BUSH: "it was just a coat hanger, and ... it didn’t hurt any more than a cigarette burn."

[kpete]

Channeling Bush’s Inner Sadist: An Insight Into His Obsession with Torture
Submitted by BuzzFlash on Thu, 11/01/2007 - 6:10am. Analysis
A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS

We were writing a review of a BuzzFlash premium of a collection of Garry Trudeau's "Doonesbury" cartoons last weekend when we serendipitously came across this tidbit, posted in a 2004 Associated Press article (watch for the end of the excerpt):

Cartoonist Garry Trudeau, who has skewered politicians for decades in his comic strip "Doonesbury," tells Rolling Stone magazine he remembers Yale classmate George W. Bush as "just another sarcastic preppy who gave people nicknames and arranged for keg deliveries."

Trudeau attended Yale University with Bush in the late 1960s and served with him on a dormitory social committee.

"Even then he had clearly awesome social skills," Trudeau said. "He could also make you feel extremely uncomfortable ... He was extremely skilled at controlling people and outcomes in that way. Little bits of perfectly placed humiliation."

…. Trudeau said he penned his very first cartoon to illustrate an article in the Yale Daily News on Bush and allegations that his fraternity, DKE, had hazed incoming pledges by branding them with an iron.

The article in the campus paper prompted The New York Times to interview Bush, who was a senior that year. Trudeau recalled that Bush told the Times "it was just a coat hanger, and ... it didn’t hurt any more than a cigarette burn."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5439743
http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/analysis/227

[bdamomma]

1. oh, this man is truly sick.

please call out all Psychiatrists and Psychologists to assess this nutcase.

[havocmom]

2. So, bush HAS done something worthwhile in his otherwise misrable life?

He gave us CARTOONIST Trudeau?

Whatever the original inspiration, we are lucky to have Trudeau explaining situations so well.

[TahitiNut]

5. Everyone has a place in the world ... if only serving as a bad example.

:evilgrin:

[havocmom]

8. LOL And why am I not surprised it was you that reminded us of the point?

:hi: Nut!

[mikeytherat]

15. GWB in poster form:

mikey_the_rat

[TahitiNut]

16. I love that series of 'motivational' posters.

They're a great parody of the crap I've seen hanging in offices all over the country for over two decades.

[mikeytherat]

17. I had several Demotivator calendars, and I would take them apart, frame them,

and hang them up in various spots in the office (just like the dipsticks who put up the "real" motivational posters).

mikey_the_rat

[Blashyrkh]

20. An ex-colleague of mine has that exact poster on his wall.

[wicket]

10. "Whatever the original inspiration, we are lucky to have Trudeau explaining situations so well."

Amen to that - he's awesome.

[lonestarnot]

3. Anyone surprised?

[Atman]

4. President Firecracker In A Frog's Ass

What a shameful embarrassment of a human being.

.

[gatorboy]

6. I'd be curious to know if Bush himself ever got the brand.

[Atman]

13. This was Bush's coathanger

Conveniently, also his stance on Women's Reproductive Rights.

.

[MuseRider]

7. At least he wasn't

putting firecrackers in their ass.

Just a cigarette burn, nothing at all. :crazy:

[Blaze Diem]

9. Do mass murderers display that same pleasure in torture of

humans & animals throughout their life. Seems starting somewhere in childhood, little george showed signs of needed intervention. Where were his parents when this was going on?
Serious flaw in his DNA probably. Genetic, maybe.
This is what happens when a sociopath is handed the world as a toy.

Kucinich is correct as to George's mental state. Clearly.

[quiet.american]

11. Aside from all else... cigarette burns do HURT, don't they? n/t

[Lisa]

19. yes -- I'm wondering where Bush got his comparison data from

The best case scenario would be that he fell asleep one day, and the cig dropped out of his mouth and onto his own chest, and scorched through his DKE shirt before he woke up.

I really don't like to think about him smirking away as he deliberately burned someone else ... but given what we've seen of him these past few years, unfortunately that's a possibility.

[indepat]

12. If this is account accurate, how could any body not conclude that the reason the US tortures

as a matter of policy is because junior likes it?

[bullwinkle428]

14. It doesn't take a quantum leap to see how this kind of mentality

can easily rationalize the use of waterboarding as an "acceptable interrogation technique"...

[ehrnst]

18. If someone purposefully burns you with a cigarette, of course you'd see it in a positive light

If you're a sociopath.

[backscatter712]

21. This makes you think when he compares waterboarding to a frat hazing...

[Quantess]

22. Don't you all see how sexual this is? (Homosexual)

19 year old guys pulling down their pants and getting a burn on their tender ass-cheek from another dude. It's clearly homoerotic.

[proud patriot]

23. what a SICKO

x(

[undergroundpanther]

24. psychopathic

sadistic bully control freak asshole.These personalities are toxic as are all bullies.People like Bush crave power just so they can abuse power and abuse people.
I wish all psychopath, authoritarian and narcissistic bully personalities and the bodies holding them in this world would hurry up and have a mass die off.
Why?
Read this...
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/13/science/13BABO.html?ex=1397188800&en=36f651ea236a423d&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND

[riverdeep]

25. This guy not only looks like Ted Bundy,

he acts like him.

[MLFerrell]

26. "...it didn’t hurt any more than a cigarette burn."

Well, *, let me tell you a brief tale.

I was 16 and stupid once. We all were. So I got the bright idea to try to show off for my equally stupid friends, and put a cigarette out on my arm.

That was NINE years ago. I STILL have the scar. And anytime that it's near a source of heat (cooking, etc.) it HURTS.

Now, I'd be willing to wager that a metal rod gets a hell of a lot hotter than a piece of burning tobacco. So in effect, you celebrate inflicting an injury that can cause suffering for YEARS to come.

Fuck you, *. When you die, I'm going to shit on your grave, you fucking mass murderer.