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U.S. President George Bush a confirmed Apple iPod user (images included)
Wednesday, December 22, 2004 - 12:05 AM EST

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

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Dec 22, 04 - 12:15 am Comment from: Let's start a fight

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)

Dec 22, 04 - 12:18 am Comment from: sam

Apple can use those pics with a slogan "It's so simple, even an idiot can use it".

Dec 22, 04 - 12:32 am Comment from: CDN guy

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.

Dec 22, 04 - 12:36 am Comment from: Me

Apple can use those pics with a slogan "It's so simple, even sam can use it". (maybe)

Dec 22, 04 - 12:54 am Comment from: tclash

Maybe finally this is the explanation for the rectangular shape on his back during the debate?

BTW real scathing comeback there, Me

Dec 22, 04 - 12:55 am Comment from: mike

Yeah the PR guys thought this would appeal to halfway-Dems..

Wear some hippy gear..

The iPod or a dashiki

(facetious)

Dec 22, 04 - 01:01 am Comment from: Russell

Even picking the right MP3 player isn't going to abate my hatred for either man one bit...

Dec 22, 04 - 01:02 am Comment from: mike

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..

Dec 22, 04 - 01:12 am Comment from: rageous

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.

Dec 22, 04 - 01:50 am Comment from: DanK

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.

Dec 22, 04 - 02:01 am Comment from: Neil2112

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.

Dec 22, 04 - 02:38 am Comment from: mike

He's not stupid.. he's a genius..

play the bible card..

get elected

Dec 22, 04 - 02:54 am Comment from: The Duke

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!

Dec 22, 04 - 03:13 am Comment from: MCCFR

Nothing like a story thinly connected to politics to bring out some seasonal cheer…

Dec 22, 04 - 03:42 am Comment from: Tommy Boy

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."

Dec 22, 04 - 04:14 am Comment from: Karl Rove

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.

Dec 22, 04 - 05:01 am Comment from: Jk

The Dems still won´t accept that they lost...

Dec 22, 04 - 05:05 am Comment from: Radical Right Wing Death Dealers

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!!!

Dec 22, 04 - 05:16 am Comment from: Donkey

Radical Right Wing Death Dealers:

Stupid is as stupid does.

Stupid.

Dec 22, 04 - 05:18 am Comment from: Dave H

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)!!

Dec 22, 04 - 05:37 am Comment from: mike

The Dems still won´t accept that they lost...
---
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

Dec 22, 04 - 06:17 am Comment from: Macaday

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.

Dec 22, 04 - 06:19 am Comment from: ....

has anyone seen those bumper stickers that say "draft republicans". Those are funny and should be true if their is a draft.

Dec 22, 04 - 06:51 am Comment from: Jack A

"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.

Dec 22, 04 - 07:31 am Comment from: Sol

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?

Dec 22, 04 - 07:32 am Comment from: Happy Winner

No matter what the liberal democrats whine about -remember they raised and spent more money than the republicans, they had the "smartest" advisors, the "smartest" voters, and yet they lost.
They lost.
They lost.

And then they try to deny and twist the facts of why they lost, the winners can always sit back, relax and smile and say, "We won."
And that Bush received the most votes ever as a Presidential candidate and named by the the #1 liberal news magazine, Time, as "Man of the Year".

Oh my, dear libs, have a very Merry Christmas!

(And do ask the oh-so-smart John Kerry why he still had $80,000,000 left in his campaign fund after the election and why he did not spend it in Ohio. Ho! Ho! Ho! Kerry and the dems smart?)

Dec 22, 04 - 08:02 am Comment from: giofoto

He was going to use the left over money on ketchup. Now he can tell her....I didn'tspend your money, honey! LOL

Dec 22, 04 - 08:25 am Comment from: pkradd

I wonder if the President knows how to turn the iPod on. You remember he forgot to turn on the Segway and stumbled off it. It's the old chewing gum while listening at the same time trick. Oh, I forgot, he doesn't listen to anyone - even to his iPod, but God.
P.S. Funny, my magic word was George!

