It is time to bring Barbara Bush to justice.

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In the light of her recent comments, I think there is only one possibility left. To wit:

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 00:53 (twenty years ago)

She's always been a bitch.

― O'so Krispie (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 00:55 (twenty years ago)

Don't you mean "rhymes with stitch"?

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 00:56 (twenty years ago)

Let them eat cake!

― Orbit (Orbit), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 00:57 (twenty years ago)

http://www.strangepersons.com/images/content/9244.jpg

Set her adrift on an ice floe, I'm sure it will work out very well for her.

― O'so Krispie (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 00:58 (twenty years ago)

Happy campers they are, and happy campers they'll always be.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 01:13 (twenty years ago)

From the link above: "And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this--this (she chuckles slightly) is working very well for them."

Is this stuff made up? Seriously now.

― Collardio Gelatinous (collardio), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 01:14 (twenty years ago)

barbara bush:

http://www.classbrain.com/artbiographies/uploads/barbara-bush.jpg

vs. marie antoinette:

http://daily.greencine.com/archives/marie-antoinette.jpg

vs. elena ceausescu:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/240000/images/_240171_elena150.jpg

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 01:28 (twenty years ago)

Sounds good to me. I recommend the venue for the duel be a telephone booth, and the weapon be hand grenades.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 01:29 (twenty years ago)

Marie Antoinette was a saint compared to Babs.

― Masked Gazza, Tuesday, 6 September 2005 01:35 (twenty years ago)

the rotten apple doesn't fall far from the poisonous tree.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 01:37 (twenty years ago)

what a horrible, horrible person.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 01:42 (twenty years ago)

shes always been viewed as a sort of mastermind behind the bush clan, this is nothing suprising.

my mom, im sorry to say, adores this woman. once when i was a kid she planned a whole family vacation around going to kennebunkport maine, in hopes of a bush-sighting (no pun intended).

― JD from CDepot, Tuesday, 6 September 2005 01:53 (twenty years ago)

hahaha you should have just shown her revenge of the nerds

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 01:53 (twenty years ago)

Barbara Bush: Lovable Granny-Type or Bitch-on-Wheels

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 02:32 (twenty years ago)

It's almost like the Bushes are caricatures of the privileged. They are the embodiment of the rich and clueless stereotype. Every time one of them opens their mouth I wonder whether they're being serious or not. If I was writing a satiric piece about a wealthy and powerful family who are completely out-of-touch with reality, Jeb, George (W.), and Barbara would have to be included. I'd also create a character based on Jenna just because I think that would be fun.

― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 02:41 (twenty years ago)

What do people think of a scene from a comedy script I've got in the works?

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 02:44 (twenty years ago)

(she chuckles slightly)

die

― amon (eman), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 03:00 (twenty years ago)

http://www.topplebush.com/humor/barb_george.jpg

http://www.wiseass.org/images/babsbush-cunt1.jpg

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 03:15 (twenty years ago)

She really does resemble some kind of flabby bewigged corpse.

― Masked Gazza, Tuesday, 6 September 2005 03:22 (twenty years ago)

goddamn what a bitch

― latebloomer: snakes, snails, and puppydog tails (latebloomer), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 03:30 (twenty years ago)

Barb Jr.

http://www.thefirsttwins.com/images/barbara2004-2a.jpg

― amon (eman), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 03:38 (twenty years ago)

check out the helicopter pilot staring at her "rhymes with ass"

― amon (eman), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 03:40 (twenty years ago)

damn, barb jr is hot.

i remember reading somewhere that the bush twins got high all the time with ashton kutcher, before he was demi's bitch, but that could be a complete lie

― JD from CDepot, Tuesday, 6 September 2005 03:43 (twenty years ago)

http://www.alephbet.com/images/c69/41.jpg

Golly missus Bush, Ah sho am grateful to y'all what folk, bein as how I's so unnapriv'iged. Now i's got me a nice new cot tuh sleeps on an a magic meal in uh tin box dat dun heat itself! Dis hurra-cane be deh best ting dat evuh done happen.

― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 03:47 (twenty years ago)

http://www.alephbet.com/images/c69/41.jpg

― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 03:48 (twenty years ago)

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2005/09/05.html#a4811

Jeb says things a little differently

A convoy of 30 trucks left the state Tuesday carrying food and emergency supplies for Gulf Coast states battered by Hurricane Katrina in a massive relief effort that Gov. Jeb Bush called "payback time."

― kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 03:51 (twenty years ago)

The worst thing about what she said is that I can easily imagine exactly how Bush supporters will defend what she said.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 04:00 (twenty years ago)

http://movies.crooksandliars.com/bb.mp3

― amon (eman), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 04:18 (twenty years ago)

"What I’m hearing which is sort of scary is they all want to stay in Texas.

We're praying with outstretched arms that they set up in Crawford at the recently vacated Camp Casey, Babs, and we don't even believe in God. We want it that badly.

― Hunter (Hunter), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 04:24 (twenty years ago)

That book-cover designer couldn't have just said "Twenty-four illustrations" either.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 04:38 (twenty years ago)

yeah, I've heard a lot of people start on the "oh shit they're all BLACK" (welfare, shiftless, criminal etc.) panic already. Record fucking time.

Fuck Texas.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 05:02 (twenty years ago)

Arthur Silber's bit about this and the whole "shoot the looters" thing

― kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 05:04 (twenty years ago)

Ya know, Milo, the guy who started this thread is a lifelong Texan.

Generalizations are bad, mmkay?

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 05:08 (twenty years ago)

Milo's a Texan, too, IIRC.

― internet comedy novice (Matt Chesnut), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 05:13 (twenty years ago)

oh hey, sorry i'm late, but we all know that Milo is from Texas, right?

― kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 05:15 (twenty years ago)

haha whoops

― internet comedy novice (Matt Chesnut), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 05:20 (twenty years ago)

damn, barb jr is hot.

She is looking pretty good in that photo, but I've always had a soft spot for Jenna.

TS: Jenna vs. Barbara Bush

― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 05:32 (twenty years ago)

Jenna probably reeks of Zima and Marlboro Lites, so Barb wins.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 05:35 (twenty years ago)

http://orientalredneck.blogspot.com/graphics/BarbaraJennaBushVogue.jpg

― Jena (JenaP), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 05:37 (twenty years ago)

you're on the left?

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 05:39 (twenty years ago)

Where's Ice T?

― donut Get Behind Me Carbon Dioxide (donut), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 05:39 (twenty years ago)

jenna's the jessica biel and barb's the shannyn sossaman (that's for you milo!)

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 05:40 (twenty years ago)

It's time to bring Barbara Bush to justice...with my WANG.

― internet comedy novice (Matt Chesnut), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 05:42 (twenty years ago)

Barbara may be a bit cuter (and I'm not convinced of that), but Jenna's straight up trouble. I get the impression that she'd do all the cool, fun, and dirty stuff that nice girls wouldn't. That's why she gets my vote.

― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 06:06 (twenty years ago)

If Bush is Nero, does this make Barbara Agrippina?

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 11:58 (twenty years ago)

Yes.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 12:30 (twenty years ago)

One of the great Nixon tape quotes that emerged in recent years was Dick calling Poppy Bush an "empty suit," but then rhapsodizing about what a vindictive harridan Babs was.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 12:44 (twenty years ago)

She's kind of like Mom in Futurama.

― O'so Krispie (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 12:47 (twenty years ago)

The only defensible thing about Barbara Bush (the elder) is that she's anti-abortion.

I think Jenna and little Barbara look too much like their father in the face and so I could never be attracted to either of them.

― Ian Riese-Moraine: Let this bastard out, and you'll get whiplash! (Eastern Mantr, Tuesday, 6 September 2005 13:01 (twenty years ago)

The only defensible thing about Barbara Bush (the elder) is that she's anti-abortion.

Think of how much better off the world would be had she been pro-abortion.

― O'so Krispie (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 13:03 (twenty years ago)

Actually, I thought that she was. I thought she was just supporting the party line...

Anyway, go to hell, Barbara.

― when something smacks of something (dave225.3), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 13:05 (twenty years ago)

The only defensible thing about Barbara Bush (the elder) is that she's anti-abortion.

this is a strange thing, to type, but I shouldn't be surprised

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 13:12 (twenty years ago)

I think Ian meant pro-abortion (she is indeed a pro-Roe outcast in the clan).

