Texas Rangers fans give Bush a rousing ovation as he throws out first pitch.
By on Apr 6th, 2009 at 4:15 pm
Texas Rangers fans give Bush a rousing ovation as he throws out first pitch.
When then-President Bush delivered the first pitch at the Washington Nationals home opener last year, he was met with a resounding chorus of boos. However, today a crowd of 40,000 Texas Rangers fans cheered wildly when the stadium’s public address announcer bellowed, “[W]elcome home the 43rd president.” Bush — a former partial owner of the team — then took the mound and received a standing ovation as he threw out the first pitch. “He threw a strike!” the announcer declared. Watch it:
Perhaps this in an indication of why Bush — one the most unpopular presidents of all time — chose to spend his post-presidency life in Dallas.
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Hey, they cheered hangings in Texas…
It’s TEXAS!
April 6th, 2009 at 4:21 pmPerhaps they were cheering the 43rd President, now that there’s a 44th President in office
April 6th, 2009 at 4:21 pmWow, Mrs. Doubtfire has really gone to shit.
April 6th, 2009 at 4:22 pm***
just wait til he gets that
gol’ durn library open.
just you wait!
:<0
April 6th, 2009 at 4:24 pmThis is precisely why the rest of America HATES TEXAS!
Just like the rest of the World hated Hitler but he was adored in Germany. What did that do to Germany’s reputation for decades?
no difference.
April 6th, 2009 at 4:26 pmI live in Texas..let me reassure you..it was all out support to the 43rd. I am watching the rangers game..I had to sit through 2 laborious innings of Dubyas’ commentary. I was thinking to myself…anywhere other than Texas..and I don’t think he would have made it out in one piece. But, the good news is…that this is almost all of the republicans base…held securely in one location…So when ever there is a game…libs and dems…run free!
April 6th, 2009 at 4:26 pmWell good for him. He has to have somebody cheer for him. Just as the Republican Party needed something to cheer for after they got their behinds kicked in the last two elections. What did they decided to cheer for? Obama’s faliure of course!
April 6th, 2009 at 4:26 pmOh, thank god they cheered him.
If they had booed him, Exley wold have had to come out of retirement to explain how the boos weren’t prominent.
April 6th, 2009 at 4:28 pmOT, but has anyone else noticed that TP’s search feature has gotten really, really lame?
April 6th, 2009 at 4:30 pmWell in the for the first time in over 10 years I can finally say something nice about the Shrub…He threw a strike!!!, which to my calculations is the only thing the Shrub has done right in ten years.
April 6th, 2009 at 4:32 pmDo they have to check their guns at the turnstile in Texas or can they carry them in with them. One never knows when a dog will pee on the floor and then all those rednecks will have no choice but to shoot the next cop they see…
April 6th, 2009 at 4:33 pmlulz. i remembur dat.
April 6th, 2009 at 4:34 pmLungman424 Says:
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Well in the for the first time in over 10 years I can finally say something nice about the Shrub…He threw a strike!!!, which to my calculations is the only thing the Shrub has done right in ten years.
Yeah, too bad it didn’t happend during his presidency, it would have been the highlight of his career.
April 6th, 2009 at 4:34 pmOnly slightly OT, but I tried to post something that was so obscene that it didn’t even rate “moderation”, it just went away. Nicely played TP!
April 6th, 2009 at 4:35 pmOh, come on! He did catch that bass… or carp… or whatever it was…
April 6th, 2009 at 4:35 pmWe’d all be much better off if he’d just gone ahead and run that franchise into the ground instead of our economy.
http://www.pufferfishblog.com/
April 6th, 2009 at 4:35 pmRalph, I think it turns out that he actually lied about that fish. Seriously. I know, you’re shocked that bush would lie about something, so was I…
April 6th, 2009 at 4:36 pmThat must of cost Daddy Bush a pretty penny because George W. has no friends only those paid to cheer. Interesting this group cheered a War Criminal President who brought the Recession to the US. While Obama has over 3 million unpaid Americans stand in the freezing cold to watch him get sworn in Office, hundred thousand around the World on this first tour cheering him. The Queen asked Michelle to keep in touch while nothing but good by to Laura. This is what drives the GOP and the Media/Press crazy. Why doesn’t anyone like or respect George W. Bush the former Liar-in-Chief. How much money will Daddy Bush have to shall out to pay for people to act like they like his son? Will George W. ever get help for his depression or the nights he sees all those he murdered?
