Bush cameo sinks ‘Deal or No Deal.’
By on Apr 24th, 2008 at 11:51 am
Bush cameo sinks ‘Deal or No Deal.’
On Monday, President Bush made a videotaped cameo to NBC’s “Deal or No Deal” game show, joking, “I’m thrilled to be anywhere with high ratings these days.” Ironically, the New York Post reports that Bush’s appearance was a deal-breaker, “tying the show’s worst-ever Monday-night performance.” Monday’s show had approximately 10 million viewers, “down 27 percent from its season average.” Watch Bush’s performance here:
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Gawd... you can't make up stuff like this.
April 24th, 2008 at 11:55 amThe 'Sidam' Touch strikes again, turning everything he touches to shit.
April 24th, 2008 at 11:56 amWhhopps, should be 'SadiM' touch...damn fangers..
April 24th, 2008 at 11:56 amTee-hee. I guess shows like this will think twice about having the moron appear the next time...
April 24th, 2008 at 11:57 amI guess it was 'no deal' then?
April 24th, 2008 at 11:58 amThis has gotta sting -- it's one thing to be the worst president ever. And it's just piling on when you also have the power to sink a show just for being on it.
April 24th, 2008 at 11:58 amWhat were they thinking when they advertised his appearance ahead of time? What they should have done would have been to secretly fly Bush in, under cover of darkness, let him make his appearance, and then fly him out again before turning on the studio lights.
April 24th, 2008 at 11:59 amWatch Bush’s performance here
No,thanks.
April 24th, 2008 at 12:01 pmI left my puke bucket at home this morning.
I'll pass...No thank's on the clip as well....The less I see of this crap the better are my day's...Hug a tree, tell someone you love them, and plant a few more flower's...Blessings
April 24th, 2008 at 12:01 pmWhich proves everything thing he touches turns to sh*t... It couldn't happen to a more deserving criminal....
April 24th, 2008 at 12:01 pmDonkeyd1ck Says:
I’m never voting Republican again.
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Another "never" you can add to your list is "have sex", I'd safely wager. And I don't think you need the word "again" for that one.
April 24th, 2008 at 12:01 pmreminds me of when Nixon appeared on Laugh-In, except their ratings did not sink like the Titanic
April 24th, 2008 at 12:01 pmEven some game show watchers hate his guts. Gotta love it.
April 24th, 2008 at 12:02 pmI had no idea "Deal or No Deal" was suicidal.
April 24th, 2008 at 12:02 pmWill Hillary be demanding an appearance now too?
April 24th, 2008 at 12:02 pm>>“down 27 percent from its season average"<<
Hmmmmmm...yet 27% to 28% still support Bush.
Then, using Bush/GOP "scientific" methods, it can only be deduced that Bush supporters find a TV set too difficult to operate that "box radio with a moving picture over there..".
Interesting.......
April 24th, 2008 at 12:03 pmThe Republic of Stupidity Says:
Will Hillary be demanding an appearance now too?
They'd hafta change the name to:
NO DEAL UNLESS YOU COUNT FL AND MI
April 24th, 2008 at 12:04 pmDonkeyd1ck Says:
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I’m never voting Republican again. This is the straw that broke the elephants back. Thanks TP for letting me see the light!!
April 24th, 2008 at 11:57 am
Yeah , just ignore the 2 clusterfu(ks this moron has created in Iraq and Afghanistan , the sinking dollar , the economy , gas prices going up faster than a GOP pecker filled with Viagra at an all-boys school , torture , trampling of our Constitution , partisan political goings-on in the Justice Department , illegal spying on fellow Americans , and on and on ..............
April 24th, 2008 at 12:05 pmDid they promote that he would be on the show? I would probably not tune in if I knew he was going to appear, but then I don't watch the show anyway.
April 24th, 2008 at 12:06 pmI don't know when they start counting viewers of programs...is it when they first turn that channel on? Or sometime after? If after, I can imagine many people changed the channel when Bush's big head popped up on the screen. Whenever I see him on tv, I move on to another channel immediately.
April 24th, 2008 at 12:13 pmThat show is getting desperate, with the "wheel" thing now. They can't GIVE away a million, even if they have 25 cases of it. The sucker would pick the one with .01 or they would chicken out at the end. Meanwhile, Price is Right gives away the mil at least twice I saw.
April 24th, 2008 at 12:15 pmDonkeyd1ck Says:
This is what made you see the light? The Republican giving a speech before a photo of Hitler didn't do the trick?
April 24th, 2008 at 12:17 pmW could fall into a pile of roses and they'd both end up stinking like shit.
April 24th, 2008 at 12:21 pmThe other irony is that the next day, Bush received the highest rating in history - for disapproval rating.
April 24th, 2008 at 12:21 pmThus confirming his reputation as the modern era's Anti-Midas.
April 24th, 2008 at 12:22 pmhad i been there, as soon as bush's criminal face popped up, i'd have said, NO DEAL and walked the hell off the set will middle finger patriotically waving in the air!
April 24th, 2008 at 12:23 pmYou two are really going to piss off RHF now, expect to be reprimanded. Of course I only really see him attacking Zooey personally. I guess he's afraid of men.
April 24th, 2008 at 12:24 pmI think it was the crowd cheering for Botch that disgusted viewers. Crowds are getting carried away with this show and turning into zombies. Call it pop culture hell.
April 24th, 2008 at 12:29 pmShayne Says:
I guess he’s afraid of men.
