Remember Kerry's dorky bike-helmet photo?

[UdoKier]

Well...





Carrying an iPod full of worn-out classic rock tunes like "brown-eyed girl".


I'll show you a $*&@%# brown eye....


First, Bush's iPod is heavy on traditional country singers like George Jones, Alan Jackson and Kenny Chesney. He has selections by Van Morrison, whose "Brown Eyed Girl" is a Bush favorite, and by John Fogerty, most predictably "Centerfield," which was played at Texas Rangers games when Bush was an owner and is still played at ballparks all over America.

The president also has an eclectic mix of songs downloaded into his iPod from Mark McKinnon, a biking buddy and his chief media strategist during the 2004 campaign. Among them are "Circle Back" by John Hiatt, "(You're So Square) Baby, I Don't Care" by Joni Mitchell, and "My Sharona," the 1979 song by the Knack that Joe Levy, a deputy managing editor at Rolling Stone in charge of music coverage, cheerfully branded "suggestive if not outright filthy" in an interview last week.


http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/04/11/MNGQTC699Q1.DTL

[skylarmae]

1. ahhhh, now I know why everyone was wondering what

georgie porgie had for Itunes...Duh, to me...

[WI_DEM]

2. what about the photo of Bush falling off a bike?

probably in one of his drunken binges. Anybody got that picture?

[pacalo]

23. One-stop shopping right here...

[JI7]

25. what's going on in that 2nd to last pic with that guy in the uniform ?

the picture itself is well known to me. but i never knew what was going on with that odd pose.

[pacalo]

31. We can only speculate. We do know about WhatsHisFace's

lack of coordination.

[WI_DEM]

49. thanks for posting

what a pathetic drunk he is.

[pacalo]

52. YmostW...

[FreedomAngel82]

66. Another bald man

:shrug:

[pacalo]

79. Apparently...

bald men are to WhatsHisFace as women wearing red dresses at press conferences so that they'll be called on were to Reagan.

[CornField]

61. 3rd to the last: Is that when he dropped Barney?

OMG! Poor puppy -- those kids look mortified.

[FreedomAngel82]

65. Oh that's rich!

Ha. Bush looks like such a dork on a bike. He's so trying to be cool like Kerry. He's he going water skiing next???

[whistle]

3. Except Shrub is riding one of those big wheel Sun City tricycles

[Lone Pawn]

4. What I really like is that CCR's collection is on that thing too

Including, of course, Fortunate Son.

[UdoKier]

8. I'm pretty sure Fogerty and Neil YOung don't care much for dumbya

But he's got plenty of contemporary country crapola in there for good measure.

[Warren DeMontague]

10. Deja Vu all over again.

I'm sure the Shrubber would appreciate that little number.

[UdoKier]

13. Reminds me of when Raygun praised Springsteen's "Born in the USA"

...as a "patriotic anthem" when of course it was a cry of agony of the destruction wrought on regular Americans by unnecessary Vietnam war.

[Warren DeMontague]

59. Which proves my oft-stated thesis

(a la "Germans love David Hasselhoff")

Republicans don't understand song lyrics!

[Chovexani]

14. Fogerty was on the anti-Chimp concert tour

I saw him perform Fortunate Son at the DC concert when they aired it on Sundance Channel before (S)election 2.0.

[Lone Pawn]

21. I made a slideshow-video of Fortunate Son and W (linked)

back before the election. Good times.

Might be too small to read the text, I just threw it on some free server in tiny form in case I needed to access it. If anyone would like a larger version PM me and I'll send it to you.

http://www.putfile.com/media.php?n=fson

[FreedomAngel82]

67. I like the video

Nice video. Is there a way to download it?

[Lone Pawn]

90. PM me and I'll send you it.

[Lone Pawn]

19. Certainly.

[Lisa]

5. W always looks bitter and surly when he's wearing safety gear

Those nasty facial expressions, plus his natural ability to make anything he's wearing appear silly, might discourage people from taking precautions. Every time I see him in safety goggles, helmets, etc., I expect to hear that the manufacturer will start offering to pay him NOT to wear their product.




Posted in an earlier thread by ElsewheresDaughter. Contrast with the pleasant, much less menacing pic of Kerry.

[UdoKier]

9. He kinda looks like Moe Howard there.

[displacedtexan]

6. And why the hell is he bundled up in Texas?

It's 76 degrees Fahrenheit there today.

Perfect weather for biking in a T shirt & shorts.

[Lisa]

12. maybe to conceal the full body armour he's wearing ...

