Pull my finger?

Air Assault!

Heysoos! Just when you think this asshole can't be any more of a low brow dimwit, something like this comes along. I'm sure he's a real gas at international dinners as he entertains the other world leaders by farting la cucaracha. Of course that's probably better than throwing up on them, like his dad did with the Japanese President.

Yep - the Republicans sure know how to bring dignity back into the White House.

Who does W think he is? Howard Stern?

The only real message here is the illustration of how completely the marketing can make basically anyone into a president image, and unfortunately can also turn a good candidate into a monster (e.g., Al Gore 2000).

Bush is called the first frat boy in the original piece, but that's unfair to most frat boys.

The exposes of his intellecutal dishonesty at Harvard, his sociopathic mocking of Carla Fay Tucker's request for mercy as he refused to stop her execution, his comedy piece of searching for WMD under the couch in the oval office over an issue with hundreds of thousands of casualties...

The marketing making him seem like a president to tens of millions of Americans is something to worry about.

Orwell may have underestimated the ability of the misuse of the language to dominate.

This actually plays well in Redneckistan. Coming soon, Bush dresses like Larry the Cable Guy.

I would not want to shake his hand, I hate explosions, especially from pigs asses.

Now we know. The W stands for windy.

I bow to no person in my distaste for W and everything he stands for, but don't we have so much substantive stuff to roast him for that this is just a distraction? You know, like criminal behavior? Fart humor is kid stuff, and besides, he's hardly the first person with juvenile behavior to have a position of responsibility. For example, check out what LBJ had to say about his pants -- http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/history/johnson/haggar.htm. (Search for "nuts", about half way down the page.)

I for one, have a little trouble believing this sort of thing. The reason I subscribe to Salon is that I can cut thru the crap and get to news and analysis of substance. So who is this Paul Bedard of USNews.com with his "Washington Whispers" column? Is he reputable? What about more than one source?

I'm not interested in Bush bashing--he makes it too easy and it's not good sport.

And I'm not one to dismiss a fart-joking president as unimportant either. If this president is so disrespectful of his office and his colleagues that he's cracking fart jokes (and farts as a joke) during official business of the United States, then this is significant insight into a dangerously childish mentality of the man--a man who is also sending thousands of young soldiers to their deaths, destabilizing the entire Middle East, and getting 10s of thousands of civilians killed in the process. The presidency of the U.S.A. is no joke.

Is this for real? I want to know. Yes, it matters. Please go beyond "Washington Whispers" and give us some quality journalism on this. No more free passes for G.W. Bush.

Who'd have thought we'd end up being ruled by a disciple of Le Petomane? Irony, thou art my bitch.

Oh well. At least we know he's equally eloquent at both ends.

What is more apropos an asshole? Pull my middle finger, Commander Codpiece.

Nuff said

... if not about farts, then about plenty of other things. A guy who makes fun of people to their faces in the White House press room, arrogates to hmself the right to bestow obnoxious nicknames on anyone he meets, while expecting to be addressed as "Sir" and "Mr. President;" who forces his guests to accompany him on grueling bike rides in 100% heat and mocks them if they can't keep up ... it's all in character.

In her book about the Bush family, Kitty Kelley quotes a journalist (can't remember the name here) who stayed at the Bush compound at Kennebunkport, Me. and roamed the house desperately looking for something to read. No library here, folks. But at last he did find a book in an out of the way bathroom. It's title? "The Fart Book".

Bush has failed to realize for years that his top and bottom holes deliver the same toxic substances. We know it too and it has cost America dearly. Someone should give him a mirror and ask him to describe what he sees. Oh, and I'd be willing to bet Bush would have gladly been one of the laughing idoits in George Allen's bigot moment. Nauseating.

Hitler, too, was a fart-joke gas-bag type of sociopath. Read all about it in Joachim Fest's HITLER. It's not that Bush farts for laughs that makes him so special, it's that his farting so closly mimics his actions as our elected President: He "bombs" the Middle East as he does those closest to him. Does he hold Laura's head under the blankets at night for a greater gag reflex?

So, each day these wretched creeps sit in the White House, filling their nostrils with the other's gaseous shit. It's good to see, finally, the organic basis for Bush's grand strategy: that is, our friends are easily spotted by how enthusiastically they swallow our stench; just as our enemies are easily recognized- they are the ones choking on it.

If Benjamin Franklin said we should "Fart Proudly" perhaps this is the president's power. W has always struck me as the sort of guy that, if you farted at the dinner table, would simply laugh and perhaps crack a joke at your expense.

This isn't necessarily a bad thing. I come from a part of the country (Colorado) where people dislike elitism. Though I personally think conservatives are every bit as elitist as liberals (it's the heighth of arrogance to claim God is on your side), there's a tendency for "humble" people to respond positively to someone who seems as human as they are.