President Moran - Exit Stage Right ---pix->>>

[Stephanie]

U.S. President George W. Bush arrives for a press conference in Beijing, China, Sunday, Nov. 20, 2005.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/051120/481/chnd13211201426



U.S. President George W. Bush speaks at a news conference in Beijing
November 20, 2005.



U.S. President George W. Bush walks towards the door as he leaves a
press conference in Beijing, China, Sunday, Nov. 20, 2005. Bush headed
for a set of double doors after the press conference only to discover
that they were locked. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/051120/481/chnd12511201255



http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/051120/481/chnd12611201255Photo/Charles Dharapak)









Blake Gottesman, right, personal assistant to U.S. President George W.
Bush, left, shows him they way out.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/051120/481/chnd12811201255



http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/051120/481/chnd13011201255
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*edit* found an article >

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051120/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_bush_china_doors_1

"Respectfully, sir -- you know we're always respectful -- in your statement this morning with President Hu, you seemed a little off your game, you seemed to hurry through your statement. There was a lack of enthusiasm. Was something bothering you?" he asked.

"Have you ever heard of jet lag?" Bush responded. "Well, good. That answers your question."

The president then recited a list of things of that he viewed as positive developments from his Beijing meetings, including co-operation on North Korean nuclear disarmament and the ability to have "frank discussions" with his Chinese counterpart.

When the reporter asked for "a very quick follow-up", Bush cut him off by thanking the press corps and telling the reporter "No you may not," as he strode towards a set of double doors leading out of the room.

The only problem was that they were locked.

"I was trying to escape. Obviously, it didn't work," Bush quipped, facing reporters again until an aide rescued him by pointing to him towards the correct door.
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[misternormal]

1. Oh........

...... yup, yup, yo....

Bush needs a banjo.

[kid a]

2. Ahhhh . . .thanks Steph . This is what I've been looking forn

:yourock:

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

3. Priceless! eom

[babylonsister]

4. Is that the set of the Gong Show?

I kid!

Ole Georgie just can't help himself, can he?

[foo_bar]

75. you beat me to it by 15 hours

Let's roll the clip:
http://www.ifilm.com/player/preferences.jsp?ifilmId=2458524&pg=default&skin=default&refsite=default&mediaSize=default&context=product&launchVal=1&data=null

[kid a]

5. "YOu keepa knockin', but you can't come in!!!"

[SledDriver]

6. The bar is this way Mr. President...

[KarenS]

7. This would be funny, if it weren't so embarrassing,,,,

:rofl:



but this is what the World sees,,,,


YIKES!!!

[awoke_in_2003]

23. i brought up same thing here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5411099

he is an embarrassment to this country. Can't decide on that look on his face, though- is it stupid or scared?

[ThatsMyBarack]

30. Yes!

It is stupid and/or scared.

[SledDriver]

8. It says PUSH you fucking moran!!1

[Divernan]

9. Is that the personal assistant who throws up after Bush yells at him?

Recalling that story some weeks back that things were so bad at the White House, that any aid delivering bad news got the full brunt of Bush's wrath.

[Stephanie]

12. yes that's George's butler

because as we know he can't dress himself. I wonder if American knows he has a butler, if they don't subscribe to the New York Times?

[EFerrari]

79. "jobs I wouldn't do even if starving or on fire" n/t

[susu369]

10. Jenna's ex-boyfriend Blake Gottesman

is bu$h*'s "personal assistant", for whatever that's worth. Jenna dated him when she was fourteen, so I've read.

[SpaceCatMeetsMars]

11. Can't wait to see the banquet photos

where he does his walrus impression with chopsticks in his nose.

One of the articles said he was whining about jet lag again. Poor little man.

[smoogatz]

27. Jet lag on AF1? Not hardly--there's a whole Presidential suite

on board. The only lag Bush was feeling is the one between the Jack and Coke he had before the press conference, and the Jack and Coke waiting for him afterwards.

[Mind_your_head]

38. ROFLMAO

"Can't wait to see the banquet photos where he does his walrus impression with chopsticks in his nose."

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[SammyWinstonJack]

45. ...

:spray:

[FreedomAngel82]

51. He should be used to it by now shouldn't he?

[Neecy]

13. I really love the photo sequence

...our little dictator struts to the door, puffed up with self-importance as always. You can see his massive ego taking a quick dive by the expression on his puffy, clownish face when the door doesn't open.

Then, as always, someone has to bail him out of his stupidity and ineptness. These photos really tell the story of the entire life of the little nut.

[countingbluecars]

14. Choosing the wrong door

wouldn't have been so bad, but making that stupid, buffoonish face is embarrassing.

[Straight Shooter]

19. "that stupid, buffoonish face" is the frat boy persona

which is always lurking underneath the surface. He's never grown up. Can you even begin to imagine Clinton making that face in public?

All he needs in those photos is a white suit, a straw hat, and a cane, as he happy-hoofs his way back to the correct exit. Such an embarrassing dolt.

[Kadie]

15. Oh my!

I just love looking at the Sunday morning funnies while drinking my coffee.

LOL

That was great. :rofl:

:hi:

[lonestarnot]

16. OMG Stephanie comes through! But he doesn't bwwwwwwaaaaaa!

Teddy bear award bushitler!


http://www.bordergatewayprotocol.net/jon/humor/web_animations/1.swf

[meisje]

17. Some please draw some puppet strings on that first one

[ThatsMyBarack]

32. Good idea.

Perfect for N'Sync's next CD or something like that.

[Botany]

18. How did this guy get to be President anyway?

This really is embarrassing for all of us.

[Moochy]

87. I think that Norquist made Karl Rove a bet

or something like that..

[deminks]

20. Get this guy a bright jumpsuit, clown feet, a big floppy hat,

a big red rubber nose (or maybe his own red nose will do), some white face makeup, and a tiny little bike to ride around the stage. That is his true calling.

[kliljedahl]

21. Another exclusive pic of his bike ride

[Oilwellian]

22. And make that jumpsuit....

a pretty shade of orange. :D

[salin]

24. OMG they even put words on his backdrop in foreign countries!?!?! Funny

though, with the demonstrated intentional cultural ignorance of those in this WH, wonder if they really know what the backdrop says... maybe it says "I am the King of Idiots!" repeated across the backdrop. :shrug:

[BiggJawn]

25. Surely somebody here can translate it?

With the broad base of knowledge we have here...

[salin]

26. interesting question - perhaps deserving of its own thread?

[salin]

29. Question now asked in GD Politics

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2265162

So far just some snarky (and funny) responses.

[psychopomp]

65. It just says Beijing, China

over and over again.

[BiggJawn]

73. Darn....

I was reading an account by a Lakota who worked in Hollywood who claimed that in the movies when the subtitles were saying "I say we trust our white brother!" the dialog was actually along the lines of "White man have little pecker and likes to take it up the butt..."

Thought maybe our biggest creditors were working something along those lines in...

"Whats in YOUR wallet?"

[checks-n-balances]

28. "I'd like to help you out...which way did you come in?" Old desk sign

Maybe we should revive that one...:evilgrin:

[Bluebear]

31. "Well, good. That answers your question."

Snippy as usual.

[DistressedAmerican]

33. For My Favorite Photo Scrounger!

[Stephanie]

54. oh wow I LOVE that!

fabulous!

[maddezmom]

34. OMG, that's Hilarious

thanks for posting the pix. :D

[LibDemAlways]

35. The ass forgot how he came in.

I hope the Chinese characters behind him as he spoke read "This dumbshit thinks he's a world leader."

[Sydnie]

36. You can't make shit like this up -- even in Photoshop!

Thank you Stephanie. I laughed out loud ... and I needed that.

This is even better than the fly-down hoe-down he did before!

[toymachines]

37. Priceless.

Only would have been funnier if he started running in circles, hit his head on the door and fell over. oh the hilarity.

[Enraged_Ape]

39. That is the funniest thing I've seen since Johnny Carson...

still hosted the Tonight Show, and one of his guests got tangled in the curtains coming out.

Hilarious. What an absolute embarrassment to these United States.

