Wonkette
No, alas, this isn’t the much-anticipated “Whitey” tape where George Bush sits in an Afghan cave with Louis Farrakhan spewing racist garbage. (That’ll be out next week.) A newly surfaced video shows our president making some jokes at a recent fundraiser for Pete Olson. Who’s that, you ask? Olson is the Texas Republican who beat Shelley “Dracula Cunt” Sekula Gibbs in a hard-fought primary, thereby strangling in its crib one of the most glorious political ascensions since … well, the last incompetent fraud from Texas.
Anyhow, George Bush said something about Wall Street getting “drunk,” and then he talked about house hunting without the requisite pieties about how Americans are suffering from the mortgage disaster. On the list of awful things George Bush has said, this is definitely on like the second or third page, but whatever, he opens his mouth so rarely these days.
Bush: Wall Street has ‘hangover’ after getting ‘drunk’ [Houston Chronicle]
Wall Street Got Drunk [YouTube]
I didn’t think I’d ever say this, but he’s basically right. I don’t get what’s so controversial about this.
I would have preferred it if he had made the comments while doing a zombie voodoo dance.
Well, Georgie would know drunk, and hungover!
W seems to forget that the US American economy is not just suffering a hangover. It’s waking up in a stranger’s bed after a major pot/coke/booze/poppers binge with mysterious sores on your lips and a bleeding anus while some old Chinese guy is masturbating onto your face.
ManchuCandidate: HAWT
ManchuCandidate: And to be more specific, that guy isn’t Manchurian now, is he?
I could not concentrate on this video since I was constantly worrying that Miya Shay was about to be run over. Miya, didn’t your parents ever tell you not to vlog in the street??
George made a funny and NONE OF YOU APPRECIATE IT. GAWD.
Wall Street got drunk.
Katrina got high.
Iraq got gang-banged.
W, you are so darned funny. But never mind you.
Who are those damn people laughing?? How much did you pay them?? Did you have to sell your Crawford ranch for that laugh track?
Truly amazing!
Mahousu: Also, what is with that fringe that is flapping on the front of her dress? It’s like it’s promising something it’s not about to deliver. (Political joke goes here.)
Why is she pretend anchoring on the hood of a car?
Darehead:
Sadly no, but he looks a lot like Wen Jiabao.
GIJoeIce: My problem with it is that he is making light of very real problems that people have. The little jokey part about housing issues is insensitive, but he is speaking to a bunch of rich assholes…
They banned the only video where he actually said something insightful. LOLz.
I think we should encourage Bush to try understanding national crises with metaphors he can relate to personally.
wow - drunkenness. that’s such an insightful critique on contemporary political issues. what’s next? “Oh, that bin Laden - that dude is WASTED ALL THE TIME, haha. Health care? Sure, we could solve that crisis, but those doctors, man, they’re HIIIIIIIIIGH, man, higher than kites - you ever try to talk to them? Man, and the insurance company dudes are worse. Wake and bake every day. Love to party with the dudes. Just love it. Sweet.”
The laughter of the damned. This is like watching a lounge act on the Titanic.
mookworthjwilson: right, it is just another moment showing how utterly he does not get it. like the Philipina chef comment and the we produce more carbon comment. He is just beyond out of touch with actual live human beings who have to work for a living in this world. It is him and his rich butt pals clearin’ bursh and crackin’ jokes and not realizing that things are not just peachy for about 99% of the population.
RuperttheBear: Not unlike George Carlin’s audiences.
Carlin: “You’re all fucked! And there’s nothing you can do about it!”
Audience: “Hurray. Our plight is hilarious. At least we’re getting laid.”
er, that would be “brush”, though “bursh” has a nice ring to it.
MoodProcessor: well, getting laid does make a lot of other things more tolerable!
Squiggyfm: It’s clearly a trunk lid, not a hood. Does it make more sense now?
ManchuCandidate: Wen Jiabao is supposed to be self-effacing. So if he’s the guy masturbating in front of you….I hope there is some boomerang device.
Doglessliberal: You’re right - If it’s inevitable, we might as well lie back and enjoy it!
“Hee hee. He’s right. We’re so lame.”
ManchuCandidate: Have you been reading my internet browsing history or something?
What I take away from this is the fact that Miya Shay is insanely hot.As for the rest,every time that guy opens his mouth,all I hear is”blah blah blah ya’ll blah blah Crawford blah blah blah Condi blah blah…”
ah Dracula Cunt..let the exsanguination commence!
I just simply ignore him like the debt I owe to his rich bank buddies.
I suspect that he didn’t really not know that the microphones were still on. Oh, gosh, those silly bankers just got carried away. We did all we could, you know, heh, heh.
Doglessliberal: Ironic as well that the eavesdropper in chief didn’t want HIS
dreadful little conversation recorded..but has no problem spying on US…screw him.
ManchuCandidate:
Get help.
Hahahaha. Just kidding. This is Wonkette. You’re perfectly normal here.
So…should Wall Street start going to AA meetings or just try to Find Jesus?
At moments like this–when you see Bush relaxed and speaking candidly off the cuff to friends–you realize that the characterizations of him as a swaggering bully and ignoramus, infatuated with his own cuteness, who surrounds himself with sycophants are, if anything, understated.
Mahousu: Same here. Was that her ride or just an extremely patient motorist?
Bah.
What he doesn’t mention is that this administration rode on that drunkenness before the bubble burst boasting about how healthy the economy was. The reality was that the economy in 2005 was a whole house of cards built on funny money. It allowed people to feel they were richer than they were to buy more house than they could afford and use that house as an ATM. You could tell that the home improvement boom the outrageous lending policies were allowing was the main cause of the so-called great economy and it would crash as soon as the adjustable mortgages reset.
Man, he really wants a drink.
I hope Laura sees how he makes fun of her in this video, and smashes him up with a car like she did with her old boyfriend….
I’m surprised he didn’t accidentally say “Wall Street is all coked up, ya see. They don’t want to serve in the National Guard. Ya. Ya! Their talking to their friend James Bathe, ya see…. things are gonna change. Their gonna be governor… ya that’s right.”
shortsshortsshorts: George Bush can do an Edward G. Robinson impersonation? Who knew?
Monsieur Grumpe: You mean you think he ever stopped?
You know, I think W is depressed. He has lots of reasons for it, too. Just a depressed guy with nuclear football access, haha! Nothing to worry about.
WadISay: word.
His shadow, McCain would be exactly the same if not worse.
sanantonerose: Apparently he’s full of the funnies.
itgetter: My guess is that she decided it was safer to vlog on the run. Miya, if you need a safe house, we’ve got a spare bedroom you could hole up in. But ditch that silver Cavalier first - now that they’ve seen it in the video, they’re sure to trace it.
Is it wrong to harbor an intense desire to see our Glorious Cokewhore-in-Chief azz-raped at his podium by Gary the No-Trash Cougar? ‘Cause it feels so right.
Give a larbage–throw out your garbage
GIJoeIce: He may be basically right, but lets face it, the reason Wall Street got drunk in the first place was that GWB filled up the cabinet with liquor, gave the keys to Wall Street and walked away.
Funnily enough, lack of governmental oversight and the free market is why I have a hangover too.