Prez in Topless Tabloid

[kskiska]

London Paper Nabs Rare Bush Exclusive

By Dana Milbank

President Bush has gone down-market.

After coming to office with a vow to restore dignity to the White House, the president yesterday took a brief sabbatical from that effort: He granted an exclusive interview to a British tabloid that features daily photographs of nude women and articles akin to those found in our own National Enquirer.
Press secretary Scott McClellan broke the news yesterday with nonchalance. "Good morning," he told reporters. "The president had his usual briefings this morning and just recently completed an interview with the Sun, for a discussion of his upcoming visit to the United Kingdom."

A British journalist for a more highbrow outlet was not about to let that slip by unnoticed. "Just to clarify," he asked, "why has the president chosen to do an interview with the Sun? It's a newspaper which publishes daily pictures of topless women."

(snip)

So why did Bush choose the tabloid that last raised international attention by publishing topless pictures of Prince Edward's fiancee? It's because the Sun has huge, uh, circulation. "It has a large readership," McClellan said. Indeed, about 3.5 million Britons are said to buy it each day -- all of them, of course, for the articles.


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[CarlBallard]

1. All the tabloids are topless tabloids over there

[The Zanti Regent]

25. I always thought President Jockstrap was a boob

Once again, I have to go to the British Press to prove it!

[papau]

26. In the Sun - but no topless photo of Bush - I had high hopes!

"Such comments are grossly unfair to the Sun. True, its Page 3 is devoted daily to photographs of women and their breasts. True, it this week named "classy Krystle, the beautiful brunette babe" as this year's "Page 3 Idol" and amply displayed evidence of what it called her "vital statistics of 32C-24-33."

But the Sun is so much more than breasts. It is also reporting this week on a woman who is "made of two women" and "is NOT the biological mother of two of the children she conceived and had naturally." Other news items highlighted on the Sun's Web site: "Man begins 12-day sausage, bean and chip bath to promote Brit food," "German saboteurs plotted to bomb Palace with peas in WW2, files reveal," and "Sobbing islanders say sorry to the ancestor of minister eaten by natives."

Bush, meanwhile, has given no solo interviews this year to the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Time or Newsweek. And he hasn't given an exclusive interview in his entire presidency to the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe and dozens of other major publications.

So why did Bush choose the tabloid that last raised international attention by publishing topless pictures of Prince Edward's fiancee? It's because the Sun has huge, uh, circulation. "It has a large readership," McClellan said. Indeed, about 3.5 million Britons are said to buy it each day -- all of them, of course, for the articles."

I like the Washington Post style!@!!! :-)

[The Zanti Regent]

29. What's the difference between the Sun and the WHORESHINGTON POST?

The Sun shows you boobs, but the WHORESHINGTON POST is written by boobs!

[RandomKoolzip]

2. Imagine the shitstorm had Clinton done the same thing....

:eyes:

[Fridays Child]

10. He would have been branded as an...

...Arkansas trailer trash publicity whore.

[grasswire]

3. rupert murdoch

...that's the catch. He owns the Sun.

[Philostopher]

4. Yep -- though I had to go through

a few layers of 'about us' and 'info' links to confirm it beyond the Sun's homepage (I thought I remembered it was owned by NewsCorp, but I wasn't sure and didn't want to jump the gun). It's Rupert's paper, so Dim Son will do it. Even if he's on 'Page 4.' Right opposite the tits.

[sam sarrha]

6. probably the only publication that would say anything positive about him

[Spider Jerusalem]

15. Murdoch ALSO owns the Times, though...

(London Times, that is...www.timesonline.co.uk ) and the Times is eminently respectable. Junior could've given an interview to a Murdoch-owned paper without going to the Sun.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

5. Bush says "Thank you, Rupert."

<snip>
Word on Fleet Street is it's an obvious payoff to the Sun's owner, Rupert Murdoch, the conservative publisher behind many Bush-friendly news outlets such as Fox News. Officials at the White House acknowledge that it was a reward to the Sun for its unstinting support of the United States regarding the war in Iraq. (The Sun's pro-Bush stance also got it an interview with Vice President Cheney in late 2001.)
<snip>

What a blatant pig.

[madrchsod]

7. will they put georgies

picture on page two so he can look at the page three girls? what a rag

[Whoa_Nelly]

8. Looking at the picture with the article...

...seems that in so many photos of him that he is more often than not using a "wave" that looks more like a "Zieg, Heil!"

I hate him :puke:

[wabeewoman]

9. Owned by Rupert Murdoch

Need any more information?? The WP seems a bit testy about the fact that (snip)
Bush, meanwhile, has given no solo interviews this year to the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Time or Newsweek. And he hasn't given an exclusive interview in his entire presidency to the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe and dozens of other major publications.

