That bastard will lie about anything

[TomInTib]

I saw a post by Bush_Eats_Beef that got me thinking...

BERLIN (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush told a German newspaper his best moment in more than five years in office was catching a big perch in his own lake.

"You know, I've experienced many great moments and it's hard to name the best," Bush told weekly Bild am Sonntag when asked about his high point since becoming president in January 2001.

"I would say the best moment of all was when I caught a 7.5 pound (3.402 kilos) perch in my lake," he told the newspaper in an interview published on Sunday

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-05-07T100113Z_01_L07638085_RTRUKOC_0_UK-BUSH-FISH.xml&archived=False

Check this out:

http://www.wdaweb.com/fishfacts.htm#White%20Crappie

[globalvillage]

1. Busted.

Nice 'catch'.

[CrazyOrangeCat]

2. Mrs. Earl Small . . .

. . . caught a record-setter in 1949.

And Mega-Shrub beat it by 2-1/2 lbs. in his own back yard!

What a manly man.

Not.

[SPKrazy]

3. God Yes He's A Lying Sack Of Shit

even about fish
March 16, 2006
Harford County Yellow Perch Sets World Record
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Last weekend, Phil Deer, Jr. of Delta, Pennsylvania caught a record setting yellow perch in a pond in Harford County. The perch is the largest ever caught in Maryland and the fourth largest on record in the world. DNR confirmed the perch’s size as 3 pounds, 5 ounces and 16 ¼ inches long, which eclipsed the Maryland record of 2 pounds 6.75 ounces set at Deep Creek Lake in 2003. Worldwide, Deer’s fish places behind a 4 pound, 3 ounce perch caught in New Jersey in 1865; a 3 pound, 12 ounce perch caught in Michigan in 1947; and a 3 pound, 8 ounce perch caught in New York in 1982. All records are for the fresh water division.

http://www.dnr.state.md.us/dnrnews/pressrelease2006/031606a.html

[Harper_is_Bush]

4. OMG, he even lies about a fish he caught!! unbelievable. nice job. nt

[Jigarotta]

6. everything that comes out of

that vile slit in his head is a fish story.

[Whoa_Nelly]

5. Quick! Send this in to Keith O.!

Recently, DISH network cut out MSNBC as part of my package :mad:

I get the KO Report vicariously here at DU.

[me b zola]

14. It sounds like a nominee for 'Worst Person in the World'!! n/t

[ucmike]

7. I found a texas record for nile perch

the state record is 12.5 pounds. that's probably what he was referring to.

knowing georgie, he caught a five pound perch that weighed at least 7.5 pounds.

[TomInTib]

10. I know of no one who stocks Nile perch in farm tanks.

They require moving water.

Nile perch will eat everything in sight.

[IChing]

8. The names of fish in German could be misinterpeted

The interview was translated from German

I bet he caught a catfish

But good catch, I use to fish for those when I lived in Texas and know they don't get that big.

[TomInTib]

9. And in that part of Texas, there are no "lakes" on a ranch...

we call 'em "tanks", cowboy.

[BrotherBuzz]

23. I thought New England prep boys from Connecticut would call them ponds

:shrug:

[ecstatic]

11. bloggers need to get this story to MSM asap

Bush will lose the fisherman crowd for sure. 31.5% hehe

[sandnsea]

12. I care about the ignorance

Catching a fish is the high point of his presidency?? There are so many things wrong with that statement that my head would explode if I had to list them all.

[Catchawave]

13. Yep, so far the only high point he

could think of and he had to lie about that !? :rofl:

[Inland]

16. Yet, it sounds better than saying the "Do Not Call List:".

Any jokey answer is going to sound better than a serious one. If he answered it seriously, then it's either going to be something pathetically small, like the Do Not Call List, or something that lots would argue were not a success at all or connected to a larger failure, like his tax cuts or overthrowing Saddam.

[NJCher]

15. he didn't catch the fish

He prob'ly shot it in a barrel.




Cher

[karlrschneider]

17. 3402 milligrams. Bet he used a coke scale to weigh that perch.

:eyes:

[Seabiscuit]

22. And what was he snorting at the time of the weigh-in?

Perch dung?

[Marr]

18. Seriously- this is one of those perfect metaphors.

This should be covered humorously in all the blogs. Just as Cheney's shooting of that old man and then covering it up was a perfect incapsulation of the Bush Admin's methods, this fish thing sums up junior's regard for the truth perfectly.

[gristy]

19. Amazing

Absolutely, positively, friggin' amazing. The world record for a perch (white or yellow) is under 5 pounds. So it must have been a baby Nile perch? Yeah, that's the ticket.

In reality, he probably does not know what kind of fish he caught, and he also does not know how much it weighed. He might have caught a fish that day, but the rest he just made up. He lied.

He clearly does not understand what a lie is in the way you or I understand it.

[ClintonTyree]

26. Well, the Secret Service man said it weighed that much.....

just like he always "beats them" when jogging and bicycling. :eyes: They always defer to his enormous ego. :eyes:

[linazelle]

20. Oh come on guys, it was a PHOTO-OP. They PUT the perch IN the lake

:sarcasm:

[Tin Man]

21. CaIm down, folks. I suspect an error in translation is behind this...

The interview was given to a german newspaper - largemouth bass (which don't occur in Germany) might have easily been mis-translated to perch. To complicate matters, largemouth bass are actually members of the perch family, while many species of perch are actually members of the bass family - confusing, ain't it?

[Tuesday_Morning]

24. wikipedia sez

"Bush added an 11 acre (45,000 m²) man-made pond that is stocked with 600 bass and thousands of bait fish."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prairie_Chapel_Ranch

[Lisa]

25. this from the guy who claims he knows all about water conservation!

Bush makes a big thing of bragging about how he knows the value of water (unlike those spoiled easterners) -- but building a pond in a place which has extremely high potential evapotranspiration rates is rather wasteful.

I heard that, the first summer, a lot of the fish died because so much of the pond dried up (and the temperature went way up, with the water so shallow). I don't know if he's fixed the problem since (e.g. by deepening the pond or putting in more water).