Bush conducts orchestra.
“JoAnn Falletta was doing what a conductor should — concentrating on the orchestra in front of her. No wonder it took her a few seconds on Sunday to realize someone behind her was motioning for a try. President Bush.”
“Smiling at me kind of devilishly,” Falletta said.
She gave him her baton and stepped aside.
Gesturing exuberantly, the president led the orchestra during part of its performance of “Stars and Stripes Forever.”
“We didn’t expect him to know the score so well,” Falletta said afterward. “He was not shy about conducting at all. He conducted with a great deal of panache.” […]
Just before the music ended, Bush turned to Falletta, who stood on a step below him, kissed the top of her head and left without saying a word.
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Class, pure class.
May 13th, 2007 at 10:27 pmOur Country’s most infamous Village Idiot.
May 13th, 2007 at 10:27 pmperhaps if Bush had become a conductor, the world would have been a better place…
May 13th, 2007 at 10:28 pmphucking yack
May 13th, 2007 at 10:28 pmOMG, just like Yeltsin.
May 13th, 2007 at 10:28 pmGreatest conductor ever.
May 13th, 2007 at 10:29 pmtoo bad he cannot conduct a war as well as an orchestra.
May 13th, 2007 at 10:30 pmThe man’s a polymath.
May 13th, 2007 at 10:32 pmWhat a moron! Can’t Laura keep him from embarrasing the American people?
May 13th, 2007 at 10:33 pmHe doesn’t even know how to conduct himself.
May 13th, 2007 at 10:33 pmBush is getting stranger by the day. If he directed the orchestra well, then he should resign the presidency and go be a orchestra director.
May 13th, 2007 at 10:33 pmBet Falletta never washes her hair again.
May 13th, 2007 at 10:34 pmI mean conductor not director.
May 13th, 2007 at 10:35 pmLook at that wrist action. The virtuoso is at his best. Encore!!!!!!
May 13th, 2007 at 10:36 pmI couldn’t be more embarrassed by this ass clown
May 13th, 2007 at 10:36 pmMichael Scott from “The Office”….
May 13th, 2007 at 10:37 pmInteresting…
Worringly erratic and odd…but interesting.
Maybe next Bush will take the ceremonial first pitch thing further and fill in as the Nationals’ closer.
Anything’s better than having him govern….
May 13th, 2007 at 10:40 pmbut clinton…. did it?
May 13th, 2007 at 10:40 pmIt’s a wonder the band was able to play the Stars and Stripes forever. I’m sure they were thinking of the Beatles “Run for Your Life”.
May 13th, 2007 at 10:41 pmBut, one band member was sure he heard Bush mumbling something about a duck being somebody’s mother.
As captured US soldiers are most probably being tortured.Im just surprised he wasn’t playing a fiddle…
May 13th, 2007 at 10:42 pmHe’s the conductor guy!
May 13th, 2007 at 10:42 pmthe ONLY orchestra involving George Bush IS WHEN THIS POLTICAL PARASITE LEAVE OFFICE….. THAT WILL TRULY BE THE DAY WHEN THESE THINGS (BUSH/CHENEY) FINALLY STOP THERE HOODLUM ACTIVITY AFFECTING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
POLITICAL PARASITE I SAY…
LITERALLY POLITICAL HOODLUM
THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION IS ONE OF THE MOST CORRUPT POLITICAL PARASITES IN A LONG TIME…… LITERALLY A SEA OF CORRUPTION
ONE SCANDAL AFTER THE NEXT
ONE OF THE MOST CORRUPT POLTICAL HOODLUMS, JUST LIKE NIXON, BUT WORSE.
IT CERTAINLY WILL BE A BLESSING AND A ORCHESTRA WHEN BUSH FINALLY STOPS LEECHING OFF YOU AND ME AND WHEN THESE THINGS
ARE EITHER IMPEACHED, KICKED OUT, HOPEFULLY WELL BEFORE HIS TERM ENDS….
WHICH REMINDS ME ABOUT PELOSI AT http://WWW.CORRUPTIONCHRONICLES.COM DATED 5/8/2007
STATING LITERALLY SHE IS A PRO AT GETTING EARMARKS FOR ALL HER BUDDIES INCLUDING HER HUSBANK….. DON’T SEE THE DEMOCRATS KEEPING TO THEIR PROMISE….
INFACT
IT SEEMS LIKE THEY WILL MORE THAN WELCOME DRACULA COMING INTO THEIR 2 DAYS WORK WEEK AS THE LOBBYIST PAYS THEM OFF FOR EARMARKS…. PELOSI IS A PRO AT EARMARKS ENTAILING MANY MANY MILLIONS IF NOT BILLIONS OF DOLLARS
GET
THESE
POLTICAL
HOODLUMS
PARASITES
LEECHES
OUT OF THAT SO CALLED SERVICE TO BOTH YOU AND ME AND GET SOME REAL LEADERS THAT KEEP TO THEIR SIDE OF THE TRUTH
JIMBO DUDE
May 13th, 2007 at 10:43 pmALWAYS
SPEAKS THE TRUTH DUDE :)
Bush was involved in a band in high school, so maybe he really wanted to be a conductor of a orchestra, but his damn father forced him into politics. Hitler wanted to be an architect, but went into politics after Vienna University rejected him. Not a good thing Bush became president, because it makes him crazy like Adolf.
