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Bush says he uses “the Google.”

thinkprogress.org — Today on CNBC, when the host asked Bush whether he ever googles anyone, Bush replied, "Occasionally. One of the things I ’ve used on the Google is to pull up maps. It’s very interesting to see -- I’ve forgot the name of the program -- but you get the satellite, and you can -- like, I kinda like to look at the ranch."

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  • drpeppper, on 10/12/2007, -26/+211Why does he speak like a child?
    • da5idblacksun, on 10/12/2007, -27/+211Brain damage from too much alcohol and cocaine.
    • AstroPHX, on 10/12/2007, -67/+31Because he's on The Marijuana. At least that would explain his uncanny ability to sound like he's high all of the time.
    • bbrosemer, on 10/12/2007, -38/+24He also likes to stay the course and use "the google" rather then the yahoo.
    • goat77, on 10/12/2007, -12/+165I use the google on the internets as well. What's the problem?
    • PowerCow, on 10/12/2007, -11/+140I bet like many he thinks the google is real time...
      he is probably watching out for cattle rustlers.
    • Azur2, on 10/12/2007, -11/+53It's actually a bit strange, as in videos of him just 10 years or so old he doesn't.
      Some have suggested he's had a minor brain haemorrhage or stroke.
    • kzos, on 10/12/2007, -15/+54In a similar situation, I use The Google, browse on The Digger, and check out The YouTube, all on a series of tubes. Web 2.0? Try Tubes 2.0. Sen. Ted Stevens ftw!
    • seventoes, on 10/12/2007, -20/+117Sometimes i wonder how he got elected.... twice.... This nation really is retarted isnt it?
    • mongrel, on 10/12/2007, -16/+28At least 51% of it. Or at least whichever portion didn't elect him strictly because they're rich and don't want higher taxes, despite thousands of additional American deaths.
    • Bob042, on 10/12/2007, -16/+19If 50% of the nation turned out to vote, and 50% of those people voted for him to get him elected... About 75% of people didn't vote for him. Just saying.
    • 0x0000ff, on 10/12/2007, -10/+38seventoes - I don't normally do the spelling nazi thing, but I think the word you're looking for is "retarded".
    • Mist0r_Wiggles, on 10/12/2007, -10/+15Actually on the 2000 election over 50% of the voters voted for Gore. But in this country we use the electoral college system and not by the actual votes. By people wise, Gore won, and by points wise, Bush won.
    • zonk3r, on 10/12/2007, -6/+7Sounds almost like Bill Cosby with the Jello and the Google looking at the satellites on the ranch.
    • ilyag, on 10/12/2007, -6/+43"The Internets" = old and busted. "The Google" = new hotness.

      Honestly, if this doesn't catch on, I will lose all faith in Internet memes.
    • Nothlit, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13@Mist0r_Wiggles

      Actually, Al Gore did not receive more than 50% of the popular vote in 2000. He received 48.4% of the vote. Bush received 47.9%. You may have forgotten that there were (and almost always are) more than two candidates running for president.
    • TheRonald, on 10/12/2007, -15/+10And less the 50% of Americans voted for Bill Clinton, so get over it.
    • innerspirit, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5sometimes i wonder how the internets passes maps through its tubes, what an engineering marvel
    • circlek, on 10/12/2007, -11/+8low iq. he is a child mentally
    • DM01, on 10/12/2007, -10/+6If I could have voted, I would have voted for Nader.
      Green party!!!! Woooo!
    • thefirstenemy, on 10/12/2007, -5/+7@DM01

      Why do people vote for third party candidates? I mean, I know why, but the fact that there is near 0% chance of them getting elected, all you'd end up doing in screwing yourself even more.
    • ZackRabbit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2http://thegoogle.ytmnd.com/
    • moonshn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@thefirstenemy

      There will ALWAYS be a zero percent chance if people are dissuaded from voting third party because they are "throwing their vote away". Got to start somewhere, and the two party system in this country is causing too much harm to let it continue.
    • spankaccount, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Thinkprogress is a George Soros/DNC funded left wing think tank. It's important that we understand where these opinions are coming from.
    • TheWorm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1What an idiot. His speaking skills are that of a down syndrome kid compared to clinton's interview which all the conservatives bashed. Wonder if he's used the google to search for "miserable failure" lately.

