Two stories fixed by minor corrections
Florida Gov. Jeb Bush has disputed media accounts that said he hid in a closet to avoid anti-Republican protesters during a visit to Pittsburgh last week.
Bush encountered protesters Oct. 6 while on his way to a fund-raising event for Republican Sen. Rick Santorum at Pittsburgh’s exclusive Duquesne Club.
Curiously, those media accounts seemed to focus more on the “closet” aspect of the story than on the behavior of the unruly, obscenity-shouting mob. The stories mentioned prominently that Bush sought “refuge in a subway station supply closet.”
Bush said it was actually a boiler room.
Maybe Jeb Bush hid in a closet, maybe he hid in a boiler room. If he did indeed hide in a boiler room, this is a case of what happens when a phrase becomes a well-known euphemism for something that would offend a large part of your base — “in the closet” as per “secretly gay”.
This is Newsmax, a publication that once published an account of a Subway sign that said “THINK OUTSIDE THE UN” and recorded it as perhaps a political statement by those Subway franchisers.
Jimmy Carter, during his presidency, once found himself making some diplomatic dealings with an unsavory world leader — as per the normal course of events — (perhaps the Soviet Union, perhaps an oil rich nation — I don’t remember). It was raining. He was forbidden from opening an umbrella, which is a practical thing to do in such circumstances. But the umbrella is the symbol for Neville Chamberlain, thus… Jimmy Carter had to get all wet in the rain.
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She posted a picture of the president, scrawled “Kill Bush” across the top and drew a dagger stabbing his outstretched hand. She replaced the page last spring after learning in her eighth-grade history class that such threats are a federal offense.
Too late.
Federal authorities had found the page and placed her on their checklist. They finally reached her this week in her molecular biology class.
The 14-year-old freshman at Sacramento’s McClatchy High School was taken out of class Wednesday and questioned for about 15 minutes by two Secret Service agents. The incident has upset her parents, who said the agents should have included them when they questioned their daughter.
I threatened Bill Clinton — kind of sort of but not really — for about 3 hours on my website. (see here, re “On the Death of Paul deParrie). But that’s a small part of that story.
The problem with this advice
“BUSH CAN SUCK MY FUCKING DICK!!”
See, you angsty teenaged fucks? That’s how you go about doing it. You can tell him to suck your dick, or eat shit, or to sniff your arsehole. You generate the same emotional effect as you would by threatening to kill him, but without the FBI agents knocking on your door.
is that the perpetrator is a girl. I suppose she can still do it, suggesting a “chick with dick” and thus doubling the humor in a sort of esoteric manner, but I think that would be too obscure and confusing. Would “Bush can lick my vagina” work? I do not know. It’s worth a try, I suppose.