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Monday, May 1, 2006

Memory Lane

Posted by on May 1 at 9:50 AM

Three years ago today, President Bush donned a Halloween costume flight suit and landed onboard the USS Lincoln to declare “Mission Accomplished” in Iraq.

In honor of the anniversary, Media Matters For America has posted a greatest hits of all the media fellatio from that tremendous day. Enjoy, if you can keep from weeping.

My personal favorite? From convicted felon G. Gordon Liddy, who appears to have a bit of a boy crush on Dubya:

“Well, I — in the first place, I think it’s envy. I mean, after all, Al Gore had to go get some woman to tell him how to be a man. And here comes George Bush. You know, he’s in his flight suit, he’s striding across the deck, and he’s wearing his parachute harness, you know — and I’ve worn those because I parachute — and it makes the best of his manly characteristic. You go run those — run that stuff again of him walking across there with the parachute. He has just won every woman’s vote in the United States of America. You know, all those women who say size doesn’t count — they’re all liars. Check that out. I hope the Democrats keep ratting on him and all of this stuff so that they keep showing that tape.”

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Great, now I need to, yet again, go smash my head with a brick to forget the image of GW BUSH's "manly charateristic".

The Gordon Liddy quote is hilarious, because I remember at the time noticing the prominence of the presidential package and speculating aloud on whose job it was to prep the "Executive Branch" and make sure it looked suitably mighty. Liddy's right that the parachute harness functions more or less like a codpiece, and since the whole thing was obviously a photo-op from start to finish it stands to reason that there must have been a costume supervisor charged with properly situating the member-in-chief and, in the case of an asset shortfall, enhancing its appearance with a well-placed sock.

One day, God willing, that sock will be on display in the Smithsonian institution in a glass case next to the original "mission accomplished" banner.

it's not that he stuffed socks in it, it's that we all know the only time he packs wood is when he's around guys, but he refuses to admit it.

When he's with Laura, that's already all the wood that anybody could possibly ever need.

Some liberals would have you believe that, just before the carrier landed, Jeff Gannon finished a quickie fluff piece for the Bush administration.

Dick C. has denied that speculation out of hand.

[insert cheap rim shot sound effect here]

Gag!

don't swallow that! spit it out!

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