May 13th, 2007 at 10:47 pmARE EITHER IMPEACHED, KICKED OUT, HOPEFULLY WELL BEFORE HIS TERM ENDS….
WHICH REMINDS ME ABOUT PELOSI AT http://WWW.CORRUPTIONCHRONICLES.COM DATED 5/8/2007
jimbo DUDE = Genius
May 13th, 2007 at 10:50 pmI’m sure they were thinking of the Beatles “Run for Your Lifeâ€.
Comment by RUCerious — May 13, 2007 @ 10:41 pm
….or maybe something from Pink Floyd’s ‘Dark side of the moon’, hehehehehe
May 13th, 2007 at 10:51 pm. . . and the band. . . played. . . on. . . .
May 13th, 2007 at 10:52 pmPerhaps Bush’s most embarrassing moment since that creepy backrub he gave to Angela Merkel.
May 13th, 2007 at 10:56 pmi wish he would kiss me on my head.
May 13th, 2007 at 11:01 pm“I’m the Baton Guy. Uh, I am the Orchestrator! I mean, the Conductorer.”
May 13th, 2007 at 11:07 pmVery nearly fiddling while Baghdad burns!
May 13th, 2007 at 11:08 pmClass, pure class.
Comment by Mr. President
Mr President is an alumni of the prestigious Chav Charm School.
May 13th, 2007 at 11:09 pmThis is high art in his world….
jamie > If Bush kissed my head I would worry that I might get a bad rash or something. Dubya usually likes to kiss the heads of bald guys.
May 13th, 2007 at 11:10 pm#24
JIMBO DUDE IS ULTIMATE COOLNESS THAT BLOWS EVERYONE AWAY DUDE
JIMBO DUDE DOES NOT SMOKE UP
JIMBO DUDE DOES NOT DOWN NOTHIN INTOXICATING
JIMBO DUDE IS FULL OF ROCK SOLID INTEGRITY DUDE
JIMBO DUDE
ALWAYS
SPEAKS THE DUDE TRUTH, ALWAYS DUDE ALWAYS :)
AND I ONLY WISH THIS CESSPOOL OF POLTICAL MAGGOTS, HOODLUMS,
LEECHES LITERAL PARASITES WOULD KEEP TO THEIR SIDE OF THE DEAL (AND I’M SURE A FEW DUDE)… BUT LITERALLY THERE IS A CESSPOOL, LITERALLY A SEA OF CORRUPTION LITERALLY HITTIN THE ELF’S POT I GUESS DESTINED TO THEIR FREEZER OR OFF SHORE OR WHEREVER
AND WE AINT TALKING $100,000 WE ARE TALKING ABOUT MILLIONS AND BILLIONS… ARE YOU KIDDING ME 15,000 EARMARKS DIVIDED BY 500
IT’S RIGGED DUDE.. RIGGED…. LITERAL HOODLUMS DUDE
May 13th, 2007 at 11:12 pmThe man’s a polymath.
Comment by Mr. President — May 13, 2007 @ 10:32 pm
You are delusional.
Get a room…
May 13th, 2007 at 11:12 pmWell since Bush was known as “Lips” at Yale for his passion of giving guys BJs, so if he does that activity in public can the Congress please impeach him.
May 13th, 2007 at 11:13 pm#33 - Jimbo Dude is heavenly awesome.
May 13th, 2007 at 11:13 pmYou are delusional.
Get a room…
Comment by Mistress Z — May 13, 2007 @ 11:12 pm
One with padded walls, hehehehehehe. How goes it MZ?
May 13th, 2007 at 11:17 pmCaption Contest:
Hey, the guy back there with the big…thing that makes pam! pam!, can we trade instruments?
May 13th, 2007 at 11:18 pmOne with padded walls, hehehehehehe. How goes it MZ?
Comment by Quadrajet — May 13, 2007 @ 11:17 pm
Whatever works…..heh.
“Summertime, and the livin’ is easy” :-)
May 13th, 2007 at 11:21 pm#34….
that’s what
http://www.thinkprogress.org
http://www.corruptionchronicles.com
http://www.alternet.com
http://www.citizensforethics.org/
http://www.bushwatch.com
does for you dude…. open up the blinders :)
see i really thought these poltical things really did serve the
people and with anticorruption, corruption was overall a rarity
however lately, it seems all those rock solid public servants are
void of one thing… truth/integrity… they are not all elder, rock
solid integrity literally appointed to serve god and us.
they are literally hoodlums….. high class criminals and corruption
ain’t no one in a million chance…. don’t quite know how much it
goes on DUDE…. but i’m taking a guess, there’s a chance it goes
on all the time dude
NOW… JIMBO DUDE IS TOTALLY COOL,… ROCK SOLID INTEGRITY DUDE
May 13th, 2007 at 11:25 pmAND I SHOULD BE SERVING THE DUDES/DUDETTES DUDE…. AND AIN’T KNOW FAST/SMOOTH TALKING CORRUPTED OBAMA TYPE… AS STATED
ROCK SOLID HONEST INTEGRITY DUDE
Has the ole dumbass been hitting the bottle again? Anybody do a BA on him?
