White House press corps sends off Bush with awkward goodbye.
By on Jan 12th, 2009 at 3:05 pm
White House press corps sends off Bush with awkward goodbye.
At the conclusion of President Bush’s final White House press conference earlier this morning, he addressed reporters, telling them: “It has been an honor to work with you. … I wish you all the very best.” And with that, Bush concluded the briefing and walked off the podium, leaving the press corps unsure of how to react. Some hesitated to stand, while most stayed seated. One said “thank you Mr. President,” and a small number offered half-hearted applause. Watch it:
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Awww, couldn't someone have thrown a shoe at him?
Helen Thomas, I'm very disappointed in you.
January 12th, 2009 at 3:08 pmDon't you just hate those smarmy, long winded good byes?
January 12th, 2009 at 3:09 pmI think that wild applause for his exit would have been the appropriate response. No more mangled press conferences where nothing is actually conveyed.
January 12th, 2009 at 3:09 pmIt's the Press that gave this War Criminal a pass for 8 years, they could have lined up for one last 'Kiss Bush's As$'.
Press, ha, what a joke that is, stenographers is more like it.
January 12th, 2009 at 3:10 pmWhy did the reporter keep hitting himself in the head with a hammer?
January 12th, 2009 at 3:10 pmAnswer: Because it felt so good when he stopped
How long until Billo, Glenn Beck and Rush are all calling for the reporters that were unkind to the Dummy in Chief to be tortured for not giving the idiot a Stalin-like ovation?
January 12th, 2009 at 3:11 pmOut with a whimper... yeah, that's Bush all over.
January 12th, 2009 at 3:11 pmLibertyLover Says:
I think that wild applause for his exit would have been the appropriate response. No more mangled press conferences where nothing is actually conveyed.
Couldn't TMZ get anyone in there to play "Nah, Nah, Nah, Nah...Hey, Hey, Hey...Goodbye!"?
January 12th, 2009 at 3:13 pmThe pleasure was all yours I'm sure you ring tailed doofus.
January 12th, 2009 at 3:14 pmA more appropriate "goodbye" would have been for everyone to kick him solidly in the Cheney and then everyone say "see you in The Hague, Chimpy."
Priceless
January 12th, 2009 at 3:16 pmGoodbye? You barely said hello. You are the president with the fewest press conferences.
I wonder what he will enjoy for his last meal? Timothy McVeigh had two pints of mint chocolate chip ice cream, if that's any help.
January 12th, 2009 at 3:17 pmDon't let the door hit your ass on the way out
January 12th, 2009 at 3:17 pmSOCIOPATHIC GEORGE
January 12th, 2009 at 3:23 pmOff to hell to you go, spoiled child. I hope to repeat that through January 20th, and if justice pulls through, the conviction and sentencing.
January 12th, 2009 at 3:26 pmAfter all the sucking up they did, all they get is "it's been nice knowin' ya?
Rest assured the WH Press corp will NOT make that mistake again!
Starting with Obama on January 20 2009 they will do everything they can to question the president on every issue in any way possible, no matter how stupid or shallow the question might be, just to show everyone that they are not to be trifled with!
Bush's 8 year legacy has already been consigned to the first three weeks of January never to be mentioned again. From now on, it will all be Obama's fault--and maybe then the dirty filthy blogosphere will stop being so mean to the professionals of the 4th Estate.
January 12th, 2009 at 3:32 pmDid the idiots from Faux and the WSJ kiss herr dubyah's shoes before he left the room?
January 12th, 2009 at 3:38 pmThis White House press corp is a joke. The same press corp that spent eight years not asking a thing. Eight years nodding their heads like bobble dogs in the back of a car. Allowing to go unchallenged everything the President said. The only reporter that pushed for the truth when the others stayed silent was Helen Thomas.
This press corp lost the right to call themselves either reporters or journalists. The White House press corp is a soft billet. And like the press that goes with the President on his plane, they did not want to do anything to lose their easy job. So they did nothing. They were intimidated into silence. Other then Helen Thomas which ended up not being called on because of her questions, they were afraid.
They enabled this President. That embarrassed scattered applause was for themselves. Any embarrassment belonged to them. Ineffectual and incompetent the lot of them.
January 12th, 2009 at 3:45 pmFaux News kiss Dumbya's shoes?! Oh no! We're talking about a full shine job...front and back with those boys and girls on their real Executive Producer.
January 12th, 2009 at 3:47 pm5th Estate:
you're close, it will be the Clinton recession, until it becomes Obama's.
January 12th, 2009 at 3:47 pmOuch.
January 12th, 2009 at 3:54 pmWell, at least Commander McCodpiece knew which door to leave through. now only if it were the door to the gallows, where he and his ilk belong.
January 12th, 2009 at 3:55 pmGood riddance...
January 12th, 2009 at 4:11 pmDynamo Says:
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What a startling piece of footage! The press doesn’t like President Bush?? What a shocker!
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January 12th, 2009 at 4:11 pmTake a peak at those poll numbers. It seems it isn't just the press...
