LAT: No Joke, Twins' Act Needs Work

The Bush daughters, fresh from their booing this week at the MTV Video Music Awards in Miami, came onstage at the Republican National Convention on Tuesday night and introduced a new strategy in the war on terrorism: giggling.

They were there to introduce their father, President Bush, who appeared via satellite from Pennsylvania, where he stood in front of a softball game and introduced First Lady Laura Bush.

But there were hiccups along the way to the first lady's entrance, courtesy of her 22-year-old twin daughters, who carry themselves with an implied raunch.

(snip)

The Republicans, you were reminded, are really good at chest-thumping and flag-hugging, but they ought to stay away from showcasing their privileged, Prada-wearing first daughters until the campaign is over. After the speeches were over, even CNN's talking heads seemed to be struggling to make sense of the sisters' sister act. Judy Woodruff stammered, "I'm not sure what that was about" while an incensed Jeff Greenfield called the appearance a "frankly discordant moment."

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Great article!

I wasn't aware of Woodruff making a critical comment, and I'm surprised I didn't see any pigs flying by the window when she made it!

be.

We can win this election if we can get across how uncool the repubslicans are.

They fucking suck, in everyway, from their "stars" to their policy. They are the definition of square and hollow and people want more.

Glad to hear the Bush twins were such a joke.

OHMIGOD!

Following in the family footsteps, out of college, lookin for somethin' ta do?! Uhyeah!? Valley girls much?

Pickles needs to share her pills with them at public appearances.

And if the media is hammering this hard, it must have been REALLY bad.

they would vote for the fascist pig they know that their father is.

I hope they deliberately sabotage Bu$h on national TV someday before the election.

We have only had four years (and hopefully no more) of the walking disaster. They have had to live with him their entire lives. I would not blame them if they did try to sabotage daddy's career.

And they never make mistakes! Ever!

They spent four years in college more concerned about the weekend's Greek mixer, rather than completing their reading assignment.
It's not hard to cruise through college nowawdays with mediocre grades, trust me.

The problems comes from Rich Affirmative Action. Just try and get through Yale the way they did.....

Daddy's unearned money no less.

SEPTEMBER 1, 2004
A NOT-SO-NEUTRAL CORNER
By Ciro Scotti

... Most embarrassing moment: Being introduced by the Duh Twins, Jenna and Barbara, a pair ditsy enough to make Jessica Simpson seem like Ayn Rand. The girls weren't kidding when they said: "You know all those times when your parents embarrass you? Well, it's payback time -- on live TV" ...

http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/sep2004/nf2004091_6154_db009.htm

Like, totally. :puke:

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...and you might get a more colorful, but still accurate description of what happened tonight on that stage.

Fuck 'em! (But not with my ___!) These are a pair of the most overindulged, brattish, slovenly children of politicians I've ever seen in a half-century. On a Hall of Shame list of failed duties, parenting is among the worst 'accomplishments' of DimWit and the Bag Lady.

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September 1, 2004 -- The Bush twins made their national television debut last night — with a string of weak one-liners that drew cringes from the crowd and at one point brought a soft rebuke from their grandparents.

The twins, Barbara and Jenna Bush, had the job of introducing President Bush, who in turn introduced First Lady Laura Bush. For much of their brief time on stage, the twins seemed to amuse themselves more than the crowd.

Some delegates in Madison Square Garden seemed startled when Jenna Bush accused her beloved grandmother Barbara of being too opinionated, hating their clothes and being out of touch with pop culture. "She thinks, 'Sex and the City' is something married people do, but never talk about," Jenna said.

President George H. W. Bush smiled and wagged his finger at his granddaughter, as if to say "shame."

. . .

They also referenced a speech given at the Democratic convention by the daughters of their father's opponent, John Kerry, by saying they, too, had a hamster. But unlike in the Kerry household, where the presidential candidate jumped into the water to save the family pet, "let's just say ours didn't make it," Barbara Bush said.

They were reading them off of the teleprompter, said an ABC news producer, on Charlie Rose Show, who could see the prompter.

"I can't find the WMD. I know they are around here somewhere"

"The Haves and the Have-Mores. Some people call you the elites. I call you my base."

Are they referring to the Hamster or is this a premonition for their Dad's campaign?

Hmmm.... :eyes:

To demonstrate to them what he used to do to frogs.

BITCHES!!!

sick, sadistic bitch. :grr:

...the "affable Eva Braun" according to Ann Coulter, the sickest most sadistic bitch of them all.

and wrapping her legs around him. That was so disgusting and so very unprofessional. I just cringed with embarassement.

Ann Coulter call her that to her face. Ah, "journalists".

Go here: http://www.c-span.org/videoarchives.asp?CatCodePairs=,&ArchiveDays=100

Day 2, part 2 -- 1:29 into the clip

Bratty-looking, stilted, nasal, talking slowly so they can enunciate, trying without success to keep their hair out of their eyes, and as funny as a pair of Oscar presenters for Animated Short Feature - which, coincidentally, they proceeded to introduce.

For the first time in my life I thought, "I'd rather be watching Paris Hilton."

Bwahahahaha - that's funny...yeah, even watching Paris Hilton would have been less painful....

:bounce:

They're almost as painful to watch as their father.

EDIT: Can't wait to see what Jon Stewart does with this.

Even do that....

"They told slightly off-color jokes, apparently to drive home the point that, supporting a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage aside, their parents weren't totally freaked out about S-E-X. Her grandmother, Jenna said, "thinks 'Sex in the City' is something married people do but never talk about," getting the show's name wrong. Barbara said, "Jenna and I are really not very political." She's the one who graduated from Yale."


These chicks could never had worked for Joe Confote's Mustang Ranch outside of Reno, Nevada - They're more of the Battle Mountain run of the mill.

like father like daughters.... totaly clueless and classless...

:puke:

This would've made my day! Contrast these two unclassy/unintelligent bimbos with the Kerry daughters or Chelsea Clinton. No comparison. However, I think dimwit W and his dimwit wife are too dimwitty to see they have twin dimwit daughters.

Two sixty watt bulbs, who when they shine together, could never hope to equal even one 120 watt bulb.

It was like a bad, bad sorority skit. Then it was followed by the Bush video on a baseball field, in which he also threw out a couple of lame one-liners which I swear had a laugh track.

I wasn't sure whether I'd accidentally tuned into the convention or a cheesy variety show from the '70s. In any case, I found myself waxing very nostalgic over Sonny & Cher and Flip Wilson.

No, really:

http://nytimes.com/2004/09/01/politics/campaign/01twins.html

The reich-wing throws such shit at everyone except those sycophants in their own cabal to whom it really aookies.

too bad she inherited her dad's insipid laugh.

I can't make up my mind: are they better poster children for José Cuervo or for birth control? ("... don't let this happen to your family...")

...would you want either of the daughters to breed with one of your sons? Didn't think so.

And this is a family that passes for an American dynasty? Give me British royalty any day.

on duty at the gene pool

produce such defective progeny.

Some say we should not pick on the twins.I strongly disagree.
Their family made a decision to put them out in the public eye.
As far as I know they are "paid" for being on the campaign trail.

If their family is so damn smart,why didn't they have more sense than to put them out to the American people. That was a cruel thing to do. Their parents should have said, "NO." But it is a clear example that it is not a functional family.

If GW Bush, Poppy and Babs and Laura the Librarian are not strong enough to reign in these two,they are not strong enough to run this country.

They need to be sent to a SPA BAR until after the election. They would be happy there. They have too much air in their heads for my taste.

They are also an insult to the millions of fine young adults in this country!

Bring on the families with REAL values... Kerry/Edwards 04

(if you can stomach it)

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-090104bushtwins_wr,1,2318159.story?coll=la-home-headlines

excerpt:

JENNA: When you grow up as the daughters of George and Laura Bush, you develop a special appreciation for how blessed we are to live in this great country.

We are so proud to be here tonight to introduce someone who read us bedtime stories, picked up car pool, made us our favorite peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and cheered for us when we scored a goal, even when it was for the wrong team.

It was like watching the old Gong Show - except they forgot the giant hook to drag them off the stage.

And even if someone else wrote it for them, shouldn't they have had enough sense to say, "This is really lame - we can't say this."??

I think you're giving them way too much credit.

Welcome to DU peacemeal :hi:

If you think these girls didn't perfectly epitomize dumbed-down middle-American watchers of reality tv. That was the point. They may be the daughters of privilege but they personify the common experience. Bush may cater to the "have mores" of his "base", but his appeal is to the common idiot in a SUV with an American flag pasted on it, carting the kids to the game.

And it's teen rebellion, Republican style. They buy things Dad and Grandma don't like. They watch and do the same stupid crap as everyone else. They aren't all fancy like the Kerry daughters, a-goin to France and makin' those snooty in-dee-pendent films. Nope they are just regular old All American fun lovin kids like your kids who get all excited over spotting Ryan Seacrest. Rove knew what he was doing when they put them up there. The Bushes aren't going to look like a stuffy out of touch New England blue blood family like they did in '92. This is about appealing to that undecided soccer mom in the suburbs who has "two just like 'em at home." They don't care if they offend the freepers on prime time. They'll give them plenty of red meat later.

It is all very calculated.

It seems to be essential nowadays to be ever aware of the strings of the controller in everything you see hear or read, especially with respect to these people.

plus, all the mouth breathers are already voting for Bush. I'm not sure undecideds would be too impressed.

They don't get it.

They're "more real" than the Kerry daughters. I guess stupid people are more real than intelligent ones.

They were so insipid. If there is a God, this alone should cost Bush the election.

but as the above posters pointed out, this very insipidness was carefully crafted to woo the mouth-breathers. I don't think very many, even on this board, see how seamlessly this coup has been constructed.

local watering hole last night catering 2 young adults. The rethug convention was on one of the TVs. He said when the twins were on the whole bar was laughing at them, making fun of their giggles and yelling trash @ Babs when her face showed up. He said he noticed pickles and one of the daughters share the same, back-of-the-throat nervous giggle. And he is not political just observant.

The twins seemed like a couple of spoiled juvenile adults which only adoring parents could think they are wonderful.

Nice to see they also do not come across very well with a group of their peers.

I hope that those young people were seeing through the vapid sideshow of the twins, rather than simply being disrespectful as they might to anyone.

This act was obviously brought to us by the same crew who gave us "sloppy seconds."

of moments of political ineptitude...right up there with Dan Quayle's 1988 debate.

I'm reminded of a word my mother often used - insipid. Sorry, but you can't buy class.

They clearly called it "Sex In The City". The show's name actually was "Sex And The City".

The contrast with Kerry's daughters was astounding. Hell, Edwards' little kids acted more mature at the DNC than Bush's adult daughters did last night.

Were the Bush twins drunk perhaps?

Democratic children:

The Kennedys (class)
Amy Carter (class)
Chelsea Clinton (class)
The sisters Kerry and brothers Heinz (class)

What, do republicans not know how to raise their children? I thought they were all about family values.

od Beavis & Butthead, with all that insipid snickering!
Just AWFUL!

It looked like a pretty unscripted fiasco to me:

- criticizing their grandmother in front of all these "family value" hypocrites

- reminding everybody what daddy did (or didn't do) after college

"Besides, since we've graduated from college, we're looking around for something to do for the next few years.

Kind of like dad."

"You know all those times when you're growing up and your parents embarrass you? Well, this is payback time on live TV."

Indeed.

If think this was probably the closest the Republican convention will ever get to the truth.

Sounds like the making of another bush in the white house. Mark my words. dems is preseeedential timber...
Holy shit.

to go up against Obama.

Yale should hang its head in shame.
There is no way this child should have EVER graduated. There is a minority child that is brilliant that did not get in because of Barb Bush and her dumb dad.

Once again, Bush family members are the Poster Children for Affirmative Action.

articles stated?

Guess I would giggle too if I had to introduce the most evil dispicable piece of subhuman trash on the planet.

The apple doesn't fall far from the tree. But I had a glimmer of a suspicion that maybe they did it on purpose. Rumor has it that they didn't want Daddy to run for president in the first place, and (assuming they are smart enough to plot such a thing, which might be a stretch), maybe they deliberately decided to act like Paris Hilton after three martinis in order to make Daddy look bad. Not likely, but just a thought.

purpose acted that way, because

they are incapable of acting any other way...

VAPID fits well...

Whomever began the idea of inheritance taxes had people like this in mind when they sought to end the passing along of power to the next generation...

But I had a feeling that something...interesting would happen last night, so I put in a tape. I have the whole glorious spectacle recorded forever now. Anytime I'm down, I'll just pop their appearance in.

:evilgrin:

...he breathed life back into a dead heifer..." or some other lame bullshit like that. The bush twins: vapid and vacant. The nuts don't fall too far from the tree.

reined in. Just now at a RNC Youth Rally, they read from a prepared script mentioning all the 'virtues' of republican family lore. Nothing spontaneous whatsoever...no deviation...enough slightly silly lines to make them look 'natural' to the casual viewer. UGH.

:hippie:

had to turn the station. They were annoying with some snuffling sounds that sounded like a muffled laugh. Dumb, just very annoying. I'm thinking...she went to Yale and talks like a 6th grader.

This kid blew EVERYONE away.

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/convention2004/ilanawexler2004dnc.htm

coworkers say, the Kerry girls, I heard the Bush hags? who?

Then they introduced the Bush Twins, who were on videotape. When the videotape was played, the audience sound was turned down, so the boos the twins received (equal to the Kerrys') were not as apparent as the boos the Kerry girls received.

No proof of this....but is a Rove type move. Disgusting.

...remember Mike Moore's little tidbit at the Oscars. The way it looked and sounded was that there were people booing Mike Moore. In actuality there was a well-placed open microphone (backstage) next to six or seven well placed teamster-types, who started booing Michael Moore. They were actually in place waiting for him to start speaking. The crowd starting booing the booers, but to you and I at home it sounded like Moore got booed. Did not happen. At least not by the audience. I had a conversation with someone that was there. The audience was VERY supportive of MM and what he had to say. That's why he kept challenging the media to fairly and truly report the incident, which of course did not happen.

spoiled little brats.