OMG! Bush gives little fish to Barney to torture

[soleft]

Did you catch the Daily Show's Moment of Zen? Bush was on a fishing show taking a small fish, the kind you have to throw back because it's illegal to catch them, off a hook and said, "I always like to give the little ones to Barney"

At which point he dropped the fish on the floor and let Barney go to town.

[fofer]

1. Yes!

My husband and I were horrified! I don't fish, but isn't that mean?

[LittleApple81]

2. I WAS GOING TO POST THIS!!! Could not believe it. He was proud of

it. I know where the torture came from. From this creep's brain!

[proud patriot]

3. Bad Form and poor sportsmanship

Boooooooooooooooooo !

[July]

59. Speaking of poor sportsmanship . . .

check out one of the following to see a photo from a Yale yearbook showing Bush suckerpunching another player during a rugby game.

www.thismodernworld.com

www.dailykos.com

www.atrios.blogspot.com

Atrios has a link to a column that points out that Bush lied about playing on a varsity rugby team while at Yale (apparently, there is and was no varsity team), as well.

[LibLabUK]

67. Bush a Rugger-bugger??

That photo also shows Bush performing an illegal high tackle. You can't grab anyone round the neck like that in Rugby.

[jdj]

4. Why am I not surprised?

I'm assuming Barney is a dog and not a purple dinosaur.


People should know that catch and release is not all that great shakes, in that about 50% of the fish are mortally wounded during the "catching" and die a slow painful death once they are thrown back in.

[soleft]

6. Did you ever watch a cat "playing" with a fly

It was kind of like that. The host of the show said, what is he going to do, eat him? Bush says, no He just plays with 'em. Yeah, the fish is having such a good time.

[starroute]

30. Yeah, my cat was actually torturing a cicada during The Daily Show

We kept hearing it screaming out on the porch -- breep! breep! breep! -- and the cat chuckling malevolently -- mrowp! mrowp!

After the Moment of Zen, I asked my son, "Are we just as bad as Bush for letting our cat torture the cicada?" "No," he said, "cats do that naturally on their own. Bush had to give Barney the fish and incide him to go after it."

I'm not sure he was right about that, but it gives me something to consider.

[Yogi]

11. With Barney it's 100% sure thing dead. n/t

[seabeyond]

5. yes, didnt know if i saw right

that is horrible just a big eeew.

[LittleApple81]

8. But he was proud of it!!!! He is SICK in the brain!!!! He is a creep!!!!

He likes to torture living things.... OMG....

[Lefty48197]

7. All smart dog owning fishermen know that you NEVER

let your dog near a fish. Bush would have known that if he weren't a pretend fisherman.

[proud patriot]

23. That's right ..

Bad for Barney too ..

[Stephanie]

9. He's a psychopath

It's well-established.

[Octafish]

54. Kurt Vonnegut pegged him: "Psychopathic Personality."

The Little Turd from Crawford kills innocent people -- tens of thousands of innocent people -- and it doesn't bother him. He's sick, all right. Probably started when he was a kid shooting frogs with BB-guns and blowing them up with M-80s. A frog, a fish, a child: what's the difference to a psycho?

Kurt Vonnegut vs. the !*!@

EXCERPT...

BLYFUSS: My feeling from talking to readers and friends is that many people are beginning to despair. Do you think that we’ve lost reason to hope?

VONNEGUT: I myself feel that our country, for whose Constitution I fought in a just war, might as well have been invaded by Martians and body snatchers. Sometimes I wish it had been. What has happened, though, is that it has been taken over by means of the sleaziest, low-comedy, Keystone Cops-style coup d’etat imaginable. And those now in charge of the federal government are upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography, plus not-so-closeted white supremacists, aka “Christians,” and plus, most frighteningly, psychopathic personalities, or “PPs.”

To say somebody is a PP is to make a perfectly respectable medical diagnosis, like saying he or she has appendicitis or athlete’s foot. The classic medical text on PPs is The Mask of Sanity by Dr. Hervey Cleckley. Read it! PPs are presentable, they know full well the suffering their actions may cause others, but they do not care. They cannot care because they are nuts. They have a screw loose!