Dec 22, 04 - 08:50 am Comment from: Jay Rice

Most of the Bush bashers on this site are disgusting, commie, jealous, foreigners.

Up yours aholes. Bush won and will continue to kick scummy terrorist ass whether you like it or not. We Americans for the most part love it. Once Iraq settles down it, a democratic, free Iraq will be much better for the world.

What has your country done to stop the other threats? North Korea and Iran. Absolutely nothing as usual.

Merry Christmas losers!

Dec 22, 04 - 09:11 am Comment from: DavidO

Can we be sure that Dubya was using an iPod, not a HP Pod? Because considerig the way his administration let Microsoft off the hook, giving it free reign to use its monopoly power to enrich itself at everybody else's expense, I'd guess he'd be a Windows guy. If he were smart enough to actually use a computer. Otherwise, just why would they be calling it "Longhorn"?

Dec 22, 04 - 09:15 am Comment from: me

That does it, I'm tossing my iPod in the Potomac.

Dec 22, 04 - 09:21 am Comment from: giofoto

What was it that John Kerry said? "Set aside the bitterness."

Oh, that's right. oh oh

Dec 22, 04 - 09:23 am Comment from: Tom Strong

I wish all you smelly hippies and effeminate pussy liberals would drop dead.

Dec 22, 04 - 09:29 am Comment from: Aryugaetu

Apple should have a new ad: "If Bush can operate it, so can your 5 year old. Buy an iPod today!

...but, I have my money on the fact that someone in the Secret Service programmed the iPod with just ONE SONG, and pressed "Play" for him.

...actually, it's just one audio file repeating. "Ter-ror, not tear. Ter-ror-ists, not tear-ists." ...over and over again.

Just as with the monkey on a typewriter writing "War and Peace", given enough time and luck, even the truly stupid can do something that appears to be brilliant.

In terms of the election, there has never been anything in my life that has compelled me so much to move to Ireland. In the US, I new that many people were total idiots, I just never knew that MOST of them were idiots!

Dec 22, 04 - 09:30 am Comment from: cOzzy

Dems=Losers this election and last.

Accept it and quit bitching

Dec 22, 04 - 09:36 am Comment from: Blondell

All you gung-ho republican Dubya supporters are embarassing to the rest of us who realize that this administration are nothing more than a bunch of corrupt, ignorant and unimaginative doofuses that bend over for the mouth-breather fundamentalist televangelist cabal.

But then, we don't expect much cranial activity from your ilk anyway.

Dec 22, 04 - 09:38 am Comment from: transgeek

Hey,

Enough of this nonsense. The President using an Apple product is a good thing. Take all this rage & bitternes and point it toward the real enemy, the wintel monopoly!

Dec 22, 04 - 09:39 am Comment from: pod one

You go to a MAC SITE; you see a picture of Bush wearing an iPOD; and you beyond-left-into-psychosis needies have to vomit all over it. See this little stone in my hand? Look! I'm placing it here on the table. When I come back in 5 minutes, you'll have spewed your anti-Bush sewerage all over it, so no one can even see it's a stone anymore. Does living in this frenzy give meaning to your lives?

Dec 22, 04 - 09:46 am Comment from: Jack A

"See, one of the interesting things in the Oval Office — I love to bring people into the Oval Office — right around the corner from here — and say, this is where I office, but I want you to know the office is always bigger than the person." —George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Jan. 29, 2004

"I glance at the headlines just to kind of get a flavor for what's moving. I rarely read the stories, and get briefed by people who are probably read the news themselves." —George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Sept. 21, 2003

"I want to thank my friend, Senator Bill Frist, for joining us today. You're doing a heck of a job. You cut your teeth here, right? That's where you started practicing? That's good. He married a Texas girl, I want you to know. Karyn is with us. A West Texas girl, just like me." —George W. Bush, Nashville, Tenn., May 27, 2004

"In my judgment, when the United States says there will be serious consequences, and if there isn't serious consequences, it creates adverse consequences." —George W. Bush, Meet the Press, Feb. 8, 2004

