NO APPLAUSE for Bush WHATSOEVER!!!.......UNBELIEVABLE!

[glarius]

He has been talking for a long time and not one smattering of applause!....This is unprecedented, I would think!

[TheDebbieDee]

1. Has the camera panned around??????????

Is there anybody in the area other than W?

[glarius]

2. Yes they showed all the major counties, including Russia, which

Bush mentioned in his speech.....

[Ripley]

3. I'd like to know too..

In another thread someone said Germany and France were going to boycott his speech. Wouldn't that be hifuckinglarious if no one was there???

Desperate little twerp. THEY HATE YOU.

[Owlet]

6. CSPAN panned around occasionally

Delegates looking grumpy - many with arms folded. Don't forget, * is used to these canned campaign events where you have to sign a loyalty oath to get it. Must be quite a shock for the little weasel to be in front of a real audience.

Sorry..didn't mean to defame the members of the genus weasel..

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

10. Good point...

They probably taped the speech at 3:00 a.m. when nobody was there. If the camera panned to the room, all we'd see is a janitor pushing a broom. If there was an actual audience, they'd *all* be pounding their shoes on the desks.

[Bobbie47]

4. Yes, but

I thought at times he seemed to be waiting for the applause..

[glarius]

11. I agree...he waited for applause a couple of times to no avail....Hahahah

He is so hated it's almost palpable!

[Minstrel Boy]

20. Absolutely. There were "applause pauses"

and there was nothing forthcoming.

[thecrow]

14. Nah.... that was just his pause

to hear the next phrase coming in over his earphones.

[BurtWorm]

15. What did he say that he might have thought was worthy of applause?

:wtf:

[TahitiNut]

5. And the shortest I've heard after he was done.

They have this asshole's number.

[dave123williams]

7. Has anybody just walked out on him?

[Pallas180]

8. End of speech - there was a lot of applause - polite fools

[Larkspur]

12. Maybe they were glad * had finished his speech and would leave

the UN? :shrug:

[leftchick]

13. That is my all time Favorite photo!

I have it as wallpaper on my puter.... :)

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

24. "Polite" -- yes. "A lot of" -- no

clap clap clap clap clap "Where're we going to go for lunch?"

[Kid_A]

9. This reminds me of an old SNL skit.

Tim Meadows was playing Alan Keyes, and he had a tape player to play applause since there was no audience. It was pretty funny, especially when the janitor had to ask him to leave so he could clean up.

Maybe Bush just forgot the batteries...

[BeyondGeography]

16. They all had one thing on their minds

[Kierkegaard]

17. This is a surprise?

Leaders from around the globe hate this bastard with a passion. They aren't going to show him any respect at all. Who can blame them? I have no respect for him either.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

18. sadly right wingers like this stuff

it makes them feel more moral to be hated....as in ...if france hates us obviously we are doing something right...righteous indignation is a strange thing.

[fob]

19. I believe it's UN protocol to NOT clap or interrupt a speech but to

clap/applause at the end only. It does sound from the descriptions that bush* still read his speech with applause lines forgetting they don't do that.

I was hoping bush* was at a campaign stop getting no applause, but this isn't a big deal unfortunately.

However the poster that said it was the lightest/shortest they've heard is encouraging!

[Rose Siding]

21. I question that, but just based on my own recollection

I seem to remember applause during UN speeches.

[Minstrel Boy]

26. I'm sure I remember Bush receiving smatterings of polite applause

last year.

[fob]

29. Oh, I'm not saying it's adhered to 100%, but I wouldn't count a lack

of applause at the UN as a *big* deal. I hoped he would have actually been booed, but I didn't expect it.

[tom_paine]

22. Well, had Hitler or Stalin addressed the League of Nations

the result would have been the same.

Tyrants are simply not well-liked, even by other Tyrants.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

23. What is the sound of

one hand clapping... cuz that is what he heard... what a sweet sound it was.....

What was the sound of one man flapping... accusing others of doing exactly what he has done.....

what is the sound of smart bombs dropping... a noise that drowns out sane thought and reasonable hope.....

what is the sound of the whole world thinking.... that YOU have created a deadly and ridiculous quagmire, have ignored your own military leaders... snubbed our allies, ignored the best advice from some of the brightest people we have... yes you and you alone have done the unthinkable, you have followed your own folly into the desertland of tomorrow.

Where you go from here is a fools best guess.

[Tsiyu]

25. And as I sit here I wonder

if his idea of "democratic reform" ( cough* sputter* Choke.....) all over the globe will be brought to the United States one day.

Seriously, some of you photo-shop Kings and Queens should dissect the speech and place each freaking bold-faced lie next to a picture of America committing the atrocities he claims to abhor.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

27. America committing the atrocities he claims to abhor.<<

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[Catherine Vincent]

28. They don't respect him.

Remember whenever Clinton would speak to the UN? Applause throughout his speech and standing ovations.