OMFG!!! MOST VOMIT-INDUCING PIC OF DUMBYA EVER!

[UdoKier]

Sorry for the caps, but Sludge actually had the nerve to put THIS up!

FDR, Churchill, and... DUMBYA?!

FUCK YOU VERY MUCH, SLUDGE.

What a piece of shit to put this up.

[vi5]

1. Actually I don't know if it was a joke or not but didn't that pic...

..originally have Stalin sitting where Bush is? Isn't that what it is taken from? Or was that a photoshop thingy?

[UdoKier]

4. I dunno.

Whatever it is, the connotation is that he is somehow in their league, when he is closer to a cross between Pol Pot and Ernest of "Ernest Goes to Camp".

It's an abomination.

[TaleWgnDg]

7. This is an actual photo. The back-drop is a Canadian stage.

The photo was taken of GWBush while touring and speaking in Canada. When I saw this stage on C-Span (live), I truly could not understand why the Canadians had such a photo back-drop, other than an insult to GWBush. Since the photograph depicts historical titans unlike GWBush and his world stupidity.



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[Cronus Protagonist]

2. It's a real shot

Bush is covering up Stalin, just like he's covering up Stalin's buddy, Cheney.




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[Chimpanzee]

3. LOL

They replaced Stalin with *, which is ironic, and fitting.

[Swamp Rat]

5. HAHA! I just finished this one of Sludge!

Take THAT Sludge! HAHAHA!

[UdoKier]

6. Aww, how sweet. He's all lipsticked up...

...and ready to work the gloryholes of South Beach's public men's rooms.

[NYC]

8. The original photograph:

Hosted by Image Shack:





Edit: It's not the original. Sorry.

[sled]

11. They're

just not up to the "challanges"...how dumb can those guys be, replacing Stalin, with Jr., unless there's a message there...never know, with those goons...

[Moloch]

9. Perhaps if they took out FDR and Churchill....

and just put * sitting next to Stalin, I would buy the pic.

[sled]

10. dupe

You guys are good...

[elehhhhna]

12. The Ghosts of Statesman Past visit GW for Christmas...

[Dangerman]

13. I like this picture better...

[Lisa]

14. the White House made up that banner itself

No kidding. They sent one of their designers up to Halifax more than a week before the event (so basically, the city hosts had only just been notified they had a few days to receive W in the manner he's accustomed to). The guy put together a spread of archival photos (probably "borrowed" from the museum at the site) and the banner was printed in the States. (They didn't even trust Canada to get it right!).

By the way -- another Canadian DUer pointed out that the short is actually taken from a meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King, with FDR and Sir Winston but not Stalin -- though it does look like the more famous Yalta pic! The funny thing is, Bush appears to be sitting in for Mackenzie King ... he even quoted from him several times (out of context). But King is one of our loopier politicians -- his administration was plagued by scandal, and being a devoted spiritualist he used to consult the ghost of his mother for policy advice. Bush's people probably didn't know that when they insinuated him into the picture like that.

Probably Karl and Co. were hoping that papers in the US and Canada would put that eye-catching photo on their front page. I know the Globe and Mail did, but they received an avalanche of derisive letters from their readers ....