Welcome to Queer Eye For The Straight Guy, with your host, George W. Bush

[Human Torch]

Note: Last night, someone on cable news...I think it might have been Olbermann...played these clips from yesterday's Bush press conference and made the "Queer Eye For The Straight Guy" remarks. To me, it was a sad and pathetic attempt by Bush to be "the guy you'd most want to have a beer with." The video is still available at the White House Web Site: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/10/20061011-5.html



President George W. Bush discusses North Korea during a press conference in the Rose Garden Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2006. "I've spoken with other world leaders, including Japan, China, South Korea, and Russia," said President Bush. "We all agree that there must be a strong Security Council resolution that will require North Korea to abide by its international commitments to dismantle its nuclear programs." White House photo by Paul Morse

Kevin.

Q Thank you, Mr. President --

THE PRESIDENT: If I might say, that is a beautiful suit.

Q Thank you, sir. My tailor appreciates that.

THE PRESIDENT: And I can't see anybody else that even comes close. (Laughter.)

Q Thank you very much. I'll be happy to pass along my tailor's number if you'd like that, sir.

THE PRESIDENT: I'll take that back. I will recognize that -- please.

Suzanne. First best dressed person here. Sorry.

Q Kevin and I coordinated.

THE PRESIDENT: Yes. He actually looks --

Jim.

Q Thank you, Mr. President. My best suit is in the cleaners.

THE PRESIDENT: That's not even a suit.

Q I know. (Laughter.) You got to give me more time in the morning with a news conference.

THE PRESIDENT: I know you like to wake up about 8:30 a.m. (Laughter.)

Q I want to ask you --

THE PRESIDENT: High-priced news guys.

Q Yes, sure.

THE PRESIDENT: Yes. (Laughter.)

All of the "good ol' boy" bullshit was simply window dressing for exchanges like this one:

Q Thank you. It's good to be here. Appreciate it. Following up on that answer, one of the things Democrats complain about is the way you portray their position --

THE PRESIDENT: Oh, really?

Q -- in wanting to fight the war on terror. They would say you portray it as either they support exactly what you want to do, or they want to do nothing. We hear it in some of your speeches. Is it fair to portray it to the American people that way?

THE PRESIDENT: Well, I think it's fair to use the words of the people in Congress or their votes. The vote was on the Hamdan legislation: Do you want to continue a program that enabled us to interrogate folks, or not? And all I was doing was reciting the votes. I would cite my opponent in the 2004 campaign when he said there needs to be a date certain from which to withdraw from Iraq. I characterize that as cut and run because I believe it is cut and run. In other words, I've been using either their votes or their words to characterize their positions.

:wtf:

Q But they don't say cut and run.

THE PRESIDENT: Well, they may not use cut and run, but they say date certain is when to get out, before the job is done. That is cut and run. Nobody has accused me of having a real sophisticated vocabulary, I understand that. And maybe their -- their words are more sophisticated than mine. But when you pull out before the job is done, that's cut and run as far as I'm concerned. And that's cut and run as far as most Americans are concerned. And so, yes, I'm going to continue reminding them of their words and their votes.

[jarnocan]

1. They could dress him up, but he'd still spew BU**SH** nt

[DeeDeeNY]

2. The press should not be laughing

This fixation with outfits is really getting old. They should not even dignify his stupid comments about their outfits with responses and just stick to what they're supposed to be doing.
It's sad and pathetic, and the press plays along.

[flordehinojos]

3. i read somewhere that the beautiful suit bush was referring to, cost

$1,500.

somewhere that smells of narcissism, come uppance, the need to impress, and a sort of i will say whatever it takes to keep my job so long as i can wear $1,500. suits.

no wonder fascism in this country is enabled, aided and abetted by the press!

[partylessinOhio]

4. If that suit cost $1500 - * was ripped!

[flordehinojos]

5. link

By Dana Milbank

Updated: 6:35 a.m. ET Oct 12, 2006
President Bush needed to change the subject.

"If I might say, that is a beautiful suit," he told NBC News correspondent Kevin Corke at yesterday's news conference in the Rose Garden.

"My tailor appreciates that," replied Corke, wearing a $1,500 custom pinstripe number by Tom James with bright-red tie and pocket square.

(snip)


(rest of milbank's article, here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15230633/

[partylessinOhio]

7. Sorry, I need new glasses! I thought Bush was wearing a $1500

suit. His suits always look cheap to me so I found it hard to believe.

I do believe the reporter would wear an expensive suit. Sorry for the confusion on my part.

[flordehinojos]

8. no problem, maybe my sentence construction wasn't all that clear.

i just found it incredible that a reporter wears a $1,500. suit as daytime work attire.

it just boggles my mind.

i also wonder what Suzanne Malveaux's "Benetton suit with pink stripes" cost. it is also probably up there in the unbelievable range.

[partylessinOhio]

9. I'm sure all of the media is living far above my means. I just find

it amusing that media persons are dressing better than the impostor preznut. And he knows it.

I, however, don't appreciate that the media plays into his little game diverting attention away from the real issues and concerns we are facing.

[flordehinojos]

11. the media plays because they want to keep their jobs that affordsthem

those $1,500.oo suits ... they know what they are doing they are just as narcissistically selfish as the little emperor seated in the oval office.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

10. And as I've said before...

Please take MY FLAG off of your CHEAP SUIT!

[flordehinojos]

12. O:-)

:)

[ieoeja]

6. What's wrong with "cut and run"?

The only possible way we can win this war is to kill 99% of the Iraqi population. We are not going to do that. Which means we are not going to win. Which means every death that occurs until we leave will be a death that wins us nothing. So why not cut and run right now and get it over with?

Just so we are not embarassed? Is the United States the most powerful country in the history of the world, or are we a bunch of grade schoolers fretting and worrying that people will think we are not macho enough?

[gulliver]

13. He is trying to disarm them and take them down a notch.

If he treats them as professionals, then he frames the news conference as a professional, serious matter. Then all of his stupid mistakes, pauses, grimaces, lies, and general incompetence would be cast in a different light. Bush is trying to make the room informal. And he usually succeeds. His current unblemished record or disgraceful press conferences is far better than it would be if the journalists found it in themselves to insist on professionalism.