Why was George W. Bush at Facebook today? A lot of people work there and have disposable income on which to purchase a memoir? Bush was wondering if his Farmville animals lived there and if he could visit them? Anyway, Bush “liked” his book on Facebook’s stage and told those assembled stories about Vladmir Putin and his dog. He said he was “very impressed” when he met the Facebook people and thought they were all great leaders, like himself. Mark Zuckerberg let Bush know he looks up to him for his leadership skills. Bush advised Zuckerberg that he should never get “intellectually hung up” in what he does. You should be removing your profile from that site if you haven’t already.
As the conversation wound on, the two superstars on the Facebook stage continued to playfully applaud one another, the elder statesman in the tan sports jacket and the jean-clad Internet wunderkind, the one old enough to be the other one’s grandpa. Talking about the importance of corporate or political leaders not getting too intellectually hung up in what they do, Bush turned to Zuckerberg and acknowledged how “running Facebook requires common-sense decisions. You can’t lead unless you know where you’re going and you’ve done a marvelous job of setting a direction.” Then the president added, “this really sounds like I’m pandering.”
To which the panderee eagerly replied, “You can keep it coming.”
After eight years as president, the best leadership advice this man can give to (his successor?) Mark Zuckerberg is to never use his brain. Sounds about right. That guy has really been reflecting hard on his past. [Mercury News]
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I was going to "Like" this on ye olde Facebooke thing, but I was worried that might just plain break the internet.
When you 'Like' someone, especially a corporation, you are just saying:
PLEASE! DATAMINE ME!!!
"DATAMINE" / DATERAPE really about the same. You were asking for it. It was all consensual. My Dad's a lawyer.
Any possibility that I might have a shred of respect for this Zuckerberg kid just went out the fucking window, big time. Apparently he is blissfully unaware that Dubya wouldn't give the slightest consideration to giving him a reach-around or pissing in his mouth if his stomach was on fire.
I believe "Getting intellectually hung up is a drag, baby." was the full quote.
Yes, it's best that neither a US President nor the ringleader of the largest identity slave market on Earth should think about anything too much.
Oh behave!
Regrets I (don't) have a few
But then again, fuck you to mention
I did what I wanted to do
saw it through without exemption
I planned each charted course
each body dropped out on the highway
a whore, much more than this
I did it my way
You can watch the full Zuckerberg/Bush video here: http://gtcha.me/f7bX93
So facebook can't afford lapel mics?
Or do they both really like holding something phallic near their mouths?
They do have that in common…
The cocksucking? Well I guess Bush was a fratboy.
What do you think he did to get into Skull & Bones? Throw a bake sale?
Shrub's got a killer brownie recipe, you know. Contains blow instead of weed.
I imagine they can do they elephant walk like nobody's business.
But if I delete my Facebook account how can I cyber-stalk all my exes?
Where's your gumption? You can still physically stalk them, tap their phones, steam their incoming mail open & read it before they get home.
Too much work.
Yeah. I'd tap that.
(…the phone….)
FindAndContactExBoyfriendsOnlineOK?
I'm a straight guy. Is there a Facegook?
Ask John McCain.
WIN!
Face-gook? I think you're looking for EXGFrevenge.com.
VERY NOT SAFE FOR WORK
They're all old now. I checked.
I think there's a provision for that in the PATRIOT Act. I wouldn't sweat it too much.
I do not think "getting intellectually hung up" on anything was ever a problem for W, was it?
Some of the girls I dated this year told me they didn't want an intellectual relationship.
One girl told me why she didn't want to see me anymore:
YOU CONTRADICTED ME!!!!
Whoa! That's some serious Diva/Dumbass issues….
So, this was Zuckerberg's formal and official selling-out party, right?
More like his Jumped The Shark moment. Oh, wait.
Quick! Somebody create a memorial page for the boyfriend Laura killed, then like Decision Points.
Win!
It's like Palin and Madoff's sons at a round table.
Like this is news.
Bush doesn't have a brain.
Cheney doesn't have a heart.
Rove doesn't have a soul.
And Kansas is not worth going back to.
"And, today in Kansas, they burned a witch."
Great, now what am I going to do with this road I just built on OzVille?
This is good news for Fred Phelps?
Meanwhile Dear Leader says Cheney tricked him into invading Iraq because whatever. Leadership Seminars on the house!