May 13th, 2007 at 11:28 pmoh and #36…..
there ain’t nothing missing upstairs, no rocks or nothing.. i am perfectly normal and definitely am of perfectly normal mental health and no disorders.
don’t need no pharma’s (thank god dude) nor nothing else… yes psychiatrists find me very interesting (as everybody else does) and
i am completely free of any psycho ills or disorders
oops…. i guess kind of insecure if i had be around a bunch of high class
hoodlums, kind of against my values dude…….
but definitely…… dude… no way, i ain’t skito’s, paranoia, and no way delusional dude, nothin within upstairs is even close to a disorder dude…
just rock solid psychological make up full of rock solid integrity DUDE
May 13th, 2007 at 11:32 pmJIMBO DUDE
ALWAYS
SPEAKS THE TRUTH DUDE :)
Comment by jimbo DUDE — May 13, 2007 @ 10:43 pm
Jimbo dude, the weed, man, the weed. Lay off the weed. Ya got a serious problem with the brain cells, boyo.
May 13th, 2007 at 11:32 pm#42 - Jimbo Dude
No sarcasm intended, just the facts — Jimbo Dude is heavenly awesome.
May 13th, 2007 at 11:39 pmHas the ole dumbass been hitting the bottle again? Anybody do a BA on him?
Comment by lunacy
Just all nasal passages in a 10 foot circle.
May 13th, 2007 at 11:40 pmOh how childlike!
Bin Laden just shit his pants now that Glenn Miller has declared war on him!
What an embarrassment.
-GSD
May 13th, 2007 at 11:41 pmGeorge W. Bush. Virtuoso or virtual assh*le?
You decide.
-GSD
May 13th, 2007 at 11:42 pmGood thing Faletta is not bald!
May 13th, 2007 at 11:43 pmControl freak
May 13th, 2007 at 11:51 pmBush has lost his damn mind! Don’t believe me? Read Bush on the Couch. The guy is totally bonkers! There’s a bed in Milledgeville, GA with his name on it. Dude, get thee to an insane asylum already!
May 13th, 2007 at 11:51 pmAhem. The President is insane.
May 13th, 2007 at 11:51 pmToo bad he didn’t have a fiddle…
May 13th, 2007 at 11:55 pmFrom “Yeltsin era: The highs and lows” at BBC:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6585075.stm
“At one occasion at a big ceremony in Berlin, he tried to conduct an orchestra - and at that point, if you asked Russians what they thought of their president, they’d say ‘He’s shaming us, he’s making Russia look incompetent and weak before the world’ - and they didn’t like that at all.”
May 14th, 2007 at 12:04 amPlease tell me someone got this on videotape.
May 14th, 2007 at 12:07 amJimbo DUDE is a 19 y/o Keanu.
May 14th, 2007 at 12:08 amThe looks on the orchestra members faces says it all..
May 14th, 2007 at 12:29 am“What an artist the world is losing in me.”
Nero Claudius Caesar
(another deluded and failed emperor)
May 14th, 2007 at 12:31 am#27 — This publicity stunt would certainly qualify as one of the more embarrassing moments for 72% of the people in this country (although his finding and firing up a chainsaw in Blacksburg, KS might serve as another recent example). I’m sure that the other 28% are eagerly awaiting the rave reviews which are sure to follow tomorrow on Faux News. Perhaps O’Leilly will do the honors. As for W, I would surmise that he imust be incapable of feeling embarrassment. Otherwise, he would have crawled under a rock many years ago, never to show his face in public again.
May 14th, 2007 at 12:47 am…as Bush conducted, a yawning chasm opened up behind the orchestra, and they gradually began to slide in, confusedly continuing to play…
May 14th, 2007 at 12:50 amThis was an opportunity for Bush to show the world how well vested and empowered Satan renders him. There will be more displays like this in the near future. Bush is starting to see himself as God.
May 14th, 2007 at 12:53 amGood to have a multitalented President at the helm.
May 14th, 2007 at 1:13 amI would have set my horn down rather than continue playing with Bush holding the baton.
And, yes, I play the French Horn.
May 14th, 2007 at 1:13 amHitler wanted to be an architect, but went into politics after Vienna University rejected him. Not a good thing Bush became president, because it makes him crazy like Adolf.
Comment by Jay Randal
Your analysis is on spot, but you’re a slight bit off about Hitler. He wanted to be a painter (and even sold his picture postcards to tourists) but was rejected for admission by the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. He was told to try architecture, as his interest seemed to lie in that field but was rejected by the Academy again.
May 14th, 2007 at 1:16 amOne can imagine that WWII and the Holocaust would not have happened if Hitler had been accepted into the Academy just as one can imagine that no other combination but Dumbya and Dickhead would have gotten the US into the devastating folly in Iraq.
#56 CJLA ~ I didn’t notice at first, but when examined closely, the overriding picture is one of confusion and fluster.
May 14th, 2007 at 1:24 amMission Accomplished, chymp!
