Pants fall down - story disappears. Why?

[Lautremont]

Why does nobody mention the incident in which bush's pants fell down at the G8 Summit in Gleneagles, Scotland? It's as though there's been some sort of (pardon the mild pun) coverup. I distinctly remember reading about bush tripping over his own falling trousers and yelling "No pictures" as he went down. Yet now it's as though it never happened.

[Phredicles]

1. Whoa, this is the first I've heard of this!

When was the Gleneagles summit?

[silverweb]

7. 2004.

I'm googling now, but can find no mention of Bush tripping, falling, or losing his trousers. The story has been thoroughly scrubbed -- but I'll bet someone in Scotland has details!

[Lautremont]

8. I can't find it either, and it was in a UK publication

(but online) that I read it. Wasn't the headline even there, though - it was part of a larger report on the summit.

[muriel_volestrangler]

11. Gleneagles was 2005, and it was overshadowed by the London bombs

so it's not really surprising if stories did get lost. I can't say I ever heard the story here in the UK; but there was the story of Bush running down the policeman, which left the policeman on crutches, because he tried to wave to the police, and is apparently unable to control a bike with one hand.

[silverweb]

21. Oops, you're right. It WAS 2005.

:blush:

The 2004 one was at Sea Island.

[No Exit]

19. Hope you can fill us in. This would make Gerald Ford look competent

For those too young to remember, Gerald Ford was accused of "having played football too long without his helmet". He repeatedly did things like fall down stairs, or obliviously walk the wrong way at well-planned ceremonies.

[Lautremont]

20. I think bush has already outdone Ford, even.

Between the several bike incidents, the Segway fall, the pretzel mishap and the day he dressed up like a late-period Truman Capote, and then this pants thing, he's got "clumsiest president" sewn up along with "worst."

I'll keep searching, but my research skills don't extend much past googling "bush" "pants" and "scotland," which turns up almost nothing. A picture would be ideal, but I doubt any exist!

[Dem2theMax]

28. LMAO! "A late-period Truman Capote."

Oh good God, the image in my mind of that outfit and the look on the chimp's face - LMAO again! :)

(It's actually pretty bad when we can remember the exact photos. LOL.)

[MadMaddie]

2. Ah....reminds me of the the Russian Leader who altered

photographs....Lenin....

[Howardx]

3. yeah it was a story for like an hour

it IS like it never happened!

[JuniperLea]

4. First I've heard!!!

I'd love to see that! Or even read a story... stupid librul media...

[eleny]

5. A metaphor for his administration

[whistle]

6. Was that why shrub tried to grab German Chancellor Angela Merkel

...by the tits?

[keepCAblue]

9. Wow. Never heard about that. Sure wish...

...someone HAD taken pictures or better yet, video.

[3waygeek]

14. Here's a pic

This was from the G8 summit earlier this year -- IIRC, this and other pictures were posted here at the time.

[zonkers]

30. Can't help ya. But here's a grainy pic of Pappy Bush puking on Jap. P.M..

[libhill]

10. If he was a Democrat -

it would have been news for the next 25 years...

[RevolutionStartsNow]

12. Seriously? That happened?

:rofl:

[Vidar]

13. hadn't heard of it either, not tha I'd doubt it.

[VOX]

15. Can't find the "pants incident," but * did hit a cop with his bike at G8.

Can't link to the story -- I found this through a Lexis-Nexis search. But it is *SO* Republican to disable a law enforcement officer with the Chimp's diversion, then to infer that the injured cop is a goldbricker! :grr:


The Scotsman
October 15, 2005, Saturday
SECTION: Pg. 17
LENGTH: 202 words
HEADLINE: OFFICER IN BUSH BIKE CRASH BACK AT WORK
BYLINE: Edward Black
BODY:
THE Scottish policeman who was injured when US president George Bush crashed into him on a mountain bike during July's G8 summit at Gleneagles is finally back at work after 14 weeks off sick.

The Strathclyde cycle officer spent more than three months off duty, despite White House claims that he had recovered within hours of the accident.

Mr Bush had been cycling on the first morning of the summit when he collided with the officer on a mountain bike at a "pretty good speed".

The president escaped with minor scrapes and scratches to his hands and arms, while the officer was taken to Perth Royal Infirmary with ankle ligament injuries.

At a press conference at Gleneagles following the accident, Mr Bush said: "When you ride hard on a mountain bike, sometimes you fall. Otherwise, you're not riding hard.

"It was at the end of a good hour ride. The pavement was slick and the bike came out from underneath me."

The police officer, who declined to be identified, returned to work at the start of the week.

Paramedic Barry Klaassen, who treated Mr Bush and the officer on site at Gleneagles, said it was unusual for ankle ligament damage to take 14 weeks to heal.
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The Guardian (London) - Final Edition
July 7, 2005
SECTION: Guardian Home Pages, Pg. 11
LENGTH: 378 words
HEADLINE: Biking Bush collides with policeman
<snip>
Mr Bush became a devotee of cycling a couple of years ago after a knee injury forced him to give up running. But his leisure pursuits are not without their periIs. In May last year he fell off his mountain bike, grazing his chin, top lip, nose, knees and his right hand while riding on his ranch. He also came to grief on a motorised scooter in June 2003. On that occasion, however, neither vehicle nor rider was damaged.

In January 2002, he survived a potentially fatal encounter with a pretzel.

[bmbmd]

16. Wasn't it just his zipper down?

Merely a barn door type problem, methinks.

[Disturbed]

18. Busholini puts his foot down.

[Lars39]

17. Remember when he 'posed' in front of a window in his undershirt?

I haven't seen that pic in a while.

[TheBaldyMan]

22. It could have been kicked into long grass because of the London bombings

Not that I like finding any excuse for the Commander-in-Thief, but the G8 played second string to the 7/7 bombings.

[SpreadItAround]

23. He didn't want any pictures taken because of his tiny cock

[October]

24. Never heard a word of this. /nt

[LibertyLover]

25. It's like the story about Babs I remember hearing in 1993

Shortly after 41 was replaced by a competent president, old George and Babs went on a cruise. On the ship's return, it was met by an ambulance. Babs was removed from the ship with both wrists bandaged. The story was that she had fallen and cut both wrists on a glass door on the ship. I did a search and found an old NYT story that said she had hurt the arm in the White House and the injury opened up on board ship. Things that make you go hmmmmm.

[derby378]

26. Never heard of it. 9/11 changed everything. Stay the course.

Sorry. This is all starting to bear down on my soul.

[libhill]

27. But but but

We have to keep that cash flowing in for Halliburton...I mean, umm.... we have to continue the glorious war to protect our freedom from them thar A-rabs what hates us.

[derby378]

29. We have to fight the "towelheads" over there so we don't fight them here

And if you don't kill at least one innocent Iraqi in cold blood, you're making the baby Jesus cry.

Oh, God, I feel so sick...

:cry:

[libhill]

31. I know the feeling...

if I had the financial means, and leave this damned country and never return. Never thought I'd see the day I'd be ashamed of America, but that day has arrived. And I have no faith left in the so called 'Democratic Process", after seeing two elections stolen from the people.

[derby378]

32. I have to stay and fight

This is my home. I live here. I want to die here.