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Bush Pere Mocks the Dignity of Women in Public

Papa Bush ., No. 42, Unleashes Sick, Sexist Joke Against Women on TV...and doesn't seem to care that he offended half of humanity!

by staff writer

WASHINGTON (RushPRnews) 01/29/09 -- Is nothing sacred anymore? Is all the world a comedy stage? Has George Herbert Walker Bush lost his marbles? This is not a humor column. This is news that most print media do not want to discuss or air in public. But long live the blogosphere, where the truth often surfaces in broad daylight now, long before the MSM will touch it.

It is a sad day in America when a former president of the USA, George H.W. Bush, Number 42, uses his time at a national convention to mock the dignity of women. A video clip of the anti-female sick joke told in public by the sadly out-of-it former president Bush, not the last one, but his father, was appalling, and it just goes to show how pathetic some American leaders have become.

And all the while that Bush was telling this unfunny, sexist, appalling "joke", both former presidents Carter and Clinton were also shown smiling and chuckling over it. O America, I cry for thee!

Readers might think I am making this up, but I am not. Listen to the Larry King transcript here, http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0901/27/lkl.01.html
and read it yourself online if you don't believe me.

Here is the video segment, too.
http://www.feministing.com/archives/013408.html

LARRY KING: "And there was a forum today. The former president of the United States, George H.W. Bush, and the former president of the United States, Bill Clinton, was there.
Interesting things occurred."

GEORGE H.W. BUSH: "One time we thought we'd outsmarted the crowd. We sent a decoy limousine off in one direction while I snuck out in the back entrance. And as we rounded the corner -- I'll never forget it -- I saw one of the ugliest and angriest women I have ever seen in my entire life. Boy, she was really mad. And she charged my car with a sign. God, I don't see why the Secret Service let her up that close -- right next to the window: "Stay out of my womb!"......No problem, lady."

This is a joke that Larry King thought was funny? This was a joke that Bush Pere thought was funny? This was a joke that even liberal Bill Clinton thought was funny?

Well, no sooner had the segment aired on global TV networks, than the reactions set in.

"Bush Senior grew up in a home with a father so what's his excuse for telling a tasteless joke with a woman's appearance as the punchline?
Bush and Clinton weren't sitting in front of a TV with only each other for company, they were speakers at a national business convention," said Heidi Moyer in a blog comment online. "Two former presidents bonding over trashing a woman at a conference of auto executives is pathetic."

"I really hope Hillary Clinton has some 'ugly, angry' comments to make to Bill Clinton over his misplaced awe in front of Bush Senior," said another woman online.

Another blogger opined: "There it is -- the threat present in so many jokes and criticisms of politically minded women -- that if you speak out, then men won't want you. I wish I could laugh at that and write it off as silly, but I've seen too many women give into that fear. Just think of the women who refuse to identify with feminism or seem to hate it without knowing why, and for what reason? Because they are scared that men won't like them. Or what about the woman who laughs at sexist jokes rather than objecting?

If she objects, she becomes shrill and unfeminine in the eyes of some men, so it is better to just play along. I would like to see this as one unenlightened man's ridiculous story, but the fear of losing desirability that it invokes is too potent, and we witness the chilling effect it has on women all the time. It is a reminder of the fact that despite how far we've come, women are still expected to make attracting men our number one priority."

The blogosphere is now lit up with hundreds of blogs disucssing this incident, in which a former American president belittled his former office and legacy by stooping to such a belittling, sexist, monstrous joke -- and in public! There is a sickness in American society today, and former President Bush has shown his true colors in this very unfortunate incident.

What's your take on this Bush "joke"? Are women's wombs really so ugly as to deserve such juvenile banter from a world leader?

What would Putin say? Probably worse. Go figure.

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