Mr President, please quit talking. Now.

[Bucky]

It's never quite enough with you, is it, George? Don't tell me... the trip to Canada was fabulous.

Bush prefers our pretty boy to his pretty boy

...Mr. (Scott) Reid was not initially in the hotel room where the two leaders and their closest advisers met, but was called in to brief the Prime Minister at the end as the group waited for the media. Mr. Bush wandered over during Mr. Reid's chat with the Prime Minister. Mr. Reid introduced himself and shook hands with Mr. Bush.

"Well, what do you do for this guy?" the President asked as he pointed to the Prime Minister.

"Well, you know, sir, I can't really say," Mr. Reid said. "It's not that I don't want to. It's just that, you know, I don't really know from day to day."

<snip>

...The President chuckled. "Well, you got a pretty face," he told the surprised Mr. Reid. He wasn't done. "You got a pretty face," he said again. "You're a good-looking guy. Better looking than my Scott anyway."


Honestly, this reads like the opening scene in some anonymous-gay-sex-pick-up-movie. Not that there's anything wrong with it...

Edited; (I, um, adjusted the font to make it "look bigger")

[Jackpine Radical]

1. Hee Hee.

I hadn't seen that. Now I get the satire somebody posted earlier.

[RBHam]

5. This satire? Brring, brrring...

"Hello, Prime Minister's office. How may I help you?"

"Hi. This is the White House calling. President Bush would like to talk to Prime Minister Martin."

"OK. Just a minute, I'll connect you...(click) Sir? President Bush is on the phone..."

"By all means! Thank you, Patty. Please put the call right through! Ahem...
(click)Hello, Paul Martin here."

"Please hold for the President, sir...(click)"

"Paulie Canuck? You there? Hee, hee...you remember that nickname, Paulie Canuck?"

"I....er....yes, Mr. President. Quite endearing, really..."

"Yeah! Heh, heh...you don't want to know what I called that Cretin guy..."

"Um, you told me what you called him at the conference. I've been willing myself to forget it..."
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/13/international/americas/13CND-PREX.html?hp

"Well, enough chit chat. I s'pose you'd like to know why I called?"

"That would be nice, Mr. President..."

"Okay. How'd you like to visit the White House next month? After all, now that we're friends again..."

"That would be quite an honour, sir. As I recall, you never extended that courtesy to my predecessor..."

"Pre-do-who? Yeah, well, you're with us not against us. I never trusted that French-speaking retard...what's wrong with his face anyway? Ugly sum'bitch..."

"Excuse me, sir. But I must protest, he was a democratically elected representative. Surely, you could display more respect..."

"Ugly is ugly, Paulie. Speaking of that, I'd like to ask for one favor..."

"Okay, what would that be?"

"You make sure you bring that that boy with the nice bone structcha. with ya, y'hear? (paper rustling) Scott Reid?"
http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040116.wreid0116/BNStory/Front/

"Well, of course. He's a trusted and vibrant member of my staff."

"Vibrant? Does that mean he likes...y'know...flowers?"

"Err...I'm not that intimate with his personal life..."

"Heh, heh...leave that to me...I mean...okay! Thanks, Paulie! See ya next month. Gotta go...God told me that I got a Crusade to lead...and flowers to get...do ya think he'd like a nick name? Hmmm. Scottie Violets? Hell! I'll think of somethin'...(click)..."

"Quite. (click) Patty?"

"Yes, Prime Minister?"

"Put me through to Scott Reid's office. I'm going to have to ask him how far he'll go for the sake of his country."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=1027327

[Jackpine Radical]

11. Yup.

That one.

[Bucky]

6. Yes. It's like statecraft done as a cheap slash fan fiction.

"But Mr. President, what about your wife? Your public reputation?" Scott asked, slowly unbuttoning his plaid lumberjack shirt.

[beawr]

2. Oh This is Precious....

Too bad he didn't then say...Now bend over and squeal like a pig....

[lancdem]

3. Poor Scott McClellan

Dissed by his own boss is public! :evilgrin:

[gristy]

4. Too much. Just too much.

I am sitting here shaking my head.

[Robbien]

7. This is the Leader of the free world talking?

This is so embarrassing. To quote Mike Malloy, have I said lately how much I hate these guys?

[Nay]

8. We have GOT to get rid of this vapid moron. Jeezus.

[Lisa]

9. Bush* has a special talent for veiled insults ...

First time he met Jean Chretien, he makes a crack about going fishing with him. Embarrassing, because Chretien himself had made fun of Brian Mulroney for being too cozy with Bush Sr. -- Mulroney is apparently still a valued friend of the Bush Family. My guess is that Mulroney briefed Dubya or his dad about the Canadian political situation, and Bush* figured he knew enough to needle JC a little. (Chretien and Clinton are pretty good friends, so Bush* was in effect calling JC a hypocrite.)

Anyway, I wonder if this "pretty face" thing is another Bush* insult. Suppose someone told Dubya "Paul Martin has a gay guy working for him", and when Bush* heard the name "Scott" he just assumed this was the man (actually it's Scott Brison, who's in the cabinet). And he figured he'd have some "fun" with him ...

I hope I'm just being paranoid. But Bush* can be rather mean.

[Bucky]

13. very interesting take

There's two Bushes. The fucking twit and the mean son of a bitch. I'd assumed the twit went to Canada. Now I think you might be onto to something.

[madrchsod]

10. there`s something

very disturbing about this..is he a closet homosexual or just really creepy? guys in their 50`s don`t say any guy,esp younger guys have a "pretty face". if anyone said that around me ,i`d move away very slowly...

[leftchick]

15. I think he is real creepy.....

For God's sake I believe the man hasn't had a thought about sex in years. As in Asexual. Probably has vague recollections of having sex, that is all. His dick is probably the size of a shitake mushroom from all the alcohol & drug abuse. In addition to all the drugs they must pump into him to shut his trap. He is a fucking creepy moran.

[maggrwaggr]

12. Squeal like a piggie for me, boy!

Man, Bush is one fucked up individual

[gristy]

14. Was the Globe and Mail reporter the only one to hear this conversation?

Jane Taber is her name. I'd like to see in her report who else heard this. When I news.google this story, it appears the Globe and Mail is the only outlet reporting it (googling "pretty face" Bush). So the other reporters chose to not report it, or she was the only one there (less likely). Man, she should say who else heard that conversation.

[shance]

16. Bucky, you totally make me laugh.....***

Okay, if I dont get out off of this computer and go work out, Im never gonna.

And I gotta.

:)