# What was Bush's expletive today? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 17, 2006, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-bushs-expletive-today/364869 "2006-07-17T16:02:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2006, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-bushs-expletive-today/364869/21 "2006-07-17T22:53:53Z")
[QUOTE=pseudotriton ruber ruber] He who lives by the S-word shall die by the S-word. [/QUOTE] If you dont believe in Gosh, you will surely go to Heck when you die. ---
**Author:** ![ryobserver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b2d939/32.png) [@ryobserver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ryobserver)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2006, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-bushs-expletive-today/364869/22 "2006-07-17T22:58:21Z")
[QUOTE=Mahaloth] I’m more embarassed that [Cnn.com](http://Cnn.com) has to use the vocabulary of a 10 year old. “Bush uses the ‘s-word’.” The S-word? Are we in Third grade? [/QUOTE] CNN Headline News just spelled out the word in a caption while playing the recording without bleeping the word. During the 6 PM (ET) broadcast. I wonder how much the FCC will fine them for that; I don’t suppose they’ll let it slide just because it was Bush talking and Bush can do no wrong. (I don’t know what regular CNN did; I never watch when Lou Dobbs is on. I don’t dislike him, I’m just bored with the immigration obsession.) Me, I just wish Bush wouldn’t talk with his mouth full. Surely his mother taught him better than that, and it looks bad whether the mikes are on or not. But I suppose that’s pre-9/11 thinking; I should realize if he stopped to chew properly, the terrorists would win. ---
**Author:** ![Ghanima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Ghanima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ghanima)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2006, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-bushs-expletive-today/364869/23 "2006-07-17T23:28:33Z")
BFD. I hate the guy and I don’t give a sh\*t. Anyone who gets worked up over this has mental issues and waaaay too much time on their hands. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2006, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-bushs-expletive-today/364869/24 "2006-07-17T23:30:03Z")
I loathe everything about that man and everything he stands for…and I’m giving him a pass on this one. Big deal. I can’t even argue with the content of what he said, much less the vocabulary. I even have to give him points for using “ironic” in a sentence. ---
**Author:** ![Wakinyan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wakinyan/32/352_2.png) [@Wakinyan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wakinyan)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2006, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-bushs-expletive-today/364869/25 "2006-07-17T23:36:07Z")
One can’t help to feel sorry for Blair, who tries so hard to have an intelligent discussion on a very important issue with “the most powerful man on earth”. 😃 Imagine _his_ agony! ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2006, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-bushs-expletive-today/364869/26 "2006-07-17T23:40:18Z")
[QUOTE=ryobserver] CNN Headline News just spelled out the word in a caption while playing the recording without bleeping the word. During the 6 PM (ET) broadcast. I wonder how much the FCC will fine them for that; I don’t suppose they’ll let it slide just because it was Bush talking and Bush can do no wrong. [/QUOTE] They’ll let it slide because it’s cable and the FCC doesn’t regulate vulgarity and obscenity on cable. They might even if it were broadcast, in that it was used as part of a legitimate news story and not to shock or tititlate. But cable guarantees they’ll get away with it. ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-bushs-expletive-today/364869/27 "2006-07-18T00:44:07Z")
[QUOTE=yanceylebeef] My biggest problem isn’t the swearing. I’d be surprised if the President DIDN’T swear. My problem is the total classless, inartful, stupid way he sounds when he’s talking and not “On”. He sounds like an idiot. “Yo, Blair. What are you doing? You Leaving”? [/QUOTE] My problem is his misuse of the term ‘irony’ on TV. Likely it’s true that if Syria would “stop doin’ 'is shit” then it would be over, but what’s ironic about that? Did it seem to anyone else that Blair had the tone of someone repeatedly trying to get a dim child to see reason while being constantly interrupted in the process? ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-bushs-expletive-today/364869/28 "2006-07-18T00:46:57Z")
I’m sure the Knights of Standards and Practices will save us before we start vomiting up our intestines. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-bushs-expletive-today/364869/29 "2006-07-18T02:02:42Z")
[QUOTE=Marley23] Where are you seeing that? In the story I read this morning, they included a full transcript with the word “shit” included, and in the story **Annie-XMas** linked to, the word appears quite high in the story. If they didn’t also have a story called “The Sh\_t Heard Round the World,” I’d say they were being rather mature. [/QUOTE] Look at {b]Annie\*\*'s link. > **[CNN.com - Bush caught off-guard in chat with Blair - Jul 17, 2006](https://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/07/17/bush.tape/index.html)** > > An open microphone caught President Bush in an unguarded moment Monday as the escalating crisis in the Middle East prompted him to use an expletive in a conversation with British Prime Minister Tony Blair. It says “Watch Bush use the ‘s’ word during a chat with Blair – 1:31” ---
**Author:** ![Kozmik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8dc957/32.png) [@Kozmik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kozmik)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-bushs-expletive-today/364869/30 "2006-07-18T02:32:36Z")
[QUOTE=ryobserver] Surely his mother taught him better than that [/QUOTE] Or another First Lady… his wife. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-bushs-expletive-today/364869/31 "2006-07-18T02:55:49Z")
Count me as someone else who can’t stand Bush, and who doesn’t give a rat’s arse if he used the word “shit.” If you want a genuine example of Bush’s media idiocy, you only have to look at his press conference alongside the German Chancellor the other day, in which he constantly kept referring to the pig he was going to eat for dinner, even in response to serious and important questions about problems in the Middle East. [Here](http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/ny-wobush0716,0,5816676.story?coll=ny-top-headlines) is a story about it, and if you want to see some video, you can go to the [Daily Show](http://www.comedycentral.com/shows/the_daily_show/videos/most_recent/index.jhtml) website and click on the video entitled “Slicing the Pig.” The guy’s ability to transcend his own records for idiocy and self-absorption is staggering. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-bushs-expletive-today/364869/32 "2006-07-18T03:43:22Z")
Like, this is a new and shocking thing? Remember the Nixon tapes full of [expletive deleted]? ---
**Author:** ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-bushs-expletive-today/364869/33 "2006-07-18T04:45:30Z")
I understand that Nixon’s curses were more cosmological: as a rule he did not tend to use barnyard language or make allusions to the anatomically improbable. ---
**Author:** ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-bushs-expletive-today/364869/34 "2006-07-18T04:54:05Z")
Here’s a full transcript of Bush’s remarks: > **[Transcript: Full Text of Bush's Private Exchange at G-8 Summit](https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/17/AR2006071700402_pf.html)** > > President Bush was caught on an open microphone talking with other leaders at the Group of Eight summit in St. Petersburg as they ate lunch before adjourning on Monday. At times the television camera was on Bush, at times it was panning the room.... It’s difficult to know where to start quoting. ---
**Author:** ![xash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/c6cbf5/32.png) [@xash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xash)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-bushs-expletive-today/364869/35 "2006-07-18T06:25:04Z")
Since the GQ has been answered, I’m closing this. Feel free to continue in other forums. - **xash** General Questions Moderator [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-bushs-expletive-today/364869.md?page=1)