"The Abu 'Gareff' .../.../ tic-tic-tic /.../... situation"

[DemoTex]

What a dildonic moron! Is Bu$h over the line now? I think so. Time for the padded room in the funny-farm. Nurse Ratchett? Calling Nurse Ratchett!

Thanks for the heads up to last night's Daily Show. I just watched the 7pm EDT re-run. I loved the GOP-Punker. Too damn funny!

[greatauntoftriplets]

1. "Dildonic"???

ROTFLMAO.

:thumbsup:

[in_cog_ni_to]

2. What happened?

I've been gone all day and it seems I missed a lot! Geez. Cheney telling a Senator to go fuck yourself and now Abu Ghraib? What happened???

[Qutzupalotl]

5. Last night on The Daily Show

they played a clip of Bush fumbling for the right word and mispronouncing Graib (as in the original post). Jon came back and said something like, "You know, LBJ never called it the 'Tit Offensive'. When you can't even pronounce it right, it makes it seem like you don't care."

(Not an exact quote. It was funnier when Jon said it. :-) )

[skooooo]

8. ..what Stewart said...

"..it makes it seem like you don't give a f****".

[merh]

24. Go to ComedyCentral.com and watch it. They have it on there

and it is well worth it to just click on over and see it. You can play it over and over again and laugh and laugh, I think I will have to go watch it again.

[DemoTex]

11. Bu$h slaughtered the pronunciation of "Abu Ghraib."

The context was something like "and blah-blah-blah the Abu Gareff prison" ... then he looked around, wild-eyed and shifty, like a skunk at a dinner party. You could almost hear his internal clock ticking. You knew it seemed like an eternity in his fried brain as he digested the mis-pronunciation and the elusive word he might use to clarify his fogged-up thoughts. He settled, very timidly, on "situation." The Abu Gareff ... (wait, wait, wait, wait some more) ... situation.

Forrest Gump would have done better. Any day!

[Toucano]

3. Let's guess what words were running through his "mind".

He was searching so hard for the right word. Which words did he reject?

travesty?
torture scandal?
leak?
war crimes?
photo shoot?

Or maybe he wasn't actually searching for a word. Maybe he just distracted thinking about dinner.

[Cat Atomic]

15. Seemed like he was about to say "scandal", then realized

he needed another "s" word.

"Situation".

[Philostopher]

33. That's what I thought, too.

I also thought there was a split second where he almost started giggling before he came up with the next word. Creeped me out, the only time I see the Dim Son is on Daily Show, and the clips they pick always creep me out.

[sangh0]

30. "prank"

.

[DrWeird]

4. That was a pretty good episode.

Tonights should be too.

[DemoTex]

14. Post a critique on tonight's "Daily Show", please. If you watch it.

It comes on too late for me. I need to get TIVO. However, I don't mind watching it a day later.

[Gold Metal Flake]

6. Oh, it was sublime.

(I posted this last night but the thread sank)

He said...

"...aa-boo ga-refff"

He at once demonstrated an exquisitely stunned look that few great film comics have mastered. In his eyes you can sense the inner dialogue:

<" Fuuuuck. Fuck me. I did it again.">

He slowly moves his face to the left, stunned and disappointed look still on the front of his chimpy head.

Finally, he gives his cranial protuberance a kind of a shake that is universally recognized as the "fuck it, man, it doesn't matter" transistion from humiliation and self-loathing into denial, and he finishes whatever bit of bullshit had been pounded into his 3 inch skull just prior to his installation in front of the Lie-Co cameras.

Must See.

[Cat Atomic]

16. LMAFAO.

"punded into his 3-inch thick skull"- too frigging funny. :D

[DemoTex]

17. "Fuck it, man, it doesn't matter"

If Bu$h had done the 'Nam he would have been much more laid-back. He could have said, "It's a thing. Just a thing. It's just a fucking thing brother, just a thing."

Know what I mean, Vern?