“And that’s what we do. We put in a bigger brass section to get to a position where we can be in some other place. The question is, who ought to make that decision? Some woman in a tuxedo or the conducter? And as you know, my position is clear — I’m the conducter guy. And the deciderator. And — uhh, you know, that commander type thingy….”
From here, with apologies for the ‘typos’ in my transcription. ;-)
Cheers,
May 14th, 2007 at 1:38 am“Mr. President, I’ll let you conduct if you’ll let me get the troops out of Iraq.”
May 14th, 2007 at 2:31 am#5 - That’s exactly what I thought as soon as I read that post…. What’s this? America’s answer to Russia’s Yeltzin???? ;o)
rgds
May 14th, 2007 at 2:35 amSylvia
He thought for one brief moment that he was running the show while the real conductor stood one step below him looking on. Then he grew bored, turned round and passed the baton back to Darth Cheney.
May 14th, 2007 at 2:46 amAnd thus the epitaph of the Dubya presidency is written.
May 14th, 2007 at 4:57 amImpeachment is a prime time to verify all sitting Senators and Representatives for the 2008 elections. After knowing the amount of highly suspicious and outright criminal behavior, and forget about lying to Congress and the American Public about WMD’s, everybody needs to know that this administration has already committed a felony by paying for fake news to be inserted amidst supposedly real News. (You remember real News on the public airwaves, the Fourth Estate stuff.) Well, a clear violation of the law has already been committed by the Bushies. We should be sending in a Marine unit into the White House because the White House is blowing off the Government Accountability Office’s finding that prepackaged administration video news releases constitute illegal covert propaganda.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ wp-dyn/ articles/ A36694-2005Mar15.html
We all know now that the reason for not impeaching has nothing to do with whether Bush is committing felonies while occupying the highest seat of power in the Executive branch of our government. The only reason for not impeaching has to do with individuals in Congress serving their individual needs before the needs of We the People. In a nutshell, they are doing the exact opposite of what they should be doing. All of us can no longer deny it, there are legal grounds to impeach Bush and Cheney. But forget the undeniable propaganda violations; we all know the whole truth about the Bushies. With the Bushies, it’s like we have some dirty old bastard uncle living in the basement and many are just trying to ignore him. From Katrina to the most controversial vote counting in the history of our nation, to 9/11, to Katrina, to WMD’s and the invasion of a sovereign country with massive destruction and death, to Renditions to whatever country willing to serve as a Dark Arts workplace, (ya remember, don’t you, the crazy Nazi shit), to spying on US citizens, to selling our economy to China and Japan for a dime, to mostly just the day in and day out bold face bullshit the White House spits out to the rest of us. The reason for not impeaching Bush and Cheney is crystal clear. The top tier of the Republican Party and the Democratic Party are fakes. Anyone in Congress who doesn’t vote for impeachment will be from this point forward identified as Snake Oil sellers, Carpetbaggers and Scalawags, the epitome of a scoundrel and not at all safe to be surrounded by.
If ever there were a time to clean house, the time is now. Anyone not voting for impeachment after all this rotten administration has put the nation through, and for clearly violating the US Propaganda Act, anyone in Congress voting Nay needs to go away. Forever.
2008 Vote
vote for
Ron Paul if you are a conservative Republican
Mike Gravel if you are a Democrat
Ralph Nadar if you are an honest Liberal
Anyone of them will start the ball rolling for all of us to TAKE BACK THE USA.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ wp-dyn/ articles/ A36694-2005Mar15.html
May 14th, 2007 at 5:04 amThis either happened on April Fools’ Day or the story came from “The Onion.”
May 14th, 2007 at 5:07 amEver the frat boy prankster; ever the Andover cheerleader. Only 617 more days of this embarassing waste of protoplasm …then the war crime trials can begin!
May 14th, 2007 at 5:34 amRon Paul? Isn’t he endorsed by StormFront?
May 14th, 2007 at 6:31 amIt’s my understanding that the “President” once played a mean flute:
May 14th, 2007 at 6:41 amhttp://bushssecretlifein84.tripod.com/
George stick with what you know…
—————–~~>>
May 14th, 2007 at 7:04 amWhat a douche bag.
May 14th, 2007 at 7:38 amIsn’t the WH a drug-free workplace yet?
May 14th, 2007 at 7:48 amare we all supposed to think this is cute ??
May 14th, 2007 at 7:54 amI don’t think he has a musical bone is his body. He’s like a three-year-old who grabs the baton, thinking he can conduct, but he has no idea what he’s doing. It’s just awful. Something’s seriously wrong with him No normal person would do that…or talk about chicken plucking factories…or wink at the Queen…or rub Angela Merkel’s neck. He’d be hospitalized if he was an average citizen.
May 14th, 2007 at 7:56 amTwo for the price of one…’President & Conductor’.
May 14th, 2007 at 7:58 amDid he play..’Mission Accomplished’…?!!
Maybe by playing the maestro, Bush can help the world forget the hell he has visited on Iraq and its citizens. Bush’s place in history is sealed with Iraq. You won’t see Bush’s name in any history book without the words “failure” and “Iraq” in the same place.
May 14th, 2007 at 8:01 amAnd I thought he liked fishing best.
