Bush: ‘I’m thrilled to be anywhere with high ratings.’
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By on Apr 22nd, 2008 at 9:45 am
Bush: ‘I’m thrilled to be anywhere with high ratings.’
In a videotaped visit to NBC’s ‘Deal or No Deal’ gameshow, President Bush last night joked that, “I’m thrilled to be anywhere with high ratings these days.” He made the guest appearance to offer a good luck message to decorated Iraq war veteran Army Captain Joseph Kobes who competed on the game show. Bush’s visit was met with thunderous applause from the crowd and left Kobes on the verge of tears. Watch it:
Bush now stands at 28 percent approval. USA Today writes, “Bush has had dismal ratings through most of his second term. His approval rating hasn’t reached as high as 50% since May 2005. He has been steadily below 40% since September 2006.”
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“…was met with thunderous applause from the crowd”
Was this the crowd that had those nasty shock wires attached to their seats??
April 22nd, 2008 at 9:49 amI’ll be thrilled when he’s somewhere with NO ratings: out of office.
April 22nd, 2008 at 9:49 amBush on a game show?
How about “Truth or Consequences”??
April 22nd, 2008 at 9:49 amAre there any game shows set in prisons?
April 22nd, 2008 at 9:50 amThere is a new game show where you have to answer questions hooked up to a lie detector. I forget the name of it.
April 22nd, 2008 at 9:57 amHow appropriate Bush would go on a show where people beg for money.
April 22nd, 2008 at 9:58 amIn a first-world country it would be considered pathetic for the leader to appear on game shows.
April 22nd, 2008 at 10:02 amMaybe after his stay in prison, he can get a job hosting a game show. Can’t just clear brush for the rest of his life.
April 22nd, 2008 at 10:04 amWow, he’s getting desperate. The President of the United States of America resorting to going on a game show to increase his approval. Pathetic.
April 22nd, 2008 at 10:06 amIt is fitting bushbaby would pick a game show in which absolutely no knowledge is needed.
April 22nd, 2008 at 10:10 amJust luck, like when the stooges on the supreme court appointed him
All his life, luck, not smarts.
take care
tony and guidedog Lido
Videotaped, hand picked audience. Just another photo op.
April 22nd, 2008 at 10:12 amWhatever happened to ‘restoring dignity’ to the White House? Has this administration sunk so low that its willing to become a traveling circus? 1/20/2009, a data I’m living for!
April 22nd, 2008 at 10:15 amImpeach Cheney and Bush and Save the Constitution!
Howie was also sure to mention that two of his three tours of duty in Iraq were voluntary.
April 22nd, 2008 at 10:20 amBrownScaryHusseinChick (ThinkOutsideTheBush) Says
April 22nd, 2008 at 9:57 am
There is a new game show where you have to answer questions hooked up to a lie detector. I forget the name of it.
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I believe that’s called “Moment of Truth.” A Fox show, naturally. It would make for high ratings to see Bush on that show, OR both Bush and Cheney on “Survivor”. On opposite teams.
April 22nd, 2008 at 10:23 amHow’s that for life imitating art… the movie American Dreamz (2006) has the president going for a gameshow to get his ratings up. It seems the Whitehouse is running out of ideas…
April 22nd, 2008 at 10:23 amOh. So now Mr. “I don’t worry about polls”, suddenly has a change of heart and wants to be popular?
April 22nd, 2008 at 10:25 amWell..
Start by admitting you made a huge mistake in amassing funds and support for the illegal occupation of Iraq, and that you misled the country by stirring the fears of mushroom clouds, and the Iraqi connection to 9/11.
Also, humble yourself before the masses and admit you and your administration was totally incompetent in regards to preventing 9/11, as well as you’re total mismanagement of capturing the perpetrator.
Readily admit that you never bestowed honor and integrity back in the White House, and that you are, in fact, not looking out for the little man. Instead, you and your cronies have always been about big corporations.
Ask for the country’s forgiveness because you condoned torture, illegally.
Finally, if you truly wish to be popular, then step down as president, asswit! That would assuredly guarantee it!!!
Bush could have been out on the stump campaigning for better educational benefits for all of our Iraq veterans instead of just grandstanding with Howie Mandel.
April 22nd, 2008 at 10:27 amIt does not surprise me that Bush would do this. After all, it’s all a game to him.
April 22nd, 2008 at 10:28 amI don’t understand how the moron can have a sense of humor about his unprecedented, unsurpassed failure as a person and a president.
April 22nd, 2008 at 10:37 amDinkledork should be on the gameshow: Jackass or Huge Jackass?
April 22nd, 2008 at 10:39 amI suggest Bush be the star of a new game show “The Rating Game”. He can sit behind a screen while 3 contestants (FOX “journalists”?) ask him irrelevant questions. Then Bush picks one of the contestants to go have a beer with.
April 22nd, 2008 at 10:51 amIT WOULD NOT SUPRISE ME IF THE NBC PROGRAM “ENHANCED” THE APPLAUSE FOR BUSH TO MAKE IT SOUND “THUNDEROUS”.
April 22nd, 2008 at 10:53 amTHAT SHOULD HAVE READ “SURPRISE” !!!!!
April 22nd, 2008 at 10:54 amIt’s my understanding that his wife was supposed to host the 9:00 hour of The Today show this morning. I officially told my husband that I will no longer allow NBC to be played in our home.
April 22nd, 2008 at 11:08 amI am hard-pressed to think of something lamer this moron could have spent his time on. With all that has gone wrong here and abroad during his regime, he thinks appearing on a game show is worthy of his time? His contempt for the people of this country is mind-boggling.
April 22nd, 2008 at 11:11 amBush: “I’m thrilled to be high, anywhere”
April 22nd, 2008 at 11:14 amEmbarassing himself daily ~ the irrelvant chimperor.
April 22nd, 2008 at 11:25 amThere is a new game show where you have to answer questions hooked up to a lie detector. I forget the name of it.
Hosted by Dr. Marvin Monroe?
April 22nd, 2008 at 11:27 amIt’s my understanding that his wife was supposed to host the 9:00 hour of The Today show this morning.
I wonder what Bill O’Reilly will have to say about that? The First Lady hosts a program on a network that he claims is aiding the terrorists. With luck, maybe this will be what finally makes the Bush Adminsitration take away FNC’s journalism “credentials”.
April 22nd, 2008 at 11:28 amI remember when Rudy Giuliani was appearing in theatrical productions (and even dressed in drag) while he was mayor of NYC. I think he was only running for president to further his show biz career. Maybe he can get on “Survivor” with Bush and Cheney.
April 22nd, 2008 at 11:31 amBrownScaryHusseinChick (ThinkOutsideTheBush) Says
April 22nd, 2008 at 11:31 am
I remember when Rudy Giuliani was appearing in theatrical productions (and even dressed in drag) while he was mayor of NYC. I think he was only running for president to further his show biz career. Maybe he can get on “Survivor” with Bush and Cheney.
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Which makes me wonder — how come Giuliani isn’t doing this kind of shtick? It really sounds more up his alley.
Of course, since he dropped out of the presidential race, he’s been all but invisible.
April 22nd, 2008 at 11:41 ammisshusseinmolly Says:
Which makes me wonder — how come Giuliani isn’t doing this kind of shtick? It really sounds more up his alley.
Of course, since he dropped out of the presidential race, he’s been all but invisible.
April 22nd, 2008 at 11:41 am
He’s actually working on producing a new game show right now that will be called, “I was there at Ground Zero on 9/11, Now What’s the Question?”
April 22nd, 2008 at 11:44 amHe’s actually working on producing a new game show right now that will be called, “I was there at Ground Zero on 9/11, Now What’s the Question?”
