Bush: "Stevie - over here!"

[RTA]

The Washington Post reports that during a gala last week, Dear Leader Bush actually tried to get Stevie Wonder’s attention by waving at him.

Um, hey Mr. President: Stevie Wonder is blind. It’s common knowledge, like.

No comment really, merely to say “That’s really funny…” and “What a fucking dumbass!” and “How is it that the media is allegedly dominated by the left, when I don’t hear about something like that until days later, and then only a tiny little blurb in the local paper?”

[JeffB]

From The Washington Post (about halfway through the article):

Last week’s scoop about President Bush waving at Stevie Wonder during the Ford’s Theatre Presidential Gala generated huge response on talk radio, in newspapers foreign and domestic, on “Late Night With Conan O’Brien” and “Saturday Night Live” – and from Ford’s Theatre Artistic Director Frankie Hewitt, who belatedly phoned to tell us: “I was sitting right next to the president, and it didn’t happen.”

Our original witness – a musician who was onstage on a riser with a clear view of the action – wouldn’t back down an inch, so we looked to gala producer Dennis Doty to resolve the dispute. Yesterday in Los Angeles, Doty and executive producer Gil Cates, busy editing the show for its April 12 broadcast on ABC, scrutinized the video feed from the “presidential isocam,” as the camera trained on Bush is called. After watching with the sort of attention previously reserved for the Zapruder film – in slow motion, stop-motion and frame by frame – they reported that as Wonder was getting settled behind his keyboard, Bush briefly raised his palm and smiled “in a kind of Dave Garroway wave,” Doty said, dating himself. But the gesture appeared directed at emcee Kelsey Grammer, Doty added. We await conclusive scientific analysis.

Much ado about nothing, methinks.

[Ukulele_Ike]

*Originally posted by RTA *
Bush actually tried to get Stevie Wonder’s attention by waving at him. **

Damn you pointy-headed liberals. When will you stop mocking and picking on the Flyover Nation’s Presidential Choice?

Bush wasn’t trying to get Wonder’s attention by WAVING. He was throwing bottle caps at his head!

[Sauron]

*Originally posted by RTA *
“How is it that the media is allegedly dominated by the left, when I don’t hear about something like that until days later, and then only a tiny little blurb in the local paper?”

Maybe because there’s, I don’t know, actual NEWS going on?

Besides, even if Bush did wave at Stevie Wonder, that’s hardly a huge gaffe. Waving is a pretty ingrained habit in the average American by the time they’re in their late 40s/early 50s (I forget Bush’s age).

Two anecdotes (both from Saturday Night Live, I think):

Stevie Wonder is sitting at his piano, turns his back on the audience, and begins to address the rear of the stage as though he’s talking to the audience. Nobody tells him he’s facing the wrong way, and there’s an embarrassed silence for a moment. Then he turns around, flashes that trademark smile, and says, “Gotcha.”

Ray Charles is sitting at his piano, talking to the audience, and says “I’m so proud to be performing here at Carnegie Hall!” Then, in a lower voice, as he leans toward the audience: “Actually, I know this isn’t Carnegie Hall. The producers told me it was, though. Don’t let them know I’m on to them.”