Otherwise the author is like those freaks that collect used women’s underwear. Someone I would prefer not to shake hands with.

If true, I would say that air balls are a lot better than giving nukes to North Korea, or ICBM guidance systems to China, or incinerating a bunch of religious nut kids at Waco, or leaving a girl in a car at the bottom of a pond until she turns cold.

A story I read about LBJ said he like to urinate ‘on the spot’. Once in the Rose Garden he launched and sprayed a secret service agent’s shoes. When the agent protested, Johnson reportedly smiled and said “Presidential prerogative”. This was from an article about how Presidents were liked by the little people at the White House. Nixon was well liked, Carter was most disliked.

Where’s Robert Parry on that?

Johnson was at a formal dinner party when one of the female guests began to get up to leave the table. At that moment she accidentally let loose with a tremendous fart. In desperation, the woman scuffed he shore on the floor in a pathetic attempt to pretend that the fart was only the sound of her shoe against the floor. This fooled no one at the table and they all remained sitting there in deeply embarrassed silence with the exception of Johnson who proclaimed:

“Madam, we heard you the first time, there is no need to make it rhyme.”

Lying is just accepted on their part.

They have now descended to a level that would even be questioned by smirking middle school boys.

Things that only self-proclaimed intellectuals would understand I guess.

Or perhaps it is simple projection at work.

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Wow, My IQ just shrank thinking down the level of the libbloggers.

He’s also known to cut a few for laughs, especially when greeting new young aides.

How’s that for an icebreaker? Can you imagine yourself as a kid fresh on the job, working for the leader of the free world, and when you sit down for a talk he rips one off and busts out laughing? How dare he be so human?!? Seems to me that this would tear away the mystique, because you can’t help but laugh at somebody who just farted. Unless he’s been eating broccoli and pickled eggs. Then, it’s just not funny.

As to the central question, I fart to claim my Popeworthiness. Watch your back, Ratz.

B Moe, you beat me to the referrence to Cigarman, darn it!.

…does he really behave like this in front of staffers, and is this supposed to endear us to him?

Well, it is probably not as indearing as blowing a wad in their face, but Bible-thumpers are kind of limited in that regard.

Chimps fart.
President Bush farts.
Logically, the DU/Kos crowds are correct, he is a chimp.

Olbermann devoted an entire segment to this the other night. Naturally.

All his segments, with him the flatus-in-chief, cover/are farts:

1. a flatus expelled through the anus.
2. an irritating or foolish person.

But it’s this sort of thing that really is endearing.

Um, did Drifter just define “endear” for us?

marykatharine on August 26, 2006 at 10:33 PM

Please, don’t be offended, but it was that particular definition that I found amusing.

He got it backwards, too. Is that supposed to endear HIM to US.

Attila (Pillage Idiot) on August 26, 2006 at 10:43 PM

Good eye, quite right, and touché, although in my defense it is 5 a.m. here.

I would have simply linked to myself, but I feel so dirty whenever I do that.