And what syndrome better describes so many executives at Enron and WorldCom and on and on, who have enriched themselves while ruining their employees and investors and country, and who still feel as pure as the driven snow, no matter what anybody may say to or about them? And so many of these heartless PPs now hold big jobs in our federal government, as though they were leaders instead of sick.

What has allowed so many PPs to rise so high in corporations, and now in government, is that they are so decisive. Unlike normal people, they are never filled with doubts, for the simple reason that they cannot care what happens next. Simply can’t. Do this! Do that! Mobilize the reserves! Privatize the public schools! Attack Iraq! Cut health care! Tap everybody’s telephone! Cut taxes on the rich! Build a trillion-dollar missile shield! Fuck habeas corpus and the Sierra Club and In These Times, and kiss my ass!

CONTINUED...

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[neebob]

10. I always like to give sociopaths to great white sharks.

[El Supremo]

12. I could give a flying Cheney!

It is just a fish. And dogs and cats love fish. Shit, haven't any of you ever gone fishing with your dog or cat????

[seabeyond]

15. nah el supremo

just doesnt float my boat to be ugly to any living thing. watching anything suffer even a silly fish. i nursed a stupid ass fish in our fish tank for a month til it got big enough to survive on its own. i didnt want to. didnt want to waste my time. but hell, not into just seeing something suffer..........go figure. even just a dumb ole fish

[kestrel91316]

16. Senseless cruelty is not becoming in the POTUS, doofus. n/t

[jdj]

27. Just a ___________

woman/blackperson/jewishperson.

justa justa justa.

That's always a useful lead in.

Cheney shot 486 pheasants, out of 500. But they were just pheasants.

[Swamp Rat]

34. What would Jesus do El Supremo?

Would he give a live fish to a house pet to torture. Would Jesus chuckle as the dog bit into the helpless fish's lungs? Would Simon go along with the gag as well? "Ha ha! Fuck me with a pineapple Jesus! Look at your dog chew that little bastard up!"

[skygazer]

70. Sure

And I know that fish bones, like chicken bones, are NOT good for a dog to have. Especially Bush's dog - he's probably seen how his "Daddy" eats pretzels - shit, he'd choke in a New York minute. Boy, wouldn't that be funny, Dubya?

No, cruelty for cruelty's sake is neither sport nor entertainment. Do you go to dogfights too?

[NYC]

13. That truly says something about him.

[TiredTexan]

14. He didn't just give it to Barney

he was laughing in that mean weird way he has. I was horrified. But my mom and son both said, "it's just a fish," so I thought I was just overreacting.

I just don't understand gratuitous cruelty. I can understand people eating meat, but not torturing it first for entertainment.

Aside from the fact that he's supposed to throw the fish back because it's illegal. He's above the law.

[seabeyond]

17. my husband fishes and hunts

and he wasnt impressed with what he saw, even if it is just a fish. that is what it is using the cruelty for entertainment, that is the bad

[FizzFuzz]

62. weird laughter: "and so she said, 'please don't kill me, Gov. Bush' " HAW

HAW...*zap*

psychopath.

[gratuitous]

63. Lemme 'splain it for you

Only gratuitous brand cruelty gives you a full feeling of schadenfreude without filling you up. Why, after indulging in genuine gratuitous cruelty, you're ready for some more. Anytime. Anywhere. You might even be ready for some gratuitous sarcasm. Insist on gratuitous brand cruelty by name, and if your local grocer tries to palm an inferior product off on you, kick him square in the nads.

Your friendly neighborhood
gratuitous

P.S. All that being said, what Stupidhead did was just plain sick.

[truth2power]

66. You're right, it's gratuitous cruelty.

That's why I can't understand Supremo's remark. It's not "justa".

Gak... :puke:

[BeHereNow]

18. PERRRFECT metaphor...

For how he sees you and me.
The "little ones," disposable.
Our lives without value, caught
on the hook of the corporations.
Tossed to the violent jaws of the rabid neocon dogs.
BHN

[spooked]

21. yes, that's a great metaphor

and now I can't help but wonder if he doesn't get a kick at the thought of innocent Iraqis suffering too

[pinto]

19. somewhere, somehow, it's always three am in the bush brain...n/t

[Warren DeMontague]

20. He tortured frogs as a kid.. Blew em up with firecrackers.

Sounds slightly sociopathic, to me.. At the very least we have Beavis and Butthead in the Oval Office.

