It’s simply amazing to me that a President getting caught swearing on an unexpectedly active microphone is getting more press than the mini-war that he was talking about in the first place. And that he didn’t sound like a moron while speaking without a teleprompter… true, it was more like a layman than a head of state, but in it’s own way it sorta humanizes the office. I dunno if that’s good or bad; you usually only see these guys in a didactic manner. Who knows how these guys act in the West Wing?
Even though I’m no mind reader, I have a pretty good idea the same pointed word was thought by nearly every member of the administration once this story broke:
“Oh Shit.”
where the heck are you getting your news. I’m aggregating wikinews right now and haven’t heard a thing, what happend? I presume this “miniwar” is Israel starting a war on the middle east over a couple of captured solders?
Um, OK, I’ll assume that that was sarcasm. I mean, EVERY news channel/site has the cursing story. 99.5% has to have the Middle East thing going on, mixed in with a good dose of North Korea and the nations they tell to piss off. With regards to this post tho, I don’t care who did what to do who: Iran/Syria for funding terrorists groups in other nations, Lebanon for giving tacet control of the southern half of its nation and having no way to control it, Israel for way overreacting to their 3 soldiers. Fact is that it’s still active and the G8 leaders are anxious to squash it. Shame its too late for Beirut.
I do have to wonder what we’d do in a similar situation. Canada kidnaps three soldiers? That’s OK, right? Mexico? A little stressful. What about Cuba? What if Fidel came to FL and captured three soldiers? Pyongyang? Think we’d say “Ah, don’t worry about it – they’ll come back some day”? Possibly… Diplomacy? Didn’t work too well for the *citizens* stuck in Iran for 444 days… I honestly don’t know what the current batch of politicians would do… I just know that the two parties would contradict each other!
you mean Canadians capture? remember Lebanon itself is a democracy that is so poor it can’t even keep it’s ‘candidates for head of state’ from being assassinated. Lebanese may have done the capturing but Lebanon did not.
wikinews has nothing about swearing that I can see. http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Main_Page I was not being sarcastic…
But they do have a story on the Hooters chairman dying at the age of 69. That’s irony.
Wow, I’m actually surprised that made the news. He said, get ready for this, ‘shit’. Ahh, the world as we know it is comming to an end, cause Bush said shit. I was really expecting something a little better than that.
@Tim – I dunno if I should be impressed by WikiNews not carrying it or not…
As for Lebanon, the Lebanese didn’t capture the soldiers – a terrorist group that has decided to make it’s home in southern Lebanon and is acting either with tacet approval of the Lebanese govt OR in an area that they can’t control. Either way the ppl that DID capture the soldiers are on their soil which is why that soil is being attacked. Israel has floating that message for days: they’re not attacking Lebanon but they’re attacking the terrorists. Like picking out shades of gray in a dark room, if you ask me, but no one would :)
@Vi – Pretty much my beef with the whole thing. The world MIGHT be ending (or at least heading to a multi-nation/multi-front war) and that story is buried b/c Bush said shit. Silly ol’ mammal, swearing and stuff. I woulda chortled if he called the Iranian president a twat or something. THAT would be newsworthy :)
@randy the Lebanese didn’t capture the soldiers – a terrorist group that has decided to make it’s home in southern Lebanon. I did not say ‘the’. ‘the’ is a selector. it would select the set of people ‘the Lebanese’. There are many people in that set, including the terrorists(I would say that they are a valid military body and not terrorist(or at least no more terrorist than anyone else)). Just saying ‘Lebanese did it’ (without the ‘the’), means that the people who did the thing are in the set ‘Lebanese’. English is such a weird language but I think we are both at least trying to say exactly the same thing.
“Who knows how these guys act in the West Wing?”
Just listen to the Nixon tapes.
Reminds me of a story about an outtake that Florence Henderson did. It had some kid in it and when Ms. Henderson flubbed her line she said “shit” under her breath. The kid was on camera at the time and had this horrified look on his face. She looked at him and said “That’s right, Mrs. Brady swears”.
Nah, that was business Nixon – not casual ;)
LOL at Mrs Brady swears tho – that’s a hoot!