      I'm not joking..try it if you haven't , look at the first result.
      http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&hs=Q4m&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=miserable+failure&spell=1
  • bushbush, on 10/12/2007, -16/+112I have two things in common with him:

    1. He misses the ranch. I also wish he was back at the ranch.
    2. I also like to use the Google.
    • dracostimpy, on 10/12/2007, -106/+593. You both like the buttsecks.
    • pumacub, on 10/12/2007, -22/+52@ dracostimpy

      That was totally immature and uncalled for, but I laughed so hard.
    • Azur2, on 10/12/2007, -29/+23@dracostimpy: sorry, can't digg you out of that hole, but thanks for the laugh.
    • contextclouds, on 10/12/2007, -8/+8Careful what you wish for...
      Last I heard he'd spent around 20% of his term on the ranch and look where that's gotten us.
    • ForrestGump, on 10/12/2007, -25/+1wow! If I was Micheal Jackson id have two things in common with him too
      1) We both own a ranch and
      2) were both molester, in bush's case... iraq molester
    • theone3, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2@azur
      dig, not digg.
    • Azur2, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0@bushbush: What? I wouldn't be averaging -140 diggs if I wrote dig!
      U digg?
  • mad1stl, on 10/12/2007, -34/+14Yea, thats a pretty hard program to remember. I think it's called the "ground" or something like it.
    • drpeppper, on 10/12/2007, -33/+18google globe?
      google land?
      google planet?
      google earth? ... nah thats just stupid...

      -President Bush
    • alen3K, on 10/12/2007, -20/+6so why were this two dugg down? only fat nerds with no sense of humor crawl this place ?
    • subulaz, on 10/12/2007, -8/+4victims of random scroll-by negative duggs ... could be some folks missed the sarcasm tags ...
    • shinynew, on 10/12/2007, -7/+3he is talking about "the google" maps
      dumbasses.
  • clarkslick, on 10/12/2007, -14/+233Ya think he might take a look at N Korea or Iran with "the GoogleEarth", but no, he looks at his ranch, wondering why the brush he cleared out is still there!
    • drpeppper, on 10/12/2007, -33/+24LOL You win this thread.
    • techpimp, on 10/12/2007, -12/+25I logged in to updigg you.

      DFT

      dugg for the truth
    • rSm00th, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14That's what the two-billion dollar NRO satellites are for.
    • Kerr, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9thanks for the great laugh...quality post :)
    • celeb, on 10/12/2007, -9/+5hahaha quality

      I also logged in just to updigg you

      nice job
    • rprouse, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12He would look at N Korea or Iran, but he can't find them :)
    • circlek, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1that's the funniest thing i've read in a long time. Thanks for the laugh.
  • eim9, on 10/12/2007, -11/+61First it's "The Internets" and now it's "The Google".
    • daGUY, on 10/12/2007, -9/+12Yeah, I was gonna say the same thing. So he uses the Google that's on the Internets. Haha.
    • konspence, on 10/12/2007, -3/+20Maybe he's actually using "The Google",

      http://www.thegoogle.com/

      Some people might not know the difference...

      edit: oops, someone way below this already kind of mentioned it.
  • penguinix, on 10/12/2007, -20/+11"— like, I kinda like to look at the ranch. It remind me of where I wanna be sometimes."
    Interesting, most of the American public would like to see you back that the ranch as well.
  • therippa, on 10/12/2007, -10/+20I'm surprised he has to use Google Earth to view his ranch...I would imagine most of our spy satellites are focused on our own country at the moment.

    (now watch this drive)
  • sleepandtvgood, on 10/12/2007, -8/+24Its amazing how he can actually find his ranch on Google Earth, unless he's just lying to us again.
    • AtariEric, on 10/12/2007, -5/+25I'm certain he had an assistant find it for him...
    • tocksheit, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Maybe the google is how he found WOMD . Osama should be next
  • j3one, on 10/12/2007, -12/+6mmm, i would have hoped he was a little more technology savy. But I guessed as much.
    • geneseepc, on 10/12/2007, -6/+10We all hope. But as has been proven over and over again in recent history MOST of our government officials have no idea what anything is in technology or networks, and hold little understanding of how any of it works.