LOL. Sample question:
“While Rudy was touring Ground Zero on 9/11, who was president of Mexico?”
April 22nd, 2008 at 11:47 amIn development (a new game show): “Name that Torture”
Using present and past Bush administration officials, citizens get to turn the tables.
(I can name that torture in 3 notes…)
April 22nd, 2008 at 11:55 am(I can name that torture in 3 notes…)
You mean “three screams”?
“Oooh, Chuck, that sounds like he’s getting the old electrodes to the testicles.”
“That’s right, for $200. Now listen to this one…”
April 22nd, 2008 at 11:56 amKay Says
April 22nd, 2008 at 11:55 am
In development (a new game show): “Name that Torture”
Using present and past Bush administration officials, citizens get to turn the tables.
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Who would host this show? It sounds like your “present and past Bush administration officials” might not leave anyone to host if they are all lined up for torture techniques.
We could use failed GOP candidates for President, I suppose — didn’t Romney say he wanted to “double” Gitmo? He might just demonstrate the enthusiasm needed of a game show host.
April 22nd, 2008 at 12:03 pmYou mean “three screams”?
YES!
April 22nd, 2008 at 12:07 pmGreat! As if he hasn’t diminished the office of President enough as it is, why doesn’t he just offer to guest host The Price is Right??
April 22nd, 2008 at 12:42 pmThis is just another “trick” to make himself and the whole Iraq debacle look succesful. Everything is staged : the idiot on the big screen and the reaction of the crowd. Painting a rosy picture of how things are going in Iraq. I’m glad I only watch nature shows. The majority of americans just sit and watch TV during their spare time and they don’t do anything else. They don’t go out. They don’t socialize.
An idiot president has lied and misled the country into a criminal war that has brought and will continue to bring serious consequences. The economy is in dire straits. Our civil rights are being eroded. And what do americans do? Watch TV.
April 22nd, 2008 at 1:15 pmGlad that I didn’t watch the idiot President on Deal or No Deal show. Certainly Bush wouldn’t make it on the show, “Are you smarter than 5th grader?”
April 22nd, 2008 at 2:26 pmThe man you so loathe twice defeated candidates who were allegedly the best the Democratic party had to offer. He prosecuted two wars. And, despite the wailing and gnashing of teeth, he never came close to impeachment proceedings, unlike his predecessor, who barely escaped getting thrown out of office.
And you wonder why Bush seems not to care?
April 22nd, 2008 at 3:41 pmRe #13: mldb Says: Howie was also sure to mention that two of his three tours of duty in Iraq were voluntary.
I noticed that, too — after doing the hearing version of a double-take. A totally superfluous little fact, until you stop and think for a moment: two of three voluntary deployments means one involuntary, compulsory, forced, unintended, unplanned, against-his-will, torn-from-his-family deployment. Good for you, Howie!! Don’t let the rah, rah, rah hide one of the many ugly facts of this ugly war.
April 22nd, 2008 at 4:04 pmYou need to read “Bush on the Couch” to understand why this idiot would love being on a show like this one or to be the lead clown at the White House dinner the other night! Justin Frank is to be commended for his in-depth “very accurate” psycho analysis of this well bred PSYCHO! Truly a tragedy that this mentally impaired person has to be in the most powerful position in the world! Once a govenor with the most ever executions notched in his thin belt and now more than four thousand dead and triple that number maimed during his watch as president while he “clowns around” looking for attention, laughs et al. One mentally sick, sadistic being. It should make all of us blush with total embarassment that he even represents us! Next, he’ll probably entertain us with his cowboy acts of “bring em on” while stumbling to the front door of the White House on bended knees as he did during his earlier non-acting drunken stupor days till he was 40!
Wake Up America! Whoops! Think it did . . . his ratings just went down a few more points!!!!! Hooray! Should be in the gutter by January 9, 2009!!!!! Abu Ghraib prison can be his and Papa Cheney’s next residence!
April 28th, 2008 at 5:25 pm