I've been thinking lately about Dick (not that kind). He is not a well man, and may die soon. I've been wondering if I'll try to be respectful and bite my tongue, or if I'll be on the street with a big "I'M GLAD YOU'RE DEAD, DICK!" sign.
What is appropriate? Also, I live near Seattle, so holding this sign is not necessarily an blanket invitation for stomping.
How about "DING DONG THE DICK IS DEAD"?
Dubya, man, stop trying to suck up to the youngs. A lot of us spent the first eight years of our political consciousness growing bitter and disenchanted because of your stupid ass in the White House. You're not winning us back.
If I could give this multiple thumbs up I would, but I am not a tea partier.
i want to give BOTH of you double thumbs up. i must be the only damn liberal that doesn't know how to do the voter fraud.
If liberals could do voter fraud worth a damn we wouldn't be looking at Speaker of the House Boehner.
The asshole who fucked up a country chatting with the asshole who came up with the bane of the internet experience. Yep they go together stink and shit. Well Netflix should have an old movie I can watch.
Yup, yup, yup. Don't get hung up on all this elite interleckt-ualism. Even though intellectual property laws are the only thing keeping you off the unemployment lines.
No more lines. You just phone it in now, and they send you a check.
Well, that and our lack of core protections for identity information so you can make a shitload of money from what people put on their "personal" pages.
Like ole Poppy used to say," Jr., one idiot at a time!"
I kept waiting for Bush to ask Z why Queen Elizabeth II hadn't friended him yet
sadly, "stop thinking" is pretty good advice these days.
Seems to be working well for the Snowbilly, eh?
Alcohol helps. Lots and lots of alcohol…
So when does Facebook decider to invade Iraq?
Wait, wah?
When they meet the minimum like threshold.
The Simian Network
w. MIGHT* be able to do well in farmville.
*much like a subpar 5th grader.
George Bush wouldn't know anything about intellectual if it bit him on the dick.
So it turns out that not only is it possible to attend Harvard without using your frontal lobes, it actually pays off handsomely.
You know who else hated thinkers? The Khmer Rouge, that's who.
The Yale & Harvard came from his birth certificate, not his SATs & grades. The Pol Potters, as opposed to the Harry Potters, woulda loved Shrub's depth and way of thinkin'.
How the fuck does a dumbass get into Yale and Harvard?
MONEY, MONEY, MONEY.
That doesn't explain how that paranoid whack-job Joe Miller got into and having the gubbment pay for his Yale tuition.
Maybe Yale recognizes extreme arrogance and a major chip-on-the shoulder as headline making qualities to further promote the elite institution?
It just wouldn't do for anyone admitted to Harvard or Yale to get a D in anything. Consequently, they don't. See what great educations these schools provide? (For the right sort of folks, of course. You don't too many brainy Asians or Jews, so playing lacrosse counts as much as that B in calculus.)
A trifecta!
An asshat with a book talking to an asshat with a website for asshats.
I am going to remain on Facebook. However, I do use a pseudonym. It's so I can meet new pseudonyms and keep in touch with pseudonyms from my past.
You keep all your money in a big brown bag
Even for the Jew.
What a thing to do.
Babies you're rich men, too.
I'm assuming that they then gave each other a special "happy ending?"
Off camera Z. gave Bush tips on how to best harvest his Farmville crops.
Let's all unfriend him.
I already did after seeing The Social Network.
Which makes two-&-an-half good films from Fincher (Zodiac, TSN, 1/2 of Fight Club).
Oh facebook! Why you gots to do me wrong? Cheating on me with Gee Dub, really? I hope you GET INTERNET AIDS facebook. I do, I do.
I hope you GET INTERNET AIDS.
I am sure the People's Republic is already working on that.
You know what's better than a million rights violations? A billion!
Well, at least they didn't invite fellow Ivy-leaguer Meghan McCain. I think the internet would have killed itself.
Quick everyone, Tom Anderson is interviewing Ralph Nader on MySpace right now!
& Ross Perot is on Friendster!
Jimmy Carter is in an AOL chatroom right now!
I haven't see that movie, but I understand Mark Zuckerberg isn't too pleased with the way he is portrayed.
I don't have to see the movie, however, to know that the movie doen't make this rich dick looks nearly douchey enough.
Since they based the movie on court transcripts and briefs, no one should come off very well. Although apparently the meathead rowers are relatively happy with it. I didn't see it and don't want to, but the approach was apparently Roshoman-esque.
Everyone should go Blank as soon as possible, for Freedom. It begins w/Adblock Plus which, when used correctly, makes our Wonkit load much faster.
