January 23, 2004

The president gets a hankerin' for some ribs From MeFi !!

THE PRESIDENT: See, his job is to ask questions, he thinks my job is to answer every question he asks. I'm here to help this restaurant by buying some food. Terry, would you like something? Q An answer. Q Can we buy some questions?

posted by boo_radley 20 years ago
  • and in case someone thinks that's a parody site... nope, that's the official transcript from the pool reporters. it's been circulating around d.c. media all day, we've been getting a good chuckle out of it.
  • that's what I thought too, SideDish. I mean, what's going on here? The man doesn't travel to New Mexico because he's got a hunger for bbq! Nobody goes to New Mexico for barbeque! Most savvy polititians would frame the answers to the reporter's questions in the context of the small restraunteur, but he seems to honest-to-god have a laser-like focus on these ribs right from the start. I've been laughing my head off at it. One of my neo-con coworkers looked at it and said it was the result of 'liberal media' and I just about wet myself. How could the reporter not bust up laughing at the end?
  • He said this in Roswell eh? I bet he was just told to say that no matter what questions he was asked lest he accidentally give out the secret of Roswell.
  • What in the name of weapon-of-mass-destruction-related-program-activities is "high-priced money"? Does Dubya know something about hyper-inflation that we don't? That's not a pipe...
  • Despite not supporting President Bush, I like this article - I think it explains how he views the US economy, particularly in relation to jobs. He states that these people -- they make a lot of money and they're not going to spend much which may be the foundation of the logic behind his approach to jobs. With a tax cut, perhaps he expected the number of jobs to increase because the rich would spend more, where in actuality; they are accumulating, rather than distributing wealth.
  • Niccolo, you've just described Trickle-Down Economics! Unfortuanately your attitude towards it seems to suggest you won't be voting Reagan in 2004.
  • Spooky, yes, before I wasn't sure if Bush actually knew what he was doing.
  • I still don't understand the Magritte jokes.
  • Wow. I never thought I could relate so closely to GW. I could go for some ribs too. (Wolof re: the Magritte joke - Ce n'
  • gspm: You took the ribs words right out of my mouth! The first thing I thought when I read that was, "MmmMMM Ribs sound GOOD!"
  • This is what it reminded me of: Herbert: While you're here, I want you to make yourselves right at home. Any time you're hungry, any time day or night, Cook will make you anything you want. Homer: Even pork chops? Herbert: Absolutely. We have a tennis court, a swimming pool, a screening room... Homer: If I want pork chops any time in the middle of the night, your guy will fry them up? Herbert: Sure, that's what he's paid for. Now, if you need towels, laundry, maids... Homer: Wait, wait, wait. Lemme see if I got this straight. It's Christmas Day, 4am, there's a rumble in my stomach...
  • Bush actually believes in "Trickle-Down Economics." Even Reagan eventually realized it didn't work and raised taxes. Think about this. Every company Bush ran went into debt. The state of Texas went into debt under his watch. Can we all agree that Bush knows more about ribs than economics.
  • (Wolof re: the Magritte joke - Ce n'
  • It was not a press conference, but a staged picture, that some seem to have mistaken for a press conference. Okay, it was a bit of a reach, I admit. Whatever! I didn't expect a kind of Spanish Inquisition.
  • No one expects the Spanish Inquisition! (Just trying to follow the rationale is all.)