Potty Mouth

We at Quid are always very interested in what people say, what words they use, and who's doing the talking.  A couple of my loyal readers are in the language biz, and they always seem to appreciate it when I delve into that stuff, notably in a piece about inclusive language Psalms and news out of Britain about the schools not using the word "fail" because it's too loaded and connotes...uh....failure. 

Recently, George Bush said the "s" word with his mouth full of  what looked to be cream puff.

Aside: Mr. Bush weighs more than he did last year, despite the novel technique of jettisoning redundant calories at other heads of state in a sort of gustatory premature ejaculation: clearly a deferred success weight loss program. End aside.

I would like to redirect everyone's attention to what he actually said.  Below is the transcript of the entire conversation, which reveals Bush's executive approach.  In a few lines, he covers a lot of ground.  He doesn't get into details because lunch on the last day of the G8 summit isn't the time or the place.  It's part polite banter, it's part action items and it establishes who is talking to whom, and finally, it's a note of frustration with respect to the UN not doing it's job.  He doesn't dwell on it: after sixty years of criminal non-performance, I'm sure that if the UN actually did something constructive and helpful for world peace, the expletive in question would be an amazed, "Damn!"  I have scanned a number of news reports and opinion pieces, left and right, commenting on this incident.  Michelle Malkin simply says that sometimes an expletive is justified.  While that may be true, in this context, it's beside the point.  On the left side of the dial, Liberals are shocked shocked that Bush said a naughty word, that his view of the world is so shallow that he can boil down this incredibly complex situation to a phrase that includes the word [poopy.]  But do they disagree with the substance of what he said?  Yes, for a number of reasons but we'll just look at the top two.  First, to have the temerity to hold anyone accountable for doing the right thing is anathema to the Left.  In one short phrase Bush blamed Syria for supporting the belligerent, and the UN for not exercising its power and influence to stop them.  But you say, doesn't the Left want peace?  No, especially not now.  If the UN/Kofi really did step in and tell "Bashad" to stop this shit, they would be simultaneously doing the principled thing, doing their job and supporting George Bush, the trifecta of Leftist Cardinal Sins.  This last, supporting George Bush, is what the American Left and all of the world's corrupt bureaucrats, tyrrants, despots, dictators and duly elected socialist governments, do not want to do under any circumstances.  If arming terrorists hurts George Bush (and America) great; if innocents die, if Hezbollah commits war crimes, if Iran goes ballistic, and this hurts George Bush (and America), excellent.  If, as an added bonus, the Jews are exterminated, so much the better.

Apart from all of this, does anyone besides me think that it's rich to a hypocritical fare-thee-well that Democrats and the Leftist are upset about how it looks for the President to use the word "shit"?  I've read transcripts of John "Effing" Kerry's campaign events and planning and it's all f*ck all the time and frankly, the entire left half of the country practically had a collective climax when he said "f*ck" in an interview with Rolling Stone.  Reading liberal blogs is like wading through a sewer.  And please, someone speak up and tell me who on the Left was troubled by the revelation that Yasser Arafat was cooling his heals in the Rose Garden while Bill Clinton was exploiting a woman in the Oval Office (I don't care if she did consent to become a human humidor.)   Oh, I'm sorry, it's not the same thing at all: his mouth wasn't full. 

Here's the transcript, from Adam Boulton's Weblog (SkyNews):

Bush: Yo Blair How are you doing?
Blair: I'm just...
Bush: You're leaving?
Blair: No, no, no not yet. On this trade thingy...[inaudible]
Bush: yeah I told that to the man
Blair: Are you planning to say that here or not?
Bush: If you want me to
Blair: Well, it's just that if the discussion arises...
Bush: I just want some movement.
Blair: Yeah
Bush: Yesterday we didn't see much movement
Blair: No, no, it may be that it's not, it maybe that it's impossible
Bush: I am prepared to say it
Blair: But it's just I think what we need to be an opposition
Bush: Who is introducing the trade
Blair: Angela
Bush: Tell her to call 'em
Blair: Yes
Bush: Tell her to put him on them on the spot.Thanks for the sweaters it's awfully thoughtful of you
Blair: It's a pleasure
Bush: I know you picked it out yourself
Blair: Oh, absoultely, in fact I knitted it myself
BUSH: "Right . . . What about Kofi? That seems odd. I don't like the sequence of it. His attitude is basically ceasefire and everything else happens."

BLAIR: "I think the thing that is really difficult is you can't stop this unless you get this international presence agreed." . . .
Bush: Yeah
Blair: I don't know what you guys have talked about but as I say I am perfectly happy to try and see what the lie of the land is but you need that done quickly because otherwise it will spiral
Bush: I think Condi is going to go pretty soon
Blair: But that's that's that's all that matters. But if you, you see it will take some time to get that together
Bush: Yeah, yeah
Blair: But at least it gives people...
Bush: It's a process, I agree. I told her your offer to...
Blair: Well...it's only if I mean... you know. If she's got a..., or if she needs the ground prepared as it were... Because obviously if she goes out, she's got to succeed, if it were, whereas I can go out and just talk
Bush: You see, the ... thing is what they need to do is to get Syria, to get Hezbollah to stop doing this shit and it's over
Blair: [inaudible]
Bush: [inaudible]
Blair: Syria
Bush: Why?
Blair: Because I think this is all part of the same thing
Bush: Yeah.
Blair: What does he think? He thinks if Lebanon turns out fine, if we get a solution in Israel and Palestine, Iraq goes in the right way...
Bush: Yeah, yeah, he is sweet
Blair: He is honey. And that's what the whole thing is about. It's the same with Iraq
Bush: I felt like telling Kofi to call, to get on the phone to Bashad [Bashir Assad] and make something happen
Blair: Yeah
Bush: [inaudible]
Blair:
Bush: We are not blaming the Lebanese government
Blair: Is this...? (at this point Blair taps the microphone in front of him and the sound is cut.)