Officials say Bush-chimp likening in ‘bad taste’

Reuters
Brussels, April 1, 2005

Belgian trainers helping police to understand body language have caused a controversy by likening George Bush's facial expressions to a chimpanzee’s.

Interior minister Patrick Dewael said he was unaware of the pictures when he signed a letter promoting the training package for police dealing with unruly soccer fans, and said the idea was in “bad taste,” Het Laatste Nieuws daily reported.

The training presentation pictured the United States president’s face in various expressions beside photographs of a chimpanzee, the paper showed on its front page, in what was meant to be a humorous introduction to the subject of reading facial expressions.

The United States has so far not commented on the matter and Dewael's office was not immediately available for comment.

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who, after all, are our closest relatives in the primate world.

Good one.

or some such channel, and they said our closest relatives are bonobos (sp?). They looked like big chimps, but whatever they are, I never remember learning about bonobos. When I grew up the non-human apes were chimps gorillas and orangutans. Anyone know what the bonobo story is?

All manner of couplings and groupings. The Anthros think it's to relieve social stress LOL!

When * stops that, I'll stop chuckling at the chimp comparisons.

any picture of smirk-boy leaves a bad taste in my mouth

in the WH is good taste?

:nuke:

Nancy Reagan spending millions to dress herself and redecorate the WH, while Ronnie gutted social programs for poor/disabled/psych/welfare/children/environment-- now THAT was good taste!

is in pretty poor taste as well. I am tired of that particular joke.

it's ironic that the people most opposed to evolution seemed least evolved

Chimps and humans are 98.6% genetically identical. The photos certainly cast no doubt on that statistic.

verrrrry interesting...