Letterman: "He's (Chimp) drinking again!"

[joeunderdog]

He said this last night in reference to the back massage Heir Chimp gave the German chancellor. Got a huge round of applause and laughter.

[woodsprite]

1. Ooooh! I hadn't seen the picture. Sure looks like she's creeped out. n/t

[Ian David]

3. Wait until you see the rest...

http://www.cynical-c.com/archives/005438.html

Video:
http://www.bild.t-online.de/BTO/news/aktuell/2006/07/18/merkel-bush-liebes-attacke/merkel-bush-liebes-attacke.html

[nilram]

14. this video's working a little better for me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk4O6B0CML4

[newyawker99]

20. Hi nilram!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[calico1]

2. You can tell he is loaded.

Its so obvious. I've seen drunk people before.

[madokie]

5. hell I've been drunk before, and he is smashed

[mopinko]

4. if he is drinking, he MUST be impeached

i mean, he must be impeached anyway. but clearly a former drunk back on the bottle is unfit. cut and dried.

[prole_for_peace]

6. and the "she smiled" crap in the media

that isn't a smile it is a grimace. it is the expression all women get when some guy who think she is god's gift decides to bestow his "touch" on us.

i almost lost my pop-tarts....

[nancyr]

7. Sure looks drunk to me.

What a guy!

[bdamomma]

11. He didn't receive his Ritalin

[Virginia Dare]

8. G8 conference, one long toot for the Chimpster....

[htuttle]

10. "Tovarish, if you're going to be ill..."

"...use the wastebasket down there."

[Kurovski]

21. ...

[antonialee839]

16. President Stupid looks like he just rolled out of bed.

[Scout1071]

18. That is a beer in front of him at the table. Nobody else has one

in the pic. Looks like he brought it to the table.

[Virginia Dare]

19. Pooty obviously was enabling him....

if you look closely there is an ice bucket containing some bottles chilling in the background, and along the two tables behind them there are various bottles. Not a very good scenario for a former drunk. Pooty has a glass of water in front of him.

[zeemike]

9. I feel sorry for her

Looks like she was having a serious conversation and this drunk embarrassed her.

[Virginia Dare]

13. From what I saw..

on the video, she was engrossed in writing notes or something. He totally blind-sided her, and for a split-second it looked like she was going to slug him. I wish she had. On the other hand, the bombs would probably be falling on Germany as we speak.

[Libby2]

12. Every picture I saw of him during the G8

looked like he was tanked to me.

[Ian David]

15. Bush's 'Hands-On' Diplomacy With German Chancellor Raises Eyebrows

Bush's 'Hands-On' Diplomacy With German Chancellor Raises Eyebrows
ABC News - 3 hours ago
Merkel looks stunned and visibly recoils from Bush's touch. ... Comedian Hal Sparks said of the quickie massage, "Anybody with an ounce of sympathy was immediately ...
http://www.abcnews.go.com/GMA/story%3Fid%3D2214892&cid=0&sig2=c0IyM_L9LAzEEBkHLgbFJQ

Clip site not such a pain in the neck for TV networks
The Australian, Australia - 45 minutes ago
... table of the G8 summit in St Petersburg, when US President George W. Bush sneaks up behind Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, to give her a neck massage. ...
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,19859193-7582,00.html


Angela Merkel Expected To Make Full Recovery Following George Bush ...
theVoiceofReason.com (satire), UK - 4 hours ago
Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, who seems to have been attacked by George Bush ... A White House spokesman said the president intended the neck massage as a ...
http://www.thevoiceofreason.com/2006/07/AngelaMerkelGeorgeBush.htm


Bush offer to massage Merkel an online hit
Unison.ie, Ireland - 5 hours ago
... table of the G8 summit in St Petersburg, when US President George Bush sneaks up behind Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, to give her a neck massage. ...
http://www.unison.ie/stories.php3?ca=27&si=1656228

Good Touch, Bad Touch, Presidential Style
Hammer of Truth - Jul 18, 2006
... been taking correspondence courses in massage therapy, he probably shouldn’t have tried to give German chancellor Angela Merkel a very awkward neck massage. ...

http://hammeroftruth.com/2006/07/18/good-touch-bad-touch-presidential-style/


How stupid? Well....
Massimo Pigliuci, who writes Rationally Speaking as well as being a professor at SUNY Stony Brook asked, How stupid is Bush, really? The answer, my friend, is infinitely stupid. Stupid without boundries. Dr. Pigliucci was frustrated by Bush’s (then anticipated, now actual) veto of the stem cell research funding bill, because it demonstrates such monumental stupidity. There’s every reason to be frustrated. As the wife of a Type 1 diabetic and as a human being, I’m outraged. I’m not sure that this is where Bush demonstrates intelligence or lack thereof, though. This has more of the smell of Karl, playing to the base, and what’s left of the base is pretty intellectually limited.

Still, I’m not in the ’Bush is crazy like a fox’ school of thought. I think he’s really a moron. I doubt he’s made many real decisions as president. Maybe he thinks he’s The Decider, but even that sounds more like someone whispering in his ear, saying, ’You’re the one who decides. Don’t let the public tell you what to do. It’s up to you. Here’s what you’ve decided...’ Just like his belief that history will vindicate him. Can’t you just hear that pep talk going on? Someone is no doubt assigned to list all the leaders in history who were reviled in their own times but have come to be regarded as astute or even great and repeat them to him every so often. Only thing is...Bush isn’t going to make that list.

If you had any doubts about Bush’s intellectual prowess, hasn’t his bufoonery at the G8 Summit put an end to them? First there was the Pig Roast comment and then he recommended that Russia should aspire to become more like Iraq. If that weren’t enough, after attacking the Chancellor of Germany with an unasked for massage...or something, he solved the problem of the current mayhem in the Middle East by suggesting that, ’We got to get Syria to get Hezbollah to stop doing this shit.’ And he said it with his mouth full. While chewing.

More:
http://www.agoravox.com/tb_receive.php3?id_article=4988

[antonialee839]

17. Anybody see Euro-trip?

Bush reminds me of the Italian on the train caught massaging
the guy's neck when they go through the dark tunnel.