10th, 2008

    Sounds like a TERRORIST BLACK POWER FIST PUMP to me.

  2. queeraselvis v 2.0 says at 2:15 pm, July 10th, 2008

    This coming from the world’s biggest pile of shit, I’m not surprised. At all.

  3. Larry Fine says at 2:15 pm, July 10th, 2008

    We are going to miss this goofy numbskull soon.

  4. NoWireHangers says at 2:16 pm, July 10th, 2008

    Why didn’t he just grab his crotch and scream “suck it!”? Too subtle I guess.

  5. V572625694 says at 2:16 pm, July 10th, 2008

    Was it a terrorist air punch?

  6. shortsshortsshorts says at 2:16 pm, July 10th, 2008

    That’s right bitches. And there ain’t nothin’ you can do ’bout it. KNOW WHAT I SAYIN’?

  7. ‘WaterG8′

    Actually, George can only bid goodbye for himself: the world’s biggest polluter of coherent thought.

  8. Botswana Meat Commission FC says at 2:16 pm, July 10th, 2008

    When keepin it real goes wrong.

  9. Monsieur Grumpe says at 2:17 pm, July 10th, 2008

    George Bush has failed at comedy. Sooner or later he’s going to run out things to fail at.

  10. Botswana Meat Commission FC says at 2:17 pm, July 10th, 2008
  11. tunamelt says at 2:17 pm, July 10th, 2008

    I no longer even have the capacity or the good grace to be mortified by this.

  12. Guppy06 says at 2:18 pm, July 10th, 2008

    FOUR MORE YEARS!

  13. Botswana Meat Commission FC says at 2:18 pm, July 10th, 2008

    Thanks to The Telegraph…

    Our song-by-song review of Carla Bruni’s new album.

    I’ve been waiting for this day!

  14. DCBulloch says at 2:19 pm, July 10th, 2008

    Did Dick Cheney immediately shot everyone in the face after? 4 MORE YEARS!!!!

  15. AfghanVet says at 2:20 pm, July 10th, 2008

    It’s official, he’s done being President. Like everything else he has ever done he is just going to mail it in and walk away from the steaming heap of shit he has left behind.

    I swear he is going to flip the bird as he steps onto Air Force One at Andrews after Hopey’s inauguration.

  16. shortsshortsshorts says at 2:21 pm, July 10th, 2008

    We don’t give him enough credit for his ability to win over the furry demographic though.

  17. Paultardville says at 2:21 pm, July 10th, 2008

    To be fair, “world’s biggest douche” would have been lost in translation. Except for the French.

  18. AzDownboy says at 2:22 pm, July 10th, 2008

    …and then he proceeded to chest bump every other G-8 leader

  19. Larry Fine says at 2:23 pm, July 10th, 2008

    He could of also said, “Kiss my black ass, bitches”, and then shot some gang symbols.

  20. Dave J. says at 2:23 pm, July 10th, 2008

    At this point, I’m not certain if Will Ferrell was impersonating Bush, or if Bush is impersonating Will Ferrell. Too meta.

  21. Doglessliberal says at 2:25 pm, July 10th, 2008

    I keep thinking I am as surprised and disgusted as I can be, and then they top it.

  22. Truculent says at 2:25 pm, July 10th, 2008

    What. A. Total. Fucking. Dick. I’m surprised he didn’t punctuate it with a loud, potent fart.

  23. Uncle Al says at 2:27 pm, July 10th, 2008

    AfghanVet: And after he flips the bird, he’ll moon everyone, like my idiot cousin-in-law did at his own wedding.

  24. KevoTron says at 2:27 pm, July 10th, 2008

    Fucking christ. These dipshits think they’re SO fucking funny. They’re always bitching about Democrats not having a sense of humor. But what happens when you post a photoshopped image of Malkin doing the half-boob flash? Lawyers get involved. Yikes.

    I wonder what Dubya’s gonna do after he leaves office. He says he wants to go back to work. I’d suggest he apply at the local Crawford Starbucks but I think he’s the kind of guy who could fuck up a cup of coffee.

  25. Scarab says at 2:27 pm, July 10th, 2008

    We beat the shit out of him once he leaves the White House right?

  26. Delicious says at 2:27 pm, July 10th, 2008

    To quote Marv Albert: “Facial!”

  27. freakishlystrong says at 2:28 pm, July 10th, 2008

    He had me at “Goodbye”..

  28. toastandlove says at 2:29 pm, July 10th, 2008

    HA HA! BIGGEST POLLUTER! AMIRITE, GUYS?!?