May 14th, 2007 at 8:07 amI’ve seen that scene before. It was in the Richard Gere film “Mr. Jones” where he plays a manic-depressive person.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107611/
I’m not kidding.
- Tom
May 14th, 2007 at 8:10 amNo one suffers more than him (and Laura).
And they make the rest of us suffer as a result.
May 14th, 2007 at 8:15 amIsn’t kissing someone who didn’t ask for it sexual assault??? (just like the unsolicited back rubs)
May 14th, 2007 at 8:27 amWhat a horse’s ass.
May 14th, 2007 at 8:42 amHe’s a “conductor guy.”
May 14th, 2007 at 8:49 am#86 Jim
And Bush was caught ‘conducting’ the ‘Decider’.
Bush later said,:”I can conduct ‘Aida”..but I’m now wroking on ‘Laura’…,instead
May 14th, 2007 at 9:03 amVery nearly fiddling while Baghdad burns!
Comment by Jeffrey Stewart
Thank you for being the first to type it out. I totally agree with you.
And BnF, I would have done the same thing. I play flute.
May 14th, 2007 at 9:04 am… After leaving the orchestra, G.W. Bush joined Alberto Gonzales and Paul Wolfowitz at a local karaoke bar …
Gonzales led off with Peter Gabriel’s “I Don’t Remember” …
” … I don’t remember, I don’t recall …
I got no memory of anything at all … ”
Wolfowitz then stunned the crowd with Carl Thomas’ R&B ballad “I Wish I Never Met Her” …
” … I wish I never met her … at all … I wouldn’t hurt … so much … inside …”
The trio wrapped up their karoke set with an adaptation of Michael Jackson’s “Smooth Criminal” …
“…American People, you’ve been hit by 3 SMOOTH CRIMINALS !!! … “
May 14th, 2007 at 9:06 amAny woman, at any public event where Dubious is in attendance, should know to keep an eye out behind her.
May 14th, 2007 at 9:10 amHey he did something and no one died - thats progress!
May 14th, 2007 at 9:11 am“The day the Music died.”
May 14th, 2007 at 9:19 amIf we give him an orchestra will he go away?
May 14th, 2007 at 9:57 amComment by midwestblue — May 14, 2007 @ 7:56 am
I think you have nailed it. His is a case of arrested development; the perennial child - a spoiled one - who has always been given what he wanted to play with.
May 14th, 2007 at 10:01 amIt makes me wonder if, seeking praise for his accomplishments, he doesn’t call Laura to see what a “big one” he made in the toilet this morning.
Just like Nero, Bush plays while our country goes down in flames….
May 14th, 2007 at 10:18 amDefinitely this is conduct unbecoming. And that kiss. I think that is Bush’s version of giving head.
May 14th, 2007 at 10:33 amJust another roleplaying game for our infantile Decider. “Ooh! Ooh! Let me be in charge!”
There’s a tad more to conducting than pompously waving a stick about.
But then, maybe God told him to throw his baton in the ring.
:S
May 14th, 2007 at 11:17 amI don’t think he has a musical bone is his body. He’s like a three-year-old who grabs the baton, thinking he can conduct, but he has no idea what he’s doing.
Comment by midwestblue
The only reason the orchestra kept the beat was that she was conducting them behind Chimpy’s back. Just as in the White House there’s always someone behind Chimpy directing the shots (think Cheney?)
Has ANYONE testing this lunatic for Alzheimer’s yet?
May 14th, 2007 at 11:18 amDrunks always seem to make an ass of themselves in public. Sigh.
May 14th, 2007 at 11:18 amI can’t wait until someone doesn’t give in to this moroni.
May 14th, 2007 at 11:34 amWhy couldn’t the conductor just shoved the baton up his ass and walked off stage.
Blundering buffoon.
All I can think of is that he reminds me of my alcoholic uncle, bizzare behavior, overly exuberant and would kiss anyone and anything within striking distance.
I think Georgie boy is hitting the sauce again
May 14th, 2007 at 11:40 am“I’m the CONDUCTOR!”
“L-l-look at me, Mommy!”
May 14th, 2007 at 12:08 pmI don’t know how he does the things that he does. Maybe he is crazy. Laughing and smiling while soldiers are dying, now unable to communicate to their families because of the Pentagon’s censorship. Wish he had gone into music instead of politics now we have war, a melting planet, disease, and millions of impoverished people all taking their toll. You may argue that this is the way it has always been, but even if it was it needs to change if you don’t want your kids to have malaria and gills.
May 14th, 2007 at 12:12 pmSo F-ing what? When Bill played the sax did you make fun of him?
You people have your heads so far up your a$$ it is funny. No one sided people here. Get the tin foil hats out, the mothership is coming!
ROTFL
May 14th, 2007 at 12:17 pmRe: #104
“So F-ing what? When Bill played the sax did you make fun of him? …” Comment by Happy Guy.
Actually, yes, I did.
So there, you have your “other side.”
Now, take back your tin foil and shove your head back up your #ss where it belongs.
May 14th, 2007 at 12:28 pmThis clown is such an embarassment to all that voted for and supported him and his criminal admin.
