The Captions Write Themselves

[filkertom]

Okay, Republicans, here's your Beloved Frickin' Leader. At an international summit.

With his fly open.

It is official: The fate of the world is in the hands of a man who cannot zip up his own pants.

Comments

[atalantapendrag.livejournal.com]

Just ew.

[jrittenhouse.livejournal.com]

Ummmmm...trayf.

[scruffycritter.livejournal.com]

So THAT's how he was getting briefed...

[ozfuture.livejournal.com]

I suppose its better then him getting De-Briefed

[dawn-again.livejournal.com]

*squick*

*beats mental image to death with a big stick*

[siliconshaman.livejournal.com]

Nah, he's just come from a debreifing session with Rice...

[umbran.livejournal.com]

Never a fan of Bush m'self but... well, like that doesn't happen to every guy at some point or other?

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Goodness knows, it does... but most of us don't have a team of handlers and image-sculptors.

[smallship1.livejournal.com]

True.

Are we sure someone hasn't just dabbed a blob of white on the trouser area? It would be so easy... (um, not that I want to see digital enhancements or anything...)

[poltr1]

Well, at least he didn't ralph on their shoes like his dad did.

[umbran.livejournal.com]

(duplicated due to my own egregious grammatical and spelling errors)

True. But most of us also aren't being photographed nearly incessantly. Nor do we have hundreds of thousands of people combing over our lives, looking for every niggling tidbit to poke fun of or criticize. The amount of scrutiny the man is under is astounding. Even the best handlers cannot catch everything. And everyhting that is not caught will be seen. What is not seen is occasionally fabricated...

Mr. Bush has a great many failings. But to say he's soemhow less for being subject to things that afflict every human male on the planet just isn't right. Let he who is without similar sin throw the first stone, and all that. Yes, politicians occasionaly have their flies open, or choke on pretzels, or vomit on other people. That's not newsworthy.

[admnaismith.livejournal.com]

Wasn't Bush's predecessor IMPEACHED for failing to keep it zipped? I demand an independent prosecutor!

[ericthemage.livejournal.com]

Yes, but that was purely intentional. He knew exactly what he was doing.

[ericthemage.livejournal.com]

Personally, I'd point out his recent flip-flopping:

http://www.batemania.com/e112304.jpg

And, you know, the party of "fiscal responsibility":

http://www.batemania.com/e112204.jpg

It's funny that Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm (Democrat) took fiscally responsible steps by selling off state owned properties that she felt weren't in the best interests of the state to own. And then Bush turns around and buys (with our tax dollars) a yacht that previously had been sold to a private party.

Where's the liberal media to point out these flip flops?

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

C'mon, you KNEW that Bush foreign policy was a dicksizing contest already.

This is a surprise?

[cainfortea.livejournal.com]

Wow.

If the democrats are reduced to pointing and laughing at an open fly...I guess us republicans have *really* won.

[selenesue.livejournal.com]

I am so gacking this.

It's not that we are "reduced to pointing and laughing at an open fly," it's just that the metaphor is so rich.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

That's precisely why I put the link there to the Yahoo News story with the Associated Press photo....

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

What reduced? It's more like the "cherry" on top of the Bizarro-world banana split that is this weird-ass administration. It's an "... and ON TOP OF EVERY OTHER DAMN THING..." moment.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

I beg to differ, for reasons of burning fucking irony.

We've got TV stations backing down from showing movies they've already shown because some people have decided to take offense at dirty words.

We've got people freaking out because of the prurience of NFL TV ads.

We've got reporters who criticize our candidates' fashion sense, somehow always finding Repubs perfect and Dems lacking. Who talk about a woman who says "shove it" to a man who's spent years trying to destroy her life as if she is the one out of control. Who actually print in the public record that John Kerry was "out of touch" with that icon of fuckin' Mayberry, Middle America, because he ordered green tea in restaurants.

We've got an illiterate moron in the White House, and he likes to play dress-up, in case I need to remind anyone of May 1, 2003. Therefore, if he can't appear with four other world leaders with his goddamn trousers zipped, yeah. It's news.

[cainfortea.livejournal.com]

On top of? In the time before the election and my subsequent discussions with people not voting for Bush about the presidency, i've not heard one decent "other option" about anything he's done. I've heard good arguments that what he did in 4 years of office wasn't the right thing to do. But those people can not offer a fix to it.

And yea, reduced to. Its this kind of Ad Hom attack that just proves a point. When all your talking points are reduced to nothing, a "yea but you stink!" response just excentuates your loss.

[patoadam]

I've heard good arguments that what he did in 4 years of office wasn't the right thing to do. But those people can not offer a fix to it.

The way I would phrase that is that the mistakes Bush has made are irreparable to the extent that it will take generations to recover from them. Examples: the invasion of Iraq, and Bush's budget deficit that our children and grandchildren will be paying for.

For example, see this article on whether US troops can ever leave Iraq.

[umbran.livejournal.com]

Perhaps to some. I think I left off laughing at open zipper jokes back in my mid-teens, but you're right, in that there's no accounting for comedic taste.

And certainly, I don't think the man is above being mocked. But at the moment, my tolerance for humor about the man is a bit thin. Perhaps I'm a little too annoyed about him to get it.

[cainfortea.livejournal.com]

I read that article, and I still see no flaw with what is going on in Iraq. We are going to be there a while. It takes time to work up troops and to rebuild. We're not just rebuilding what we blew up, we're rebuilding what Sadam neglected too. See, thats the funny thing about beeing so well off as we are. Some of us feel it is our responsibility to help others who aren't fortunate enough to live here.

This article is just another duck in the row of "OMG I hatez dah BUSH!" So what if the Iraqi Air force is nothing more but a few helicopters and recon planes? For the last 10 years Iraq didn't *have* an airforce. We blew it up if you'll recall.

[umbran.livejournal.com]

Oh, I certainly recognize the irony. Despite that, I don't think it is news. The man has human foibles. Go figure. I expect that of everyone, even if they and their supporters carry on like they don't. If their biggest hypocracy of the day is related to his fly being open, then it's been a pretty darned good day for the administration.

If it was wrong of folks to criticize fashion sense, this criticism is wrong too. Political "eye for an eye" feels nice, but does it really help anyone?

And, as cainfortea suggests, however ironic it is, pointing and laughing at an unzipped fly doesn't exactly make us look like intelligent people who have points that really ought to be taken seriously.