Bush: ‘I do know about YouTube.’
Bush: ‘I do know about YouTube.’
On Saturday, the Arizona Star reported that President Bush asked the audience to turn off recording devices at a Friday fundraiser, afraid that his remarks could be posted to YouTube:
So sensitive were Republicans about information getting out about the goings-on at the Tucson fundraiser hosted by President Bush Friday morning, even W. himself made sure to ask the 400 or so people at the event to turn off any recording devices.
“I don’t know a lot about technology,” the president said, according to one insider, “but I do know about YouTube.“
President Bush’s technological incompetence is long-standing; his familiarity with YouTube seems to be a new development. After CNN held the first-ever YouTube Democratic presidential debate, former White House press secretary Tony Snow was asked, “Did [Bush] watch the debate?” Snow responded, “I don’t think so. I don’t think he’s big on YouTube debates.”
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Good to know McCain would carry on the tradition of ignorance in the WH.
Sort of like a DC version of dumb and dumber.
July 21st, 2008 at 4:07 pmSeems like Bush is an elitist. He can’t understand why YouTube has grown in popularity over the last few years as a way for all citizens to inform themselves. The internets are ‘evening out the playing field’ with regard to information accessible to all – not just the administration approved MSM.
Whether or not Bush likes or uses YouTube is irrelevant. The fact that he didn’t want his words recorded should be the focus of this story. Why all the secrecy, Mr. Bush?
July 21st, 2008 at 4:09 pm“I don’t know a lot about technology,””Or anything else, for that matter.” – President Dinkledork
July 21st, 2008 at 4:10 pmAnd we we still have all those archived films of Hitler too.
July 21st, 2008 at 4:13 pmYou Tube is the 21st equivalent of those old newsreels.
Actually, der Boosh nose alot bout torture, treason and tyranny…
July 21st, 2008 at 4:14 pmHaving caught some of Chimpy’s babbling about the economy last week I suggest he ask that the cameras be turned off during his press conferences as well. Might salvage what little is left of his dignity.
July 21st, 2008 at 4:14 pmMr Bush – spell “YouTube”…
July 21st, 2008 at 4:15 pmWhy is Bush afraid of his remarks being posted to YouTube? Was he giving out classified information at this fundraiser? Was he planning on telling a tasteless rape joke? Was he afraid somebody might make fun of his Bushlexia flubs?
I can’t believe that in the seven and a half years he’s been President, he hasn’t grasped the idea that the President tends to be photographed, recorded, filmed, taped, and documented wherever he goes. Maybe it was just a way to let people know that he’s “up-to-date” because he knows what YouTube is.
This makes him only about three years out of touch.
July 21st, 2008 at 4:16 pmStratRat Says:
Whether or not Bush likes or uses YouTube is irrelevant. The fact that he didn’t want his words recorded should be the focus of this story. Why all the secrecy, Mr. Bush?
July 21st, 2008 at 4:09 pm
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Well what else do you expect him to do – say stuff that doesn’t directly contradict something he said in the past?
That’s a pretty tall order, eh?
July 21st, 2008 at 4:16 pmBush knows technology – he’s just supposed to feign ignorance so no one will seek his records.
He’s commented before that he really misses e-mailing his buddies.
And here he is at Camp David with a computer at the ready.
It’s the whole Rovian/Cheney strategy of hiding incriminating electronic communications.
July 21st, 2008 at 4:16 pmDon’t know much about anything Mr. Bush accept to lie cheat and steal. That you do know.
July 21st, 2008 at 4:17 pmCitiDC Says:
And here he is at Camp David with a computer at the ready.
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That picture is a photoshop joke just waiting to happen! I can imagine a number of things I could ’shop onto that screen.
July 21st, 2008 at 4:22 pmThe president said, according to one insider, “but I do know about U-Tube. The U-Tube is not something you just dump something on. It’s not a U-Haul truck. It’s a series of U-Tubes.”
July 21st, 2008 at 4:23 pmAre we sure he didn’t say “…I do know about the you tubes?”
July 21st, 2008 at 4:23 pmJohn McCain. Change you can believe in.
McCain presents a change from Bush. He won’t be another four years of the same. For instance, Bush is aware of YouTube, whereas McCain is not. Bush is (presumably) aware of where countries are when he talks about them (I’m actually not sure about this one), whereas McCain is not. Bush is aware of the internets, whereas McCain is only aware of one. See, big difference.
John McCain. Bringing back the vacuum tube.
July 21st, 2008 at 4:25 pmI’m astounded the chymp didn’t mix up MyTube with U-Space.
July 21st, 2008 at 4:25 pmmisshusseinmolly Says:
Why is Bush afraid of his remarks being posted to YouTube? Was he giving out classified information at this fundraiser? Was he planning on telling a tasteless rape joke? Was he afraid somebody might make fun of his Bushlexia flubs?
Or perhaps post a video of Bush/McCain malaprops made from the raw footage, to tie the Tweedle Bros. together, at the lip.
July 21st, 2008 at 4:25 pm“I don’t know a lot about technology,” the president said, according to one insider, “but I do know about YouTube.“
“Another thing I don’t know about” Bush continued, “is pencils, an’ reporters from the Arizona Star an’ such.
July 21st, 2008 at 4:26 pmFrankly I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about pencils an’ people putting words in their mouths an’ kew-otes an’ all…and..uh…you know…golf!–’cause I gave it up! when…when I heard some people say some things about… about what’s goin’ on the world…an’ our children…, so in other words–LET ME FINISH—in other words, by asking everyone to turn-off their You-Tubes I reckon’ no-one can record anything I say.”
You see, my friends, it’s simple. The Sunnys they use MyTube, and the Shitites, they’re more like U-Spaceers…
July 21st, 2008 at 4:26 pmHeavens to Mergatroid! Nobody should be able to record what the chymp doesn’t want recorded. It’s not like they’re not recording every damn thing we say… Just sayin…
July 21st, 2008 at 4:28 pmMaybe Bush should have thought of this 7 years ago and kept his mouth permanently shut. Now its too late. There are thousands of stupid Bush quotes on Youtube already. One more makes no difference.
July 21st, 2008 at 4:29 pmIn that the picture is of a non-photoshopped joke that would be appropiate. How about Jeff Gannon’s web page?
July 21st, 2008 at 4:30 pmOh, Chimpy? The YouTube knows all about YOU!
July 21st, 2008 at 4:30 pmmaura7inf: John McCain. Bringing back the vacuum tube.
your whole comment was great, mauro. :)
July 21st, 2008 at 4:31 pmWhat was he most afraid would be posted? What would be said at a republican fundraiser that shouldn’t be repeated? The where-abouts of UBL? Why nothing was done after the Aug.6 PDB? 9/11 was an inside job? That they knew Iraq was not a threat? What he really thought as people were dying after the Gulf hurricanes? The sites of the mass graves?
If they had any morals, they wouldn’t need to be concerned.
July 21st, 2008 at 4:34 pmRUC…
In my day it was “Heavens to MurgatrOYD! You kids think you know everything!
July 21st, 2008 at 4:35 pmI know how to win wars! Play that on your so-called hi-fidelity stereo-gram-pod, mister!
Wow. That sounds like a guy at the country club, cocktail in his hand, making snide remarks about everybody.
How elitist.
July 21st, 2008 at 4:35 pmGosh, McCain taking Kompewter lessons, Bush finding about teh U-Tubez….
It fills me with happiness to think that when, finally, they complete their long, arduous journey into the 21st century, it won’t be a completely alien world to them.
July 21st, 2008 at 4:36 pmPoor lil chimperor, worrying about “them thar you tubes”. Little does he know his ignorant ass and the dumb stuff he says has spawned a new website “Youboob!”
July 21st, 2008 at 4:42 pmWhat is the Chimperor saying that he doesn’t want on YouTube?
Did they kill everyone at the fund-raiser after they got the money? Or just make them sign non-disclosure agreements?
July 21st, 2008 at 4:42 pmWhy, how refreshingly honest…
…if alarmingly so.
July 21st, 2008 at 4:45 pmBob Says:
What was he most afraid would be posted? What would be said at a republican fundraiser that shouldn’t be repeated?
It doesn’t look good on film when Bush’s entire speech consists of “Show me the money!”
July 21st, 2008 at 4:46 pmMcCain’s ‘Town Hall’ meetings are private, invitation only.
Bush’s ‘Town Hall’ meetings were private, invitation only.
McCain is essentially technologically illiterate.
Bush is essentially technologically illiterate.
Bush has failed in every job in the private sector.
McCain has NEVER had a job in the private sector.
See…they have differences…
July 21st, 2008 at 4:49 pmMaybe Bush didn’t want his picture taken with 400 people who have become DAZZLINGLY WEALTHIER during his presidency.
