Comments on: Bush almost electrocutes himself on the White House lawn

By: Hot Air » Blog Archive » Correction: Bush didn’t almost electrocute himself on the White House lawn

Wed, 11 Apr 2007 22:40:53 +0000

[...] Didn’t sound like a joke. Exit question: Is Mulally playing it off as a joke after the fact at the White House’s request or did he just make the whole thing up to commisserate with reporters about the Chimperor’s alleged moronitude? digg_url = ‘http://hotair.com/archives/2007/04/11/correction-bush-didnt-almost-electrocute-himself-on-the-white-house-lawn/';digg_topic = ‘political_opinion’; [...]

By: BelchSpeak

BelchSpeak — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 21:32:15 +0000

Yep, this was a made up story as a "joke." Hardeehar har.

By: budorob

budorob — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 15:11:30 +0000

Bring on the assassination fantasies!

By: Chuck

Chuck — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 14:53:00 +0000

The whole thing sounds scripted to me.

Or downright false.

Where’s the video? Public event, South Lawn, you know there is video

By: CBarker

CBarker — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 12:46:34 +0000

Why is this news? It’s a sham, I’d bet by the film crew.
Sounds like a setup. Find the guy in charge of the photo shoot and ask them why the cord was left in the back. I can’t belive the whole thing from start to finish wasn’t scripted and somebody mucked it up.

Hydrogen power should be a sealed system right? It doesn’t just pool up in a tank, you know, that whole “lighter than air” thing…

By: honora

honora — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 12:41:36 +0000

Pretzels, doors, cars, Sunnis, Shiites…..

What’s a poor boy to do?

By: PinkyBigglesworth

PinkyBigglesworth — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 06:01:46 +0000

91Veteran on April 10, 2007 at 1:11 AM

Touche……. or “Touch Yourself”! Well done, Sir, well done!

By: 91Veteran

91Veteran — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 05:11:20 +0000

My question is, how many deaths will the ‘bean counters’ tolerate before the official recall?

PinkyBigglesworth on April 9, 2007 at 11:30 PM

That depends on whether the kiddie flambe is majority Republican or Democrat.

By: RightWinged

RightWinged — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 04:13:56 +0000

Summary – Cheney foiled!

I think I’m within my rights to assume that Lurking Cheney showed up to this other event because he had another plot to begin his reign as Master of the Universe, but something went wrong here as well
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x99lnVeY4jQ&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fhotair%2Ecom%2Farchives%2F2007%2F04%2F04%2Fkeith%2Drichardss%2Dmanager%2Dhe%2Ddidnt%2Dreally%2Dsnort%2Dhis%2Dfather%2F

I’ll wait to see if a lurking video emerges from this most recent incident… but I’m sure he’s hiding their somewhere, probably sighing a very Mr. Burnsesque “excellent” as he saw Bush hurrying towards that power cord.

By: PinkyBigglesworth

PinkyBigglesworth — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 03:30:28 +0000

Ford…didn’t they invent the “Pinto”?

Another car that was easily ignited by doing something to its rear it wasn’t designed to do.

journeyscarab
The same can be said about Richard Simmons! ;-)

stonemeister on April 9, 2007 at 10:42 PM

That HAS to be the money quote! Well played Stonemeister!

My question is, how many deaths will the ‘bean counters’ tolerate before the official recall?

By: Buck Turgidson

Buck Turgidson — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 02:42:54 +0000

Unsafe at no speed. Where’s Ralph Nader when you need him? He coulda had a V8 and a tank of gas from Anwar. March the caribou to Denali and be done with it.

By: stonemeister

stonemeister — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 02:42:14 +0000

Ford…didn’t they invent the “Pinto”?

Another car that was easily ignited by doing something to its rear it wasn’t designed to do.

journeyscarab

The same can be said about Richard Simmons! ;-)

By: Flopping Aces

Flopping Aces — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 02:25:23 +0000

Bush Almost Blew Himself Up! Or Did He?…

Many lefty blogs are talking about this story with sadness: (h/t Hot Air) Credit Ford Motor Co. CEO Alan Mulally with saving the leader of the free world from self-immolation. Mulally told journalists at the New York auto show that……

By: journeyscarab

journeyscarab — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 02:02:41 +0000

Ford…didn’t they invent the “Pinto”?

Another car that was easily ignited by doing something to its rear it wasn’t designed to do.

By: thedecider

thedecider — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 01:49:02 +0000

I should clarify my earlier point (because I can’t go back and edit my comment). Of course some have been recognized according to their ancestry (native Americans and blacks). What peeves me about this is this comment in particular:

But Rivas-Rodriguez points out that too often the Hispanic experience has been ignored or reshaped in modern media

Has it? How? Modern media seems to promote the “Hispanic experience” every chance it gets; hence our ongoing and pointless debate over illegal immigration. I’m all for giving these folks the credit they are due for fighting for our country. I just don’t get why they must be recognized for being Latino instead of Americans.

By: naliaka

naliaka — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 01:47:56 +0000

So, with what are we to use to provide the massive amounts of electricity that will be required to charge these environmentally “friendly” vehicles? And how do we dispose of the tons and tons and tons of dead batteries – little HAZMAT boxes that they are?
Or, does the Left just think electricity magically comes out of those cute sockets?
Fire fighters and mechanics, to preserve their own lives, now have to study the new cars because of the additional shock and toxic materials hazards that they contain.

By: thedecider

thedecider — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 01:41:23 +0000

I should probably be writing about today’s immigration nonsense but even the boss can’t get motivated.

Well let's talk about it anyway. I'm really trying to appreciate the fact that these men fought nobly in WWII and yet can't help but feel outrage over the fact they want to be recognized for being Latino's - not Americans. I don't recall anyone else from the greatest generation insisting on being recognized for their ancestry instead of being Americans - fighting for American ideals.

By: Jaibones

Jaibones — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 01:38:50 +0000

Who are the human factors engineers over at Ford?

cmay on April 9, 2007 at 6:36 PM

Ditto on the BS call. No way (even) a Ford engineer could put an electrical socket in a car that would explode as described.

By: Catseye

Catseye — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 01:17:11 +0000

Stonemeister…I could give you even scarier examples, but would have to do it privately.

By: stonemeister

stonemeister — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 01:14:48 +0000

Never underestimate the ability of a Federal employee to disregard obvious instructions and do just the opposite of what common sense dictates.

Catseye

Don’t forget, NASA employees are Federal employees. Scary, ain’t it?

By: Catseye

Catseye — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 01:11:23 +0000

The worst that would happen would be that Bush would see there’s no place near the Hydrogen fill valve to plug a wire into.

stonemeister on April 9, 2007 at 7:37 PM

Never underestimate the ability of a Federal employee to disregard obvious instructions and do just the opposite of what common sense dictates.

By: Mazztek

Mazztek — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 01:02:36 +0000

Michael Roston of Raw Story e-mails to remind me of another brush with death — but Bush wasn’t the victim in this one.

So, Bush almost ran over the media. oops…

By: Neo

Neo — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 00:45:48 +0000

Can you blame the Oil President for not understanding how an electric/hydrogen auto-mobile is supposed to be plugged in?

Don’t you just have Rosa or Pedro plug in the sliced bread cookerator and radio picture boxes for you?

By: GPE

GPE — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 00:34:09 +0000

Ha! I see what you did. A regular bait and (electrical) switch, that was.

By: Hootie

Hootie — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 00:26:26 +0000

“Couldn’t it be said that Mulally was doing a job (half of) Americans won’t do?”

And in tonight’s news, the Secret Service has hired Pedro to test all the President’s food dishes. Employee turnover hits all time high.