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 13:14 (twenty years ago)

Sorry, you're right, I meant pro-abortion. I'm still not awake yet. Thanks, Morbius.

― Ian Riese-Moraine: Let this bastard out, and you'll get whiplash! (Eastern Mantr, Tuesday, 6 September 2005 13:16 (twenty years ago)

If only abortions had been legal when dubya was conceived.

― O'so Krispie (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 13:16 (twenty years ago)

Like whether or not it was legal has ever stopped a Bush before.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 13:19 (twenty years ago)

One of the great Nixon tape quotes that emerged in recent years was Dick calling Poppy Bush an "empty suit," but then rhapsodizing about what a vindictive harridan Babs was.

My favorite Watergate line about Bush was from Al Haig who said that Bush's reaction after hearing of the "smoking-gun" transcript was that he "broke out into assholes and shit himself to death."

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 13:22 (twenty years ago)

Nothing over at NRO world about Barbara's comment. I wonder why. (They were noticeably silent re: Trent Lott's house comment via W. too.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 13:26 (twenty years ago)

BB probably has the same exact view about slavery.

― Andy_K (Andy_K), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 13:29 (twenty years ago)

Barbara Bush re: TV news coverage of the Iraq war:

I watch none. He (former President Bush) sits and listens and I read books, because I know perfectly well that, don't take offense, that 90 percent of what I hear on television is supposition, when we're talking about the news. And he's not, not as understanding of my pettiness about that. But why should we hear about body bags, and deaths, and how many, what day it's gonna happen, and how many this or what do you suppose? Or, I mean, it's, it's not relevant. So, why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?

― Laura H. (laurah), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 13:41 (twenty years ago)

"Poverty is such a tragedy. And it's especially sad because there's nothing we can do about it."

― when something smacks of something (dave225.3), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 13:44 (twenty years ago)

incredible

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 13:44 (twenty years ago)

She should be hung from the highest fucking hook.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 13:55 (twenty years ago)

So, why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?

Shes fucking taking the piss, isnt she? Jesus.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 13:56 (twenty years ago)

Homer and Bart should have drowned her in the tub.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 13:56 (twenty years ago)

"And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this--this (she chuckles slightly) is working very well for them."

Anyways, has anyone ascertained this as genuine yet?

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 13:17 (twenty years ago)

Its being reported in all the major papers here (though interestingly theyve all left the "slight chuckle" bit out), it would be hilarious if it was a hoax. Somehow I doubt it though.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 13:28 (twenty years ago)

In the original link, this seems to be actually on-camera.

Obviously, over here, we're not going to see this.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 13:32 (twenty years ago)

Anyways, has anyone ascertained this as genuine yet?

They had the audio transcript on NPR this morning.

― O'so Krispie (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 13:33 (twenty years ago)

I heard it when it was broadcast but I wasn't listening to the attribution and so didn't realise it was her! I just thought it was some random clueless person!

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 14:38 (twenty years ago)

I have an MP3 of the quote

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 15:25 (twenty years ago)

I do too.

Just not on me at the moment.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 16:25 (twenty years ago)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/katrina_barbara_bush

...McClellan, at the White House briefing, said: "I think she was making a personal observation on some of the comments that people were making that she was running into. ... But what we're focused on is helping these people who are in need."

Asked if Bush agreed with his mother, McClellan said: "I think that the observation is based on someone or some people that were talking to her that were in need of a lot of assistance, people that have gone through a lot of trauma and been through a very difficult and trying time. And all of a sudden, they are now getting great help in the state of Texas from some of the shelters."

― kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 20:40 (twenty years ago)

She should be hung from the highest fucking hook.

NO REWARDS FOR THE BABBINA

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 20:42 (twenty years ago)

She was 'running into' people, was she?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 20:45 (twenty years ago)

Hahaha the mental image of Barbara Bush as a rogue bumper car careening into innocent passers-by will keep me warm on my commute home tonight.

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 20:49 (twenty years ago)

Well, not in the Laura Bush sense.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 20:51 (twenty years ago)

It is just me, or does the original comment sound like something Hank Hill would say?

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 20:53 (twenty years ago)

Do you know all of those people, the kind of people from which you drifted away almost instantly after the end of high school, the people who never ever had anyone over to their house not because the house was shitty but because they thought everyone would steal their video games or if they did let ONE person over there were all these random but plentiful restrictions on what you could eat and what was 'their parents' stuff even though it was just regular fucking white boy food you can get at any store, people who exaggerated the totally misread affectations of the scenes they didn't belong to (all of them) eg. if someone liked loud rock music they'd whip their hair and throw 'satan horns' (but they'd do it wrong, with fingers for 'devil ears' on the head) or for rap listeners they'd just bring their knees up and straighten their arms ('hip hop walking, "HEH"'), people who disparaged 'drugheads' for four years before they started doing drugs (they still disparage 'drugheads'), people who 'got into stuff' during college, people who think going to a restaurant is 'going out', people who still think it's baffling how someone as effeminate as Prince ever made lots of money - THESE are the people who grew up to be the ones who still don't GET it. They have never had connection to anything or anyone they can't understand or be good at instantly, so while they don't say outright that they don't care about the people suffering from this, make no mistake that deep down they still have no idea how to empathize with different people, because they've never had the urge in the first place. These people know who they are, and they still have no real friends after all these years; just people and situations that help them make sense of everything. Understand these people, and exactly why there are so many of them, and you will understand why inevitably, in about ten years, you might as well fuck it all and move to the interior with a truck full of non-perishable goods.

― LeCoq (LeCoq), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 21:31 (twenty years ago)

i linked the mp3 of the quote already upthread. here tis again:

http://movies.crooksandliars.com/bb.mp3

― amon (eman), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 21:34 (twenty years ago)

(it may not work on first click. try hitting refresh for that link)

― amon (eman), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 21:35 (twenty years ago)

or go to the link kingfish posted and scroll down

― amon (eman), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 21:37 (twenty years ago)

These people know who they are, and they still have no real friends after all these years;...

But boy, they sure do vote like a motherfucker.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 21:45 (twenty years ago)

Oh they love filling out forms - it feels so OFFICIAL

― LeCoq (LeCoq), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 21:52 (twenty years ago)

The episode of Simpsons where the kids all learn to blink in unison and principal Skinner goes, "I love that sound!" These people actually love that sound.

― LeCoq (LeCoq), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 21:57 (twenty years ago)

As long as it is clear that the natural squishiness of the sound is not overtly sexual, but rather one of cooperation and progress.

― LeCoq (LeCoq), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 22:00 (twenty years ago)

The transformation is complete:

http://evote.com/evotepix/events/rnc_2004/083004_barbara_bush_in_audience.jpg

http://www.photofauna.com/reptiles/lizards/images/sauria21771Gila_Monster_c.JPG

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 22:08 (twenty years ago)

but the gila monster is cute!

― renegade bus (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 22:10 (twenty years ago)

i love you lecoq

― Sym Sym (sym), Thursday, 8 September 2005 05:14 (twenty years ago)

http://www.comics.com/editoons/luckovich/archive/images/luckovich2005091116281.gif

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 12 September 2005 04:03 (twenty years ago)

LeCoq. Yes.

― giboyeux (skowly), Monday, 12 September 2005 04:19 (twenty years ago)

Well said, LeCoq.

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Monday, 12 September 2005 12:35 (twenty years ago)

make no mistake that deep down they still have no idea how to empathize with different people, because they've never had the urge in the first place.

i want to understand how to empathise with these people. i want to buy them a coke and make the world a betterer place.

― foxy boxer (stevie), Monday, 12 September 2005 12:40 (twenty years ago)

I think buying them coke is what started the problem in the first place.

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Monday, 12 September 2005 12:41 (twenty years ago)

What do people think of a scene from a comedy script I've got in the works?

One of the Naked Gun movies included Barbara and George "41" Bush as characters, and showed Babs getting some abuse. Rather gratifying to watch, as I recall.

― j.lu (j.lu), Monday, 12 September 2005 13:06 (twenty years ago)

LeCoq's rant is sadly OTM at most points.

― mike h. (mike h.), Monday, 12 September 2005 13:29 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

The younger BB's really starting to take after Pops.

http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20080115/i/r1705700939.jpg

― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 17 January 2008 19:31 (eighteen years ago)

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