# Okay, are we supposed to be all offended because Bush cursed? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 18, 2006, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-are-we-supposed-to-be-all-offended-because-bush-cursed/364970 "2006-07-18T03:51:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-are-we-supposed-to-be-all-offended-because-bush-cursed/364970/1 "2006-07-18T03:51:27Z")
At the G8 summit. He and Tony Blair were discussing the Israel/Lebanon situation, and he said (almost with his mouth full), “What they need to do is get Syria to get Hezbolla to stop doing this shit and it’s over.” (I can’t find a direct link, but it’s on CNN’s homepage.) Personally, I am not offended. I actually think Dubya earned back a few of the many cool points he lost after that excruciating press conference last week. Not because he cursed, but because he was so much to the point. Even if the solution is not as simple as he apparently thinks it is, that really is what it comes down to (IMO) and I **knew** what he was getting at, for once. :::hoping we can discuss this without it getting tossed into the Pit::: ---
**Author:** ![Rodgers01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b19c9b/32.png) [@Rodgers01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodgers01)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-are-we-supposed-to-be-all-offended-because-bush-cursed/364970/2 "2006-07-18T03:59:50Z")
I was more offended by the way he was talking with his mouthful than by what he actually said. Anyways, he’s already been caught cursing – ie, that guy he called a “major league asshole.” Granted, in the hierarchy of curse words “asshole” isn’t as bad as “shit.” I don’t think most people will think twice about it. I’m kind of surprised the media’s making anything of it at all. ---
**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:** [July 18, 2006, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-are-we-supposed-to-be-all-offended-because-bush-cursed/364970/3 "2006-07-18T04:04:56Z")
I’ve yet to hear a single person say they were offended although I’ve heard a number of people both online and in the media jump in preemptively and talk about how “everybody is making a big deal out of it.” I don’t know who those people would be. Liberals don’t give a shit. Conservatives don’t give a shit. It has some minor novelty value so it’s getting some media play but I haven’t actually heard anyone being seriously critical about it. I think this is a one day story on a slow news day. It wasn’t even really funny or anything. ---
**Author:** ![ParentalAdvisory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@ParentalAdvisory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParentalAdvisory)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-are-we-supposed-to-be-all-offended-because-bush-cursed/364970/4 "2006-07-18T04:25:28Z")
If the president of the United States cannot swear, we’re all fucked. ---
**Author:** ![Malienation](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4af34b/32.png) [@Malienation](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malienation)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-are-we-supposed-to-be-all-offended-because-bush-cursed/364970/5 "2006-07-18T04:36:11Z")
Jesus, ya know CNN actually made this story a “breaking news” story? Sigh…well, at least it’s better than fixating on Natalie Hollaway, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![if6was9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-are-we-supposed-to-be-all-offended-because-bush-cursed/364970/6 "2006-07-18T04:50:02Z")
I think we should be offended by the flip attitude of his comments, not the swearing. Tony Blair looked like he was at the same time embarrassed and just flabbergasted at the stupidity of his ally. Anyone ever see the made for HBO movie Harrison Bergeron? Eugene Levy played the “president”, picked at random from the American masses. “The Egyptians said what??? F\*\*K 'em!!!” Reminds me of someone… ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-are-we-supposed-to-be-all-offended-because-bush-cursed/364970/7 "2006-07-18T05:08:40Z")
Actually I was impressed. I thought getting the Syrians to make Hezbollah stop their shit was a pretty good plan. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-are-we-supposed-to-be-all-offended-because-bush-cursed/364970/8 "2006-07-18T05:13:19Z")
I get offended any time I hear him speak so why should it matter if he’s cursing? ---
**Author:** ![SpartanDC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b2d939/32.png) [@SpartanDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpartanDC)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-are-we-supposed-to-be-all-offended-because-bush-cursed/364970/9 "2006-07-18T05:20:24Z")
I kind of like hearing the president, any president, drop an s-bomb. I also like that The Daily Show played the clip of him saying it sans bleep. (Though they didn’t show the word on the screen.) If anything, it might boost his popularity with all those folks who think “person you’d like to have a beer with” is a suitable criterion for picking a president. ---
**Author:** ![bloo-bird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c77e96/32.png) [@bloo-bird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bloo-bird)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-are-we-supposed-to-be-all-offended-because-bush-cursed/364970/10 "2006-07-18T05:26:45Z")
> [@Diogenes the Cynic](#): > > I think this is a one day story on a slow news day. It wasn’t even really funny or anything. slow news day. heh. ---
**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:** [July 18, 2006, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-are-we-supposed-to-be-all-offended-because-bush-cursed/364970/11 "2006-07-18T05:28:35Z")
> [@bloo-bird](#): > > slow news day. heh. Well except for WWIII. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-are-we-supposed-to-be-all-offended-because-bush-cursed/364970/12 "2006-07-18T05:55:22Z")
I was just impressed that one of his handlers thought to put it on the teleprompter. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-are-we-supposed-to-be-all-offended-because-bush-cursed/364970/13 "2006-07-18T05:59:47Z")
Well, cursing makes Baby Jesus cry, and Shrub is tight with the Fundie crowd, so a minor hypocrisy ding can be tallied. Not as much fun as Cheney dropping the F-bomb though. ---
**Author:** ![bloo-bird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c77e96/32.png) [@bloo-bird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bloo-bird)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-are-we-supposed-to-be-all-offended-because-bush-cursed/364970/14 "2006-07-18T06:05:29Z")
Who would’ve thought he chewed with his mouth open? ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-are-we-supposed-to-be-all-offended-because-bush-cursed/364970/15 "2006-07-18T06:07:36Z")
> [@bloo-bird](#): > > Who would’ve thought he chewed with his mouth open? Who thought he remembered to talk with his mouth open? ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-are-we-supposed-to-be-all-offended-because-bush-cursed/364970/16 "2006-07-18T07:23:48Z")
At least the media have their priorities straight, though. Dozens of people being killed and thousands of people being evacuated from Lebanon as Israel throws its toys out of the pram? Yawn. George W uses a word that most English-speaking people use several times a day? Shit, (oops there I go again) switch to a rolling feed and mobilise the _Insight_ team… ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-are-we-supposed-to-be-all-offended-because-bush-cursed/364970/17 "2006-07-18T08:48:49Z")
IMHO, what cost Kerry the election was that brat at the Democratic convention who got up on the stage and said, “The Vice President said a naughty word!” :rolleyes: He’s a _grown up_, they’re _allowed_ to say such things, that’s what makes being one so much fun. It’s not like this is the first time a President has sworn. Harry Truman was called “Give 'em hell Harry!” for a _reason_. Hell, LBJ had quite the colorful vocabulary as well. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-are-we-supposed-to-be-all-offended-because-bush-cursed/364970/18 "2006-07-18T09:28:20Z")
What amused me most, as reported over here, was that he got the attention of the Prime Minister with the words: “Yo, Blair.” And if the current ME situation isn’t “shit”, I don’t know what is. Fuck. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-are-we-supposed-to-be-all-offended-because-bush-cursed/364970/19 "2006-07-18T09:41:50Z")
Bush is a rod. This is a known fact. He can sware. He’s a big boy. A big STUPID boy, but a big boy nonetheless. ---
**Author:** ![BadBadger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@BadBadger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BadBadger)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 10:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-are-we-supposed-to-be-all-offended-because-bush-cursed/364970/20 "2006-07-18T10:02:21Z")
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