[oasis]

26. Evil little bastard.

[Bluebear]

22. Wow, he's a sadistic one ain't he?

[Gregorian]

24. And he blew up frogs. And he shot his brothers

with a bb gun. And he punched rugby players in the face. And he electrocuted retarded people. And he invaded countries just to steal their oil. And he stole the treasury. And he's now going to check to see if we are all mentally acceptable.

People. We have a lot to lose if this guy sticks around too much longer.

[proud patriot]

28. and don't forget the "Branding" he did in College and likened it to a

Ciggarette burn ..."harmless prank"

:puke:

[juajen]

32. I haven't heard this one

What branding?

[JHB]

53. Part of frat or Skull & Bones initiation...

...getting (and giving) brands (like for cattle) using a hot wire coat hanger.

[Osama_Bin_Winnin]

25. I don't worry to much about the feelings of fish or frogs

but shouldn't the President of The US have a clue about how he should act on camera.

[Warren DeMontague]

29. I think killing anything for a cheap laugh is disturbing behavior

particularly for an adult. But, this is the guy who pumped his fist in the air and said "Feels Good!" when the "shock and awe" bombs started falling on baghdad. Whether or not one thinks this war, or any war, is and was a "good" idea, I have to hope that the moment at which a president is committing our troops, and knows he is taking the lives of other people, would be cause for a little solemn reflection... Certainly not time to run around the room grunting like a gibbon and high-fiving your fraternity buddies. I think his disrespect for living things is apparent in many of his actions, not just this one.

[NightOwwl]

36. And keeps Saddam's gun as a trophy.

Never mind that over 900 of our soldiers and tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians are dead. Means nothing to him. It was all about getting one over on daddy.

A suffering fish isn't even a blip on whatever brain he has left.

[RebelOne]

50. You don't worry too much about the feelings

of fish or frogs? Well, your screen name certainly fits you, Osama.

[thedecline]

31. That's really sick

Doesn't really surprise me coming from W, though.

To everyone saying "It's just a fish!": It still suffered. Come on, don't just limit your concerns over suffering to human beings, any time any living, breathing creature suffers it's tragic.

[BeHereNow]

33. A SOCIOPATH...claiming Christianity.

Guess only corporate thug children of creation are the only
lives GAWD values.
To hell with fish, Iraqis and you and me.
BHN

[newyawker99]

51. Hi thedecline!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[thedecline]

71. Thank you!

:)

[FizzFuzz]

65. from a psychopath I once dated, on the injury he caused to my dog:

"its just a dog."

Thank god I went with my gut feelings and refused to let him "take care" of my pets when I had to go out of town. He did beg though; never saw him so fired up to "help" on any other situation......wonder what his plans were for my babies?

ugh, gives me the creeps just thinking about that dark period in my life. Just like I've had the creeps about this so-called president from day one.

The bummer about psychos is that they LOOK just like normal people, even have the endearing behaviours studied and ready for display. Where are the tentacles???
There are supposed to be TENTACLES!!!

[mediaman007]

35. What would Christ do?

He'd multiply the fish to feed the poor.

(I think that it shows that this guy is very shallow. He's not feeling anyone else's pain. He doesn't respect nature. I can't believe that this is the best that Republicans can come up with.)

[NickB79]

37. Isn't it illegal to do that?

I was under the impression that there are laws now requiring you to throw back anything below a certain limit, unless that only applies to specific species.

[Kool Kitty]

39. I'd like to throw HIM back.

Sadistic bastard. Cold, cold man.

[wabeewoman]

38. I felt the same way...

Its killing for killings sake that bothered me and that he thought it was funny. The "man" has no empathy for any living creature and is so narcissistic. BTW, the torturing of animals when a child is one of the characteristics of serial killers.

[MisterP]

40. why am I not surprised?

[JSJ]

41. teach a Boosh to fish...

...and he'll have hours of sadistic fun.

[merh]

42. GWB: Give me a fish, I will eat for a day ....

Teach me to fish and I will catch one and give it to Barney to torture!