An awkward farewell? Gee, I wonder why. Half of them probably pity
January 12th, 2009 at 4:12 pmI'm surprised. Considering the MSM has been kissing George's ass for the lst 8 years, I'd thought they would give him a standing ovation and start crying for their soon to be departed "king".
January 12th, 2009 at 4:24 pmAn awkward farewell? Gee, I wonder why. Half of them probably
pity the b*stard and the others breathed a sigh of relief.
Helen Thomas would top my list for medal of freedom, if it hadn't
January 12th, 2009 at 4:25 pmbeen so devauled by Reagan and W.
When the new President takes the oath of office in 8 days, the press corps will go into attack mode from day one.
January 12th, 2009 at 4:26 pmWow, every word a lie, right up to the bitter end.
I also hear he refuses to feel sorry for himself just because bad things happened on his watch.
January 12th, 2009 at 4:40 pmAs 1. Hussein Toasterhead seems to imply, I would rather everyone stood to their feet and threw their shoes - they could tell Bush it is like in Anapolis where everyone throws their hats in the air at graduation.
I'm not even sure the standing up wasn't just people standing up fast to get out of the room. The applause wasn't even half hearted - sounded like 1 person.
The worst part is that if someone turns in even a bad performance, if one person stands up and applauds, everyone else is goaded into a standing ovation just so they don't appear impolite.
January 12th, 2009 at 4:41 pmWhy would they still like him? They made him into a god after 9/11. They faithfully regurgitated his lies about WMD to support his invasion of Iraq. They covered up his crimes of wiretapping anf torture until he admitted those crimes himself. In all, not only did the press give Bush a free pass for 5 years, they were active accomplices in his criminal activities.
What did they get for abandoning their journalistic principles to become co-conspirators with the Bush administration? Nothing but continued derision from the right and appropriate indignation from the left.
The press corps hitched their wagon to the Bush administration, and the whole thing blew up in their faces. Now, even they realize their mistake.
January 12th, 2009 at 4:45 pmImagine when this monster took office there were 1.2 million more Iraqis living out their lives. Truth be told Clinton did as much damage with his various war crimes. This is beyond simple left/right politics. I pray Obama doesn't go down that dark road.
January 12th, 2009 at 4:46 pmDynamo Says:
What a startling piece of footage! The press doesn’t like President Bush?? What a shocker!
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True then again why should the press be any different than the REST of the sane portion of the world?
January 12th, 2009 at 5:14 pmMy take on Chimpy's last newsconference at TheZoo.
January 12th, 2009 at 5:18 pmLooks like Bush is still afraid Helen Thomas though. Helen Thomas should follow Bush and Cheney around and ask them questions until they break. Maybe then they will tell us what we need to know.
January 12th, 2009 at 5:26 pmSincerity? The man isn't sincere about anything! He makes lite (Bush lite) about the lives of billions of people for an hour, and then wanders off as quickly and insincerely as he has led the free world for 8 years. His sins are so great, over so long a time that I'm too burned out to adequately express the joy I'll feel when exits the great door to the west in one week.
January 12th, 2009 at 5:34 pmDid a reporter yell, "sit down!", to the press at the end of the video? Sounded like it.
January 12th, 2009 at 6:22 pmNo SHOES?????!!!!!!!!! Where is the gut of American Jornalism?!
January 12th, 2009 at 6:54 pmHAGUE!!!!!!! NOW!!!!!!!!!!!
January 12th, 2009 at 6:55 pmThere has been only one journalist in that room for the past eight years - Helen Thomas.
You can flush the rest of those so called journalists down the toilet for allowing Bush to destroy America.
January 12th, 2009 at 8:30 pmHAHAHAHAHAHA
I bet chimpy thought he would leave with a roaring standing ovation.
He's lucky that the reporters kept their shoes on or maybe that's why he didn't stick around and tap dance for them.
That is what should happen in congress too.
HAHAHAHAHAHA
BTW -- Every year during the beginning of the year I mistakenly write the previous year. For some reason I haven't made that mistake;I don't think I can.
January 12th, 2009 at 10:58 pm5th Estate Says:
Rest assured the WH Press corp will NOT make that mistake again!
Starting with Obama on January 20 2009 they will do everything they can to question the president on every issue in any way possible, no matter how stupid or shallow the question might be, just to show everyone that they are not to be trifled with!
You have that right.
Did dana say good-bye yet?
January 12th, 2009 at 11:07 pmSlink off to the depths of Hell you pitiful excuse for a human.
January 12th, 2009 at 11:26 pmSo isn't it customary for some one to make up some shit about the white house being like vandalized or something? I heard they are planning to clear all the brush spray paint "Mission Accomplished" all over stuff.
January 12th, 2009 at 11:36 pmbrush "and" spray
January 12th, 2009 at 11:37 pmGet lost jerk!!!!!
January 13th, 2009 at 2:05 amDavid Gregory and this Press Corps represent everything that is wrong with America today.
SPINELESS FASCIST PROPAGANDA MINISTERS!
Send them off to the Hague as well!
January 13th, 2009 at 10:23 amWhat fascinates me more than a pallid press corps is the chant of the Repugnants about "liberal bias in the press."
January 13th, 2009 at 11:14 am