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It really does just write itself, doesn't it.

Were his nose not shoved in a mound of blow, Kanye would prolly have something to offer re: this.

Someone shoulda grabbed one of them trash-pick-up-sticks-with-nails-in-'em and jabbed him in his fucking throat.

Wait, wait, wait - should I glean from this that Bush might be racist?????

Or that damn liberal media is trying to portray him as one. Damn them in their craftiness!

And to think people accused Howard Dean of being racist when he said "You think the Republican National Committee could get this many people of color in a single room? Only if they had the hotel staff in here."

As always, Bush proves even the far left correct.

My God, the man is just so far beyond tacky it's unbelievable.

You've got the jokes about non-existent WMDs in Iraq while soldiers are on the ground taking bullets. You've got the Angela Merkel "let's go back to my dorm room after this is over" back rub. And now this ugly "y'all are nigras so you must be the cleaning staff" joke.

Heckuva job, Bushie. Heckuva job.

Maybe if his staff told President Numbnuts that the trash was "brush" and let him dress up in his cowboy costume he'd clear it himself.

But the astounding thing about this is that the fucking White House put it on their fucking website.

If Don Imus had said it, they would have fired him again.

Whenever he's in a photo op with a black person (not Condi, I mean a real black person), he always seems to have his arm around them, or a hand on their shoulder, or some other form of physical contact that could be construed as denoting dominance. Like a frat president with a pledge, or an asshole baseball dad with the unathletic kid stuck in right field or a camp counselor with the kid he thinks won't tell.
God what an asshole.

I don't get it - that line always kills at the Yale Club.

@ BucketoChicken

No, that's just the beloved "All the world's a frat house" humor of our CinC. Before the party was over I'm sure he was giving knick-names to all his new friends... you know... names like "Jigs" and "Sambo".

If he's got Kermit cleaning up instead of stopping by the Oval Office to jam, he's missing out on a hell of a party.

@insert_namehere: See kids? The playful witty banter with the colored folk *proves* I'm not a racist!

WTF. I thought you were kidding, but the idiot really said it, AND they put it on the WH website. What a bunch of assholes!

Make sure you pick up all the trash after it's over.

Nah, he's just referring to Babs and Jenna. Those girls have a thing for the brothers.

he was just trying to help. musicians need a regular job to fall back on ...

What, were the Mexicans given the night off?

Now, uh, I got me a new watch, see? - so I, uh, won't be shakin' any of your hands tonight, 'right?.

THE PRESIDENT: Proud you're here. Thanks for coming. You all enjoy yourself. Make sure you pick up all the trash after it's over. (Laughter.)

It's the "Laughter" part that really kills me.

Oh I'm sure a hundred years ago he had a black nanny or driver. That should count for something. He can't help it if he's used to seeing black people as highered help. Condi's not let into the Oval office unless she's carrying a dust buster.

George also asked the band to play "Ole Man Riiver", "My Sweet Kentucky Home" and "Dixie".

Yeah, his statement sounded like the veiled racism, but nothing different, I'm sure, than what comes out of the mouths of the upper class in the DC area.

Personally, I was thinking," Way to be consistent, Dubya.....once again, get the N'orleans folk to clean up a mess you made." What a clueless douchebag.

You know, I really thought that the Wonketteteers had to have made that quote up. Silly me.

George W. Bush: 'Everybody took this statement out of context! What I meant was that the trash needs to be picked up after any meet. Honest misunderstanding. Nothing to get all nappy headed about.'

Get him out. Seriously, I'll take any one of the thousands of ancient, evil GOP buttfuckers named Thompson at this point, as long as the Boy Blunder goes away right fucking now.

@GreatSatan: Well, he did asked them to "pick up all the trash". Somebody should've tossed him in a dumpster right there and then.

I played the video on whitehouse.gov website and he addresses that last line to the crowd after Ruffins walks away. Sounds like something he'd say, though.

I'm floored. You really should add, as a last line in the story "No really, we're serious, the President of the United States really said that. No kidding this time, we swear."

Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of e-mails are missing.

Hey aren't these the same folk his mom said had it better fucking living on the floor of the Astro-dome than in their little pre-flood ghettos?

I think we know who the trash is here, and I think it's time we all threw them the fuck out. There's no trash shittier than rich white trash.

You mean he's not going to have Karl Rove plan the post-New Orleans-BBQ Cleanup efforts? That way we could visit the used paper plates on the lawn in 5 years as the musicians are forced to move to Houston.

