In Time Magazine’s latest issue, U.S. President George W. Bush is profiled as Time’s “Person of the Year” and included among the photographs by Christopher Morris are a couple of President Bush on or near his Trek bike with the caption, “At a Secret Service training facility, Bush bikes and listens to Van Morrision’s Brown Eyed Girl on his iPod.” Bush also sports what look to us to be Etymotic Research ER-6i Isolator earphones (see our review “Review: Etymotic Research ER-6i Isolator earphones – September 10, 2004, for more information).
Earlier this year, MacDailyNews noticed a line in a piece by Susan Baer for The Baltimore Sun about Vice President Dick Cheney: “His family life, too, has been kept largely under wraps, though in some ways it is remarkably ordinary, right down to the iPod the vice president received from his children for Christmas,” Baer wrote.
So, now we know that the top two positions of the U.S. Government’s Executive Branch are occupied by Apple iPod users.
Full article here.
Related MacDailyNews articles:
Baltimore Sun: Vice President Dick Cheney a confirmed Apple iPod user – April 01, 2004
Ok, well, at least he’s smart enough to use an iPod.
(Unless his PR dept. recommended it.)
Btw, MDN – please remove the audio ads. The smart spin stuff is cool, but hey, I get free containers from my local pasta place and they’re just as easily stored. And they’ve got clear lids and black bases (not some crappy blue color)
Apple can use those pics with a slogan “It’s so simple, even an idiot can use it”.
Using Isolator earphones while riding a bike is a sure recipe for disaster. Mind you, I’m sure the President is surrounded by the secret service so will never need to worry about a threat sneaking up to him in his isolated world. Love my iPod but would never listen to music while riding a bike, besides if I ever wipe out in the snow and ice, I’d have to throw my body between the hard ground and my iPod. Ouch.
Apple can use those pics with a slogan “It’s so simple, even sam can use it”. (maybe)
Maybe finally this is the explanation for the rectangular shape on his back during the debate?
BTW real scathing comeback there, Me
Yeah the PR guys thought this would appeal to halfway-Dems..
Wear some hippy gear..
The iPod or a dashiki
(facetious)
Even picking the right MP3 player isn’t going to abate my hatred for either man one bit…
Hey maybe we liberals can stop calling George Bush a moron and start calling him an asshole..
He’s got advisors that know where the Economy is going..Social Security’s going.. where the military spending is going.. where medicare is going…
Calling him stupid just makes it look like he’s well-intentioned..
He’s not..
Using Isolator earphones while riding a bike is a sure recipe for disaster. Mind you, I’m sure the President is surrounded by the secret service so will never need to worry about a threat sneaking up to him in his isolated world. Love my iPod but would never listen to music while riding a bike, besides if I ever wipe out in the snow and ice, I’d have to throw my body between the hard ground and my iPod. Ouch.
At a Secret Service training facility, Bush bikes…
I’m pretty sure he’s under no danger from civilians or motor vehicles in this instance.
We already knew everyone used an iPod… apple doesn’t have to run any slogan, no matter how partisan you want the company to be.
Why does Apple spend millions on making ads for products everyone already knows about, yet spends nothing on ads for lesser known products…. my simple mind can’t comprehend.
Sooo stupid he’s a 2nd term President. Yep, that guy must be really dumb to get to the highest office in the country.
You really need to seek help if you are able to muster hatred for someone you’ve never met and hear about only from his enemies.
Let’s spend our energy on hating a faceless monolithic corporation instead.
Like Micros**t.
He’s not stupid.. he’s a genius..
play the bible card..
get elected
You left wing bed wetting sissies keep crying. Bush is the best Pres since Reagan & knows style when he sees it. Get a life and support the Leader of the FREE WORLD!
Nothing like a story thinly connected to politics to bring out some seasonal cheer�
Yep Neil2112, just like your boy said in his press conference yesterday: “I’m going to find somebody who knows something about intelligence�and I’ll let you know at the appropriate time when I find such a person�I just want to try to condition you. I’m not doing a very good job.”