So why did Bush choose the tabloid that last raised international attention by publishing topless pictures of Prince Edward's fiancee?

On edit: Opps sorry didn't see the posts saying the same thing... or took too long reading and writing....

[shamrock]

11. Do you think

Maybe he's trying to impress Arnold?

[truthisfreedom]

12. just goes to show, bush is basically a slut that will do anything for a

photo op and a standing ovation.

[BiggJawn]

13. On the front page: "TODAY! THREE (count 'em) THREE Boobs inside!"

Maybe they will put him on Page Four, looking over at 3 with some stupid expression on his mug...

Love those Page Three girls.....Wasn'r Diana Rigg a P3 girl? I know some of Young Mr. Grace's "nurses" were.....

[Spider Jerusalem]

17. Um...

page 2 is opposite page 3...page 4 is printed on the reverse of page 3...page 1 being the front...

[BiggJawn]

31. And I suppose YOU are always lucid at 4AM?

Give me a break! I only had one cuppa in me!
You are correct. he would be on 2 leering at 3...

[bushisanidiot]

14. Please Don't Show His Man Boobs! I don't wanna see 'em!

yuck!

[rooboy]

16. Here is a rundown of the UK media...

From "Yes, Prime Minister" (great Old UK sitcom)...

Jim Hacker (PM): "Don't tell me about the press. I know exactly who reads the papers:
- The Daily Mirror is read by people who think they run the country;
- The Guardian is read by people who think they ought to run the country;
- The Times is read by people who actually do run the country;
- The Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the country;
- The Financial Times is read by people who own the country;
- The Morning Star is read by people who think the country ought to be run by another country;
- And the Daily Telegraph is read by people who think it is."

Sir Humphrey: "Prime Minister, what about the people who read the Sun?"

Bernard Woolley: "Sun readers don't care who runs the country, as long as she's got big tits."

http://www.yes-minister.com/video/vypm24q1.ram

[JawJaw]

19. The "Soaraway-Sun"

Whilst it's easy to dismiss the Sun for its tired recipe of tits'n'arse'n'celebrity drivel, it IS the highest circulation paper in the UK, and does a lot in shaping the fortunes of politicians/parties. The political editor, Trevor Kavanagh is a old-skool Murdoch henchman, and has been described as one of the most powerful men in Britain.

I imagine that Downing Street was put into something of a panic yesterday, when Murdoch revealed that he wasn't sure which party his papers would support in the next election.

[leftchick]

21. LoL rooboy......

I do believe that clears it up quite nicely! :)

[truthisfreedom]

22. i love it!

n/m

[smallprint]

23. Here's the US version of the media list:

this list is an old classic, i dug it up here:
http://cartalk.cars.com/Mail/Haus/2002/03.02-1.html

1. The Wall Street Journal is read by the people who run the country.

2. The New York Times is read by people who think they run the country.

3. The Washington Post is read by people who think they should run the country.

4. USA Today is read by people who think they ought to run the country but don't really understand the Washington Post. They do, however, like their smog statistics shown in pie charts.

5. The Los Angeles Times is read by people who wouldn't mind running the country, if they could spare the time, and if they didn't have to leave L.A. to do it.

6. The Boston Globe is read by people whose parents used to run the country and they did a far superior job of it, thank you very much.

7. The New York Daily News is read by people who aren't too sure who's running the country, and don't really care as long as they can get a seat on the train.

8. The New York Post is read by people who don't care who's running the country either, as long as they do something really scandalous, preferably while intoxicated.

9. The San Francisco Chronicle is read by people who aren't sure there is a country, or that anyone is running it; but whoever it is, they oppose all that they stand for.

10. The Miami Herald is read by people who are running another country, but need the baseball scores.

11. The National Enquirer is read by people trapped in line at the grocery store.

:P :P :P :P

[Hubert Flottz]

18. Bush will adorn the bottoms of 3.5 million Briton's Birdcages!

See, there's always a bright side!

[MaineDem]

20. He's given me another reason to hate him

The White House giving an interview to such an obviously sexist rag is pathetic!

[kentuck]

24. Rupert, you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours....

Agrees to an interview with a topless tabloid just because it is owned by Rupert Murdoch...They must be so proud of him!

[Bandit]

27. Devil's Advocate here.

Why is this any different than President Carter's interview in Playboy? Maybe because the Right-Wingers make such a big deal out of them being so moral and all.

[opihimoimoi]

28. "Alright, who the guy suggested this??" The Prez gonna be furious

blindsided yet AGAIN>>>>?

[BuckeFushe]

30. Maybe he was looking for the models who fake the photos?

Maybe he was told there were free pretzels?

Maybe Rupert said he'd give him a suitcase fuoll of cash to get the circulation of that rag up for a day.


Maybe because Bush is stupid?

[jody]

32. So? The emperor is naked anyway!

:hi: