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
Well, I reckon the Prez playlist will include something from Tears For Fears…. “It’s a Mad World” and “Everybody wants to rule the world”.
“Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.”�George W. Bush Austin, Texas, Dec. 20, 2000
“I’ve coined new words, like, misunderstanding and Hispanically.”�George W. Bush Radio-Television Correspondents Association dinner, Washington, D.C., March 29, 2001
“They misunderestimated me.”�George W. Bush Bentonville, Ark., Nov. 6, 2000
“Redefining the role of the United States from enablers to keep the peace to enablers to keep the peace from peacekeepers is going to be an assignment.”�George W. Bush Interview with the New York Times, Jan. 14, 2001 (Thanks to Rachael Contorer.)
“The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants.”�George W. Bush Interview with the New York Times, Jan. 14, 2001
“It’s very important for folks to understand that when there’s more trade, there’s more commerce.”–George W. Bush Quebec City, Canada, April 21, 2001
“It’s clearly a budget. It’s got a lot of numbers in it.”–George W. Bush Reuters, May 5, 2000
G-spank wrote: Do you really think by typing CHRISTmas you are going to affect the “Liberals”?
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Well, it seems to have done exactly that, despite your protestation to the contrary. For if it truly did not, no protestation would have been offered.
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A) You served 4 months in Vietnam . . .
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Well, your man Bush served no months in Vietnam. He’s not serving in Iraq either, and at this point I think it would be a nice gesture if he would. I mean, since he got us over there for non-existent WMD and all.
G-spank wrote: Don’t you know that Jesus was a liberal?
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G-spank, suppose you enlighten me. I was previously unaware that Jesus was a pro-homosexual agenda, pro-tax, pro-abortion, anti-Israel, blame America first, moral relativist, Michael Moore-worshipping fool. Looks like it’s time for me to get a new bible. Surely, some pages must have slipped from mine.
Merry Chirstmas!
In response to my having uttered the un-utterable verboten phrase du jour, “Merry Christmas”, G-spank responded with “oh yes, Rick, you are a religious NUT.”
This is no doubt, yet another sterling example of that fabled liberal tolerance. Either that, or it’s yet another sterling example of that equally fabled liberal hypocrisy.
Anyway, Merry Christmas!
I love reading the Neocon remarks… Hilarious… Even though it’s different people remarking, it all sounds like it’s coming from the same person, like a cult, a brainwashed, mindless, blind following the blind cult. Just a big circle jerk of brainless chumps stroking themselves and licking Dubya’s nuts while chanting “We won! We won! We won!…”
Don’t get too excited over winning. It really wasn’t that big of a surprise… We all know that there are more idiots out there than intelligent people, and with America’s true God, the television, spoonfeeding it’s propaganda and telling it’s mush-brained and easily influenced flock how to think with it’s shock and awe ratings before research reporting, is it any wonder we are where we are now?
I know your excited and hard now with the way things are going, my Neocon friends, so keep stroking and maybe after you shoot your load, you’ll finally be able think straight and look around and wonder WTF happened to the world?
Cool, I’m glad he has an iPod too. Thankfully he’ll be in charge for another 4 years too.
As my uncomfortable question has been completely and conveniently ignored by the current crop of monotonous libs, I shall ask it again, and again, and again…
…for those enlightened ones of the left: In that your best and your brightest ran your recent bid for President, and in that they proceeded to woo the American people with such stunts as putting Michael Moore in the VIP section next to Jimmy Carter at the Democratic National Convention; taking Al Sharpton seriously; embracing the now-famous Hollywood hate-fest in all its classless and clueless glory as being emblematic of “the heart of America”; and making the case that you would be a better protector of these United States because, A) You served 4 months in Vietnam, and, B) You want U.S. foreign policy to be submitted to the world’s approval (that famous “Global Test”), have you considered at all, just for a moment, that indeed stupidity is not entirely confined to the occasional faux pas, but may perhaps take on more substantive forms?
Merry Christmas!
Sean the gifted remarked “I love reading the Neocon remarks… Hilarious… Even though it’s different people remarking, it all sounds like it’s coming from the same person, like a cult, a brainwashed, mindless, blind following the blind cult. Just a big circle jerk of brainless chumps stroking themselves…
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Well, Sean, I guess then it’s a good thing that liberals never sound like they’re all reading from the same playbook, lest the same assesment be made of your side of the spectrum. Yes, yes, you people espouse a diversity of opinions all of which are summed up thusly: Bush is stupid! And…Bush is stupid! And…Bush is stupid…and, and, and, uh…oh yeah…Bush is stupid!
