BUSHCO RALLY GOES AWRY -- CONFETTI CANNON

[RummyTheDummy]

From Drudge. Fucking hilarious.

BUSH EVENT IN NEW HAMPSHIRE: Event workers had been told to fire off confetti pods when Bush said, 'God Bless'... his normal closing line. But 5 minutes before the end of his speech, Bush offered a "God Bless" to Arlene Howard, mother of George Howard a Port Authority of New York/New Jersey Police Officer killed in the World Trade Center... BLAM!!!!! Everyone first ducked -- hard -- then looked up to see confetti falling. Bush looked momentarily stunned, then plain unhappy, then just went on with his speech as the confetti rained to the floor of the Verizon Wireless Arena... Developing...

[mmonk]

1. heh, heh

[michigandem2]

2. is THIS really a story>??? how important is this?

[Stuckinthebush]

4. It underscores how the campaign is falling apart

and it will be great fodder for Jon Stewart!

[montana500]

5. melissa, melissa melissa ( in my best Cartman voice)

...it's about imagery and irony. It's an eloquent example of what is happening to his campaign.

[RummyTheDummy]

6. Who said it was a story?

I said it was funny...and it is. For all the shit about the baloon drop, the irony is juicy.

[michigandem2]

23. OH I AGREE its damn funny!

but is this like getting a lot of play..see I am a lowly cube rat wondering if this is all over the place..and I agree..it fits with the end of this administration..I LOVE IT>...I really do...just wondering if the news was mentioning this

[Stephanie]

8. Humiliating George Bush, on camera?

Huge. Priceless.

We can hit high and low at the same time. No reason to hold our fire on anything.

[Mountainman]

9. It is a metaphor for his whole campaign

[Lex]

25. Or as Zell Miller says "a metafer."

n/t

[peppersnick]

41. holy hell.. why did this guy have to be from my state...

[eaprez]

10. As Important as....

...the balloon story was after the Dem Convention!

[Hawkeye-X]

3. That should be nominated as part of the top 10 idiots.

[displacedtexan]

7. This trumps the DNC Convention Balloon Drop Mishap...

by a mile.

The closer to Nov. 2nd that this shit happens, the better!

[AP]

11. "ducked hard": After Bush tried to scare them into voting for Republicans,

they got freaked out by a confetti canon?

That's perfect.

[priapis]

12. Congratulations Chimpy, You Said The Secret Word

"god bless you" was the signal to launch the confetti.

"mr president, don't say god bless you until you're ready to end your speech"

"OK"

"oops!"

[priapis]

18. you said the secret word, you win the confetti

[RevCheesehead]

31. Just God's way of bowing out of the campaign!!!

And another reason to say "Gesundheit" instead!

[Joefess]

13. LOL

Please someone find this video.

[bleedingheart]

14. There are so many analogies......all smutty that I can think of..

[flobee1kenobi]

16. anyone with a video link?

Just the thought of seeing chimpy duck at the sight of confetti has me rolling on the floor!
rotfl!!

[apnu]

32. picture here

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/041029/480/nhpm10210291603

Caption:
President Bush pauses as confetti falls from the ceiling before the end of his speech at a campaign rally at Verizon Wireless Arena Friday, Oct. 29, 2004 in Manchester, N.H. The confetti exploded prematurely. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

[shelley806]

36. Heh-Heh! Too bad it was only a confetti bomb!

I wish some of the Iraqi families of the 100,000 dead civilians had their hands on a real bomb for pay-back.

[gatorboy]

47. Man! Looks like he's greyed quite a bit over the past week!

N/T

[batchdem04]

15. Someone find the video! Or upload one! (eom)

[kentuck]

17. Mission Accomplished !

Again ! :)

[DrFunkenstein]

19. I Hate When My Confetti Goes Off Prematurely

I love that Idiot King went on with his speech - completely unable to adapt to changing circumstances. He's so resolute...and dreamy.

[0007]

20. Wouldn't it had been something if John McCain came shooting

out of the canon?


[Mad_Dem_X]

24. LMAO at that imagery!

:evilgrin:

[fishwax]

39. that's hilarious

:D:D

though the picture is still disturbing :scared:

[PretzelWarrior]

21. reminds me of the Frasier episode....Niles' wedding. F*ing hilarious

these guys were supposed to fire off a cannon when Frasier said a particular phrase...he ended up saying it early. BLAMMMM!! all hell breaks loose.

This is really funny stuff.

[twenty2strings]

22. where is the video link? i missed it.

[apnu]

33. don't have video, but here's a picture

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/041029/480/nhpm10210291603

Caption:
President Bush pauses as confetti falls from the ceiling before the end of his speech at a campaign rally at Verizon Wireless Arena Friday, Oct. 29, 2004 in Manchester, N.H. The confetti exploded prematurely. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

[newyawker99]

46. Hi twentystrings!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Lex]

26. Even the confetti hates Bush.

LOL!

[NightOwwl]

27. Anyone have a video link?

Somehow I doubt they will be showing this on Faux.

[qanda]

28. The thing that gets me about this (and I saw it on CNN)

Is that he spent all this time talking about how safe they were with him in charge and they all end up being scared by confetti.

[yardwork]

42. They can't even handle confetti explosives!

[Philostopher]

29. Wonder if they hired the guys who used to do

the multipurpose cannons on Letterman. I remember it was back in the '80s, he used to shoot all kinds of stuff out of cannons they had behind the desk. That's the first thing I thought of, when I saw this story -- Letterman's cannons.

[apnu]

30. Talk about premature ejuactulation...

:silly:

[Renew Deal]

34. lol

classic

[eriffle]

35. just shows

how freepers like to commemorate anything doing with 9/11 by blowing shit up.
:nuke:

[Insomnicole]

37. Why does the confetti hate America?

I think I've been laughing for five minutes straight over this. Great stuff!

[Goldmund]

38. WHILE HE WAS TALKING ABOUT THE 9/11 DEAD

HAHAHAHAHAHA

[peppersnick]

40. I've got a theory... Chimpy knows he's gonna lose so he has an incident

like this so when he loses... he'll have a commercial spot for Viagra or he can take Dole's place!

[npincus]

43. exploiting 9/11 creates bad Karma

[jsw_81]

44. ROFLMAO

His campaign is starting to collapse.

[Contrary1]

45. Make sure you

go to Yahoo and rate this latest scowl...we need to keep it at the top of the heap for a while.