PICKLES! Laura FUCKING Bush! "Discusses Jenna's Wedding During Myanmar Press Conference"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Laura Bush Discusses Jenna's Wedding During Myanmar Press Conference

A White House press conference given by First Lady Laura Bush took a bizarre and insensitive twist when the focus of the conference, the devastation wrought by a powerful cyclone in Myanmar, switched to Jenna Bush's upcoming wedding. While the reporters and the First Lady bantered back and forth about Jenna's wedding details, MSNBC left up their chyron, saying "First Lady Talks About Deadly Cyclone In Myanmar." They also continued to show images of the devastation in Myanmar while Mrs. Bush offered more information about the wedding, including the "Texas limestone altar" built by her husband.

Watch footage of the press conference: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/05/laura-bush-discusses-jenn_n_100219.html

[Olney Blue]

1. Oh. My. God.

[rwheeler31]

2. She is so sick.

[SpiralHawk]

34. "Why should I clutter my 'beautiful' mind. Smirk." Pickles

[gristy]

3. no words

:(

[lonestarnot]

4. Fucking elitist pig!

[goclark]

5. You just looked at Sen. from Texas, Laura Bush

watch it happen.

[Goodnevil]

11. That wouldn't shock me

Good call.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

22. If she ran, she'd win.......Texans are suckers for the "big name"

But I doubt it will happen. I think she's as lazy as George, only slightly brighter, and smart enough to just go home to hide on the ranch with her chimp boy husband and stay there for the rest of her life.

[wordpix]

25. WTF is she doing under the pRes' seal answering q's, anyway? Is * off the wagon again?

[goclark]

29. She is running for office

Remember when she met the Pope?

They have been trying to put her front and center.

Watch my word ~ Laura will be a Senator just like Hillary.

[rwheeler31]

6. Who remembers she could not even say Katrina?

[geomon666]

17. Like it was yesterday.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIkbs2MTDIc&fmt=18

[FSogol]

7. Did you say, "Texas Beer Can Altar built by her husband"?

:rofl:

[NashVegas]

8. Idiot Press

She didn't have to answer.

[wordpix]

24. they were fawning all over her. Yuck!

[Stinky The Clown]

9. She's his perfect mate and the perfect daughter-in-law for his mother

She embodies "those people".

[pacalo]

10. Another distasteful example of how their frivolous minds work. I guess the boy king & his guitar

weren't available. Did she give the press samples of Jenna's wedding cake afterward?

When the press brought the subject up, it would have been appropriate of her to say that it was for discussion later, that she was there to discuss a terrible tragedy.

[fortyfeetunder]

31. Guess she didn't think that far

Or she figures she owed the press an answeron the wedding, lest she be thought of as secretive..

[pacalo]

46. She's been in the public eye long enough to know how to assert herself with the press.

The problem is that it just isn't in her to know that a discussion about her daughter's wedding was inappropriate at that time.

"We're very happy about the wedding, but I don't think it's appropriate to discuss it with you at this time; the focus at this moment is the Myanmar tragedy, which is the reason for this press conference."

Why should that be so hard for her? Because it's not in her.

[stevedeshazer]

12. By far the worst part is the fawning batch of presstitutes

Just look at them on the video...they're part of it.

I understand Pickles the Stepford wife being happy over the impending marriage of her drunken daughter.

But just look how the mediawhores suck up; I understand they can't see the chyron, but that's no excuse.

Here is Pickles talking about death and destruction. They sit silently. Then some press wag asks her about Jenna the Drunken Chainsmoker's wedding and all of a sudden, everything is all flowers and shits and giggles.

The news has been canceled.

That's really horrifying.

[Elidor]

39. Here's some more on that

To react to the main news of the day -- thousands of deaths from the cyclone in Burma -- Bush sends his wife out to make a statement. She criticizes the Burmese government for its failure "to issue a timely warning to citizens in the storm's path" and "to meet its people's basic needs." Reporters, too tactful to draw parallels to New Orleans, quiz her instead about daughter Jenna's wedding, and the names of future grandchildren. "George and Georgia, Georgina, Georgette," the first lady says.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/05/AR2008050502204.html?nav=rss_politics

[scarface2004]

13. now watch this drive!!!!

bush sneered!!!

[Snarkoleptic]

14. Prolly didn't want to waste her 'beautiful mind' on the plight of the little people.

[JDPriestly]

15. And what have the Bushies done about New Orleans?

Next to nothing. Laura, chew what is in your mouth before you take another bite. In other words, why can't they finish rebuilding New Orleans before they start "helping" other countries rebuild?