Knee and elbow pads, shin and wristguards, maybe even a breastplate -- and that's just in case he falls off his own bike. He's probably got a bulletproof vest and gorget to ease his paranoid little mind.

[XemaSab]

84. You forgot the cup

n/t

[BiggJawn]

15. He wears as much gear as I would for a "strenuous 18 miles"...

...in 50-degree weather.

Alcohol abuse does that to you, don't it? makes you cold when it's warm?

[Avalux]

32. Gotta conceal the bullet proof vest

and probably the beer belly too. :spray:

[Lisa]

41. good point ...

It's getting harder for them to push the "super-athlete" image, ever since he started putting on the pounds (like a normal 50-something male). Of course, that wasn't good enough for his handlers -- he had to be on par with Lance Armstrong, because they wanted to make his opponents appear soft and indolent by comparison.

[Avalux]

47. This may be a stupid question -

but what the hell is on that tray? Comical. :rofl:

[DoYouEverWonder]

53. I'd love to know

what Sharon is really thinking.

I can't tell if he wants to puke or go nuts?

[Lisa]

55. a poster in an earlier thread said they were chocolate bars ....

... with a flag wrapping. (I'd first thought they were cookies, but the chocolate explanation fits better.)

[Avalux]

57. Look more like soap -

you know, those little soaps you get in hotels. :rofl:

[XemaSab]

85. Hey Sharon,

want to go take a shower?

[FreedomAngel82]

70. So sad

My dad is like how Kerry is and he's going to be fifty pretty soon (another year or two) and he's already having trouble with his left knee. We used to go hiking and things like that but haven't been in years. Bush is probably out of shape now days. I wouldn't be surprised if he still drinks too.

[Maru Kitteh]

89. 50 doesn't have to have a damned thing to do with it

There are millions of athletes over 50.

[FreedomAngel82]

68. Weird

Maybe he has something to side?

[blm]

7. kerry has been a competitive cycler for years. They wear helmets because

of the speeds they go to.

It's a tough sport....especially on the streets.

Bush doesn't race at great speeds at his ranch, does he?

[pacalo]

28. If WhatsHisFace races at great speeds, maybe he should slow down...

He doesn't have the coordination Kerry does...

[Bluebear]

11. "Singing.....YOU'RE my brown-eyed girl, sha la la la la...."

[pacalo]

33. It's this picture that really sends him...

[snacker]

51. Thanks for spoiling that song for me! n/t

[FreeStateDemocrat]

63. Ditto. Same old song with a different meaning now that this has been told.

Anything that reminds me of that ass wipe makes me want to hurl. I hate Texas and Florida now and only he could destroy a great Van Morrison song. The idiot is an insult to what had been moral and decent in this country. I have no respect for the office of the presidency anymore and have even lost interest in U. S. history. I cannot believe that a lowlife of his caliber could become president of our country even in a rigged election.

[Kerrytravelers]

16. I never understood the Kerry looks silly thing

At the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, several bike clubs ride every night. Every single one of them look just like Kerry... and even * for that matter.

*Sigh* ... just one more thing the media made a mountain where there wasn't a molehill to begin with.

[UdoKier]

22. There are a HUGE number of people who think ALL cyclists look dorky.

They are the "manly men" who worship at the altar of the NFL, who never get around except by their huge suvs. I hear cracks about cyclists, many involving anti-gay slurs (*because you gotta be gay to ride a bike) like that. It's not uncommon at all. I've heard people on right-wing radio suggesting that drivers deliberately blow cyclists off the road because "they have no business being there."

[FreedomAngel82]

71. Oh good grief

Around here you see people riding bikes and stuff quite a lot. My dad rides one and he even looks a lil dorky with his helmet on and he's been riding his bike since he was in college. He even used the same bike for years. Just a year or two ago he had to get a new one. :eyes:

[SemiCharmedQuark]

17. He downloaded them off a "friend's" iPod?

Is that legal? Isn't that sharing files?

[Wickerman]

18. Traditional Country like Alan Jackson and Kenny Chesney?

Ignorant fucking media. Jones barely qualifies. Traditional Coutnry like Hank Williams, maybe, not glossed over shit rawk with a twang like
Jackson and Chesney.

Bad enough we have to see Bush in cycling gear.

[Avalux]

29. Isn't that article hysterical?

Yes, the media is ignorant. And that 'journalist' was probably paid handsomely to deliver something so incredibly lame.

[Wickerman]

37. I imagine John Hiatt is gouging his eyes out having read that he is on

Bush's iPod. Maybe it will be enough for Immergluck to pack it in with Hiatt and go back full time to Camper Van Beethoven with side projects in a newly reformed Monks of Doom. Unlikely, I guess.

Damn, I expect more from the SF Gate. I think some writer will find his requests for free tix to Bay Area shows rejected.

[Avalux]

40. It's actually from the NY Times

reprinted by SF Gate I think. I doubt seriously Hiatt, Fogerty and the a lot of the other names dropped are even on that thing - or if they are - * hasn't a clue WHO they are. Alejandro Escovido too - poor guy.

Cool Immergluck is with Hiatt. :hi:

[Wickerman]

54. Escevedo is on Bush's iPod?

No FUCKING WAY. That is freaking criminal. As if Alejandro doesn't have enough troubles - now to know that numbbuts is listening to him.

:hi:

[FreedomAngel82]

73. I agree

Jenna probably helped him get the songs and stuff. Or Bush told someone to "get me some cool music." :eyes:

[XemaSab]

86. He has an assistant

download the stuff for him.

What a lameass.

I have 1840 songs on *my* iPod, about 1000 of which are bird calls.

I am *so* cool!

On edit: the other 840 of which are swiped from friends' CD's.

[FreedomAngel82]

72. Chesney isn't traditional country

he's "new country." Traditional country is like Willie Nelson, Lorletta Lynn, Patsy Cline. Just to show you that Bush doesn't know anything about country music. It's just for his cowboy appeal. Alan Jackson, to me, comes close but he's still considered "new country."

[wakeme2008]

20. LOL real question is who loaded it with the songs

* does not do computers.

[napi21]

36. Fill-in on Lou Dobbs show just said Shrub's staff downloaded songs.

She talked about him loving his Ipod and requests the tunes he wants, but on of his staff does the downloading.

I don't know if there were pics or not, I have TV on in the background and am not watching it.

[FreedomAngel82]

74. My vote is Jenna

[SmileMaker]

24. It's jealosy - these guys envy how hot Kerry looks

in his biker shorts. It threatens their perceptions of their own manhood (usually expressed through bombing innocent people).

He looked pretty good today in the Senate as well. what a shame that these small-minded ghouls managed to swindle us all out of having him for our President.

[FreedomAngel82]

75. Do you have a photo??

Kerry always looks so hot. :loveya: I saw photos of him when he was my age (twenty something) and man he looked good. Knowing me if I was around him then I'd so have the hugest crush on him. ;) He's cute, very smart and active.

[CatWoman]

26. they look like the Power Rangers

[FreedomAngel82]

76. LOL!

So true! I remember that show.

[ET Awful]

27. What's a warmongering ass like Dubya doing listening to Joni MItchell?

That just doesn't add up.

[EVDebs]

30. "WAR, Huuuuuuuuuh, Good God, Ya'll, What is it good for" n/t

[WLKjr]

34. HOLY SHITE! CHIMP CAN USE AN iPOD!!

omg, it's a sign of the end times I tell yah!

[mattclearing]

38. Yeah, he used email too.

One of the few areas where Bush upstages Clinton is in his computer literacy.

[WLKjr]

43. Well, I wonder when we will have a prez that can do subnetting?

10.240.151.21
255.255.252.0

n/t

[mattclearing]

46. I'd vote for you. n/t

[Lisa]

45. Bush's last e-mail (no kidding)

""My lawyers tell me that all correspondence by e-mail is subject to open record requests," Mr. Bush wrote to the group, which included top aides and business people. "Since I do not want my private conversations looked at by those out to embarrass, the only course of action is not to correspond in cyberspace. This saddens me. I have enjoyed conversing with each of you."

Until that moment, when Mr. Bush wrote that "sadly I sign off," he kept in contact with these people through often daily e-mail messages, which he would usually dash off early in the morning before embarking on the campaign trail. (The missives were generally to the point — a sentence or so. Mr. Bush preferred all lower-case letters and little punctuation except dashes between thoughts, and would usually sign off, simply, "gwb.")"



http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/17/politics/17FRIE.html?ex=1113364800&en=8fa1621c872fe190&ei=5070

I bet they were relieved when he went offline -- my guess is that he'd be the type to spam everybody with whiny self-righteous rants.

[mattclearing]

48. Yeah, I remember; that's what I was referring to: hence the "used email"

[Warren DeMontague]

60. He was probably the type who would forward the those mindless pieces of

crap about kittens and beaches and "God loves you. Now forward this to ten people".