  29. Dave J. says at 2:29 pm, July 10th, 2008

    Truculent: I imagine he did, but blamed in on Sarkozy.

  30. Serolf Divad says at 2:29 pm, July 10th, 2008

    What ever will we talk about when the world’s awesomest president is out of office?

  31. Five bucks says he’ll drink himself into a late grave six months into Obama’s Presidency.

  32. Lionel Hutz Esq. says at 2:31 pm, July 10th, 2008

    After the fist pump, a secret service agent held up a boom box and blasted “Don’t You Forget About Me.”

  33. Serolf Divad: Barry’s big swinging dick.

  34. Rev. Peter Lemonjello says at 2:34 pm, July 10th, 2008
  35. lumpenprole says at 2:36 pm, July 10th, 2008

    Not as funny as his mock “I’m gonna bear hug you” moment with THE POPE, but still seriously funny in a decadent kinda way.

  36. Guppy06 says at 2:36 pm, July 10th, 2008

    Serolf Divad: The French.

  37. Also, who says McCain = Bush? George’s humor is dumb, whereas McCain’s is mean. Big difference.

  38. ForeignSickSpecialist says at 2:37 pm, July 10th, 2008

    Wholly shit!

  39. Christastic says at 2:40 pm, July 10th, 2008

    Paultardville: I think the French would be baffled since being called “the world’s biggest shower” isn’t really an insult…Or anything else that makes sense.

  40. Canmon (the Inadequate) says at 2:51 pm, July 10th, 2008

    It’s now evident that his environmental policies are part of a personal vendetta against air. Not only does he brag about polluting it, he then he goes on to punch it.

    What could have caused this hatred? Was he asthmatic as a child?

  41. StupidGeek says at 2:52 pm, July 10th, 2008

    Only 193 more days of this. How sad for us and the rest of the world.

  42. junkscience says at 2:53 pm, July 10th, 2008

    The fist pump, the crickets chirping, his shit-eating grin. It’s just too awkward-shameful-funny much to process.

  43. GlennBecksTaint says at 2:57 pm, July 10th, 2008

    what a fag

  44. Hooray For Anything says at 3:04 pm, July 10th, 2008

    AfghanVet: Agreed– it’s been quite apparent that he no longer gives a shit about any of this anymore and is just treating the last year of his Presidency as if it’s senior year in High School and he’s already gotten into college, he just doesn’t care any more. I fully expect his big farewell speech to end with the words “suck it.”

  45. Cape Clod says at 3:05 pm, July 10th, 2008

    Why is it every time he goes overseas he has to behave like an ape off his chain?

  46. Cape Clod: Because when he goes overseas, he *is* essentially an ape off his chain.

    I’m off to wank to my fantasies of Obama charming the G8.

  47. mookworthjwilson says at 3:09 pm, July 10th, 2008

    As the great Fred Sanford once said, “You Big Dummy”.

  48. Johnny Zhivago says at 3:10 pm, July 10th, 2008

    More like “goodbye from the world’s biggest asshole”.

  49. Canuckledragger says at 3:12 pm, July 10th, 2008

    “George Bush Jr. Makes Annual ‘National Embarrassment Joke’ At G8″

    In truth, he makes/is a “national embarrassment joke” daily. It’s just that the MSM is too chickenshit to report it unless they’re on foreign soil.

  50. SayItWithWookies says at 3:15 pm, July 10th, 2008

    I know exactly how Brown, Sarkozy et. al. reacted, even without video. It had to be very much like my reaction — stunned, dazed disbelief. If Dick Cheney has any sense, he’ll fire this dumbass.

  51. shortsshortsshorts says at 3:29 pm, July 10th, 2008

    SayItWithWookies: NO SILLY! Cheney can just re-write the entire summit. DUH.
    /fixed.

  52. Doglessliberal says at 3:29 pm, July 10th, 2008

    His staffers probably have t-shirts they wear proudly and without irony: “The USA: Leading the World in Arrogance Since 2000!”

  53. Mumble Softly says at 3:42 pm, July 10th, 2008

    Larry Fine: Are you being serious or sarcastic?
    Do you think that the Germans, Russians, and Iraquis look back fondly on the days when Hitler, Stalin, and Hussein were their respective leaders?

  54. SayItWithWookies says at 3:43 pm, July 10th, 2008

    shortsshortsshorts: Damn me — especially after something I wrote yesterday sort of exemplified that: “This will be much better once it never happened.” Or something like that.

  55. queeraselvis v 2.0 says at 3:44 pm, July 10th, 2008

    GlennBecksTaint: Ugh. God no. We fags don’t want him as part of our secret cabal. Maybe if you contacted Morans Anonymous, they’d take him.

