# Mick Jagger refuses to give up his hotel suite for GWB **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 25, 2006, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mick-jagger-refuses-to-give-up-his-hotel-suite-for-gwb/354092 "2006-04-25T02:35:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mick-jagger-refuses-to-give-up-his-hotel-suite-for-gwb/354092/1 "2006-04-25T02:35:17Z")
Heh heh heh. Not many people get a chance to [stick it to the Prez like this.](http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006180696,00.html) > [@](#): > > The veteran rocker hired the luxury Royal Suite at the five-star Imperial Hotel in Vienna, Austria, for June when the Stones are due to play a gig in the city. > > Bush’s aides then tried to book it to tie in with a summit meeting. > > But Mick put his foot down and insisted he was keeping the booking. > > A source close to the millionaire singer said last night: “White House officials had wanted to reserve the suite and all the other rooms on the first floor. > > “But Mick and the Stones had already booked every one of them. > > “Bush’s people seemed to be under the impression that they would just hand over the suites but there was no way Mick was going to do that.” I can’t imagine how great that must feel to have GWB ask you for your hotel room and to be able to tell him to sod off. It must be nice to be Mick Jagger. ---
**Author:** ![Menocchio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Menocchio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Menocchio)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mick-jagger-refuses-to-give-up-his-hotel-suite-for-gwb/354092/2 "2006-04-25T02:38:44Z")
If I were the president, I’d totally understand. I mean, hell, they’re the Rolling Stones. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mick-jagger-refuses-to-give-up-his-hotel-suite-for-gwb/354092/3 "2006-04-25T02:40:01Z")
I wouldn’t give up my hotel room, even if I didn’t hate Bush. Fuck that shit, I paid for and reserved the room, it’s MINE. Why should someone richer and more powerful than me get to kick me out? ---
**Author:** ![Indyellen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/indyellen/32/4176_2.png) [@Indyellen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indyellen)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mick-jagger-refuses-to-give-up-his-hotel-suite-for-gwb/354092/4 "2006-04-25T02:40:23Z")
Thank you for sharing. That is a BEAUTIFUL thing. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mick-jagger-refuses-to-give-up-his-hotel-suite-for-gwb/354092/5 "2006-04-25T02:56:38Z")
I smell an extreme rendition in the middle of the night. National security interests, doncha know. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mick-jagger-refuses-to-give-up-his-hotel-suite-for-gwb/354092/6 "2006-04-25T03:17:04Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > I wouldn’t give up my hotel room, even if I didn’t hate Bush. Fuck that shit, I paid for and reserved the room, it’s MINE. Why should someone richer and more powerful than me get to kick me out? At the very least, I’d propose a deal for a night at the Lincoln Bedroom and ride on AF1 😃 ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mick-jagger-refuses-to-give-up-his-hotel-suite-for-gwb/354092/7 "2006-04-25T03:36:58Z")
“Well, give me _his_ room!” ---
**Author:** ![FordPrefect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e99b99/32.png) [@FordPrefect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordPrefect)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mick-jagger-refuses-to-give-up-his-hotel-suite-for-gwb/354092/8 "2006-04-25T03:39:24Z")
> [@Menocchio](#): > > If I were the president, I’d totally understand. I mean, hell, they’re the Rolling Stones. He even quotes them in speeches 🙂 (well, at least one) ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mick-jagger-refuses-to-give-up-his-hotel-suite-for-gwb/354092/9 "2006-04-25T03:58:00Z")
> [@FordPrefect](#): > > He even quotes them in speeches 🙂 (well, at least one) Really? I remember him inadvertantly quoting The Who, but I don’t recall a Stones quote. Which one? ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mick-jagger-refuses-to-give-up-his-hotel-suite-for-gwb/354092/10 "2006-04-25T04:11:23Z")
> [@Larry Mudd](#): > > Really? I remember him inadvertantly quoting The Who, but I don’t recall a Stones quote. Which one? > [@](#): > > Pleased to meet you > Hope you guess my name > But what’s puzzling you > Is the nature of my game 😉 ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mick-jagger-refuses-to-give-up-his-hotel-suite-for-gwb/354092/11 "2006-04-25T05:10:34Z")