Well done, hotshot.
And, Merry Christmas!
“Michael Moore-worshipping fool”
I am aware of no democrats who worship Michael Moore, but Moore’s movies are more entertaining than your posts.
“Looks like it’s time for me to get a new bible”
Perhaps you should look at the one you’ve got:
Leviticus 19:18
Rick wrote: In response to my having uttered the un-utterable verboten phrase du jour, “Merry Christmas”, G-spank responded with “oh yes, Rick, you are a religious NUT.”
Yes, that’s right Rick, you’re a NUT. First, because you insist that I am bothered by you writing merry CHRISTmas, and second, because you insist that I called you a religious nut based on you saying “Merry Christmas”. I called you a NUT because you are living in a world that is so far off from reality that you should be checked in at the hospital. It’s almost as if you really truly think that saying “Merry Christmas” actually hurts the “Godless Liberals” as I am sure that’s how you view them. You need to get off the meds, turn off the TV, and realize that 99% of all Liberals care about the environment, care about helping the poor, care about not going to war based on lies. They couldn’t give a shit if you put the Christ back in Christmas or not. Most of them are religious too, bro. And the ones who are not believe in the right to worship, so ROCK ON with your “Merry Christmas”!
and thank you for wishing me a merry Christmas.
Merry CHRISTmas to you as well, Rick. I hope the spirit helps you to rid yourself of all that hate you have inside towards “Liberals”.
To all you Al Franken and Bill O’Reilly wannabes who get off on your own self-righteous blathering, I please visit the appropriate websites for your moronic ramblings:
Left-wing nuts:
http://www.moveon.org/
Right-wing nuts:
http://www.freerepublic.com/
You idiotic sermons and childish rants will be welcome on those sites.
Me, I’m just an old Machead who longs for the days when Apple product discussion forums were for, like, you know, discussing Apple products.
Jesus was a pro-homosexual agenda, pro-tax, pro-abortion, anti-Israel, blame America first, moral relativist, Michael Moore-worshipping fool.
A perfect example of how you bought in to everything the Republican Propaganda Committee was selling. Well done, Rick! You are a sheep! Karl Rove laughs at how easy you make his job!
“And so at last the beast fell and the unbelievers rejoiced. But all was not lost, for from the ash rose a great bird. The bird gazed down upon the unbelievers and cast fire and thunder upon them. For the beast had been reborn with its strength renewed, and the followers of Mammon cowered in horror.”
from The Book of Mozilla, 7:15
bummer, another mac forum ruined by crypto-fascist assholes. What would Jesus bomb?
Max wrote: I am aware of no democrats who worship Michael Moore…
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Max, consider for a moment the uncomfortable possibility that your awareness and my awareness are not the same.
Merry Christmas!
Screw grandma – I wanna see BUSH get run over by a reindeer.
A liberal asked: What would Jesus bomb?
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Answer: Sodom and Gomorrah
Max wrote, “Perhaps you should look at the [bible] you’ve got:
Leviticus 19:18
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Max, if you want to proof-text Mosaic law to me, have at it. But before you do, ask yourself this question: How many arguments do I want to lose today?
a crypto-fascist fundamentalist conservative answered:
Sodom and Gomorrah.
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wrong answer fuck-wad. Read your bible again, this time without the log in your eye.
I posted earlier: “Go Apple!”
I should have posted: “Go Rick!”
Upon quoting me (“I was previously unaware that Jesus was a pro-homosexual agenda, pro-tax, pro-abortion, anti-Israel, blame America first, moral relativist, Michael Moore-worshipping fool”), G-spank the delusional wrote: A perfect example of how you bought in to everything the Republican Propaganda Committee was selling. Well done, Rick! You are a sheep! Karl Rove laughs at how easy you make his job!
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Excuse me, G-spank, but I’m still waiting for you to tell me just exactly where you got the idea that Jesus was a liberal.
So sorry that your sad and transparent attempt at deflection didn’t work. Oh, and by the way, the current monotonous liberal obsession with Karl Rove is getting ever more pathetic. HINT: Conservative assessment of and disagreement with that set of beliefs commonly referred to as the “liberal agenda” is nothing new, and predates Karl Rove by many years. Can your superior intellect absorb that quite simple and straightforward fact? It really should, if you want to keep up appearances.
Merry Christmas!
This page is filled with examples of how divided our country has become, but at least we can all agree on one thing – iPod!!
Merry Xmas!!
Example of Jesus being a liberal:
Mary Magdalane was an apostle. But I’m sure you won’t believe that because of all the lies your church has told you about the bible.