[Judi Lynn]

40. Beautiful! Thanks for collecting these and sharing them here, Stephanie.

:woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:

Who doesn't love more photos of our elegant pResident?

[smirkymonkey]

58. I saved that one to Photobucket - it's priceless.

What a buffoon!

[YOY]

41. I gotta admit that the goofy face is something I would do for a laugh

but then again I am not the president on a formal diplomatic mission.

[IndyOp]

42. I bet Blake Gottesman was shaking in his shoes having to deal with *

in this situation. Embarrassed Emporers lash out at underlings...

:(

[progressoid]

43. O!M!G! Who let him off his leash?

[deminks]

44. Reuters: Locked doors thwart Bush's bid to duck question (!)

BEIJING (Reuters) - Irked by a reporter who told him he seemed to be "off his game" at a Beijing public appearance, President George W. Bush sought to make a hasty exit from a news conference but was thwarted by locked doors.

When the reporter asked for "a very quick follow-up," Bush cut him off by thanking the press corps and telling the reporter "No you may not," as he strode toward a set of double doors leading out of the room.

The only problem was that they were locked.

"I was trying to escape. Obviously, it didn't work," Bush quipped, facing reporters again until an aide rescued him by pointing to him toward the correct door.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051120/pl_nm/bush_china_doors_dc

[Tinksrival]

48. I wonder.....

What happened in the Beijing appearance that prompted the reporter to actually have the balls to ask him what the hell was wrong with him? It must have been another great moment in *ush history and another embarrassment for the US. Anyone know?

[Octafish]

46. Happens all the time to drunken coke whores...

From an excellent article about Hunter S. Thompson, from his memory about the crazy monkey:

THE DOCTOR WILL SEE YOU

Hunter S. Thompson says the Bush team no longer believes in democracy, and he would know

~ By STEVE APPLEFORD ~

EXCERPT...

“I haven’t told this story before,” Thompson says, and the room goes quiet. “I met George Bush in 1976, I guess, in Houston. And my first real memory of him, and only one, is of him passed out in my bathtub.” It was at the Hyatt Regency, where he also remembers dropping a naked blow-up doll down into the Atrium from his hotel balcony. “I knew people who were in the drug business from Houston, and I was there for a Super Bowl and I was looking for drugs. Of course.”

Could this be true? Had a young G.W. just been another party boy passing through Thompson’s gonzo orbit, or was this something like his conjecture during the ’72 primaries that candidate Ed Muskie’s bizarre behavior on the campaign could only be explained as a heavy addiction to the powerful, obscure drug Ibogaine? Except that columnist Ron Rosenbaum wrote about witnessing the same Bush-Thompson encounter in the New York Observer on March 27, 2000, though he says nothing of bathtubs and remembers the year as 1974, when Bush was a classmate of his.

Thompson talks of another Bush classmate, now a close associate of Thompson’s, who claims to have been personally branded by the future president during a fraternity hazing. “And it was torture,” Thompson says. “Twenty-four hours of sucking raw eggs and no sleep and people telling you they’re pissing on you and pouring streams of hot water on your back. And the final thing was the president branded the goddamn pledges with a hot poker. It was a scandal. It’s a matter of record in the Yale Daily News.”

Then he hands me the galleys to his Rolling Stone piece and asks me to read a long passage aloud, including a crude limerick young George Bush is said to have told over and over again for two years while at Yale:

“There was a young man named Green

Who invented a jack-off machine

On the twenty-third stroke

The damn thing broke

And churned his nuts into cream.”

I read it twice, and it gets a laugh every time.

CONTINUED...

http://www.lacitybeat.com/article.php?id=1342&IssueNum=73

The nutjob's still lost.

[FreedomAngel82]

52. I think so too

Remember how Bush was at Yale. He didn't care at all about class or anything like that. He just went cause he could. Look at how Bush kept himself up physically back than. Very messy while Kerry was very classy. Bush started out as a low graded student but didn't ever challenge himself. Kerry started out that way but his grades got better as he went through college which is how people usually do.

[Gregorian]

47. Yeah. Anyone who'd nominate a frog for the supreme court...

[Rose Siding]

49. Poor Gerald Ford.

This guy is way dopier than Ford ever dreamed of being, but the press/culture just didn't pick it up the same way.