May 14th, 2007 at 12:32 pmSomeone quick . . . shove that wand up his a## . . . then conduct the orch. with him hanging from it .
On Ferris Bueller’s next day off I expect him to jump on a float in the middle of a parade and sing ‘Danke Schoen’.
May 14th, 2007 at 12:49 pmHe reminds me of a drunk at a wedding, insisting on “sitting in” with the band. What a maroon.
May 14th, 2007 at 1:39 pmHopefully he will attend a military funeral soon, borrow a sword from an honor guard, attempt to show how adept a swordsman he is and cut his own head off.
May 14th, 2007 at 2:14 pmWhat was the name of that tune? Was it “Show Me The Money”?
May 14th, 2007 at 5:47 pmGeorge is such a cutup, isn’t he?
Babs’ little darlin’ just loves dressing up…
May 14th, 2007 at 7:00 pmneeds more cowbell.
May 14th, 2007 at 7:59 pm#
too bad he cannot conduct a war as well as an orchestra.
Comment by white phosphorous — May 13, 2007 @ 10:30 pm
Best. Quote. Ever.
May 14th, 2007 at 8:49 pmSeems like a nice guy. I mean, if frickin Gore did it, you libs would be screaming praises of his intelligence. With Bush, he’s drunk. Jeez you bandwagon of idiots irritate me. Go get an independent thought.
May 14th, 2007 at 8:56 pmGeorge W. Bush has little regard for woman in power positions.
His low civility has blackened the shine off the United States President’s position in the world.
It is too bad he will retire a rich man that did not care for another single person, other than himself.
His parents did a very poor job in teaching him civility.
May 14th, 2007 at 9:00 pmI moved from russia cuz i thought that i’ll get away from our alcoholic president, and now iam back in hell. Iam moving to mehico next.
May 14th, 2007 at 9:01 pmWhat a dork. But clinton was a dork. Old bush was a dork. THEY ARE ALL FRIGGIN DORKS!!! I say put the names of all the dogcatchers in america in a hat and choose 2. ONE FOR THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE AND ONE FOR THE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE!!! IT CAN’T GET ANY WORSE THAT THESE DORKS!
May 14th, 2007 at 9:04 pmWhat a dork. But clinton was a dork. Old bush was a dork. THEY ARE ALL FRIGGIN DORKS!!! I say put the names of all the dogcatchers in america in a hat and choose 2. ONE FOR THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE AND ONE FOR THE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE!!! IT CAN’T GET ANY WORSE THAT THESE DORKS!
May 14th, 2007 at 9:06 pmHey Jimbo dude:
May 14th, 2007 at 9:06 pmMaybe if you used some proper casing and grammar and based your argument on some solid facts instead of emotion like a spoiled child, you’d sound a little more intelligent and people would listen to you. I’m sick of people bashing Bush for the war. Yes, he said we went over for democracy, so he did lie. But you do know that if we weren’t over there, our gas prices would skyrocket. Our economy is based so highly on oil that it would destroy us. And if we pulled out now, everybody would think we were weak and that we don’t finish what we start, and they’d take advantage of it. Did you think that he might possibly be attempting to boost morale? Do you think he likes people dying? Because he doesn’t. Whether it’s on the news or not, he does talk to the families of the fallen soldiers. The war has consequences. Get over it, they all do. And no Aaron, that is not the best quote ever. Anony mouse knows what the best quote ever is. And True Story, does that mean you make fun of whoever is in office? See if you can elect someone that you can’t make fun of. What’s that? You can’t? Well then STFU.
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…and if only hitler had become an artist
May 14th, 2007 at 9:31 pmWOW I THOUGHT THE IDEA OF BUSH CONDUCTING WAS SUPER-HILARIOUS UNTIL THAT FACT WAS OUT-HILARIOUSED BY JIMBO-DUDE! YOU MIGHT NOT SOME THE POT BUT MAYBE YOU SHOULD! POT ROCKS! JIMBO-DUDE, YOU’VE BEEN SNORTING THE HUBRIS! YOU ARE SUPER-WEIRD!
May 14th, 2007 at 9:55 pmToo bad we can’t hook him up to some high tension lines so he could conduct electricity
May 14th, 2007 at 10:00 pm… the hell?!
May 14th, 2007 at 10:03 pmIf he is going to act like a child then his report card should show an “F” for Conduct.
May 14th, 2007 at 10:06 pmMuch ado about nothing.
May 14th, 2007 at 10:22 pmBoris Yeltsin anyone?
May 14th, 2007 at 10:25 pmGeez, all this talk of impeachment, hints of “high crimes”, even people wishing the fool dead!?!
I mean what’s he done that’s really so bad?
Declared an illegal war; thwarted environmentalism to help his industry friends profit; assembled the worst cadre of thieves, villains, murderers and mean-spirited pirate scoundrels this country has ever bourne; ignored diplomacy at many critical juntcures, perhaps setting an unalterable course into world war and chaos. And so much more _that we know about_ it’s unbelievable he’s still our president and not in Guantanimo.
Hey - we’ve all done some bad stuff, right? Sheesh give the guy a break.
I would assume that someday we’ll all learn that Bush is a participatory frontman on soooo many medications and booze and speed that it’s amazing he’s not a lot weirder.