[Toucano]

22. Brilliant narrative!

You should be getting paid for stuff like that! :) Thanks.

[MallRat]

31. Bingo.

You're absolutely right. That long, interminably long pause after mangling the name of the prison is exactly what you said.

There was a glimpse of recognition: "Oh, shit. Did I just say, 'Abu Gareff?'"

Then there was brief panic: "Oh, fuck. I look like an insensitive prick. How do I spin my way out of this?"

Then feverish searching for a word: "Wait. I'm in the middle of a sentence! The Abu Ghraib...what? fiasco? disaster? BIG FUCKING MESS? SOMEBODY BUY ME A VOWEL!!!"

Then resolution, and relief: "I wonder if anybody noticed. Oh well, I'm hungry. I'd really like a fruit roll-up now."

-MR

[skooooo]

7. You left out the little extra stutter...

....The Abu Gareff.../../ ..ss../ / situation



Is maybe how it should read...he had trouble with the big 4-syllable word.

[Catherine Vincent]

9. I saw that online today. I had to contain myself while at work.

Poor Bushie!

[Bush_Sucks]

18. Link?

Where did you see it?

[merh]

25. Go to the earlier thread posted below it has a link to

Comedy Central

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1851131

[w13rd0]

12. He was going to call it a "scandal"...

...but stopped himself. Rove and Cheney would have donned leather and spanked him like a bad poodle.

[newsguyatl]

10. ROFLMAO

[redstateblues]

27. What does the RO stand for in ROFLMAO?

[Catherine Vincent]

29. You should be able to figure it out if you know what the f stands for...

rolling on the floor laughing my azz off.

[NightOwwl]

13. Does anyone have a video clip?

I'd like to watch it again (and again, and again, and again.)

Pea-brained moron.

[merh]

26. Link to A Boo Gareffffffff

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1851131

[johnfunk]

19. "Dildonic" enters the official lexicon!

DemoTex, you're a genius!

[DemoTex]

21. "Dildonic" has been part of my vocabulary since 1966.

I did not coin the term (as much as I would like the credit!). I was a jazz bassist way back then, and "dildonic" was a long-used (pardon the pun) epithet in the jazz scene.

[mike1963]

20. Gotta love this thread, "dildonic" from Mac and "cranial protuberance"

from Gearhead. I am only an egg.
:D

[Old and In the Way]

23. As dictator in chief-

Can't he just issue an edict to change the name of the prison to something he can pronounce?

[elf]

28. Here is a link

http://www.overspun.com/video/DailyShow.cheneylies.rm

[Insider]

32. propaganda techniques

--snip--
Plain Folks or Common Man: The "plain folks" or "common man" approach attempts to convince the audience that the propagandist's positions reflect the common sense of the people. It is designed to win the confidence of the audience by communicating in the common manner and style of the audience. Propagandists use ordinary language and mannerisms (and clothes in face-to-face and audiovisual communications) in attempting to identify their point of view with that of the average person. With the plain folks device, the propagandist can win the confidence of persons who resent or distrust foreign sounding, intellectual speech, words, or mannerisms.
--snip--
Humanizing leaders. This technique paints a more human portrait of US and friendly military and civilian leaders. It humanizes them so that the audience looks upon them as similar human beings or, preferably, as kind, wise, fatherly figures.

Categories of Plain Folk Devices:
--snip--
Errors. Scholastic pronunciation, enunciation, and delivery give the impression of being artificial. To give the impression of spontaneity, deliberately hesitate between phrases, stammer, or mispronounce words. When not overdone, the effect is one of deep sincerity. Errors in written material may be made only when they are commonly made by members of the reading audience. Generally, errors should be restricted to colloquialisms.
--snip--
ref:
"Propaganda Techniques" is based upon "Appendix I: PSYOP Techniques" from "Psychological Operations Field Manual No.33-1" published by Headquarters; Department of the Army, in Washington DC, on 31 August 1979