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01/18/2004 Archived Entry: "Just askin'..."
Just askin'...
What the fuck does this mean?
Mr. Bush wandered over during Mr. Reid's chat with the Prime Minister. Mr. Reid introduced himself and shook hands with Mr. Bush."Well, what do you do for this guy?" the President asked as he pointed to the Prime Minister.
"Well, you know, sir, I can't really say," Mr. Reid said. "It's not that I don't want to. It's just that, you know, I don't really know from day to day."
This is true. Mr. Reid handles a number of files and performs a number of different duties, depending on the issue and the day.
The President chuckled. "Well, you got a pretty face," he told the surprised Mr. Reid. He wasn't done. "You got a pretty face," he said again. "You're a good-looking guy. Better looking than my Scott anyway."
Scratching my head over here...
More: This rang a bell with me this morning, so I went cruising through the archives. Bush said something similiar to this, in an interview with FoxNews' Brit Hume:
HUME: How do you get your news?BUSH: I get briefed by Andy Card and Condi in the morning. They come in and tell me. In all due respect, you've got a beautiful face and everything.
I'm truly beginning to think that George W. Bush is a closeted gay man. Not that there's anything, etc., etc....
Replies: 13 people speak up
I've been wondering about it, too.
I'm not at all sure what this means.
I think it means somebody let the idiot get away, and there was a reporter close by.
Or maybe it's a terrible attempt to humanize the devil.
Posted by galen @ 01/18/2004 08:35 AM NY
maybe he's pandering for the metrosexual vote :-)
Posted by jeff @ 01/18/2004 09:08 AM NY
Did he say Pretty or "purty"?
They mean different things in backwoods Texas. :)
Like - "mmmmmm - you have a purty Mouth" is a lot different than "you have a pretty mouth" :)
Posted by Hillary Pelosi @ 01/18/2004 09:54 AM NY
In the cluttered warehouse of presidential gaffes, this humdinger ranks fairly low. Bush has so lowered the bar for presidential utterances that anything short of pissing on Reid's shoes seems positively statesmanlike.
That said, the adjective "pretty" is normally reserved for girls and women. When used in reference to a man, it implies effeminacy, gayness, or ineffectiveness.
Posted by Metropolitan99 @ 01/18/2004 10:03 AM NY
Sort of like a dumb ass dog, off his lease. Wondering around getting into things.
No offense meant to dogs in general!
Posted by Aristophanes @ 01/18/2004 10:23 AM NY
i just think that someone has a crush (wonder if this has him rethinking his homophobic policies?)
Posted by justin @ 01/18/2004 12:11 PM NY
If I remember right, didn't he tell Brit Hume or one of those Fox-Bots that he had a 'pretty face,' too?
It was in that big interview where he adimitted to not ever reading the news.
Posted by editor @ 01/18/2004 01:07 PM NY
It was a rather unproductive story in one of the national papers here. It was a waste of space. Maybe they didn't see anything else as being newsworthy, or maybe they were just trying to get the whole scoop on the new Prime Minister and his staff, rather than writing what was really important.
Journalistic quality has decreased so dramatically in the mainstream media that everything seems to be superficial.
Posted by Iceberg @ 01/18/2004 01:40 PM NY
Things like that are just to put people off step, at a disadvantage. There's no possible reply (I like your mouth too?). I consider it akin to the nicknames he gives. And the farting and making people put up with that. It's a power thing by a small, small man.
Posted by cgreen @ 01/19/2004 05:54 PM NY
I agree with cgreen; however, I'd have to say that Brit Hume is not even moderately attractive, but if he is Bush's type...
Posted by jane_al @ 01/20/2004 02:05 PM NY
The president is obviously gayer than Ikea on Superbowl Sunday.
Posted by Dissento @ 01/20/2004 05:02 PM NY
Judging from the Brit Hume quote, my first impression was that Dubya was a closet Flaming Lips fan.
Heh. Still means he's closeted, though.
Posted by Buzz @ 01/21/2004 12:11 AM NY
Gay? Could be. Some of the biggest homophobes are really gay and frightened of admitting this to themselves!
Posted by Yasmin @ 01/23/2004 10:02 PM NY