  56. qwerty42 says at 3:57 pm, July 10th, 2008

    I think he’s just going to get worse as the weeks go by. He doesn’t care and he doesn’t even try to act as if he does. JFC, is he drinking again? doing drugs?

  57. villageatrois says at 4:09 pm, July 10th, 2008

    You call that a National Disgrace? His daddy puked on ‘em! His granddaddy tried to overthrow the US government and sold war material to Hitler. His daughters repeatedly were in drunken girlfriend-wrestling videos. His brother was involved in a fraudulent election in Florida. It’s hard for a Bush to get under the family low-water mark.

  58. Joey Ratz says at 4:10 pm, July 10th, 2008

    Ugh. I wrote somewhere back in the Jesse Helms threads that I thought W wasn’t as bad as Helms, as he was just a inbred dummy rather than a fiendishly evil sociopath. Well, it seems like I was completely, totally, inexcusably Douglas Feith-scale wrong. Sorry, y’all. I’ll go somewhere and bang my head against a wall for a few hours.

  59. problemwithcaring says at 4:15 pm, July 10th, 2008

    Botswana Meat Commission FC: Comment of my day.

  60. Canmon (the Inadequate) says at 4:15 pm, July 10th, 2008

    I juat noticed that the Telegraph page links to this story. The picture is priceless.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2274995/Cow-farts-collected-in-plastic-tank-for-global-warming-study.html

  61. Mr. Poe says at 4:26 pm, July 10th, 2008

    Will somebody please nuke all of America?

  62. Man, Laura Bush has really gone to pot. It puts that whole book about W’s throbbing whatever and her on her knees. Do rabbits have knees?

  63. Maj. Major Major Major says at 4:27 pm, July 10th, 2008

    After reading this, my only regret is that I don’t have a V64 Hummer so I can really make some green house gases … meh, there’s always flatulence.

  64. Manofsteel says at 4:28 pm, July 10th, 2008

    God damn, what did Barbara Bush DO during her pregnancy? Punch herself in the stomach for nine months?

  65. Accordion-o-rama says at 4:33 pm, July 10th, 2008

    Man, if we could sell arrogance, we could erase the national debt
    in a few weeks.

  66. problemwithcaring says at 4:48 pm, July 10th, 2008

    ‘ Mr Bush also faced criticism at the summit after Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian Prime Minister, was described in the White House press pack given to journalists as one of the “most controversial leaders in the history of a country known for government corruption and vice”.

    The White House apologised for what it called “sloppy work” and said an official had simply lifted the characterisation from the internet without reading it. ‘

    The Internets strike again.

  67. Canmon (the Inadequate): OMG, a farting cow story. man, now even bush has gone to pot. amazing

  68. m_supercomputer says at 5:36 pm, July 10th, 2008

    …I think I may have outrage fatigue, because I can’t seem to get upset about this. Or even mildly surprised. I bet this is that soft bigotry of low expectations thing he always used to talk about.

  69. Bwahaha, when keeping it real goes wrong! Love the Chapelle shout out.

  70. qwerty42 says at 6:08 pm, July 10th, 2008

    you think “is it possible he could make a bigger fool of himself?” and you know the answer is “yes, so much more” and dread what will happen next. He is going to China for the Olympics and it is difficult to imagine how awful it could be.

  71. Hooray For Anything says at 7:09 pm, July 10th, 2008

    But wait, there’s more! Apparently, he also tried to speak spanish to the Italian PM. Spanish/Italian– it’s all the same thing.

  72. regisgoat says at 8:28 pm, July 10th, 2008

    My fellow Americans, our task as a nation is to make the world shit itself. If we can’t do it with weapons, we’ll do it with laughter.

  73. HairyIckey says at 11:02 pm, July 10th, 2008

    Jesus, Idiocracy looks more like a documentary every day.

  74. zhubajie says at 2:32 am, July 11th, 2008

    AxmxZ: I figure he’ll fall off his bike, drunk, in front of a semi.

  75. Mr-Clark says at 2:38 am, July 11th, 2008

    Jim Newell,

    What a blatant attempt to lay the groundwork that he’s not a bad president, but mentally ill. Either way, I’m sure the other leaders of the G8 must feel sorry for us. (The average U.S. citizen.) Hell, at this point I’ll take their pity.

    Sincerely and respectfully,

    Mr-Clark

  76. STD_Nurse_Ratched says at 9:24 am, July 11th, 2008

    Orderly get the strait jacket and alert the O.R. for a STAT prefrontal lobotomy.

    If I hear one more moron say they voted for this guy twice I’m going to need ECT.

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