Compared to the thugs throughout our power structure, Bush is a witty clown-stooge, a distraction, if you will. The red cape waving afore the cow of the American Public. We are being trained to ridicule him, instead of getting mad about the darker stuff. It’s hard to be be pissed at the real stuff when you’re scoffing at an idiot. Meanwhile the real furtive dark powers are looting our coffers, possibly/prolly diverting billions of dollars of Iraqi oil into the black market for the profit of Neo-Con Robber-Barons, and committing any number of unspeakable acts against the American Public and the people of the world, and Earth herself for that matter. While we laught at what an idiot we “elected”. Whoops ! Our goof!
But, we laugh at the funny man, and laughter makes us feel so much better.
Right?
May 14th, 2007 at 10:33 pmHe likes playing the leader
May 14th, 2007 at 10:46 pmBush is an embarrassment to human kind. He should be dragged off the stage, punched, kicked, bashed and prosecuted if still alive. What an ass… America must be damn proud to have him as their leader. I kind of feel bad for those that have to live under his leadership.
May 14th, 2007 at 11:06 pmLex Python is right on the money
you are all under the spell of a master illusionist…MJ12 and the conglomerate.
May 14th, 2007 at 11:14 pmMan it gives me such a boner to make fun of Bush can we do it some more?
May 14th, 2007 at 11:15 pmAs a conductor, I would be extremely offended. No one forces me off my podium. Unless this was prepared in advance, she should not have yielded the podium, even to the president.
As retribution, Ms. Falletta should be allowed temporarily oust Bush to be president for two mintues. Perhaps she could turn the country to face the correct direction?
May 14th, 2007 at 11:18 pmHonestly, I’m actually a little impressed
May 14th, 2007 at 11:40 pmFinally an impeachable offense we can all agree upon: Conduct unbecoming a President. Thanks for pointing it out, tablogoid (comment #96).
May 14th, 2007 at 11:46 pmWhat a looser…
May 14th, 2007 at 11:53 pmEhhhh, Sousa march at 120mm, so simple even a caveman could do it. At least we didn’t have to listen to him speak for a few minutes.
May 14th, 2007 at 11:56 pmEhhh, Sousa march at 120mm; so simple even a caveman could do it. At least we didn’t have to listen to him speak.
May 14th, 2007 at 11:59 pmDid they find the weapons of mass destruction yet?
May 15th, 2007 at 12:15 amThis is yet another tactic in the ingenious Republican campaign to hijack patriotism for their own party. Any imbecile can stand up in front of an orchestra to “conduct” the Stars and Stripes; the orchestra can completely ignore an inept baton and play the piece easily. That Faletta was doing the “real” conducting behind him is almost as laughable. Ronald MacDonald waved a hilariously unrhythmical baton in front of my orchestra once. It made no difference. Bush’s handlers are brilliant. Totally corrupt, but brilliant. One can only hope that they will go to the hell they profess to believe in.
May 15th, 2007 at 12:16 amThe picture’s great.
Now where’s the video?
May 15th, 2007 at 12:18 am#119
“David”
First, I guess you are going to have to wait forever for me to “STFU.” It is definitely not going to happen because of anything you post.
“And True Story, does that mean you make fun of whoever is in office?”
Maybe. If they say or do something that amuses me - yeah, I might say something.
If the person in office says …
“Things are more like they are now than they ever were before …”
… or … if I hear that they have ” … banished squirrels from the White House grounds …” I might make fun of them.
Depending upon the president, David, after the kidding is done you can still recognize that person as a good president.
President Dwight Eisenhower is responsible for the above quotes. He was a good President. He got teased for those comments. The nation survived.
G.W. Bush does a lot silly things and he gets made fun of. He also a very bad president. The nation deserves better.
If you are only going to cast your vote for a candidate who “cannot be made fun of ” then you will never cast a vote … which in your case may not be such a bad idea …
Maybe. If they do or say something funny, yeah - I will. But just because I make fun of them does
“Did you think that he might possibly be attempting to boost morale?” … By conducting an ORCHESTRA ???
You need to STFU.
May 15th, 2007 at 12:19 amThe picture is great.
Now where’s the video?
May 15th, 2007 at 12:20 amIf he’s close enough to kiss my head, I’m all for it.
He’s close enough for a “close dance” and I’m better than he is.
May 15th, 2007 at 12:29 amThe boy is on the booze again!
May 15th, 2007 at 12:37 amIn response to Idiotmoron’s post about the WMD; was anyone as appalled as I was when Bush made those jokes about looking for WMD under sofa cushions in the White House? “nope, no WMD there”. That he got away with such vile, contemptible, (could there be anything more insulting to the men and women he sent over there to find WMD?) remarks without a peep of the outrage that should have been voiced in the media, still infuriates me. That this administration has managed to avoid accountability for their many heinous infractions is a testament to the distressingly successful right wing machinery.
May 15th, 2007 at 12:59 amI saw this clip on CSPAN.
Did anyone else see how he snubbed that girl at the end of the line of people before he took over as conductor? She was so upset! Then he went on to hug some overweight black boy.