:cry:

[Scar]

43. Yes, unfortunately, I saw that.

I can't believe Bush thinks it's funny to torture a fish like that. It just shows his evil side and his non-caring attitude about animals.

[newyawker99]

52. Hi Scar!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[daleo]

44. Besides the gratuitous cruelty, it shows oddly poor judgment

I mean, what kind of politician would want to be known for torturing fish. Or, endangering his dog for that matter (I can't think this is a very good thing for the dog who might choke if he tried to swallow the fish). Also, Bush claims to be a Christian, and the fish is an important symbol to serious Christians, so you would expect him to be conscious of that fact.

Very odd behavior on many counts. He is a strangely insensitive man, or chimp, as the case may be. Although I suspect an actual chimp might show more sensitivity.

[kskiska]

45. I remember the outcry when LBJ lifted his Beagles by their ears

Their names were Him and Her. He thought it was great fun to pull them up by their ears.

[goclark]

46. Barney ..Hope Is On The Way!

I am so upset about Barney!
I had a thread here about a week ago with pictures of all the mean things that have been done to Barney.
I have reported the Chimp's Barney Abuse to the ASPCA. As of this moment I have not received a reply(perhaps they are Rethugs.)

If anyone knows a way to get this to the attention of the Media Barney would be so happy.

He truly hates his owners,

Thanks for anything that you can do.

[goclark]

47. Does anyone have a link- poor Barney

There are so many people, Repubs and Democrats, that love dogs.
Everyone needs to know how mean Bush is to animals.
Please help Barney escape and find a nice owner.

[allalone]

48. this guy is a sociopath

I couldn't believe my eyes. oh boy what fun, watching a dog torture a fish. what live animals do you think he and Barney torture at home alone. He has all the earmarks of a serial killer. I call them bush and his death cult.

[Borgnine]

49. Compare his actions...

...to that of Kerry giving the hamster CPR.

God, is it JANUARY yet? I can't take much more of this.

[democrank]

55. What did he do after the fish sideshow?

Blow up a few frogs? The guy is a freak.

[Tracer]

56. I loathe SmirkBoy as much as anyone here, but he said ...

... that he gave the fish to Barney to "lick" Ñ not to "torture".

I've never met a dog who would eat a freshly caught fish.

[soleft]

60. That was earlier in the show when he said "Lick"

At the end of the show he threw the fish to Barney who pounced on it as it flopped on the deck.

[KoKo]

61. To "lick?" Licking a fish is not torture?

:eyes:

[Neecy]

57. damn

I missed TDS last night - I'll have to catch the repeat today.

It would never occur to me to give a live fish to my dog to torture. I mean, that's sick (and certainly not good for the dog, either).

The media whores keep whining about TDS, but who else is showing this clip? It speaks volumes about his sociopathic, dangerous personality.

[Batgirl]

58. something just ain't right about that boy

Psychopaths don't experience many of what are considered human emotions, such as compassion and concern. They mimic others, learning when it's appropriate to portray these feelings, in order to appear human. The fish incident shows that GW doesn't really "feel" compassion, but he also doesn't have a good ear for how to fake it. And doesn't always know when it's appropriate to at least pretend. His careless gesture with the fish shows that, in advanced middle age, he has a certain adolescent mentality, of the kind that takes a dim pleasure in the meaningless suffering of helpless creatures. He enjoys the feeling of having these creatures in his power and deciding their fate. When he threw the fish down to be mauled by his dog, he had the same self awareness of a toddler pulling the ears of a kitten. The difference being that the baby will eventually grow up.

[SammyWinstonJack]

68. I wonder what Dr. Phil would have to say about this?

Didn't * participate in an interview for the Dr. Phil show? Was it before this taped fishing segment? ?* is a sicko! How old is this guy anyway?

[frank frankly]

64. that says so much about President Fubar.

he is completely awful.

[Marymarg]

69. And you are surprised?

This is the same boy who used to blow up frogs for fun.

Someone needs to tie that dead fish around his neck and read "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" to him.

[allalone]

72. the green river killer

here in WA. said he didn't know why people were so upset. It was just a few girls.

[TiredTexan]

73. "I know that the human being and the fish can coexist"

Bush's previous statement regarding fish seems to be in direct contravention of his actions.

Fish don't coexist around Bush and his gratuitous cruelty.