"More Muslims have died at the hands of killers than — I say more Muslims — a lot of Muslims have died — I don't know the exact count — at Istanbul. Look at these different places around the world where there's been tremendous death and destruction because killers kill." —George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Jan. 29, 2004

"As Luce reminded me, he said, without data, without facts, without information, the discussions about public education mean that a person is just another opinion." —George W. Bush, Jacksonville, Florida, Sept. 9, 2003

"I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully." —George W. Bush, Saginaw, Mich., Sept. 29, 2000

"I hope you leave here and walk out and say, 'What did he say?'" —George W. Bush, Beaverton, Oregon, Aug. 13, 2004

Dec 22, 04 - 09:46 am Comment from: ph8te

idiot probably listens to his bushisms trying to understand what the hell he is talking about, since none of the rest of the civilised world does.....


(i am only trying to get a rise out of you)

Dec 22, 04 - 09:48 am Comment from: Buffy

"embarassing to the rest of us"

That funny, I didnt know winning was embarassing. I thought having no idea what your voter are looking for IN YOUR OWN PARTY was embarassing. Where is the Kerry campaign's cranial activity now, huh?

Dec 22, 04 - 09:51 am Comment from: Blondell

Well, pod one, my visceral reaction to seeing the chimperor is to vomit. I think I speak for the rest here who don't worship Cheney's little puppet.

Dec 22, 04 - 10:02 am Comment from: Marty

Good Riddance Are You GAY Too? We do not miss your queer smelly ass one bit. You belong in Europe with all the Eurofags!

Dec 22, 04 - 10:03 am Comment from: Blondell

It's not winning that's embarassing, Buffy. It's that a majority of voters were stupid enough to be hoodwinked by the Bu$hCo regime. Apparently using an apostrophe is beyond the reach of Dubya supporters as well... wink

Dec 22, 04 - 10:07 am Comment from: boombangbangboom

1323 service people are dead. Countless Iraqis are dead. Halliburton's filthy mitts are full of money.
Long live G.W's god.

Dec 22, 04 - 10:07 am Comment from: Liberty

As Cheney would so eloquently put it, "F*%k You!" LOL

Dec 22, 04 - 10:13 am Comment from: Charles

All you gung-ho liberal Kerry supporters and anti-americans are embarassing to the rest of us who realize that Kerry and your Eurotrash leaders are nothing more than a bunch of corrupt, ignorant and unimaginative doofuses that bend over for the mouth-breather fundamentalist televangelist muslim.

But then, we don't expect much cranial activity from your ilk anyway.

Dec 22, 04 - 10:14 am Comment from: natis

I love how lately people use the word "liberal" to mean a very bad political stance. Correct me if I'm wrong, but at one time the thought of letting women vote or people from minority groups or hell, even before that non-land owners-all things we take for granted today-were liberal ideas at the times in history of when they were pitched. This is not a pro-Bush/anti-Bush stance that conflict is long over. This is an educational lesson for people like Tom Strong, Radical Right Wing Death Dealers and Happy Winner. Remember, America isn't only for white christian males.

And RRWDD (nice, wholesome name btw, must be really popular with the ladies at your church), thanks, but no thanks, I don't need a gun for I'm civilized and have better things to do with my money and time.

Dec 22, 04 - 10:16 am Comment from: bi11jon

i thought g.w. would have a mini. its small, and when you're the president there is no time to listen to more than 4 gigs of tunes. ....of course he could aslo use it to transport tons of government secrets. that settles it. 60gb ipod photo is the only ipod for the president of the u.s.

and btw, jack. the quote i loved the most is...
"I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully." —George W. Bush, Saginaw, Mich., Sept. 29, 2000

he has been paying attention. smile

Dec 22, 04 - 10:21 am Comment from: Blondell

Haha! That's pretty good Charles! Now try thinking for yourself instead of just co-opting.

Where's that televangelist Muslim channel, anyway?

And thanks for proving the witlessness of the right-wing—

Dec 22, 04 - 10:23 am Comment from: Beantown

Doesn't look like earbuds to me. Looks like an earpiece the secret service uses to communicate.

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