# Bush video **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 23, 2004, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-video/281281 "2004-12-23T03:47:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-video/281281/1 "2004-12-23T03:47:02Z")
[http://www.crooksandliars.com/2004/12/22.html#a1129](http://www.crooksandliars.com/2004/12/22.html#a1129) Watch this video of Bush. About 8 seconds in he does something bizarre. What is he doing? Praying? Talking to his tie? I worry about him sometimes. He doesn’t appear to be all there. ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-video/281281/2 "2004-12-23T03:58:29Z")
[QUOTE=Reeder] [much more complete clip, go 16:47 in for ‘the incident’.](http://jamespoling.blogspot.com/2004/12/bushs-very-bizzare-behavior-at-press.html) ---
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-video/281281/3 "2004-12-23T04:05:27Z")
Your link doesn’t work. Why bother with the whole thing anyway? He only did it once. ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-video/281281/4 "2004-12-23T04:06:00Z")
Ya know, I was almost starting to miss these. Damn but I’m going to enjoy watching you go progressively more insane over the next for years. Do me a favor? When they finally have to assign a full time nurse to you, teach him or her to log on to the site before you completely lose it so s/he can keep us up on your progress. I’m looking forward to such entries as, “ **Reeder** stopped drooling long enough to eat some baby food today.” ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-video/281281/5 "2004-12-23T04:08:03Z")
I’m pretty sure he said “Oh look! A penny!” ---
**Author:** ![El\_Zagna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d2c977/32.png) [@El\_Zagna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Zagna)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-video/281281/6 "2004-12-23T04:08:31Z")
Well, he starts to say “There \*is \* very hopeful signs”, realizes that he’s blowing basic rules of grammer again, checks himself and goes on with “there \*are \* very hopeful signs…” Really, **Reeder** , it’s pretty ordinary stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Chairman\_Pow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/838e76/32.png) [@Chairman\_Pow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chairman_Pow)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-video/281281/7 "2004-12-23T04:11:12Z")
Perhaps that’s the “negotiating with himself” that he swore he wouldn’t do. ---
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-video/281281/8 "2004-12-23T04:11:25Z")
Hey…I was just curious. And y’all aren’t? ---
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-video/281281/9 "2004-12-23T04:12:34Z")
> [@bnorton](#): > > Well, he starts to say “There \*is \* very hopeful signs”, realizes that he’s blowing basic rules of grammer again, checks himself and goes on with “there \*are \* very hopeful signs…” > > Really, **Reeder** , it’s pretty ordinary stuff. That’s the whole problem. With Bush it is ordinary. That doesn’t bother you? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-video/281281/10 "2004-12-23T04:14:35Z")
Sounds like he says “needle sticks”. Or something. Other than that, its just his usual charming way of relaying bad news with a big smile that says “Don’t you just love how straight-forward I am? Did you see that candor there? That was candor.” ---
**Author:** ![Bruce\_Daddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@Bruce\_Daddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bruce_Daddy)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-video/281281/11 "2004-12-23T04:15:34Z")
Sounds to me like he says “you don’t need it”. My headphones suck though. And I don’t know why it matters. ---
**Author:** ![Garfield226](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Garfield226](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garfield226)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-video/281281/12 "2004-12-23T04:18:14Z")
> [@Reeder](#): > > That’s the whole problem. > > With Bush it is ordinary. > > That doesn’t bother you? First you say you didn’t know what he was doing, now you say the whole problem is that it’s ordinary…was your first post disingenuous or are you really that incoherent? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-video/281281/13 "2004-12-23T04:18:24Z")
Gosh, **Reeder** , I don’t think **Manny** likes you very much. No, really. ---
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-video/281281/14 "2004-12-23T04:20:33Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Gosh, **Reeder** , I don’t think **Manny** likes you very much. No, really. Here’s 50 cents. Call someone who cares. ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-video/281281/15 "2004-12-23T04:20:42Z")
> [@Reeder](#): > > Your link doesn’t work. > > Why bother with the whole thing anyway? > > He only did it once. [http://jamespoling.blogspot.com/2004/12/bushs-very-bizzare-behavior-at-press.html](http://jamespoling.blogspot.com/2004/12/bushs-very-bizzare-behavior-at-press.html) ? Hrm, link works for me. And the point as I saw it was the put the moment into context. Give more data than a soundbyte. ---
**Author:** ![milroyj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@milroyj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/milroyj)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-video/281281/16 "2004-12-23T04:21:05Z")
**Reeder** , wherever you are, I hope your attendants have the common sense that God gave a goose to keep sharp objects away from you. :rolleyes: He was looking down at his notes, and for that short moment, his voice wasn’t projecting directly into the mic, so it came out a little garbled. So fucking what? What’s next with you people? First it was the “hump” in his back during the debates, now he’s allegedly talking to his tie, maybe next he’ll sprout little antennae like My Favorite Martian??? Seriously, there’s not enough rolleyes for this one. ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-video/281281/17 "2004-12-23T04:23:13Z")
Link seems to not be working, and I’m quite confused. Ah well. ---
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-video/281281/18 "2004-12-23T04:25:32Z")
Unless his notes are written on his tie…he wasn’t looking at notes. ---
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-video/281281/19 "2004-12-23T04:26:02Z")
> [@FinnAgain](#): > > Link seems to not be working, and I’m quite confused. > Ah well. W’s men must have disabled it. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-video/281281/20 "2004-12-23T04:29:49Z")
> [@Reeder](#): > > Here’s 50 cents. > > Call someone who cares. I can’t imagine who that could be. Do I get to keep the fifty cents? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-video/281281.md?page=2)