Ellen has guest Jenna Bush call dad

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Source: UPI

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 5 (UPI) -- Jenna Bush has called her father, U.S. President George W. Bush, from the stage of "The Ellen DeGeneres Show," People.com reported.

DeGeneres asked the first daughter, a guest on Wednesday's show, if she could reach her dad by phone whenever she wanted, to which Jenna Bush replied, "Sure."

Encouraging her guest to call the president, DeGeneres covered the phone with her hands to protect the private number as Jenna Bush dialed and joked, "I'm not going to get anything I asked for for Christmas."

The talk-show host reassured her, "We're not barging in while they're in their pajamas or something."

First lady Laura Bush got on the phone and said, "I'm just sitting here with Daddy," prompting DeGeneres to say, "I wanted to say hi to Daddy."

Read more: http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Entertainment/2007/12/05/ellen_has_guest_jenna_bush_call_dad/6271/

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...Its that easy eh?

[DS1]

1. Nice to know daddy is just lounging around mid-morning

the more he actually does, the worse we're all off.

[PaDUer]

37. Jenna was there to promote

her book..it was mentioned in the beginning..Bet she's going to show up all over the place. Also caught a quick glimpse of the rock she had on her hand when the lights hit it..You can bet she's not traveling alone.

[rodeodance]

47. he was on his way to Omaha

[Benhurst]

2. ...

:puke:

[Catherine Vincent]

3. Aww, now the Bushies will just love that!

[Javaman]

4. ellen just took a swin dive over the shark. nt

[Cooley Hurd]

18. I agree - why doesn't she have Eva Braun's ghost on her next show?

:crazy:

[AndyA]

5. OMG! The Bushes do know that Ellen is - GASP - gay, don't they?

And they still allowed their daughter to appear on her show? What will the evangelicals say about that?

Of course, I guess they're used to it by now since Cheney has one in his family.

:sarcasm:

Ditto on the comment that if Bush is sitting around with Laura mid morning, he likely isn't doing as much harm as he could be if he were talking to a world leader or Cheney or something... :eyes:

[FatDave]

13. Republicans seem to love Ellen

I mean, Huckabee stole her "phone call from God" bit, didn't he?

[LisaM]

6. Good grief. Did they then stop and take a call from Judith Nathan?

Ellen is really falling off the beam lately. First the dog incident, then crossing the picket line, now this!

[balantz]

7. Money and power corrupt.

[0007]

8. Isn't it wonderful to live in America "Brady Brunch" style?



[JBoy]

43. Hey, it's Johnny Bravo

[peace frog]

9. Must,,, control,,, gag,,, reflex,,,

BLECCCCHHHHHHHH

[Danieljay]

10. I saw it, the first thing Jenna asked daddy: "are you mad?" THAT is telling. n/t

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

11. Very telling. She was very apprehensive about calling and said that she would be in trouble.

MKJ

[librarycard]

23. The TX police didn't seem to bother Jenna

She was very nervous, though I was amazed that Jr. pulled through for her. I was expecting a faux pas on his part, as is usual.

[northzax]

22. not that telling, frankly

my father happened to be the CEO of a large corporation when I was Jenna's age. I had a number I could reach him at any time (he had a cell phone used only for family, and would answer it no matter what else he was doing) and if he was in a meeting, and I called him just for a joke he would have been annoyed that I didn't respect his work. so I can understand that. (just like when my mom calls me at work on my cell phone, hey ma? I can't talk now, I'm at work. but you always answer, what if it's an emergency?

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

39. I guess it's her fear that her dad was mad. And, asking him that, instead of laughing off

the situation, which I can imagine Pres Clinton and Chelsea doing, or Amy and Pres Carter.

C'mon it's a lightweight call from the Ellen Degeneres show, from his daughter.

I think Sen Gore or Sen Kerry would have fun with that as well, without their kids being afraid to call.

MKJ

[northzax]

40. it was a set up anyway

i am sure.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

41. Probably. And, even as a set up it was uber creepy.

MKJ

[shain from kane]

12. "I'm just sitting here with Daddy. He's reading "The Pet Goat" again and eating pretzels. He said

he couldn't remember the ending."