[Disturbed]

16. Laura Bush is a self centered phony.

She presents a fake persona for the public that the Corp Media promotes. She is, in reality, a mean spirited, selfish, arrogant, ignorant person just like her husband. She has promoted RWing causes such as Anti-Stem Cell Funding and has campaigned for RW Candidates. Claiming that she is a Private Citizen is as bogus as her phony public persona. She champions causes such as Women's Rights in Afghanistan and schools for Iraqis and Afghans but it is merely lip service because she does nothing about these causes nor does she contribute any of her own money towards them. . Laura Bush is a vapid, phony person and should be shunned yet she remains popular with the millions in America because the Corp Media goes along with her charade.

[lonestarnot]

27. And a mental fucking case.

[bdamomma]

41. rebuilt countries, more like tear them apart.

[Happyhippychick]

18. Nobody has suffered more than George Bush. So she says.

[Berry Cool]

19. "And speaking of a storm ripping your house apart and destroying everything in its path..."

"...you should see what a Bridezilla Jenna's turned into! I mean, if you could SEE the way she goes nuts when someone tells her they can't get the right color of tablecloths or the bridesmaids' shoe dyeing didn't turn out! Better run for cover, indeed! Oh ho ho ho!..." :grr:

[bullwinkle428]

20. I guess it's "working out very well for" the people of Myanmar, so she

had plenty of time leftover to dish about the upcoming nuptials... :eyes:

[Juche]

21. I'm far more upset at the press

She is the wife of the president. She hasn't been elected to anything and has no real responsibility.

The press on the other hand are supposed to be watchdogs trusted to be competent and professional. Jesus fucking christ. These people need to watch their influence on civilization die a miserable death as legit watchdogs arise on the internet to do their job for them.

Alot of it is our fault though. I'm sure that Jenna's wedding is a bigger news issue for huge swaths of the public than a cyclone in Myanmar, which 80% of the public probably know nothing about.

Damn right I'm an elitist.

[wordpix]

23. "thousands of people riot in Somalia over food prices"---scrolling crawl while Pickles talks about

her new "son." :puke:

[Clear Blue Sky]

26. To be fair, the reporters brought up the issue of the wedding.

At least that's what I saw on the video.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

33. One option would have been...

...to say "This isn't the time to discuss this" or something similar. The reporters brought up the subject, she thanked them, everyone had a little laugh when she was asked "Any chance of letting us cover it" and that should have been it.

:patriot:

[Clear Blue Sky]

35. Show me a mother that doesn't love to talk about her daughter's wedding.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

36. Yeah, well, she's a mother and also First Lady of the U.S....

...and she was center-stage at a press conference to discuss a natural disaster that has claimed 22,000 lives, with another 41,000 missing (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24478247/).

She should have realized that it wasn't her moment. She didn't.

[wtmusic]

43. Of course

One might tend to expect more out of the First Lady, but I guess not.

She ain't no Eleanor Roosevelt.

[deutsey]

50. That's what I was thinking

Something along the lines of saying "While we're looking forward to our daughter's upcoming wedding, this is really not the proper time or place to discuss it."

Sensitivity, you know?

[bdamomma]

42. again it's the reporters who just feed into another distraction

of dumbing down Americans instead of telling the people the facts about the situation in Myanmar.

[RB TexLa]

28. Well, with respect, Americans care no more about Myanmar than they did about Louisiana

[Richard Steele]

30. The memories of Mr. and Mrs. Mussolini allow me to cling to hope for a better future.

If ya know what I mean.

[peekaloo]

44. I'll be eating lots of asparagus the night before the street parade.

and wearing my finest Gucci's.

[ruby slippers]

32. and she wants you to give your 30.00 gas savings to Unicef probably

[bluedawg12]

37. Let them eat cake, y'all. n/t

[marshall]

38. Next week she and the twins will be dodging sniper fire in Myanmar

It's all part of the grand plan.

[bdamomma]

40. and they call Obama an "elitist" give me a effing break.

they continue to show how detached they are from humanity and reality. Sick sick people.

[FourScore]

45. That's beyond tacky. Damn Stepford wife! n/t

[SunDrop23]

47. What a skank. (n/t)

[live love laugh]

48. Bush didn't build a fucking thing--including a Texas limestone altar.

I'd be willing to bet on it seeing as how he like to play dress up as a ranch hand and brush clearer and pilot. No reason to think he did anything other than play dressup while the real altar builder finished the job.

[maradonapassion]

49. Bush's mom disrespected Katrina victims

when she said they were poor enough to feel comfortable in the makeshift shelter in a football stadium. The whole family is elitist.

[sakabatou]

51. The whole fucking * family

They're a plague on society.