Is it just me or did Jenna's phone call to Daddy seem phony?

[Botany]

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jYCm1117WyZ24UWRg95lT8UZjHdQD8TBJF7O0

Jenna Bush Calls Parents on 'Ellen' Show

"I'm just sitting here with daddy," Laura Bush told her daughter, to which DeGeneres chimed in: "Oh hey! It's Ellen. I wanted to say hi to daddy."

So the president got on the line: "How's my little girl doing?"

"Oh, she's great. She's scared she's going to get in trouble because I just said, `Is it easy to just pick up the phone and call your dad anytime?'" DeGeneres said. "And now she's scared she's not going to get any Christmas presents."

Bush said he wasn't angry.

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:puke:

[eleny]

1. Softening his madman image of yesterday

Could be!

How easy can it be to reach them both just like that? Not so easy, as I see it, unless it's planned.

[jkshaw]

2. I can't believe that wasn't set up in advance

with Bush and his wife. I don't care how spontaneous it was made to appear.

[gatorboy]

3. The whole thing is beyond phoney.

What was the purpose? To make them seem more human? I can't believe so many people are reporting on this. She called her folks. Wowwwwwwww.

[Botany]

6. I felt like I was watching a high school play

1) Hit your mark
2) Say your lines
3) have some "chemistry" with the other actors.
4) exit stage left

[TomClash]

4. It's definitely "not just you"

I thought it was lame all around.

[hisownpetard]

5. Barf ditto.

:puke: :puke:
And they just happened to have that photo of young Bush, holding his twin babies,
and Jenna just happened to have the remark, "Remember, Daddy, the best day of your life?"
and up pops the picture behind her.

I'm disappointed in Ellen. Between her walking through a picket line to get to work,
and now this, I'm not too crazy about her right now.

[Generic Brad]

7. Well, she is ignoring the writer's strike

Apparently her scab scribes believe her audience won't see through a hackneyed, pathetic set up.

[JBoy]

9. Scab-in-Chief

[chaumont58]

8. It must be just you

I thought it was the realest thing I have ever seen or heard!

Fer Sure.

[gatorboy]

10. As if!

[Botany]

11. r-u sure?

because .....

"Now Daddy don't you want to wish the Audience at "The Ellen Show" a Merry Christmas?"

Seemed a little stiff to me .... :rofl:

[WillyT]

12. “Hello dear. I’m talking to the members of the N.R.A. right now. Would you like to say hello?”

“I’ll give you a call as soon as I’m finished. Have a safe trip. Bye bye. I love you.”

Does that answer your question?

:shrug:

[Wickerman]

13. The whole Bush family

[ixion]

14. phony is the BFEE halmark

they know nothing else.

[DemBones DemBones]

15. Phony as a three dollar bill.

How dumb do they think we are? (Don't answer that. I know.)

[Kucinich4America]

16. EVERYTHING about the Bush Crime Family seems phony.

Because it usually is.

[City Lights]

17. "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and those are the ones

you want to concentrate on." ~ Gee Dub, March, 2001.

If George is involved in any way, it's staged.

[datavg]

18. Oh, Who Cares?

He's only there for another year. The whole damn thing is water under the bridge.

They're saying Hillary's so called mortgage bailout proposal is very, very close to that proposed by Bush himself. CNBC has been talking about it all day.

There's very little difference between her and Bush, especially on the economic issues.

I'm very much beginning to wonder if she'll be nominated. She seems to stand for everything Democrats have been railing against for eight years.

[EFerrari]

19. These people never have an unscripted public moment

and Ellen rarely does, btw.

[GigiMommy]

20. YEP!...

It's called TELEVISION.

[Bluebear]

21. Absolutely not just you. Designed to counter his "Let's bomb Iran anyhow!" persona of yersterday