Bush Seeks Edge Swapping Fish Tales - Democratic Underground

Nambe

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Sun Aug-08-04 02:06 PM
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Bush Seeks Edge Swapping Fish Tales

AP Television Writer

Roland Martin reeled in a big one for his weekly fishing show on the Outdoor Life Network.

Baiting a hook beside him on a dock in Crawford, Texas, was President Bush, whose leisurely afternoon casting for bass was chronicled for "Fishing with Roland Martin" in an episode that first aired on Friday. (It re-airs Wednesday and Thursday at 6:30 p.m. EDT.) ..

That's another advantage of these appearances. People at the network graced with a president's presence are usually so star-struck, or grateful that he's there, that there's nothing approaching a tough question. ..

.. Would you rather go on television and discuss your technique and strategy for hooking a bigmouth bass," he said, "or would you rather go and discuss your strategy for getting the soldiers out of Iraq?"

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Journeyman

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Sun Aug-08-04 02:11 PM
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1. "It's not that all fishermen are liars. . .

it's just that a lot of liars fish." --Anonymous

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Fridays Child

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Sun Aug-08-04 02:26 PM
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2. Last night, I dreamed that Kerry was in a classical piano competition.

He played the first and second movements of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata perfectly. Everyone was impressed, but I doubt there were any bass fishermen or Nascar fans in the audience.

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iconoclastic cat

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Sun Aug-08-04 02:51 PM
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5. Beethoven has much more nuance than, say, Kidd Rock.

Hence their lack of attendance.

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MaineDem

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Sun Aug-08-04 02:35 PM
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3. Don't forget the discussion when this was being filmed

It ws a bloody time in Iraq and he was off fishing for tv!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=478221

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alarimer

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Sun Aug-08-04 02:38 PM
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4. I saw a t-shirt once

tha said "fishing...a jerk on one end and a jerk on the other"

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Momof1

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Sun Aug-08-04 03:13 PM
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6. Doesn't it matter to fisherman that you can't eat that many fish

anymore because of the mercury???

I thought that would piss them off, considering how nice * has been to the polluters. Why bother to go fishing if you can't eat them???

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louis-t

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Sun Aug-08-04 03:36 PM
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7. Don't you know????

* kills for sport. Whether it's fish or people.

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