[ncrainbowgrrl]

14. ROFL

:spray: New monitor time!

[Benhurst]

15. Poor George. No, "My Pet Goat" doesn't end with the Pentagon blowing up.

That was real life.

[MilesColtrane]

16. Only a true Bush would relish crossing a picket line.

Did Junior say, "Ahm proud a ya Jen. Fuck the WGA." at any point in the conversation?

[mitchum]

17. That was my first thought

not surprising behavior at all

[heliarc]

19. Yeah...

And I'm sure that wasn't planned by the Staff as a PR op.

[Supersedeas]

20. something tells me that it's more difficult to reach Dick Cheaty

[BlueStater]

21. Barf-o-rama

I have no idea why the media keeps trying to humanize these rotten people. Just give it the hell up already.

[queerart]

24. It Was Staged. . . . . .

Everyone is just going to be available to take a call at that moment. . . . .

... and both her parents sitting together to take the call. . . . .

. . . . . and calling on an "unsecured" telephone line ?!?!

Ellen didn't jump the shark. . . . she is surfing the shark. . . . .

This is good ole PR at work to make all of them look like a Norman Rockwell family painting for Christmas. . . .

I'm sad for Ellen. . . . . why she didn't take heed when everyone saw what happened when Rudy tried this same kind of stunt with the cel phone. . . .

I guess the dog must have died. . . . . and it's sweeps. . . . . . .

[Carrieyazel]

25. Why in the world did she let this little twit come on her show?

[City Lights]

26. Pickles calls him "daddy," too?

How quaint. :puke:

George calls his 25-year-old daughters his "little girls," and his wife, and "little girls" call him "daddy." Creepy. Very creepy.

[midlife_mo_Jo]

27. Not creepy. Do you have kids?

I don't call my husband "Daddy" when I am talking "to" him, but will sometimes call him "Daddy" when talking "about" him to the kids.

It starts when they're little: for example, "Daddy's home," not "Your daddy's home."

[City Lights]

28. Two. 15 and 13.

And we haven't been "mommy" and "daddy" in years. Ditto for us referring to them as our "little girl" or "little boy."

Different strokes for different folks I guess.

[midlife_mo_Jo]

30. We're still mommy and daddy to our twenty-somethings.

Well, my sons don't call me "mommy." They call me "mom." :)

[bunkerbuster1]

33. Yeah, any 20something kid still referring casually to her father as "Daddy"...

my alarm goes off.

[DesertRat]

32. Daddy seems to be a southern thing

When we lived in TX, most of the women I knew called their father "Daddy".

[City Lights]

34. I wondered if it was a regional thing.

Thanks. :-)

[midlife_mo_Jo]

44. You're right. It's not DISTURBING. It's REGIONAL and CULTURAL.

My relatives from South America (not disclosing where) still call their mother "mommy," too. Even the grown males, and they're from a culture that's rather machismo!

[soleft]

35. I live in NYC and call my exhusband Daddy when talking to my son

I also call my 84 year old Daddy when talking to my 48 year old sister.

[midlife_mo_Jo]

45. Good for you referring to your ex as "Daddy"

instead of "your father" with lots of sarcasm in your voice. :)

I don't know what the big deal is. When speaking to your son are you suppose to call his father by his first name? :(

[superconnected]

29. I can't think of any of my friends that called their dads, "daddy", after they were school age.

I remember calling my dad, "daddy" all the time, when I was 3-4 years old.

[midlife_mo_Jo]

31. In the south, a woman is never too old to call her father "Daddy."

Although I guess that's a generalization that might not apply to all of the south.

We even have "grandmommy" and "granddaddy." ;)

[Olney Blue]

36. Hi Daddy, this is Jenna. Guess what? Iran doesn't have nukes!

[truthisfreedom]

38. Staged, pre-planned, no surprise, who cares. A cheap attempt at coming across as human.

I'm not fooled.

[JBoy]

42. Bang on.

I'm surprised they didn't have a video feed from wherever George and Pickles were. Complete with flag in the background.

[missTheBigDog]

46. LOL! Good one....

[horse_traderxx]

48. Ellen has guest Jenna Bush call daddy

Too bad we all don't have access to that number.