April 6th, 2009 at 4:36 pmThis is further indication of why this man believes history will show he was a great president and give him his due. He chooses to surround himself with people that believe he is great and therefore justifies his existence and fantisies with those results.
April 6th, 2009 at 4:37 pmHe threw a strike!!!, which to my calculations is the only thing the Shrub has done right in ten years.
Then again, all he has done for the past eight years is throw strikes.
April 6th, 2009 at 4:37 pmhurleyburly Says:
I live in Texas..let me reassure you..it was all out support to the 43rd
I live in Dallas – for now. I was just laid off from a Dallas Newspaper. After wallowing in a conservative septic tank surrounded by the lunatic fringe for 10 years…….I am soooo ready to get out of here!
April 6th, 2009 at 4:39 pmI think it was a strike because no one was swinging at it. Besides, we all know the status of his balls.
April 6th, 2009 at 4:40 pmralph the wonder locust Says:
Oh, thank god they cheered him.
If they had booed him, Exley wold have had to come out of retirement to explain how the boos weren’t prominent.
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nostalgia time, i remember the “ex man” too.
he accidentally swallowed a chop stick and
choked to death.
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tragic.
_-_
April 6th, 2009 at 4:40 pmHe threw a strike huh?
No real surprise, he struck out the U.S. when he was prez.
And Rapture, if you miss him so much…simple solve here..move to Texas!!
April 6th, 2009 at 4:42 pmRaptureReady Says:
I sincerely miss him. Texas is lucky.
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aren’t they?
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why don’t you move there?
take your bible just in case
they don’t have any there.
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April 6th, 2009 at 4:42 pmI live in DFW. He fits right in. What is left of the Republican base starts in Appalachia, meanders through Tennessee, northern Alabama and Mississippi, takes in Arkansas, and then peters out in North Texas. Happy trails, W.
April 6th, 2009 at 4:43 pmAs someone who does liberal talk radio in Dallas Texas…I can tell you why….this happened.
All of the local media is caught up in George W. Bush love because they fear him. A story waiting to break is that people are getting kicked out of their homes because of his “think tank” taking possession.
When you post someting negative about Bush on a local blog…
it gets deleted…….or that commenter gets bombarded with
name calling comments.
The Dallas Morning News and D Magazine are catering to wealthy advertisers. Everyone I know hates the fact that this war criminal lives amongst us. Fear that our city will be targeted because he selected Dallas for the love he can get based on fear.
April 6th, 2009 at 4:43 pmDoes the United States have an extradition treaty with Texas?
PEACE
April 6th, 2009 at 4:44 pmIt must have been quite a feat of coordination to get those 40,000 loyalty oaths….
April 6th, 2009 at 4:44 pmspecial olympic athletes need encouragment.
April 6th, 2009 at 4:45 pmThe USA has become the World’s laughing stock! The economy in shambles, bogged up in two unwinable wars, not the super power in the world, not a Democractic example, where the will of the people prevail, criminal corporations and financial institutes robbing the public treasury, War criminals walking free and still holding high up offices, like R. Gates, Torture and Fascism…
Mission acomplished Mr. Bush! You deserve a standing ovation!
April 6th, 2009 at 4:46 pmI get really tired of this blame Texas for Bush thing. Bush was born in Connecticut.
April 6th, 2009 at 4:46 pmPeople are funny.
April 6th, 2009 at 4:48 pmHey Daryll! How’s that fake pregnancy coming? Still in it’s first month?
You loser… hide in the shadows for weeks, dip your toe in the water to see if anyone remembers your lies, then run back to the safety of lurking.
We do remember, NitWitley’s future concilman wannabe!
PEACE
April 6th, 2009 at 4:48 pmYeah, a lot of you professional comedians miss him. Understandably.
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Say, Daryll, what ever became of your ambition to become Whitley County Councilman? Did you give that up? I thought it was a charmingly quixotic dream of yours.
April 6th, 2009 at 4:49 pmspencers mom — GMTA.
April 6th, 2009 at 4:49 pmDid the Chimp spring for free beer or something?
April 6th, 2009 at 4:49 pmDallas can have him. If he leaves Dallas, someone ought to arrest that warmongering lying sack of right wing crap.
April 6th, 2009 at 4:51 pmspearNmagicHelmet Says:
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you embarrass yourself with that one. flagged.
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April 6th, 2009 at 4:51 pmMore proof you can’t fix stupid!
April 6th, 2009 at 4:51 pmI sincerely miss him.
April 6th, 2009 at 4:51 pm—
Won’t you see him flying naked through the air? Oh yeah that’s right that stupid shit isn’t ever happening…
And the [Prescott] Bush family was, before that, from Ohio.
So take that ya Texas haters!!! =)
April 6th, 2009 at 4:52 pmI think they’re just glad he was caught picking his nose on camera again. Its on the You Tube!!! Har Har Har
April 6th, 2009 at 4:52 pm*not caught
curse the gods who don’t want me to snark!!!
April 6th, 2009 at 4:54 pmThat was the one right two left Connecticut nose pick performed perfectly by ex dear leader
heh
April 6th, 2009 at 4:55 pmRationalRadioJett # 30
You are so right on the money! I worked at one of the publications you mentioned, in the Newsroom. Every day, on page 2 the newspaper asks the readers to send in their photos of their happy encounters with W. They’ve done this for over two months. They’ve gotten exactly 2 photos. The News is so out of touch with the City that it had to layoff over 1,000 people in the past 8 months due to falling circulation. There were those of us who spoke out daily inside the belly of the Beast. To no avail. Same thing with the FrontBurner. All they care about is the Preston/Highland Park/University Park crowd. No wonder the Dallas Morning News is desintegrating!!
April 6th, 2009 at 4:55 pmpastcaring, how did I never see that Bush picking his nose video before?
Dang, he was in there up to his wrist.
April 6th, 2009 at 4:56 pmThose braindead morons in Texass…
They LIKE him, they really really LIKE him!!!!
- With apologies to Sally Field…and to the rest of the embarrassed world.
April 6th, 2009 at 4:56 pmI know…it’s a personal favorite.
It actually hurts your brain to watch!
April 6th, 2009 at 4:56 pmYeh, they have started dropping a free ‘briefing’ in the yard as of late to garner more subscriptions…I throw them away without looking at them
April 6th, 2009 at 4:58 pmLibellula saturata Annie Says: Those braindead morons in Texass…
Please, brain dead people cant pick their noses.
April 6th, 2009 at 4:59 pmRaptureReady Says:
I sincerely miss him. Texas is lucky.
April 6th, 2009 at 5:00 pm—————————————————————-
Than why don’t you move to Texas since you miss him?
I hear Obama had to bring in people with putty knives to scrape the underside of the oval desk..
[kidding]
April 6th, 2009 at 5:01 pmJeez if only he had been made baseball commissioner in the 90’s… wouldn’t we have all been much better off…
April 6th, 2009 at 5:02 pm***
drive by trolling?
that’s not like rap.
wonder if he’s feeling ok…?
:|
April 6th, 2009 at 5:02 pmGood one mom. Maybe we should put that anti-immigration fence on the northern border of Texas.