PIC (Politically Incorrect Disclaimer) Not that I have a problem against fat black boys.
May 15th, 2007 at 1:25 amexactly what hitler would have done
May 15th, 2007 at 2:16 amI think Bush is the greatest American ALIVE!
May 15th, 2007 at 4:01 am;)
hahaha the complex of a 6 year old
May 15th, 2007 at 5:38 amBush you’re halarious
He says he doesnt like being a wartime president , but I guess it has its perks, while soldiers die on the battlefield he can conduct an orchestra. maybe he should stick to reading my pet goat
May 15th, 2007 at 5:57 amIn other news, Bush has been awarded the charge of Clown in Chief by the Barnum & Bailey Circus.
May 15th, 2007 at 6:54 amOk, Someone explain to me why he is such an idiot for this and yet clinton did not get the same name calling when evidence showed he got a fluffing INSIDE THE WHITEHOUSE from an intern.
The whiners about this incident need to either get jobs or disconnect their internet service. They obviously do not have the capacity to work & understand useful discourse vs. plain childish comments.
May 15th, 2007 at 8:17 amBush is a great leader. Period.
May 15th, 2007 at 8:22 amJust thank god that the man didnt have any daughters so we dont have to worry about another encore of his presidency.
May 15th, 2007 at 8:22 amIt is so funny to see you loser getting heated over nothing. You frothing at the mouth comments show what idiots you are.
Did you make fun of Saxaphone Rapist Clinton?
ROTFL
May 15th, 2007 at 9:51 amHe’s almost as much an embarrassment as Conductor Guy as he is at being Commander Guy. At least nobody died.
Oh, and 152……you said it……it was INSIDE THE WHITEHOUSE where nobody had to witness it. Public vs private. Big difference.
May 15th, 2007 at 11:03 amI think that’s cute. You shouldn’t let a man who’s trying to be a people person be a platform for your hatred.
May 15th, 2007 at 11:18 amJust goes to show that some people refuse to see any kind of reason or logic, and are completely closed-minded to any point of view other than their own misguided, haphazard, not-thought-out opinions.
It makes me laugh how everybody expects Bush to somehow be in the Oval Office, all the time, doing nothing at all but coming up with some magical solution to the problem in Iraq.
I don’t want to go into a political rant because I could go on for pages about how stupid the majority of Americans are, but people have to realize that our government is made of people too. If they’re smart enough to get into politics, especially in America, don’t you think these people care about the fact that thousands of lives hinge on their every decision? You people don’t give any quarter to our government, you expect them to be some sort of larger-than-life epic heroes or something who never make mistakes.
Yes, there have been a bunch of scandals in the government. But scandals are nothing new, people are just using them indiscriminately to Bush-bash. Yeah, because Bush is running the show and knows all about every little thing that goes on in a government that exercises authority over 400 million people. *sigh*
I can’t blame him for trying to get out and interact with the people he’s leading. And I imagine having the chance to conduct an orchestra is a nice little much-needed break from touring tornado-devastated towns, dealing with the issue of nuclear proliferation in the one of the most turbulent regions of the world, managing the war, and all the other small things that have come to be expected of the president to do, even though they have little to do with the original functions of the presidency.
Congress runs this country, ladies and gentlemen. Once a majority vote gets up to stop funding for the war, they override the president’s veto and it’s over.
May 15th, 2007 at 11:47 amFalletta needs to be checked for cooties.
May 15th, 2007 at 11:51 amAm I… Am I supposed to conduct with my penis?
May 15th, 2007 at 12:22 pmhttp://www.infowars.com/print_prescott.htm
The Bush-Nazi Connection
May 15th, 2007 at 4:47 pmThe Zanesville Signal, Zanesville, Oh
Thursday, July 31, 1941
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Article showing Skull and Bones members, E. R. Harriman,
and Prescott S. Bush(The President’s Grandfather.) tied to Hitler’s funding and Banking.
Sounds like he was quite good, suprisingly. Conducting’s hard, and you need to have a good sense for both the music and the rhythm.
May 15th, 2007 at 8:20 pmJIMBO DUDE LIKES TO EAT GLUE. JIMBO DUDE LICKS HIS OWN NUTS. JIMBO DUDE IS A HEAD TRAUMA VICTIM. JIMBO DUDE THROWS POO. JIMBO DUDE IS GOVERNOR OF MY UNDERPANTS. JIMBO DUDE IS THE OFFSPRING OF A BEETLE AND A PENCIL. JIMBO DUDE MAKES MY HEAD HURT AND MY EYES STING.
JIMBO DUDE, LAY OFF THE CRACK PIPE… and stop using all caps!
May 16th, 2007 at 10:23 amDUDE!
May 16th, 2007 at 10:25 am#158
You are in no position to be calling anyone stupid … not after writing a ridiculous post like that …
May 16th, 2007 at 11:33 pmFantastic! Just imagine how this shakes the Leftwinger world of the NYT, etc. It’s like their learning about NASCAR! ;-)
May 17th, 2007 at 9:32 amIf I were there, I’d tell him to get his f***ing a** outta there cause he tried to take over Afghanistan and Iraq, and we don’t need him taking over music!
May 17th, 2007 at 7:06 pm