[FreedomAngel82]

78. Probably

Kerry uses Email too and even has a website that is updated pretty often. :) Too funny. I wonder if Bush has someone help him with Email. :shrug:

[atre]

87. Nah

I can't imagine him sending self-righteous rants, since I don't think even he buys into this pretense about him being a righteous man. Recall how he once answered the question, "What do you and your father talk about?," with a curt comment: "Pussy." I would guess he is more a devotee of Niccolò Machiavelli than Jesus Christ.

As for his email habits, my best guess is that he was the annyoing, juvenile type who sends pics or movies of porn bloopers.

[mattclearing]

35. That's fucking hilarious.

I love it. What a laughable retard.

[KoKo]

39. Hot! Hot! Hot! Red Hot Chili Pepper! Wow a repost of my favorite photo

the one that was supposed to shame the Chimp in his "Fly Boy Suit" with the socks stuffed in his crotch!

Mary Beth Cahill....oh man...do you need to pay for this one.

The "Statemen Kerry" was what we wanted to see...not this photo op like the one with the dead duck or goose in new "combat fatigues."

Kerry was terribly mismanaged.

[blm]

42. Not a photo op. Kerry really does race cycles.

And has for many years.

[KoKo]

56. Indeed, blm....I am informed of this. I walked the streets for Kerry....

Do you want a photo of my red dress?

I just added my "Betty Boop" photo...

[CoffeeCat]

44. Sooooooo...this is what we do when our poll numbers turn to poop.

CNN covered this crapola today, too.

Hello! Welcome to "Operation Let's Humanize the Murdering, Unpopular, Shameful, Warmongering Failure."

Nice, try.

I can see the PR weasels strategizing, "Ok, we gotta say he likes "Centerfield". That's like sooo American and it will help with the middle-class baseball fans! Van Morrison will appeal to the Boomers! Throw in a few country tunes for our possum-eating base!"

Remember when Bush's polls were tanking a few weeks ago, and the NY Times wrote the puff piece about him becoming more playful and scrappy? This iPod story is a variation on that puke-inducing theme.

I can't wait to see what's next...a Vanity Fair photo essay of Junior in his railroad-train jammies. Awww...look at him with his hot cocoa and cookies before beddy night...ohhhhh, there he is signing the Schiavo bill in the wee hours of the evening. Gag.

There isn't enough fluff in the world to convince me that this squinty-eyed stack of evil bricks has one ounce of humanity running through his frozen, compassionless, shriveled up, dessicated heart that runs on used motor oil.

Next!

[Warren DeMontague]

62. "Possum-eating base."

Nice one!

[KoKo]

69. Everything about Chimp is "shriveled." But until we can move past MACHO

then where the hell are we? Clinton didn't have to go against Poppy with Motor Photos of Harley or Skiiing in Idaho and Windsurfing. Why did Kerry need to succumb to these dumbed downed, media displays of his BIG DICK to go against SOCK DICK.

I think it's kind of obscene. But then I always preferred "Logical, Unassuming,Brains over Brawn." So, I just might be "out of style" in MS America. :shrug: In these days of "Reality Shows" I'm sure I'm "out of touch." What's tucked into the bikini seems to pass for what's in the cranial...ugh....

[snacker]

50. Hey, that was NOT a dorky picture of John Kerry...

he's wearing a University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Panthers t-shirt!!!
I LOVE IT!!!!

[UdoKier]

80. Not compared to THIS:

Is there something about Massachusetts presidential candidates that they INSIST on looking as geeky as possible?


I would have CANCELED the tour if it involved me crawling around looking like that. Image is everything, sad but true.

[FreedomAngel82]

81. What is he doing there??

He looks so silly. What's he doing there??

[UdoKier]

82. It was a NASA tour. That was the required gear.

I would have skipped it...

[Catherine Vincent]

58. Bush is noting but a lame duck schmuck.

[tjdee]

64. Yo--let's not diss Van Morrisson.

"Brown Eyed Girl" rocks hard, yo.

[UdoKier]

83. Some people like to hear the same songs repeated endlessly.

I have nothing against the song, but it's been in heavy rotation for 35 years. I don't really care to hear songs on my iPod that are playing in every convenience store I go to.

[Pithlet]

77. I never thought he looked dorky

Then again I was an avid cyclist for many years.

[Maru Kitteh]

88. First of all Kerry looks a little sexy on that bike

and that is not an opinion that I generally hold of Kerry. George looks like a goofy bastard. He is a goofy bastard, so that may have much to do with it.

Also, I happen to like Brown Eyed Girl.

But that's just me.