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Afraid of BEARS, Shayne... he's afraid of bears. Just... like... Colbert!
N' rightfully so!
April 24th, 2008 at 12:34 pmYeah sure TRoS, eyes rolling.
April 24th, 2008 at 12:38 pmOh... look...
April 24th, 2008 at 12:39 pmTRoS, what's that bald spot on your back?
April 24th, 2008 at 12:51 pmShayne and TROS, you both are so cute..Love ya.....Blessings
April 24th, 2008 at 12:55 pmI guess the producers were just to damned stupid to realize that bringing on the hated man in America would turn people off.
April 24th, 2008 at 12:57 pmWow, that's great. People are really, really tired of looking at his smug mug.
April 24th, 2008 at 1:05 pmI believe that was how the Iraq invasion was planned...
...spinning a wheel to determine how many troops to use.
THAT worked out well for them.
April 24th, 2008 at 1:07 pm/snark
Back at you #1.
April 24th, 2008 at 1:12 pmEverything this idiot does is an INSULT to each and every american. Even the Iraq war veteran who was a contestant on the show! To hear the idiot say he's glad to be on the show with such high ratings is an INSULT! It's like he's using the show and the war veteran for another one of his tricks. Personally, I would have been offended, regardless of how much good luck he wishes for me on the show! Who knows how close the war veteran came to death because of the idiot and his criminal war. This is no joke! Life is not a silly game show! Our nation, our economy, our civil liberties, and how the world perceives us as a nation, everything is being flushed down the sink by this IDIOT and his TRICKS. SHAME ON YOU IDIOT! JUST KEEP JOKING YOUR WAY OUT OF THIS DEBACLE YOU'RE DOING JUST FINE!
April 24th, 2008 at 1:19 pmBoosh thinks there are WMD's in one of the suitcases
April 24th, 2008 at 1:19 pmWhat's the opposite of the midas touch?
http://www.soultv.net
April 24th, 2008 at 1:41 pmRUCerious says:Whhopps, should be ‘SadiM’ touch…
Watch it,RUC, that almost sounds like Saddam...OR SODOM. Are you calling chimpy a "turrurist" or something worse in the eyes of the religious right???
April 24th, 2008 at 2:10 pmGuido the Loving OBGYN Says:
We stopped watching in my house because of it. We used to watch it while waiting for Idol. It was always our default because it’s actually a cool show.
BUT NOT ANYMORE
Dumbass and his stepford wife did a pre-recorded bit on Idol last night. Thank god for DVR. I was able to stifle my gag reflex while I fast-forwarded it.
April 24th, 2008 at 2:11 pmApparently King George is shedding the last vestige of reality? How sad, and how low will this sad soul go, before this national nightmare ends.
April 24th, 2008 at 2:11 pmDid anyone even know he was going to be on it beforehand? I sure didn't. It might just be a coincidence.
April 24th, 2008 at 2:12 pmWe immediately turned the channel when he came on Idol. :)
What kind of sad state of affairs is it when a wartime president doesn't have anything better to do than appear on TV game shows? Yikes.
April 24th, 2008 at 2:21 pmGuess Bush flunked his audition to become a game show host next January. Wonder if this is what he means by remaining relevant for the rest of his term.
April 24th, 2008 at 2:33 pmAnd I wonder how Laura Bush and the Jen and Tonic twins did on their gig on the Today's show.
Can't take George anywhere on T.V. He is nothing but poison.
April 24th, 2008 at 2:38 pmwho knew that Howie Mandel was on the forefront of fighting 'terrrrr' (in GW accent).
April 24th, 2008 at 2:43 pmI heard 'Deal or No Deal' was converting to Euros.
April 24th, 2008 at 3:24 pm#20: impeachcheneythenbush
I have the same reaction as well. Funny thing is, I am starting to have the same reaction with the Clintons. And I used to like them, but their 'scorched-earth" policy in this primary is too much. Ironically, I have a feeling that if she'd ran a more genteel campaign that she'd be ahead. Unfortunately, I don't think she knows how. I gusess it comes from years of having to be such a fighter, she thinks everything has to be an all out brawl.
April 24th, 2008 at 4:41 pmJay Leno that night: "President Bush appeared on Deal or No Deal tonight after being rejected by Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?".
Best joke on the subject ever. :)
April 24th, 2008 at 5:03 pmW could stink up a sewer.
April 24th, 2008 at 6:24 pmThe "Bush Cameo" did not sink the show. All you lemmings need to do a little research before jumping off that cliff. The show has been steadily on a downward slide in ratings for awhile. The header for this article is skewed and WRONG. This was a lame network attempt to pump the ratings back up.
April 25th, 2008 at 4:54 pmThese shows are silly anyways. People shouldn't watch TV they need to be on the PC
April 25th, 2008 at 5:13 pmHEY GEORGE DUMBYA:
I've got friends in Hollywood. If you resign right now, I will personally guarantee you a starring role in a remake of "BJ and the Bear" as Bear. Think about it. You won't have any pesky lines to read (or fed from an earpiece), no big words like "nuclear" to mangle; you'll get to wear a diaper and ride your bike all day long. You'll enjoy higher ratings than what you've got now, plus all the bananas and pretzels you can eat. Imagine how much fun you can have flinging your poop at the US Constitution literally instead of figuratively. Whatever you want: you're the decider. What do you say? Just quit. Now. Please. Leave.
April 26th, 2008 at 2:16 am