      "The Google is clogging our damn tubes"..

      They know $ when it comes to networks... atleast something gets their attention, to bad its not something useful to the rest of us.
  • Drkkuja, on 10/12/2007, -20/+6You can't ***** be serious. The Google? Oh my god.
    • mandarin, on 10/12/2007, -8/+18Whats The problem? Is that a big deal?
    • bpatters7, on 10/12/2007, -10/+13It just goes to show how isolated Bush is from reality. Could anyone in this country actually listen or read news an hour a week and not have heard the word Google used properly hundreds of times?


    • mirunit, on 10/12/2007, -8/+4"It just goes to show how isolated Bush is from reality. Could anyone in this country actually listen or read news an hour a week and not have heard the word Google used properly hundreds of times?
      "

      Atleast he understands how the actual application works, you would be superised by how many in america could not even get google earth downloaded and working, most would just defer to google maps.
    • tobsterius, on 10/12/2007, -4/+16I don't see this as an issue, either. He's from a generation that isn't really tech savy. My father is in his 60's, just really learning the internet. He says similar things.
  • heifetz, on 10/12/2007, -14/+8Interestingly, the US elected someone (Bush) who probably doesn't know how to use a computer over someone who (Gore) currently sits on the board of Google. Is it a coincidence that the US is falling behind in math and sciences..?
    • SecondGuesser, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2Maybe he uses The Persian Kitty. Too bad Clinton didn't.
    • josho, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15Al Gore sits on the APPLE board of directors, not Google. The Google CEO also joined Apple's board, which is why you may be confused..
    • zomvito, on 10/12/2007, -9/+12Yes, because Al Gore invented the "internets", amirite?
    • mathmanjeffy, on 10/12/2007, -5/+8Amazing...

      Beyond basic funding, the US Federal Government has extremely little to do with the performance of schools. That is left to the local and state governments. While the "No Child Left Behind Act," like so many federal programs before it, tried to improve schools, it failed because there is little that can be done based on funding alone. While school funding needs improvement, most of a schools budget is derived from local property taxes, something the federal government, and the president less so, has any direct control over.

      Now, that being said, using "the" in this case sounds "weird" but isn't technically grammatically incorrect. I'm not necessarily defending Bush, merely stating that this is a really nitpicky thing to get up in arms about.
    • Mardala, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15"No Child Left Behind" was a failure to begin with that didn't address education.

    • klpowell, on 10/12/2007, -6/+5@Mardala

      You have to be a public school employee? Damn this bush for making public schools accountable for the amount of learning students do!

      No Child Left Behind can be a good program if only the teachers unions weren't fighting it so much for *gasp* making them actually teach.

      Oh and in case you forgot Bush drafted that program with. .. Ted Kennedy... a democrat hmmm.
    • PuffyC, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6No Child Left Behind is an abortion - don't use that union crutch to deflect blame for this total failure. As someone with many educators in the family (none unionized), and three kids in public schools, NCLB is a perfect example of good intentions being betrayed by ignorance of the topic at hand.
  • grooviekenn, on 10/12/2007, -16/+4"THE google"

    LOL
  • canyonblue, on 10/12/2007, -12/+47I don't like to be a Bush defender, but the reality is that even Clinton stated he never used email etc. while in office. The Presidency is so busy there is no time to become familiar with personal technologies you find on the internet like search, IM, email, simple browsing etc. I can understand that so calling it the "The Google"... who cares, we got bigger fish to fry.
    • Nougat, on 10/12/2007, -5/+26 Maybe we should elect someone who already has some familiarity with those things. Oh wait, I forgot about Foley. Never mind.
    • gridbread, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8There is a greater saturation of internet usage and knowledge than there was when Clinton was in office...
      Aside from that, yes, I really don't care nor am I surprised he would say "the Google".
    • fjvwing, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8Considering the state email is in, with regards to security, reliability, identity, and especially ability for counterfeiting, I think that not only should no POTUS use email, it should be a clearly defined public policy. Just like my bank will never ask for my PIN, nobody on any level of government will ever receive an email from the POTUS, with any instruction whatsover. It is just too easily intercepted, examined, and spoofed.
    • TheThirdWheel, on 10/12/2007, -7/+9I like the whole ink and paper thing when it comes to The President. I dread the day he is walking around checking his Blackberry.
    • junkmail02, on 10/12/2007, -5/+8@TheThirdWheel

