So. bush isn't even held accountable to explain the finger incident, huh?

tuvor

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Thu Jul-28-05 10:06 PM
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So. bush isn't even held accountable to explain the finger incident, huh?

Not even for a lousy little finger??????????

I guess things ARE easier when you're the dictator.

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TaleWgnDg

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Thu Jul-28-05 10:09 PM
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1. Huh? Bush has been giving "the finger" to the American . . .

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Huh? Bush has been giving "the finger" to the American . . . public since square one!

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BillZBubb

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Thu Jul-28-05 10:12 PM
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2. And the sheeple love it!

"Thank you sir, may I have another!"

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DemInDistress

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Thu Jul-28-05 10:13 PM
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3. what if Hillary flipped the finger

at the press.Would there be an outrage??

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TaleWgnDg

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Thu Jul-28-05 10:26 PM
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4. Terrific observation, DemInDistress . . . and

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Terrific observation, DemInDistress . . . and welcome to DU . . . :hi:

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DemInDistress

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Thu Jul-28-05 10:35 PM
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8. Tale ty for the welcome

poster below me thinks bush flipped his thumb....bush gave America the finger,flipped the bird at the press.Gopers dont see the outrage.Had that been Hillary it would haunt her right up to her presidential election..bush can give the finger..cheney can say "fuck you leahy..no outrage...wow

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TaleWgnDg

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Thu Jul-28-05 10:42 PM
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14. toss in Howard Dean's yell . . . and its stupid outrage too! Yup. n/t

Edited on Thu Jul-28-05 10:43 PM by TaleWgnDg

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LittleClarkie

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Thu Jul-28-05 11:02 PM
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22. What if she gave the thumbs up and was accused of giving the finger

WE'D be outraged.

Really, we have bigger and better reasons for going after Bush. This is not one of them.

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ochazuke

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Thu Jul-28-05 10:27 PM
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5. Let this one go

It was his thumb. Get back to Treasongate, etc.

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Flying Dream Blues

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Thu Jul-28-05 10:29 PM
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6. It was NOT his thumb...how can ANYONE see this video and think so?

With all due respect, nothing personal, but I just don't get it!

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LittleClarkie

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Thu Jul-28-05 10:39 PM
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12. Looking at the pictures

it's in the wrong position to be the finger. His hand curves the wrong way.

It is about in the right position to be a thumbs up as seen from the back, or a pen.

But he's have to have a mutated alien hand for that to be his middle finger. He's chunky, his hand couldn't be that slim.

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DemInDistress

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Thu Jul-28-05 10:57 PM
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20. it was not a thumb

what i seen was bush's fist closed with his middle extended in the flip the bird position...I've seen plenty of Thumps up..this was an insult..hey its not the 1st time bush was caught on camera giving the finger...bet you did it

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LittleClarkie

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Thu Jul-28-05 11:01 PM
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21. Bet I did what?

Have you seen someone give a thumbs up from behind? Make a thumbs up gesture. Look at from behind (which is all you can do really).

Right shape. Right length. Curves in at the right place. If you're giving a finger, you hand should plump out, not suck in.

Sorry. From the picture on the board it just doesn't look like the fuck you finger.

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DemInDistress

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Thu Jul-28-05 11:15 PM
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25. bet you flipped the finger at someone who

pissed you off.hell i did and still do...but I"M not the President.If I passed someone who ticked me off,I flip the bird with my back turned,no major feat and well understood what the gesture means...

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LittleClarkie

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Thu Jul-28-05 11:31 PM
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27. Yep, and I've been flipping myself the bird to compare

it still looks more like when I give the thumbs up then look at it from the back.

As someone said in another thread, he was gesturing in response to CAFTA results. Thumbs up, not fuck you.

And he did get a thumbs up with CAFTA, didn't he.

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DemInDistress

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Thu Jul-28-05 11:54 PM
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28. Cafta passed by

bribes,threats and promises...a usual vote on the floor lasts 15 mins..while the bush vote was close the bush team was on hand to meet with a numbers of members who were bribed,some threatened and some made lucrative promises....i hear some in congress are calling for an investigation. of the vote..if you come across the bird flip on the net,please pm me....

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Art_from_Ark

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Thu Jul-28-05 10:37 PM
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10. If that's a thumb, put him in the Guinness Book of Records

because that would have to be the longest thumb in history

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radar

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Thu Jul-28-05 10:37 PM
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11. His thumb???

Is he like double-jointed or does he have a reaaallllly looooong thumb?

'Cause when the thumb is pointed skyward on my hand - the rest of my hand points out away from my head - bending at the wrist.
...And if I try putting it between the middle knuckles like the capped picture - only an inch of thumb is visible from the backside when the hand is straight up; more of my thumb can be seen if I bend my hand backwards - showing more knuckles.

But that's me - maybe I'm the abnormal one.

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tuvor

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Thu Jul-28-05 10:41 PM
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13. My point is...

...if he can't even be expected to answer, "Hey, George! What was that finger thing all about, anyway?," he must not feel he's accountable for much of anything at all. Mmmmmmmm...Dictatorship.....

A picture speaks a thousand words, especially to illiterate bushkissers. I'm not about to let it go if it seems like a good time to bring it up.

And contrary to what a lot seem to think, I'm sure most people can keep track of more than one news item at a time.

Fire all your weapons as frequently as possible.

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LittleClarkie

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Thu Jul-28-05 10:44 PM
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15. It would help if it were actually the finger he was whipping

many of us don't think it was. A thumbs up as seen from the back.

If you're gonna fire your weapons, it's best to make sure you have actual ammo. This one is firing blanks.

There are many indications that the Bush regime is dictator-like. This is not one of them.

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tuvor

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Thu Jul-28-05 10:48 PM
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17. Like I said in another post...

...don't do the freepers work for them.

We're way too fucking "nice" for our own good sometimes.

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LittleClarkie

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Thu Jul-28-05 10:53 PM
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18. I seriously doubt that freepers are into telling the truth

and how childish would it be to accuse the president of whipping the finger because in a fuzzy picture it almost, but not quite, looks like he might be.

He launched an illegal war. Surely that trumps "the finger".

Why would it be considered too nice to not want to make an ass of myself accusing Bush of something I KNOW he wasn't doing. His. hand. is. in. the. wrong. position. to. be. the. finger.

I'd rather go after him for 1700 dead soldiers than whether or not he might have been showing us the finger.

Someone should post the governor picture of him actually whipping the finger. And compare.

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tuvor

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Fri Jul-29-05 12:59 AM
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31. Yup. Definitely different wavelengths. n/t

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ticapnews

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Thu Jul-28-05 10:33 PM
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7. Write to the FCC...

Do what the theocrats did after Nipplegate: flood the FCC and Congress with letters raging at the media for broadcasting such an obscene image.

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Scout1071

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Thu Jul-28-05 11:11 PM
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24. Yes. Yes. Yes.

Effin' aye.

Brilliant idea.

On a side note, I find this entirely more offensive than Janet Jackson's nipple.

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johnnyrocket

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Thu Jul-28-05 10:37 PM
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9. It's his thumb, from onegoodmove:

"John Godfrey (Dow Jones Newswire) writes, "I was in the scrum of reporters at the event. Bush did not flip anyone off. He was clearly giving a thumbs up in response to a question shouted from the crowd." I called John to verify the email was from him and to ask him if there was any doubt in his mind, he said there was not. I forgot to ask him if he's sighted. "

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tuvor

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Thu Jul-28-05 10:45 PM
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16. Doesn't matter what it was.

Edited on Thu Jul-28-05 10:52 PM by tuvor

Without going all Zapruder, it looks to me (and Leno's audience) like a flipped bird.

Image is everything.

Damn, do WE have to debunk stuff that makes bush look like the sonofabitch he is? Here's a gun. Care to shoot yourself in the foot with it?

Let the freepers prove it wasn't his fuck-you finger. And while they're doing that, we have time to uncover more layers of Plamegate.

Who's with me?

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LittleClarkie

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Thu Jul-28-05 10:57 PM
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19. So why berate us for "not holding him accountable"

for what?! Now you're suggesting it doesn't matter if he was or wasn't?

And yet, somehow, we're supposed to hold him accountable for it?

I'd rather hold him accountable for Iraq and Abu Ghraib, thanks.

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tuvor

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Fri Jul-29-05 12:57 AM
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30. I think we're on different wavelengths right now.

Sorry.

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Scout1071

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Thu Jul-28-05 11:09 PM
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23. My Gawd. Somebody please help me find a picture of Uma Thurman's

giant thumb in the movie "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues" (based on the most most excellent novel of the same name by Tom Robbins.)

I beg you.

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ticapnews

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Fri Jul-29-05 12:44 AM
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29. You mean this one?

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Scout1071

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Fri Jul-29-05 09:21 AM
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33. Thank you! This thumb is perfect.

Who knows, maybe * has developed a similar thumb?

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Gemini Cat

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Thu Jul-28-05 11:21 PM
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26. What was it he said once...

...something like... that's the interesting thing about being president, I don't have to explain myself, maybe other people have to explain themselves to me, but I don't to them.
The chimp is as always, a pile of crap.

:mad: :mad: :grr: :grr:

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radfringe

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Fri Jul-29-05 05:18 AM
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32. since when has he

been held accountable for anything...?

meanwhile - he's been giving us the finger since being planted in the oval orafice

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ochazuke

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Fri Jul-29-05 11:04 AM
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34. OK, it wasn't his thumb...

it was his antenna. He was losing reception for that radio in his back.

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