April 6th, 2009 at 5:02 pmApril 6th, 2009 at 5:03 pm
So, I guess Texas approves of WAR CRIMINALS walking around free…
…go figure.
April 6th, 2009 at 5:04 pmNobody cares what you detest. And blowup dolls can’t get pregnant ignoramus.
April 6th, 2009 at 5:05 pmI was born and raised in Texas, and am visiting there now, and it is worse than this post makes it seem. The vast majority of people I know here talk about how great of a President he was…they call him things like ‘honourable’ and talk about what a great guy he is and how much good he did for our country…not kidding, that’s how it is here. Any time I challenge that view point I am met by either pitying stares, or irrational anger. No one cares for facts or intelligent conversation…of course, that is the Republican way, so I am not surprised, merely frustrated. To be fair though, there are a few normal people in Texas…a few.
April 6th, 2009 at 5:06 pmHello RaptureReady:
What does rapture ready really mean.
I know I’m rapacious Once I experienced a feeling that I was being carried away by overwhelming emotion but two days later I realized it was only a hurricane.
Do you like dragonflies?
April 6th, 2009 at 5:06 pmYour certainly welcome to your opinion Daryll.
April 6th, 2009 at 5:06 pmHey there….have you seen Bush at the Ballgame?
April 6th, 2009 at 5:07 pmOOOH! Daryll detests my comment! Are Xtians allowed to detest? Do detesters get to be raptured along with the rest of the gang or is there a Little Yellow Bus that comes along later to clean up the rapture detritus? Or do detesters just go to hell?
Daryll, better go back and read that bible of yours. Bearing false witness? One of the Big Guy’s Top 10. Amazing how that first month took about nine weeks…
PEACE
April 6th, 2009 at 5:07 pmI have found that politics is something discussed with few people as it usually leads to arguments no matter from what state they are from.
April 6th, 2009 at 5:09 pmRaptureReady Says:
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spencers butterfly mom Says:
Hey Daryll! How’s that fake pregnancy coming? Still in it’s first month?
You loser… hide in the shadows for weeks, dip your toe in the water to see if anyone remembers your lies, then run back to the safety of lurking.
We do remember, NitWitley’s future concilman wannabe!
PEACE
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I detest your comment. My wife is just over two months pregnant. Prospective due date is October 26 (Let’s hope). Also, yes, President Bush is a magnificent man and leader that cannot be matched by anyone. Upon completion, I am looking forward to visiting his library.
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won’t be completed if you
don’t donate. so donate.
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“Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream.” —Presidential candidate George W. Bush, LaCrosse, Wis., Oct. 18, 2000
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now move sucker, move!
:)
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April 6th, 2009 at 5:09 pmRupturedRectum Says:
I sincerely miss him. Texas is lucky.
Do you have a life size cardboard cutout of him in you “Flogging out the Gay” Closet?
Is it sticky?
April 6th, 2009 at 5:11 pmXisithrus, Hemiptera Says:
I get really tired of this blame Texas for Bush thing. Bush was born in Connecticut.
It’s not our fault that all real cowboys go to Andover Prepratory Academy, Yale and Harvard…
April 6th, 2009 at 5:11 pm…
past,
woa, that hurts to watch…
he was scratching his brain!
++
April 6th, 2009 at 5:12 pmDaryll… future Whitley County Councilman? What happened with that?
Was it anything like “President-elect Huckabee”?
April 6th, 2009 at 5:12 pmI’m confused, Raputure darryl thinks he’s pregnant? Did he finally explore those “lusts that shall not be named” and thinks you can get knocked up by unprotected buttsex?
April 6th, 2009 at 5:14 pmGives new meaning to the term:
snot-nosed punk now doesn’t it?
April 6th, 2009 at 5:17 pmHeh. Dont forget that real cowboys are scared of horses!
April 6th, 2009 at 5:17 pmhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8kdE5–Ces
Yup. All those Texans were cheering him alright. Looks like they have finally forgiven him for trading Sammy Sousa away.