      I don't understand. You don't want your president to be more efficient?
    • GuyHitByTruck, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3@Third Wheel:
      I thought I read something a while back that mentioned he already used a Blackberry.
    • theone3, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1junkmail, I'd much rather he was more inefficient to be perfectly honest. Let's give him a windows mobile device! That should slow him down.
  • jarland, on 10/12/2007, -13/+9Now it all makes sense.
    "Condi! Get in here...look...they've got a WMD. Look don't you see that? I don't give a ***** if that's blurry you tell the CIA they're wrong. Bring out the troops!"
    • jarland, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5I've never been dugg down for making fun of Bush before...not complaining...just interesting
    • junkmail02, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2you gotta be at least witty. whatever you said wasn't funny.
  • Ironman11, on 10/12/2007, -9/+34Perhaps he can use "the Google" to search for "failure."
  • themajor, on 10/12/2007, -11/+14How is this on the front page? Kinda reminds me of a fifth grade classroom when the students in the back would giggle and whisper to each other "the teacher just said 'butt'"
  • ElGuano, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6"I hear there's rumors on the internets."
  • Sonic_Molson, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9the ranch he refers to: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=crawford,tx&ie=UTF8&ll=31.580628,-97.5447&spn=0.00786,0.016994&t=k&om=0
  • MrFur1ous, on 10/12/2007, -7/+5AAArrrrruuugghhh. The stupid! It burns!
  • bpatters7, on 10/12/2007, -8/+4If Bush were a robot I'm not sure he would pass the Turing test.

    If you sat Bush behind a screen and you heard "I like to use the google" you'd instantly shout FAKE! He's a robot!
  • loveydovey, on 10/12/2007, -8/+4our president speaks like a valleygirl
  • nonesupplied, on 10/12/2007, -7/+5He just reminds me of a little child and he's so out of place. I just wanna tuck him into bed with his cowboy action figures and say, "See you in the morning little guyner."
  • bennyboy371, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8"Oh my god! Those countries have flying cars on the Mapquests! Whoa, look at the size of that bee!"
  • onemillion, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1www.duggmirror.com
  • pattykakes887, on 10/12/2007, -6/+5I hate it when the google gets all of our tubes clogged. Stupid Internets.
    • ElGuano, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3Well Google just bought all the internet tubes last week, so they can gum 'em up all they want.
  • redxninja, on 10/12/2007, -5/+16I went to http://thegoogle.com/ and I dont see no ranch.
  • Steveo117, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2This is on the front page? Sure he is a twit but in this video isn't that bad.
  • andrew.bell, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Is Bush's ranch in low resolution and then everything else around it higher resolution? North Korea couldn't stop Google, but Bush did.

    http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=crawford,tx&ie=UTF8&ll=31.580628,-97.5447&spn=0.00786,0.016994&t=k&om=0
  • gravyplaya, on 10/12/2007, -6/+6Type in failure in the address bar of firefox and see what website comes up.
    You can also google "failure". Very Interesting results.
  • mccake, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10I wonder what is the list of his search words.
    Example:
    Bin Laden location
    speech skill
    ...etc
  • justingj, on 10/12/2007, -7/+7I don't really see why this is really front page either. I'd vote against Bush in office any day, but I don't think he's really a bad person when it comes down to it. If he was sitting out there on his ranch doing whatever I'm sure he'd help a guy out with anything. He just shouldn't really be running a country. Or state, county, or city either for that matter. Maybe a rural fire dept. or something. The fact that a guy his age has some internet terminology wrong is hardly news, my dad is a rancher of similar age and knows less about it than W.
    • bolero421, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6I have to agree with you. Bush seems to be a nice, caring person and is even sort of lovable (in a mildly-retarded child sort of way), but he is in no way capable of functioning as the the leader of the free world.