Don't pay for nothin, don't watch no ads. Good way to kill the Wonkette Golden Goose. If we don't pretend to look at the ads or click one every once in a while, our friendly editors will have to eat their shoes.
You've invented a new slang word that will be used incessantly by vapid sorority girls all over America.
If you'll recall, the researcher of the so-called "Duke Fuck List" considered anal on a one-niter to be less intimate than the man who gave it to her requesting her friendship on facebook afterward, so your quip is not so far-fetched.
Wait, who had who pegged, here?
Will there be video? Of the sorority girls clicking each other's "Like Button" I mean.
don't get intellectually hung up on invading a country and then not having an exit strategy.
YOU LIE! Bush had an exit strategy, as follows: extend the war until the end of his second term.
He planned it all down to the first detail.
Oh sure, just go ahead and tell the terrorists everything. Why do you hate America?
He had a great exit strategy for Vietnam though, just desert.
After all, what does he care about a bunch of dumb youngsters too stupid to desert like he did?
Touché
Fuck all…Lowbrow is the new black. Carter built homes, Clinton started a charitable foundation, even Nixon, Ford, and Poppy had the decency to gracefully lay low (ok, he once posed with a ginger tranny…but he's old. He's allowed). Shrub can't tear himself away from the limelight for one goddamn minute.
But at the same time, he isn't saying shit about anything. It's like a kid who hated school and now that he's done he's only focusing on cars and chicks, and trying desperately to pretend he wasn't mocked for his stupidity on a daily basis.
Tune in Wednesday when the author of Decider Points visits Wonkette, and compliments readers as being "intellectually hung".
I'm not leaving facebook, and I'm not renouncing my U.S. citizenship. Fight the power from within! We are in the belly of the beast.
I heard Wikileaks is releasing W's FarmVille earnings and it ain't pretty.
I drink gallons of gin to keep from getting intelllectually hung up on things.
Where I get intellectually hung up is in trying to wrap my head around a journalist describing Zuckerberg as a "wunderkind" and Bush as an "elder statesman." The only place I'm "liking" that reporter is on Fessebook.
Oh, come on. Like George Bush could actually use the word "intellectually" in a sentence.
Not to mention "pandering." I could have sworn he thought "pander" meant that black and white bear thing at the zoo.
I haven't removed my profile yet but I did remove my full frontal.
Am I the only one who'd actually like to see Putin stare down Zuck? I need this interview to happen today. Today!
Can't we export George to a Third World country? He can do more damage, that way.
He's already working in the Clinton-Bush Haiti Relief Organization. Why do you hate Haiti?
The head of AssBook tells the head of FaceBook…
“running Facebook requires common-sense decisions"
By definition "common sense" does not produce new ideas, or see beyond the horizon. Running Facebook or any innovator (quiet, I'm making a point) requires un-common sense.
"You can’t lead unless you know where you’re going and you’ve done a marvelous job of setting a direction.”
He ignored al Queda and left 3000 dead Americans in the rubble. He led us into Iraq and left 4000 dead Americans in the sand (along the uncounted dead Iraqi's). He "friend'ed" Saudi Arabia, birthplace of half the 9/11 hijackers. He led us into trillions of dollars of debt and gave China the IOUs. Quick, do the "like" us?
FYI, since I'm stuck in the same boat as you (hi!), I'm about to commit the sin of being serious on Wonkette, and I may get yelled at, but I just got off the phone with the FCC and got a way to file a complaint about the Comcast-NBCUniversal merger. The woman said the process provides a way for the FCC to see public input into pending decisions, and takes it into account. It's probably about as rewarding as pissing into the wind. I just threatened Comcast with switching my service if they keep threatening Netflix.
Anyway, the FCC e-mailed me a .pdf on how to file a complaint. It's a ridiculously complicated process, and I don't know how to get it to you. You can call the FCC and request it at 1-888-225-5322.
We could put in something about how we wish the FCC gets no more buttsechs if they approve the merger.
Cheney will not die
Whereever there are incompetent public "servants"
Whereever there are corrupt defense contractors
Whereever there are maimed brown children
There Cheney will live on forever
Amen
Too bad Jar-Jar couldn't make it. Would have made a trifecta.
W just tweeted me. I just deleted my Tweet Account.
BTW, in Français, the Frogs have decreed the social network site should be called:
"LIVRE DE VISAGE." Sounds like a shampoo.
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