April 6th, 2009 at 5:17 pmXisithrus, Hemiptera Says:
I have found that politics is something discussed with few people as it usually leads to arguments no matter from what state they are from.
True. I just can’t help myself…when I hear people praise Bush, I feel obligated to ‘educate’ them. It doesn’t help that I have lived in two extremely conservative areas of the US; rural Texas and Provo, Utah. But you’re correct, arguments will arise everywhere over politics, not just in Texas.
April 6th, 2009 at 5:17 pmAlso, yes, President Bush is a magnificent man and leader that cannot be matched by anyone
April 6th, 2009 at 5:17 pm—
Oh geez those Reagan idolizers are gonna be so pissed at your silly ass…
I wanna hear more about those Rio whores…
April 6th, 2009 at 5:19 pmMy mother and her new husband are from Arizona and call themselves conservatives…makes for some interesting times =)
April 6th, 2009 at 5:20 pmSo can anyone tell me why Daryll abandoned his campaign for Whitley County Councilman? Please let it have something to do with inappropriate text messages exchanged with an underage male page… that would be so awesome.
April 6th, 2009 at 5:24 pmgod told him to?
April 6th, 2009 at 5:25 pm…
past,
silly me,
as if he actually had a brain.
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btw, i couldn’t watch all of it,
did the fans give him a
“rousing ovation” after he
pushed it all the way up to his knuckle?
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April 6th, 2009 at 5:29 pmMaybe if they’d had the balls to put it on the Jumbotron™…
April 6th, 2009 at 5:30 pmActually, I think, being half-way decent folk, they all turned and looked the other way….which explains how we got him as president…every just turned and looked the other way.
April 6th, 2009 at 5:31 pmRalph I heard someone leaked some informnation about his used condom collection. He tried to claim that he was just saving the lives of unborn-born agains by keeping the used condoms he collected every saturday and sundy at lovers lane in his freezer…but the voters didn’t by it. they think he was making homemade popsickles (heavy on the sick)…
April 6th, 2009 at 5:32 pmY’know… the fact that Daryll has neither confirmed nor denied that his campaign for Whitley County Councilman was derailed by a scandal involving an exchange of inappropriate text messages with an underage male page leads me to believe that there might be something to the rumor…
It would certainly fit the profile he’s built here through his choice of topics, party affiliation and role models.
April 6th, 2009 at 5:33 pmralph the wonder locust Says:
Y’know… the fact that Daryll has neither confirmed nor denied that his campaign for Whitley County Councilman was derailed by a scandal involving an exchange of inappropriate text messages with an underage male page leads me to believe that there might be something to the rumor…
It would certainly fit the profile he’s built here through his choice of topics, party affiliation and role models.
That’s odd. I had heard the story involved sheep, and Daryll has not denied it.
April 6th, 2009 at 5:38 pmWhere the hell is Daryll?
April 6th, 2009 at 5:41 pmRalph, maybe the good folks of NitWhitley realized how dangerous it would be to have a councilman who could vanish right before their very eyes at any given moment.
Or maybe Daryll photoshopped the wrong woman’s body to be his “wife” in his campaign literature. Or maybe they know, as we do here, that he’s a big liar!
Clearly, the number of things that could derail a campaign of Daryll’s are without limit.
PEACE
April 6th, 2009 at 5:42 pmwatching the bush nose picking video!
April 6th, 2009 at 5:48 pmMust’ve been “Halliburton Day” at the stadium.
Who else could afford to go to a ballgame on a Monday?
April 6th, 2009 at 5:51 pmThe late great Molly Ivins was a Texan..so blanket statements about Texans are not totally appropriate.
In her book, she described Texas Elections…which were often decided by which Candidate Attended the Most Pro-Life Rallies.
I kid you not.
April 6th, 2009 at 5:55 pmBadger Says:
The late great Molly Ivins was a Texan..so blanket statements about Texans are not totally appropriate.