Mick Jagger is 62 and “Dubya” Bush expects a senior citizen to move just on _his_ orders? “Dubya” is a youthful 59 years old. Geez this is analogous to that guy that wanted Rosa Parks to give up her seat. See? GWB is _not_ considerate of our elderly population. On a more serious note, this story is too good to be true !!! I’ve always liked the Rolling Stones but this news has just increased my respect for them by several hundred per cent. 😃 **Diogenes** , that’s a great news item you found. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mick-jagger-refuses-to-give-up-his-hotel-suite-for-gwb/354092/12 "2006-04-25T05:13:37Z")
Oh, _lovely_. _claps hands_ 😉 (I wonder, are you lot down south going to declare a War on the Rolling Stones now?) ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mick-jagger-refuses-to-give-up-his-hotel-suite-for-gwb/354092/13 "2006-04-25T05:52:45Z")
I’ve got to tell my aunt, the Republican committee member for her state, about this. She’s so Republican that she thinks Reagan was one of our great presidents. Ugh. I once wore my favorite t-shirt just for her. It has a picture of the White House on it and the words _“Regime change begins at home!”_ ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mick-jagger-refuses-to-give-up-his-hotel-suite-for-gwb/354092/14 "2006-04-25T06:04:27Z")
> [@Diogenes the Cynic](#): > > It must be nice to be Mick Jagger. I suspect a few other people have had that thought over the last 40 years. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mick-jagger-refuses-to-give-up-his-hotel-suite-for-gwb/354092/15 "2006-04-25T06:34:22Z")
Reuters July 15, 2007 “The Rolling Stones were arrested today at JFK airport and sent to Guantanamo Bay for questioning. According to White House officials, there is reason to suspect they might be terrorists and it was deemed necessary for Homeland Security. A senior staffer suggested they would probably only be detained for 18 months or so.” ---
**Author:** ![Mayo\_Speaks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c57346/32.png) [@Mayo\_Speaks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mayo_Speaks)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mick-jagger-refuses-to-give-up-his-hotel-suite-for-gwb/354092/16 "2006-04-25T08:01:43Z")
> [@DMark](#): > > Reuters July 15, 2007 > > “The Rolling Stones were arrested today at JFK airport and sent to Guantanamo Bay for questioning. According to White House officials, there is reason to suspect they might be terrorists and it was deemed necessary for Homeland Security. A senior staffer suggested they would probably only be detained for 18 months or so.” “And even though Scott McClellan has been out of the White House for over a year, he’s refusing to offer any more information, insisting that it would be ‘just speculation’.” ---
**Author:** ![Mellivora\_capensis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mellivora\_capensis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mellivora_capensis)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mick-jagger-refuses-to-give-up-his-hotel-suite-for-gwb/354092/17 "2006-04-25T08:26:43Z")
Now this is what I call poetic justice. Ah, my day is made. La dee da dee da, na na na na naaaaa…oh what a wonderful world. The poppies are pretty, the tarmac is shiny and dry, the birds are a tweeting, and the common people make a stand. Not that Mickie boy is that common, but you know what I mean. _\<\\>_ ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mick-jagger-refuses-to-give-up-his-hotel-suite-for-gwb/354092/18 "2006-04-25T11:32:51Z")
Mick’s coolness factor has increased expotentially in my book. (And it was already in the top 1% factor as it is.) ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mick-jagger-refuses-to-give-up-his-hotel-suite-for-gwb/354092/19 "2006-04-25T11:54:00Z")
well, hell, god fearing dubya oughtta be s ared to death of even breat ing the fumes. i mean dubya had a reputation for being a cough cough **party animal** cough cough and being in the presence of the Stones might cause backslidding or god forbid too much competition. ---
**Author:** ![ratatoskK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ratatoskk/32/2987_2.png) [@ratatoskK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratatoskK)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mick-jagger-refuses-to-give-up-his-hotel-suite-for-gwb/354092/20 "2006-04-25T11:59:03Z")
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