help please -- is there online video of Bush's bungled exit at APEC in Sydney?

[Lisa]

I'm looking for the sequence after he leaves the podium and heads the wrong way -- and the Australian Prime Minister has to show him where the stairs are. I know that there's tape out there somewhere, since CNN Headline News showed a bit of it today (Jeanne Moos did a segment on his gaffes this trip). I can't play video on this computer, so I'm unable to see whether the "Bush" "APEC" vids on YouTube show it. Can someone check for me, or point me to the right clip if you've found it already? Thanks!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9Z9ljhCaUs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXlePs7XxGQ

Or possibly this one?

http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/offbeat/2007/09/07/moos.bush.bad.day.cnn

[zbird]

1. The first youtube shows it. The cnn link has video of several of his screw ups.

It also shows him trying to escape through the locked doors in NY a few years ago.

Did you read the description on that first youtube video?

"...I would truly love the idea of living in a benign dictatorship where these two great men could stay in office no matter what the people wanted, as sometimes the best people know what is best for their own nations & indeed the World !"

Part of the backwash to be sure!

[Lisa]

2. thanks zbird!

I actually wasn't able to access the description -- my screen keeps locking up, and I haven't got the admin code to reinstall the software. So many thanks for your help!

[BlooInBloo]

3. The Rude Pundit has Grade-A snark about dubya's genius speech there...

http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2007/09/bush-at-apec-opec-whatever-so-while.html

"... For, indeed, in speaking to an audience of business leaders at the Sydney Opera House, Bush may as well have shit himself and smirked while saying, "I pooped mah drawers." Not only did he call the APEC summit "OPEC," but he thanked the "Austrian troops" in Iraq, apparently longing for a time when someone like him might have been defended by the Austrian military. Then, as AP reports, "Then, speech done, Bush confidently headed out -- the wrong way. He strode away from the lectern on a path that would have sent him over a steep drop. Howard and others redirected the president to center stage, where there were steps leading down to the floor of the theater."..."

[lapfog_1]

4. "steep drop..."

the mind boggles.

As agent Maxwell Smart would say "Missed it by that much!"

[BlooInBloo]

5. heh!

[Forkboy]

6. The man is thicker than a whale omelet.

That door thing cracks me up to no end. :)

[MnFats]

7. found this comment re Bush over there and laughed my ass off..

"Bush says US and Australia share Vayush?
The two countries share the hindi wind god? That was news to me..."

[momster]

8. Olbermann had it

If it's not too late...or maybe they'll put the clip on Youtube. First the exit stage wrong, then the mumbled bumbled speech...wrong country, wrong meeting.

Just effing wrong.