July 21st, 2008 at 4:52 pmA friend of mine ponied up the $1,000 to hear the Chimperor last week. He told me about the YouTube comment. Some other highlights:
Bush says he is not a legacy guy, that there are three historians right now writing about George Washington, so it’s a little premature to worry about the Bush legacy.
Iraq was the right thing to do.
McCain is obviously the right man for the USA.
That the people praying for him give him strength and substantiates that he is doing the right thing.
The Republican candidate for Pima County Dog Catcher was far and away the best man for the job.
(I made up the last one, heh, heh, heh)
If Bush is the kind of guy who believes in the Power of Prayer, that should scare the holy shit out of him. How many Americans are praying that dickweed falls in front of a bus?
Please Jesus, off that idiot and I swear I will never stray.
July 21st, 2008 at 4:53 pmnanlichi Says:
Please Jesus, off that idiot and I swear I will never stray.
That sounds so much like the
July 21st, 2008 at 5:03 pmNutsBaptists here in Texas that its scary.Zimzone Says:
McCain’s ‘Town Hall’ meetings are private, invitation only.
Bush’s ‘Town Hall’ meetings were private, invitation only.
See…they have differences…
Check out this difference!
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July 21st, 2008 at 5:03 pmYeah, sure. I bet Bush knows as much about YouTube as he does about aluminum tubes.
July 21st, 2008 at 5:11 pmAfter the cameras were off, Chimpy began by doing the hokey pokey. “You put your left foot in, you take your left foot out…”
July 21st, 2008 at 5:11 pmI guess he didn’t want to look like a dick on YouTube….TOO LATE…you already look like a dick on YouTube.
July 21st, 2008 at 5:44 pmGeorge “SURRENDER MONKEY” Bush is spreading the message by keeping it secret. No. Wait. WTF?
July 21st, 2008 at 5:45 pmOK now that he has “the YouTubes” down, time for him to get familiar with U-Haul!
July 21st, 2008 at 5:48 pmBush: ‘I do know about YouTube.’
Guess everyone will now have to re-evaluate their claim that you don’t know a goddamned thing …………..
July 21st, 2008 at 5:57 pmZimzone: To be technically correct concerning McSame’s employment, between April 1981 and January 1983, he worked for Hensley & Co., his father-in-law’s Anheuser-Busch beer distributorship, as Vice President of Public Relations.
July 21st, 2008 at 5:58 pmThe only reason he knows about the YouTube is because of George Allen’s Macaca moment. He knows a single slip can be disaster.
July 21st, 2008 at 6:12 pmBush doesn’t want anyone holding his own words against him. Republicans are a breed to themselves, and inbreeding explains a lot. I have never seen a more disreputable party in my life. The secrecy is unprecedented. Since Bush took office OUR government has been run like a fraternity club with secret meetings, secret deals, and secret crimes. There has never been a more secretive, suspicious administration in the history of the United States.
July 21st, 2008 at 6:14 pmSkull & Bones Man! Skull & Bones. I wonder how many Bushies have coat hanger tats? Maybe none but, I bet he wanted to, HA!
July 21st, 2008 at 7:25 pmBubble Boy Bush and Grandpappy McSame are certainly the 21st century of Dumb and Dumber with FDR mentality. McSame doesn’t know how to use computer and the Clown President doesn’t know the YouTubes or use emails but knows the Internets and The Google (maps of Crawford Ranch).
July 21st, 2008 at 7:44 pmOf course he knows about youtube.
July 21st, 2008 at 8:26 pmHe’s seen himself acting stupid during cultural dances, wearing those costumes, trying to open doors, and of course, his many, many, many verbal gaffes, lies and fabrications.
Pretty soon the WH will be demanding the “Cone of Silence” come down whenever the shrub talks. I thought that had already happened as soon as this years election campaign season started and the shrub became the lame duck that he is.
July 21st, 2008 at 9:09 pmAs long as he is on the PUBLIC PAYROLL in from of a PUBLIC gathering EVERY FRICKIN WORD should be captured in any method desired from clay tablets to digital bits . . . . what he does in his room with dolls can remain a secret . . . .
July 21st, 2008 at 9:46 pm.
LOL
Like Bush knows anything…
What WMD’S?
What YELLOW CAKE URANIUM?
What TIES TO AL-CIA-DUH?
What ALUMINUM TUBES?
What NIGER DOCUMENTS?
What THE FOOK HAS HE BEEN SMOKING… his cocaine?
WHAT’S A GOOGLE?
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July 22nd, 2008 at 1:02 amDumb Follow up question: What do you know about You Tube ?
July 22nd, 2008 at 10:10 pm