Bush teases photographer: "Then why didn’t you wear something other than hand-me-down clothes?"

[sabra]

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2007/05/07/queen-elizabeth%e2%80%99s-ahhhhhhh-some-visit/

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“Bush, grinning broadly after the event, got in one more funny before walking away. ‘This must be a special day,’ he said to Newsweek photographer Charles Ommanney, just as he was slipping behind the gate. The formalities of the day had apparently been lost on Ommanney, who was dressed in ‘photographer-casual.’

‘‘ ‘It is,’ Ommanney said back.

“ ‘Then why didn’t you wear something other than hand-me-down clothes?’ Bush teased.”

[Christa]

1. Lame joke

coming from a lame duck.

[Jim Warren]

2. Frat boy

I'm sure his mother dressed him right up till he married his other mother.

[Lars39]

3. A hallmark of real class is when you treat everyone with respect

and kindness, regardless of how they are dressed.
To remark on someone's attire to their face is rude.

[Hobarticus]

8. Yep....tells you everything you need to know about someone

in about two seconds.

[kestrel91316]

33. Nobody in that entire family has any class at all. What a pig.

[Supersedeas]

35. Bush league

[MUAD_DIB]

4. Reply: "I work for a living. What's your excuse?"

[Rosemary2205]

5. I have to kinda go with Bush on this. (aaaaack!!)

If a photographer is covering a formal event they should at least invest in an inexpensive suit - or even dress pants and a decent shirt rather than a rumpled T shirt, shorts and grummy reeboks.

Having said that - Bush is still a schmuck for calling attention to how a photographer is dressed.

[ccpup]

9. unless, of course,

the photographer has several different assignments to cover that day and is leaving this one to go to something that (more than likely) isn't as "dressy". The time spent in changing into one thing and then having to go home (perhaps?) to change into something more casual is time wasted when one is getting the scoop, so to speak. They don't all lead the lives of leisure that our Idiot in Thief does.

[Oeditpus Rex]

29. Thank you

from one who's photographed the former first lady of California and a fatal auto accident in the same day.

[July]

16. I don't, for two reasons.

One, Bush is no paragon of elegance. Cowboy boots with a tux, exhibit A. "Commander in Chief," "43," "President George W. Bush" embroidered on everything he wears (probably including his Underoos), exhibit B. Thick-soled (for height?)shitkickers with a dress suit, C.

Two, as others point out, good manners call for his "not seeing" what he considers a breach of etiquette, rather than his embarrassing the guy in public.

And I'm not sure that a photographer attending an event as a journalist rather than as an invited guest should be held to the same standard as the guests, anyway.

Bush's public put-down is a far worse breach of etiquette than the guy's clothing could be.

[LSparkle]

31. I give photogs more of a break than reporters who may end up on camera

If he was only shooting pictures of the event, then he wasn't going to address RatBastard and Her Highness and therefore probably didn't need to dress up.

That man has absolutely NO CLASS whatsoever.

[partylessinOhio]

6. This from the idiot in chief?

Are troops dying in white ties today in Iraq? Makes as much sense.

[ccpup]

7. another clear instance

of * attempting to emasculate or otherwise dominate someone he perceives as beneath him. The books on the psychological problems of this man could fill a library!

[BlooInBloo]

10. Aah... the bully-in-chief. He shoulda just broke out with Eddie Murphy's "Ice Cream"....

... "And... your... father's al-co-hooool-ic! You want some ice cream! You want some ice cream!"

:rofl:

[SidDithers]

38. Want a lick?...

Psych!

:)

Sid

[BlooInBloo]

39. lol!

[DRoseDARs]

11. Oh really? Says the guy that had to be scolded by Mrs. Bush AND Condi Rice to dress properly. n/t

[sandnsea]

32. So he passes on the scolding

and will continue to act like a brat until he gets over it, or gets in a snit about some other rule he doesn't think he ought to have to follow.

[ET Awful]

12. Yeah, like Cheney did to the Auschwitz Memorial

[Arkansas Granny]

17. Good point.

[Jim Warren]

19. Or junior at the White House

Black tie and cowboy boots

[Rob H.]

13. What a classless prick * is.

Not everyone can afford $2,000-$14,000 suits, monkeyboy. Some of us actually do some of that "hard work" you're so fond of talking complaining about.

[IChing]

25. What a "class warfare" loving prick he was talking to a serf in his mind

He believes and has benefited and is entitled to his hereditary status
which he sees himself in the nobility class along side with the royals.
His inferiority showed when he downcast someone he considered a serf
when he didn't even know how to dress himself.

[JHB]

14. Spoken like a man whose closet is worth more...

than some peoples' houses.

[Marie26]

15. "Teased" = mocked

Bush is annoyed that Laura made him dress formally, so he's going to take out his anger on a random photographer. Typical bully.

[AuntPatsy]

18. As bad as when he mocked that one reporter with sunglassess, where

are his handlers?

[Lex]

20. Wonder how many times, pre-Governor and President, he was

popped in his arrogant mouth?

[Horse with no Name]

22. That may account for the symptoms of traumatic brain injury that he exhibits

Getting hit in the head repeatedly will tend to make you flat stoopid.

[gatorboy]

21. People can defend the formality issue all they want.

But what Bush said was crass and elitist. He's an idiot snob.

[sandnsea]

30. It was anti-social and vindictive

It doesn't take money to become a hateful person who denigrates everyone in order to feel adequate.

[annabanana]

23. *sh's behavior is a "status marker". . like a dog, peeing higher up on the tree.

[Throwing Stones]

24. * is a cad, but what was so special about the event?

Was the journalist covering it or attending as a guest?

Why should he dress up for the queen, anyway - "if I went 'round sayin' I was Emperor, just because some moistened bink lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!"

[alcibiades_mystery]

26. Not an accident that he hits the Newsweek guy after the Newsweek poll, yeah?

This is what passes for retribution in Bushworld. A little signal to Newsweek that the poll was "noted in the building."

[sandnsea]

27. Bush's white tie public humiliation

So he had to find someone, anyone, to transfer that humiliation to.

He is a sick sick sick puppy.

[Individualist]

28. An insult is an insult is an insult

IMO referring to insults as teases is like saying misleading instead of lying.

[TahitiNut]

34. Wallowing in Depression-Era elitism ... he's a fucking narcissist

... with strong sociopathic influences. We have an entire generation of seniors who were subjected to that kind of schoolyard abuse from the spoiled brats born into fat-cat families.

[geniph]

36. "And why didn't YOUR parents teach YOU something besides

complete low-class trash manners?"

What a tool.

[Marnieworld]

37. Removing all other reasons to hate Bush

I mean the war crimes and attacks on our rights etc. besides that...

This need, compulsion, innate desire of his to belittle all of those around him reveals what sick, twisted darkness lies within him. It takes a giant asshole of tremendous proportion to be powerful and attack the powerless.

Can the photographer say Fuck you Mr. President? It manipulates the arrangement where any person in Bush's reach is just another little frog to torture with a firecracker. He humiliates people for his own amusement and his pleasure is fueled by the power he has that they can't defend themselves. It's sadistic and we knew this about him when he gave his first nickname to a reporter, mocked a blind man, massaged the shoulders of a head of state or caressed a bald skull. We don't have king but he is a Royal Asshole.

:grr: