Thursday, June 15, 2006
CAN'T SEE THE JOKE
Jokey George blunders badly:
The president was in a jovial mood during his Rose Garden press conference Wednesday, joshing with reporters, excited to aggressively defend the Iraq war in the midterm elections, optimistic about his recent trip to Baghdad.
Then he was told a reporter he playfully teased about wearing sunglasses during the press conference has a serious vision problem and is legally blind.
Oops. Bush later apologised, which is all you can do in these circumstances. The Prez will now be able to swap blind-embarrassment stories with Ewan Campbell:
The Sydney comedian once bounded on to the set of The Midday Show tossing Minties into the crowd, only to see the solid little sweets smack audience members hard in the face. “They didn’t even try to catch them,” the puzzled comic complained, until a producer explained that the Mintie victims were guests from a local association for the blind.
Now is the time to reveal your own tales of shamefully inappropriate and ill-timed comments and/or actions. Confess!