May 15, 2008

   Quick Quiz: The Sacrificer-in-chief


Having seen the Politico interview, Paul Slansky has some questions about George W. Bush's latest display of his seemingly limitless odiousness.

1) George W. Bush said he gave up golf immediately following the assassination of a U.N. official in Iraq in August 2003 because "I don't want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander-in-chief playing golf. I feel I owe it to the families to be as - to be in solidarity as best as I can with them. And I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal." Which of the following activities did George W. Bush not give up to avoid upsetting families of dead soldiers?
Bass fishing.
Riding his bike.
Napping.
Clearing brush.
Taking five-week vacations.
All of the above, plus joking about not finding the weapons of mass destruction for which he sent their children to die in the first place.
2) True or false? During his Special Comment about George W. Bush's golf sacrifice, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann said, "What would you expect of a man who wipes his dirty eyeglasses on an unsuspecting stranger's sweater and jokes about the idea of a condemned prisoner begging him for her life. A man who cavalierly ignores a warning of an imminent attack on the nation he's sworn to defend and strums a guitar in San Diego while New Orleans drowns. A man who blew up frogs with firecrackers as a kid and branded fraternity pledges with hot wire hangers in college and who now, though he pays lip service to denying it, condones - no, encourages - torture. A man who implies that a scratch he got from a tree branch bonds him with Iraq War amputees and mocks people whose handicaps prevent them from paying him what he considers the proper respect - like the wheelchair-bound senior who didn't stand in his presence and the legally blind guy who failed to remove his shades. A man, for Christ's sake, who enjoys stopping into a room just long enough to deposit a stinky fart. What we're talking about here, folks, is a very bad man."
True. The line about the farting was cut from the rebroadcast.
False. Olbermann said, "Golf, sir? Golf sends the wrong signal to the grieving families of our men and women butchered in Iraq? Do you think, sir, they care about you? You, Mr. Bush, let their sons and daughters be killed. Sir, to show your solidarity with them - you gave up golf? ... Sir, to show your solidarity with them, you didn't give up your presidency?"
3) What did George W. Bush do two months after the August 2003 incident that he said inspired him to cease golfing?
He gave up giving people nicknames.
He gave up not drinking.
He FUCKING PLAYED GOLF!

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