. . . so, before it’s too late, let’s reminisce. What are some of your favorite Bush satires, hit-pieces, or quotes?
Personally, I keep coming back to this Onion article form '05: Bush Regales Dinner Guests With Impromptu Oratory on Virgil’s Minor Works.
(Speaking of the The Onion, someone there seems to be taking out some repressed anger towards Bush at the last minute. Heh.)
Bush Refuses To Set Timetable For Withdrawal Of Head From White House Banister, one of the greatest pieces The Onion has ever published.
I still chuckle at the “strategery” bit from the SNL spoof of one of the Gore/Bush debates
There is only one W. spoof article. All others are but pale imitations.
Sorry, I meant to say “prescient,” not “spoof”
Stewart was sobbing on last night’s Daily Show. “I’m gonna miss you so much!”
I loved Jon Stewart’s somewhat-poor impression of President Bush, especially after Hurricane Katrina when Bush visited an oil rig hit by the hurricane: “Riggy! What have they done to you, Riggy?”
I love the word stategery. I work it into conversation as often as possible. Do not misunderestimate just how often that is!
For my money you just can’t beat ob/gyn’s sharing their love.
I mean, it’s the way he says it to: “… their luuuuv …”
Except that’s not satire.
But it should be.
(misread the OP)
What comes first to mind is a Daily Show segment from maybe 2003ish… first they showed a bunch of administration talking heads using the phrase “9/11 changed the equation”. Over and over again, “changed the equation”.
So then Jon Stewart got out a little chalkboard and a piece of chalk, as if he were about to write some math. “The new equation is… 9/11, plus anything we say, equals SHUT THE FUCK UP”.
I loved the bit on the Daily Show where George Bush 2004 debated against George Bush 2000. They’re so great at that type of stuff.
Also from the Onion: Bush Finds Error in Fermilab Calculations
“Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?”
I actually have this quote on a T-shirt.
Indeed… eerily prophetic.
Pfft, those predictions were way off, claiming an increase in military spending of 250%, when in reality, it was barely 212%. :rolleyes:
My fave is Colbert roasting Bush at the White House Correspondents Dinner.
It’s a terrible impression that really doesn’t sound anything like Bush, and yet somehow, Stewart actually did capture something about the petty meanness of the administration that gets overlooked.
Can’t believe I didn’t think of that right away. A great, great moment in comedy history.
Man, I can’t believe it took 16 posts for this one. This was the watershed moment, when it suddenly became ok to criticize Bush openly in the media. Stephen Colbert proved once and for all he truly does have balls by openly mocking Bush to his face, with some really incisive vicious shit too. I hardly ever watch his show, but I will always love him for that.
IMO, this is the ultimate answer to this thread. Nothing else is even noteworthy next to it.