today.reuters.com — Bush, without realizing that a microphone was on talked about Syria needing to stop doing "this s**t". The transcript of the report is not yet online (as it is 5:20am), but should be within 30 mins. Side note: Bush chews very loudly.
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localhJul 18, 2006
@scoot87:The accidental part was that the mic was on, not that he said "s**t".
jeneaneJul 18, 2006
I'm sorry... who cares? Why is this news? Bill Clinton can go around the White House saying "drop your drawers" to any female he fancies, and you think it's news when Bush says "Sh.."? You showed your political worthlessness by adding that Bush chews loudly. So much for Democraps being the party of tolerance... you can be a married horntoad who seduces his own employees and chomps on fat-filled Big Macs, but if you're a Republican who chews loudly you make the news. What a worthless person you must be.
swampthingJul 19, 2006
[[The Washington Post transcript below. The earlier CNN transcript does NOT contain everything.]] President Bush was caught on an open microphone talking with other leaders at the Group of Eight summit in St. Petersburg as they ate lunch before adjourning on Monday. At times the television camera was on Bush, at times it was panning the room. Some of the exchange was hard to hear over the clinking of plates and pouring of drinks. Here's a transcript by The Washington Post:Someone, probably an aide, asks Bush something, evidently whether he wants prepared closing remarks for the end of the summit:Bush: No. Just gonna make it up. I'm not going to talk too damn long like the rest of them. Some of these guys talk too long.The camera is focused elsewhere and it is not clear whom Bush is talking to, but possibly Chinese President Hu Jintao, a guest at the summit.Bush : Gotta go home. Got something to do tonight. Go to the airport, get on the airplane and go home. How about you? Where are you going? Home?Bush : This is your neighborhood. It doesn't take you long to get home. How long does it take you to get home?Reply is inaudible.Bush : "Eight hours? Me too. Russia's a big country and you're a big country."At this point, the president seems to bring someone else into the conversation.Bush : It takes him eight hours to fly home.He turns his attention to a server.Bush : No, Diet Coke, Diet Coke.He turns back to whomever he was talking with.Bush : It takes him eight hours to fly home. Eight hours. Russia's big and so is China.British Prime Minister Tony Blair approaches.Bush : Blair, what are you doing? You leaving?Blair : No, no, no, not yet.Blair, standing over Bush as the president eats, tries to engage on the stalled global trade negotiations.Blair : On this trade thing . . .Some of the ensuing conversation is inaudible. Blair evidently wants Bush to make a statement on the talks.Bush : If you want me to. I just want some movement. Yesterday, I didn't see much movement. The desire's to move.Blair : No, no there's not. It may be that it's impossible.Bush : I'll be glad to say it. Who's introducing me?Blair : Angela. [German Chancellor Angela Merkel ]Bush : Tell her to call on me. Tell her to put me on the spot.Bush then changes the subject, presumably to a gift Blair must have given him for his recent 60th birthday.Bush : Thanks for the sweater. Awfully thoughtful of you. I know you picked it out yourself.Blair : Oh, absolutely.Both of them laugh. Then Bush turns serious, asking Blair about comments apparently made about the Middle East crisis by U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, another guest at the summit.Bush : What about Kofi? That seems odd. I don't like the sequence of it. His attitude is basically ceasefire and [then] everything else happens. You know what I'm saying?Blair : Yeah. No, I think -- the thing that's really difficult is we can't stop this unless you get this international presence agreed. Now, I know what you guys have talked about but it's the same thing.The next remarks are i naudible, but the conversation turns to U.S. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice.Blair : . . . see how reliable that is. But you need that done quickly.Bush : Yeah, she's going. I think Condi's going to go pretty soon.Blair : Right. Well, that's, that's, that's all that matters. If you -- see, it'll take some time to get out there. But at least it gives people a --Bush : A process, I agree. I told her your offer too.It's unclear what offer he means, but apparently Blair offered to make some sort of public statement.Blair : Well, it's only if it's -- I mean, you know, if she's gotta -- or if she needs the ground prepared, as it were. Obviously, if she goes out, she's got to succeed, as it were, whereas I can just go out and talk.Bush : See, the irony is what they need to do is get Syria to get Hezbollah to stop doing this s**t, and it's over.Blair : Who, Syria?Bush : Right.Blair : I think this is all part of the same thing. What does he think? He thinks if Lebanon turns out fine, if we get a solution in Israel and Palestine, Iraq goes in the right way, he's [inaudible ] . That's what this whole thing's about. It's the same with Iran.Bush : I felt like telling Kofi to get on the phone with Assad and make something happen. We're not blaming Israel. We're not blaming the Lebanese government."At this point, Blair notices the microphone and turns it off.
Closed AccountJul 21, 2006
Bush should talk this way more often. It's more natural and he makes sense for a change.