Not that I want to let the Dub off the hook, but if any of you have seen Kermit Ruffins play, you know he brings his BBQ smoker along and hands out BBQ (hence BBQ Swingers) between sets and generally makes a ruckus....I'm the last to defend Bush (believe me, I'm card-carrying ACLU), and I wasn't there, either, but I could see how this might have been taken out of context...if we're gonna be angry, let's be angry *and* not kneejerk, nahmean?

@Bucketochicken: You mean like this?

God, what an asshole. Although I'm disappointed in Ruffins and Prudhomme for even showing up.

@mellbell: Yes, except sans hilarity.

Here's the conundrum: If Bush said that about black people, he is racist. But if he said it about musicians.....,

Negroes?

BTW, who/what is a negro? Is that like someone the Bushies don't give a shit about?

Then we're all negroes.

Aside from the racism, which I simply don't believe was inadvertent, it's the same old condescending needle that he shows to everybody whom he doesn't believe is "with him" - and even to some who are. He is even more patronizing than Gore or Kerry, and in a considerably more offensive way. Just because he mutilates the language like the semi-literate, semi-inebriated, profligate that he actually is, doesn't make him a plain-speaking good ol' texas boy, it makes him a semi-literate, semi-inebriated, profligate. How many times does he need to show the world that he really does not give a crap?

"I thank Tony Snow and his bunch of, well, mediocre musicians -- (laughter) -- no, great musicians."

See, he makes fun of white musicians, too. Or pseudo-musicians anyway.

I blame all the politico asskissers who empower this clown. Maybe if someone would have not laughed, and told him it was a stupid fucking thing to say (other than Rove off-camera), he'd start to think before he opened his mouth. Or, if that's not possible, at least shut the fuck up!

Not to throw a wet blanket on this thing, but he was pointing at the rest of the crowd. Kermit had walked away after he had been thanked. (This is what happens when you fact-check. I thought there was no fucking way the President could be so stupid as to say something like that. Turns out the transcript and the liveshot were different.)

So he wasn't telling the black folks to pick up after everybody. He was telling guests at his party to pick up after themselves.

Thus: he wasn't being racist. He was being a dick of a host. Slight, yet important, difference.

btw, pictures of the the picnic are here.

@Chicago Bureau:
OK, I'll buy that.
What I can't get over is the balls of these guys for holding a 'Mardi Gras' themed party after the complete cock-up they pulled in NOLA. I mean, what's next? An 'Arabian Nights' themed state dinner?

These guys need to talk to the war widows. Some of them got little coins that they could sell on E-bay ('course George told 'em not to).

New rule: Any citizen who meets with Bush has to take what ever crappy treatment he gets and not whine about it. Is there anyone who doesn't know this dispicable drunkard is a Jackass?

Cape Clod: Agreed.

A NOLA party at the White House, with tea and crackers. Now that's innovation!

"And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this--this (she chuckles slightly) is working very well for them."

-Mother Chucklenuts

This rotten apple didn't fall very far from the hangin' tree.

Here is a little Kermit Ruffin courtesy of youtube over scenes of present day New Orleans.
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Actually, an earlier draft on the White House site read like this:

THE PRESIDENT: Proud you're here. Thanks for coming. You all enjoy yourself. Make sure you pick up all the trash after it's over. (Stunned silence.)

THE PRESIDENT: What? You mean there's more of 'em 'round here somewhere?

So at least someone at the White House had the presence of mind to alter the transcript from a trademark W Disturbingly Awkward Moment and downgrade it into an ostensibly good-natured backfired joke.

Does anyone recall this W. Bush person's appearance on Letterman's show back when W. was a candidate, before his first "election"?

Letterman launched a good natured barb toward him and Bush responded by bringing up Letterman's heart surgery, (which had occurred a few months prior to the appearance) in an inappropriately callous and unfunny fashion.

I couldn't believe at the time that someone with such crude social skills had made it that far. I continue to be amazed again and again. Really this all seems like nothing more than a fucking tragic puppet show.

How did he get elected again? Twice! 60 million people in your country are certifiable fuckups, and it's so sad. Wasn't always this way.

Wouldn't we all be more surprised if Bush weren't having his Mardi Gras party in JUNE?
Btw, does that mean Kermit is or isn't at Vaughn's for the usual gig tomorrow night?

@macndub: Exactly right. He was re-elected. Facts have pushed his popularity down, but something like half of America *enjoys* the way Bush acts.

That half now owns the military, incidentally.

Kenny G in black face. That must have been awesome to see.

How great would it be if just once, the target of his good natured barb replied, 'You know what? Go fuck yourself, frat-boy.'

Dubya is now channeling from Warren Beatty's 1998 political piece Bulworth; he's got nothing to lose and everything to win:

If you don't put down that malt liquor and chicken wings, and get behind someone other than a running back who stabs his wife, you're NEVER gonna get rid of somebody like me!

@ Chicago Bureau:

Well, I guess Bush did not want a repeat of the Andrew Jackson inaugural...or was it the post-Katrina Superdome situation...either or.

Good Lord! I had to look twice before I understood this was real.

Goofus W. has now carried a chair in to the post Katrina "Music Village" home of Fredy Omar, and had Kermit Ruffins on the lawn for Singing BBQ.

That is pretty much it for W.'s efforts rebuilding The City FEMA Forgot?

I wonder what they're saying:

Kermit: Can we hurry this up, I've got to go score some blow with Marion Barry - Dee dee da dee!

George: Der duh blahbuddy bler bler dee! Hey, this boy talks real good like me.

I despise The Destroyer in Chief and his gang as much as anyone here, but when I read the transcript, I suspected the "pick up all the trash" line was directed at the partygoers, not the musicians. Several posters have already confirmed this by watching the video. So, this is kind of a cheap shot by Wonkette, no? I mean, W's probably as much of a racist as most rich, white, Republican assholes, and he certainly is socially retarded and insensitive. But the whole thing just shows how totally divorced from reality our entire government is: New Orleans is dead and forgotten, and they're barbequeing its corpse on the South Lawn. We can only hope they all get fatal food poisoning.

I think these unspeakably racist comments make Trent Lott's aside to Strom Thurmond look like baby talk. In my opinion, after viewing the video, the comments were directed to Kermit and the band, who were tanding off camera and in the direction of the presidents comment. This is not a misunderstanding kids, when Roseann Barr spit and grabbed her balls after throwing out the first pitch at a game she was mimicing a ballplayer, not dissing the national anthem. I hope this makes CNN every hour on the hour for 3 days. Yassir, Mr Pres'dent. I won' leave no chicken bones on yo pretty lawn. Noooo suh!

my friends in the new orleans social club were scatterd to the four winds when they recorded "sing me back home" immediately after the levees failed. "katrina fatigue" killed the record commercially, but the fiery passion of cyril neville performing curtis mayfield's "this is my country" for everyone trapped on their rooftops, and ivan neville singing john fogerty's "fortunate son" for everyone in harm's way, will burn in my heart forever. here's how THE MUSICIANS processed their anger, defiance, frustration, heartbreak and vulnerability:

[www.burgundyrecords.com]

I think the real question that begs asking is:

The President of the United States has to ask party guests to pick up after themselves? What's next, President Cheap-Ass, a BYOB State Dinner? No wonder New Orleans is still rubble and corpses.

Re: BYOB State Dinner
In fact, the fratboy did just that when he "hosted" the Yale Class of 1968 for a reunion.

Poor Bushie! He suffers from "hoof-in-mouth" disease!!!

To understand all this you have to realize that Bush secretly converted to Islam when he gave up alcohol. The Saudis got him on the wagon, which explains their close relationship.

In his final sermon, the prophet said:

All mankind is from Adam and Eve, an Arab has no superiority over a non-Arab nor a non-Arab has any superiority over an Arab; also a white has no superiority over a black, nor a black has any superiority over a white - except by piety and good action. Learn that every Muslim is a brother to every Muslim and that the Muslims constitute one brotherhood.

Bush mistreats the folk in N.O. because they aren't muslims, not because they're black. (Please note Whattheheck's remarks.)

His hugging negroes thing is actually genuine Islam. So is talking to Jesus, an important isalamic prophet. (Calling Jesus a "philosopher" is Islam pure.)

BTW Saddam Al-Tikriti was an atheist.

It could have been alot worse, Gee Dubya could have tried to start up a duet of "Cottonfields" And yes shellyb98, he did have a black nanny, who uttered the famous words, "I'm sorry Mrs. Bush. I dropped the baby" more than once.

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I wonder if he takes a shower after having sex with Condi?