Karl Rove is the real genius who helped Bush win the election. Without him he would have had a harder time to fine tune the agenda’s to reach out to people. Maybe he was the one that got him the Apple iPod to be more hip. Did anyone see the CNN article about the cheating on test scores in schools. Maybe the Texas teachers thought hey our once governor and now president can do it why not do it for my school. Ohio?
It found, for example, that the fourth-graders at Sanderson Elementary School in the Houston Independent School District scored extremely poorly on the math TAKS test this year, rating the school in the bottom 2 percent of the state.
However, the school’s fifth-graders ended up with the highest scale scores on the math TAKS of any school in Texas, with more than 90 percent of the students getting perfect or near-perfect scores.
Houston Superintendent Abe Saavedra said he has asked the Texas Education Agency to investigate the scores at Sanderson, which the U.S. Education Department named a Blue Ribbon School in 2003 because of rapid improvements in test results.
“At HISD, our credibility and integrity must remain absolutely beyond question,” he said in a statement.
Similar results were found at Harrell Budd Elementary in Dallas. Third grade students finished in the bottom 4 percent in reading. But Budd’s fourth-graders had the second-highest reading scores in the state, behind a Houston magnet school for gifted children.
Dallas district spokesman Donald Claxton said officials there plan a thorough investigation.
“If there’s cheating going on, we want to stop it,” he said.
The Dems still won�t accept that they lost…
Actually if you search around, you’ll find a picture of Bush and staff using Powerbooks G3’s.
I’m sure they have moved on to G4’s since then, but it shows Bush may LOOK STUPID, but he’s not.
So all you RAGING liberal left wingers need to pickup your gun (buy one and train first at the local NRA get together) and shoot yourself a piece of shit terrorist or let them shoot you.
Either way we win. Like we did in the last election.
KILLING RAGHEAD SCUM IS GOOD FOR YOU!!!
Radical Right Wing Death Dealers:
Stupid is as stupid does.
Stupid.
Ding dong merrily on high.
Bush uses an iPod. I bet Daddy bought it for him though. Daddy’s the brains of the family.
Merry Christmas everyone (or whatever holiday you celebrate)!!
The Dems still won�t accept that they lost…
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Everyone lost.. the Republic lost since millions of morons on either side were allowed to vote without knowing the issues..let’s talk about the issues, rather than the rhetoric
Now there’s a challenge
I have no need to call anyone an idiot or anything else (says more about the folks that say it than their target after all).
I am aware of the issues.
I voted.
Conclusive result.
No need to say more.
has anyone seen those bumper stickers that say “draft republicans”. Those are funny and should be true if their is a draft.
“Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we,” George W. Bush. August 5, 2004
“For every fatal shooting, there were roughly three non-fatal shootings. And, folks, this is unacceptable in America. It’s just unacceptable. And we’re going to do something about it. ” George W Bush
“Then you wake up at the high school level and find out that the illiteracy level of our children are appalling.” �George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Jan. 23, 2004
“[T]he best way to find these terrorists who hide in holes is to get people coming forth to describe the location of the hole, is to give clues and data.” �George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Dec. 15, 2003
“First, let me make it very clear, poor people aren’t necessarily killers. Just because you happen to be not rich doesn’t mean you’re willing to kill.” �George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., May 19, 2003
“I’m also not very analytical. You know I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about myself, about why I do things.” �George W. Bush, aboard Air Force One, June 4, 2003
“The march to war hurt the economy. Laura reminded me a while ago that remember what was on the TV screens �� she calls me, ‘George W.’ � ‘George W.’ I call her, ‘First Lady.’ No, anyway � she said, we said, march to war on our TV screen.” �George W. Bush, Bay Shore, New York, Mar. 11, 2004
“Security is the essential roadblock to achieving the road map to peace.” �George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., July 25, 2003
“See, free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don’t attack each other. Free nations don’t develop weapons of mass destruction.” �George W. Bush, Milwaukee, Wis., Oct. 3, 2003
nuff said.
At least he was given good advice about the iPod and the ER-6i headphones.
Can anyone think of the ultimate George W. Bush Playlist?