[FreedomAngel82]

50. What a dork

And who does he think he is? If a reporter has a follow up question he should respectfully answer their question because he's a guest in their country.

[mirandapriestly]

53. He has a new stupid look on his face that he didn't use to have

and his actions remind me of myself when I used to drink (not the war, etc, but trying to open a locked door, etc..)

[godai]

55. The aide who finally opened the door...

is now on one of those secret CIA planes to an unnamed country. His new duties include cleaning the bathrooms at the prison.

[MellowOne]

56. He couldn't embarrass our country anymore even if he tried

Seems to come naturally to him.

[seabeyond]

57. his legs always look like rubber man. his legs are odd

and in so many pictures of just walking his legs are often positioned in a way that is just not normal.

i have seen some pictures where i say wtf. unfortunately i have this obsession in his pictures in what is up with his limbs.

[Lars39]

59. I think they designed a press conference area just for our boy king.

The proportions dwarf him on purpose, and the entrance maze was pure brilliance.
They knew there was a strong chance of him screwing up his exit.
These pics are priceless to the Chinese.

[AlCzervik]

60. It's Push not pull ya idiot! All that set is missing is Bob Barker.

[SoCalDem]

61. Enlarged..even GOOFIER

:)

[stevietheman]

62. Headline: Bush can't find an exit strategy. n/t

n/t

[grasswire]

63. who asked that question?

David Gregory?

[stevedeshazer]

64. Sweet Jesus, it must be jet lag. Just spun the Excuse-O-Wheel!

:)

[Neoma]

66. Roffles!

[Vektor]

67. Now let's see if he can find his way out of Iraq.

He's a mess.

[DaveColorado]

72. The look on his face is priceless

I laughed so hard.

Thank you.

[Nicholas D. Wolfwood]

68. Deer in headlights

Describes this scene perfectly, especially the 7th picture

[bklyncowgirl]

69. He looks like Johnny Carson after a few martoonies.

Waving to the crowd on the way out.

[NightOwwl]

70. Funniest thread of the month!

Every post is a gem. :rofl: :spray:

[MsConduct]

71. What a great representative for our country! Guess his

keeper/handler had the day off, huh. They need to be playing 'bring in the clowns' for his entrance music.

[peekaloo]

74. He's the presidential equivalent of a losing Gong Show Contestant.

Damn it no new 'Daily Show' for another week!

[buddysmellgood]

76. Nixon is remembered for opening the door to China. So much in common.

[Mind_your_head]

77. You know the really bad thing about this.....

....if you look at the pics, he (apparently) walked out from between the two red panels (not through the doors he tried to exit).

He doesn't remember that (doesn't remember where he came from ~ or once he realizes that he can't get out through the doors ~ doesn't know how to exit).

If he can't figure out how to graciously exit from a speech, I'm doubtful that he has any skill to get out from a complicated exit like Iraq.

Let's help him as best we can to get out of Iraq ~ not for his undeserving sake, but for our own sake....that's what I think anyway.

[Stephanie]

78. he has no idea where he came from and can't find the exit

they probably draw lines on the floor for him at home

[EFerrari]

80. The worst thing is, people will get used to anything.

He's teaching the whole country that presidents are idiots.

Bet no one had to draw lines for this man:

[Mind_your_head]

85. You're right.....no one had to draw any lines for this man.....

He was a true leader....and 'they' murdered him.

RIP Sweet John F. Kennedy....today is 42 years since we've lost you. You are sorely missed. What a different country/world this would probably be right now if you were still here!

[goforit]

81. KicK

[Stand and Fight]

82. Oh, the horror!!! What a jackass. n/t

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

83. Video available at this link, you MUST see it.

http://news.yahoo.com/video/2460

[charlie and algernon]

84. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, let this be his official portrait!!!!!!

pretty please with a cherry on top!

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

86. It's like the Zapruder film, starring the kid from Deliverance.

I can almost hear the banjos. A frame-by-frame dissection of George H.W. and Barbara Bush's biggest mistake.

:evilgrin: