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Giving the Finger To This Meme

by John Cole|  July 28, 200510:51 pm| 9 Comments

This post is in: General Stupidity

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Apparently, the left wing of the blogosphere is all atwitter about Bush giving the finger to reporters. Barry Johnson at Cynical Nation gives this whole silliness the finger.

Literally. Pictures and everything.

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  1. 1.

    Joe Albanese

    July 28, 2005 at 11:02 pm

    Its about the children John, we have to protect the children.

  2. 2.

    m.ward

    July 28, 2005 at 11:03 pm

    Hey John, off topic here but I was wondering what your opinion is of guys like Russ Feingold, far left politicians who you probably disagree with 90% of the time, but who don’t fall into the “looney left” and are generally considered good men/women with lots of integrity.

    I guess I’m just curious how partisan you are when it comes to voting, like would you vote for Feingold (not to pick on him) over someone like Santorum or Frist in a presidential election?

    In general, who are some realistic presidential dem contenders you would at least consider voting for?

    Oh, and I was wondering what you think about Wes Clark.

    At first I felt silly asking these question, but I guess the point of visiting your blog is to get your take on things, so I hope you don’t mind me picking your brain like this!

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    jg

    July 28, 2005 at 11:06 pm

    It looked like the finger at first but I’m sure its his thumb.

  4. 4.

    over it

    July 28, 2005 at 11:06 pm

    Jay Leno showed it last night. I thought it was a joke and that he had doctored it. It does look like he is flippin’ the bird….though, I find the ‘thumbs up’ much more believable.

    I think the whole thing is pretty funny.

  5. 5.

    Sojourner

    July 28, 2005 at 11:08 pm

    I may have to re-think my previous position that Bush is a lousy communicator.

  6. 6.

    DougJ

    July 29, 2005 at 8:49 am

    I’m glad the president is flipping off the MSM. As when Dick Cheney told that Democratic Senator to “go f**k himself”, it’s about time someone did something like that.

  7. 7.

    Tim F

    July 29, 2005 at 9:19 am

    Glad that somebody cleared that up. God knows Bush would never do that.

  8. 8.

    Gurney

    July 29, 2005 at 11:15 am

    Boo hoo. Suddenly the Right is offended by FAUX outrage instead of manufacturing it.

  9. 9.

    kiannone

    August 4, 2005 at 9:59 pm

    Bush and Cheney and the other warmongers curse and give the finger in public because they dont give a damn about anything except power.

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