And Jim Hightower, who gave us “There’s nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos.”
And Ann Richards, who gave us: “Poor George, he can’t help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth.” (That was George I).
And the people who build New Braunfels barbecue cookers.
April 6th, 2009 at 6:05 pmand fried pickles… Who but a lunatic fries a pickle let alone eats it with ranch dressing?
April 6th, 2009 at 6:10 pm…
gummble-bee-itch,
those are good
barbecue cookers!
:)
April 6th, 2009 at 6:11 pmdbadass Says:
and fried pickles… Who but a lunatic fries a pickle let alone eats it with ranch dressing?
Well, the Scots deep fry Mars Bars. In fact, my kid found a place in Edinburgh (open until 5 am) that deep fried pretty much “everything” including burgers and hot dogs.
April 6th, 2009 at 6:16 pmsounds like you’ve got yourself a gourmand in the family. Nothing like late night grub.
April 6th, 2009 at 6:28 pmClueless in Dallas.
April 6th, 2009 at 7:01 pmThey may have been cheering because he is no preznit any more, and he is in his “towel-slapping” element, where he should have stayed.
April 6th, 2009 at 7:30 pmI hope dumbya enjoys himself while he can, and his fans cheer him while they can, he will have those memories when he finally finds his sorry ass in prison.
Austink? meant austin, damn typo
April 6th, 2009 at 7:44 pmThese people and people like them are the reason why America is in big trouble. Rather then demanding the Criminal be put in jail, they cheer for him. These Texas simpletons are complicit to the treason and war crimes of Bush and Cheney.
April 6th, 2009 at 8:09 pm#103. I agree with you 100%
April 6th, 2009 at 8:50 pmMan, i gotta work on my blog-posting speed, talk about making an argument to an empty room. Oh dbearton, fyi, I know LOTS of fellow austinites who would LOVE to see that fascist moron and his “puppet masters”, rove and cheney, in gitmo getting the shit waterboarded outta them. As for dallas-yeah, there really are a buncha reich-wing shitheads there, no argument from me there.
April 6th, 2009 at 8:52 pmKeep in mind,
those 40k fans are supporting a franchise
which has never won a pennant in the teams 35+ year history
Fcukin losers, all 40,001 of them.
April 6th, 2009 at 8:58 pmHeck, if you want to go back to when they were the Washington Senators (2nd AL edition) you can clock almost 50 pennant-less years. 48, in fact.
April 6th, 2009 at 9:16 pmWell the guy helped make Frankenroid Jr. (Juan Gonzalez), so I guess Dick Cheney was his masterpiece.
April 7th, 2009 at 12:47 amThe only difference between Bush and Hitler is that Hitler was elected – Kurt Vonnegut
Bush has now killed more Americans than all the world’s terrorists combined – Steven B. Smith
Retrieved November 30, 2008, from http://www.agentofchaos.com/george_w_bush_heil.html
People should not have cheered for Bush.
Bush should be condemned and punished.
Submitted by Andrew Yu-Jen Wang, J.D. Candidate
April 7th, 2009 at 3:06 amB.S., Summa Cum Laude, 1996
Messiah College, Grantham, PA
Lower Merion High School, Ardmore, PA, 1993
Yet more proof that Texas is the last bastion for those who truly despise everything good America stands for.
The only positive? It’s also the place where Presidents get shot.
April 7th, 2009 at 5:53 amI didn’t vote for him in either elections and saw him for what he was, a wealthy, educated dunce, who slipped into the presidency because of the moral failures of slick Willy Clinton. Most of the voting public didn’t seem to want another Democrat in the White House so they abstained from voting and Dubya won his first term in office. Then of course we all know how he won his second term in office and if every registered voter had cast a ballot back then, Dubya would have been throwing out the first pitch at the game four years earlier. I am constantly amazed at the minions who publicly profess how great of a president he was. Perhaps they are the many who were set free from the care facilities to walk among the general population.
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