      My dog is cute, lovable, and caring too, but I'm not going to elect her president.
    • circlek, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3your dad isn't the president. the whole country doesn't get judged when your dad says something stupid.
  • franksmith, on 10/12/2007, -6/+6Think progress???

    Think slanted!!!
  • starguy, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2Why rely on billions of dollars of military satelites slung into orbit around the earth, when our commander in chief just uses the ultra grainy resolution pictures of Google Earth to look for hedgehogs back at the farm? No wonder he can't find Osama, he needs to ask his daddy for the key to the CIA washroom and sneak past the guards and get at the CIA military sateltie spy computers.
  • lostngone, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3teh Google.
  • MindTrigger, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6Great, so when the dumbass isn't vacationing on the ranch, he's having one of his minions pull it up on Google Earth for him so he can stare and drool....

    Anyone selling land in New Zealand?
    • klpowell, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Haven't you tried to find your house on google earth? I know I have why is this newsworthy?
  • pcuser, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Too bad he can't use "The Google" when the series of tubes that makes up the Internets are so jammed up - remember, the Internets is NOT a big truck. Sometimes when my staff send me an internet, I have to remind them: "Its going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material."
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rZEi70UyJs
  • expectinrain, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6I'm going to miss him in 2009. Unless we elect Yucco the clown, its not going to get any easier for comedians and late night hosts to poke fun at the President. The next guy or gal might have a coherent grasp of the English Language.
    • klpowell, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2We thought that when Clinton left too but hey look what we got :) Don't you remember how the fun Jay Leno jokes about clinton?
  • DjOverEZ, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4"I use the Google on the internets."
  • pcuser, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Here are some searches for George wheh he gets tired of gazing at the ranch via "the google":

    http://www.google.com/search?q=failure

    http://www.google.com/search?q=worst.+president.+ever.
  • minox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12He's 60 years old.
  • rdez6173, on 10/12/2007, -7/+3Hrm.. I wouldn't have imagined that the 4+ year old satellite imagery would have been what impressed him.. Doesn't he have access to the big boy satellites?

    Second thought, the military probably doesn't want him anywhere near it. He'd probably get peanut butter on the console.
  • 0zzy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11He also said "on google" after he was talking about Google Maps. Too bad it wasn't in the transcript they wrote.
    • minox, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Why would it be in the transcript? It doesn't make him look near ridiculous enough for thinkprogress.
    • klpowell, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7thats how liberal websites work... look at mediamatters.org If you actually watch or listen to the whole show they talk about you'd realize that they took it completely out of context( this goes for ever thing on MM) You can't win elections with the truth so you have to make things up. Gotta ignore the Economy is great, gas is getting cheaper, cost of living is going down, unemployment is low, and focus on the fact that the guy put the word The in front of google?
  • klpowell, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Why is this surprising Go ask your grandma about google chances are she'll call it "the" google. It happens at that age just like most people in their 60's put an S on the end of everyone's names they also put the in front of everything
  • Dementual, on 01/27/2008, -6/+7... I find it funny that such intelligent people would stoop to such low levels as to make fun of Bush for every little reason.

    I mean really, most of his political choices aren't the best (and in most cases, the worst), but c'mon. You're making fun of him because he said "the Google"? That's low even for me.
  • vannyx, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5LOL john stewart is going to have a field day with this.
  • zeiben, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2Perhaps that's why he thinks things are so good in Iraq. He can see it from the sky, and there's no bombs going off as far as he can tell...
  • Koosebane, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1NEXT:

    Your grandmom uses the intarwebs and asks Jeeves about conserving our natural racehorses, and sax and violins on television.
  • cakestick, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1We've never been 'save the course' about Iraq.. go check the Google..

    ..oh, wait a sec- *****.
  • TheoBrixton, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2"The Google" is actually just a street term for cocaine.
  • Lynxpro, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2
    Well, many people think Google is the internet, or the shape of the internet to come. So Bush saying "the Google" is like people referring to "the Internet".

    Seriously, how many people cut the "the" out of "the Internet" besides the Mayor of Cuba himself, Martin Sargent?
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