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Poppa Bush Exposed in Depraved Sex Scandal!
WW2 hero and former President of these United States George H.W. Bush is ensnared in a lurid controversy that has shaken the globe, along with a few heinies. Not one but two fair maidens have alleged that the wheelchair-bound 93-year-old tried to cop a feel during group photos.
No cigars, potted plants, or sunken Oldsmobiles were found at the crime scenes, but the similar descriptions show a patriarchal pattern of predatory pinching. When several women swarm the seated nonagenarian, he slowly reaches his hand around the damsel to his right and … well … it’s too disturbing for me to describe, so I’ll let the ace journalists at Deadspin take it from here.
"He asked the group, ‘Do you want to know who my favorite magician is?’ As I felt his hand dig into my flesh, he said, ‘David Cop-a-Feel!’” pic.twitter.com/NTbUSEAnF0
— Deadspin (@Deadspin) October 26, 2017
Heh. “David Cop-a-feel.”
Er, I mean, this is an outrage! Does the “H.W.” stand for Harvey Weinstein?! I call on Bill Clinton to condemn this lewd behavior at once!
Bush was quick to apologize for both incidents:
Just in: Statement from George HW Bush on allegations by actress pic.twitter.com/hKBd4GHQgg
— David Mack (@davidmackau) October 25, 2017
Me being me, I made light of the situation on social media and, within seconds, the Woke Police feigned shock at my lack of performative indignation.
Come on, people, it’s pretty funny. Yeah, it’s gross if someone my age tried this crap, but we’re dealing with a very old, very ill man, who probably lost his impulse control a decade ago. I’m amused that over my lifetime, Bush Sr. morphed from a repressed, nerdy technocrat to a character from ‘The Benny Hill Show.”
He reminds me of a resident at my dad’s memory care facility, who I’ll call Bobby. He sits in his favorite chair, dangling an unlit cigar from his lips as he pontificates in his thick outer-borough accent. Until he falls asleep mid-sentence and the stogie waggles up and down with his labored breathing.
But when my sister walks in the room, look out. The old fella achingly stumbles to his feet, looks her up and down, and says, “Wow!” before asking for a kiss. When his wife is there, she offers a tired apologetic look to my sister since he does this all the time. But before we leave, sis gives both him and my dad a big hug. You should see Bobby’s eyes light up.
Maybe we can give these old guys a break. Yes, their behavior is tacky, inappropriate, and not hip to the latest social justice rules posted on Tumblr. But to call this “sexual assault,” as one of the accusers did, takes the meaning away from the phrase.
As our WW2 vets are wheeled by a nurse to life’s finish line, they could use an extra measure of tolerance, forgiveness, and grace. Save the epithets for actual abusers.
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Thanks Jon for finding words for what I was thinking.
Hadn’t thought about The Jolly Shopper in decades.
I’m reminded of the Lena Dunham story, perhaps embellished, accusing the Oberlin Republican (one of two?) of raping her.
She wasn’t just raped by a fellow student, an indignity unto itself, there’s the added political agenda of it being a Republican. “That’s who these people are” being the implication.
Women will suffer in silence if Harvey Weinstein, good progressive and Hollywood rainmaker puts the moves on an ingénue in a Beverly Hills hotel. Men will turn a blind eye. When it all comes out then they can expunge all the shock, hurt and shame at that time when there’s nothing on the line.
This isn’t to absolve our 41st President if he did grab a butt, but there’s being mad or upset by a dirty old man in a wheelchair and trying to make it national news on par with the trauma real victims have faced.
It’s a sociopathic mindset, with the thinking that “normalizing” Republicans, no matter the shade, is an affront to our society. There’s only trepidation about the effects of destroying people on their own side of the ledger, collecting scalps on this side is mere sport.
“And when you’re a <ex president>, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab ’em by the <butt>. You can do anything.”
Some of you Republican Trump haters explain to me how Trump is too reprehensible to represent the party, but President GHW Bush is/was not?
Don’t misread me. I see this as a pretty trivial accusation. But a bit less trivial than this hubbub over Trump making a crude ( but demonstrably true!) statement to another guy in a trailer…
Which is worse, talking about how some women let you do something, or actually doing something even when they don’t let you?
Because this shows us one thing for sure. The establishment Republicans are no more morally pure than President Trump is.
None of us is perfect. Politicians are less perfect than most. If you insist on seeing your politicians as moral role models and refuse to vote for ( or support) any but the most upstanding and pure at heart, you either will never find a candidate you can vote for or you will continually be disappointed in your representation.
Mark Steyn on Strom Thurmond:
“…my only close encounter with (Strom Thurmond), and a lot closer than I’d expected. It was the first day of the Clinton impeachment trial and, in a chaotic melee by the elevators, I was suddenly pushed forward and thrown between Thurmond and California Senator Barbara Boxer. Ol’ Strom had just cast an appreciative bipartisan eye over the petite brunette liberal extremist. Ms Boxer gave an involuntary shudder. I’d been squashed between the two for about five seconds when I became aware of a strange tickling sensation on my elbow. Glancing down, I was horrified to see an unusually large lizard slithering up and down my arm. On closer inspection, it proved to be Strom’s hand. Presumably he’d mistaken my dainty elbow for Barbara’s, but who knows? I can’t speak for Patty Murray, but I found the mild electric frisson not unpleasant. A senator is only as old as the woman he feels… He was the only circuit court judge in South Carolina history to have had sex with a condemned murderess as she was being transferred from the women’s prison to death row. …
Strom was the best thing about that weird impeachment racket. … He’d wobble up to (President Clinton’s) two lady lawyers, pat them down, tickle their elbows, stroke their hands, and refuse to let go until the gavel came down and the proceedings resumed.”
Jon,
On one hand senile old seniors often loose all inhibitions and do some very inappropriate things.
However, on the other hand, an old friend of mine now dead from a very famous and conservative Hollywood family who was privy to many things told me once that Bush Senior was known as “the fastest zipper in Washington” – a man who had many discreet affairs.
Now many laud Bush Senior, but I only remember him as the man who destroyed the Southern California economy. You see on the heals of the collapse of the Soviet Union, Bush Senior eliminated 125,000 defense contractor jobs in LA county alone. Adding insult to injury, several of the biggest defense contractors like Lockheed and Hughes Tool were forcibly politically “encouraged” to flee to other parts of the country. But the coup d’ grace was after that Bush sent in the banking regulators where they demanded that every commercial business loan coming up for renewal would either have to be “marked to market” or be cut 25% in an economy that was reeling. All this was happening at the same time as increased and unreasonable environmental scrutiny by the State and the Feds, and ridiculous new handicap legislation spurred on by Bush’s passage of the ADA.
The effect was devastating. The booming Southern California industrial economy, the largest and most diversified in the country, which had been the source of much of America’s innovation for decades, ground to a complete halt. Many went bankrupt. Many, many companies left the state, and the composition of the entire workforce totally changed. Once where there were a great many engineers and people in high tech, all of a sudden there were few, and they were replaced by illegals.
Southern California’s industrial economy, is now only a shell of what it once was, has not ever come close to ever recovering, and with that loss, much of America’s industrial innovation was permanently lost as well.
Only once in Presidential elections, from Eisenhower to Senior Bush did California vote Democrat (LBJ), but from then on, in Presidential elections California has voted overwhelmingly Democrat, forever changing America’s Presidential political landscape. Where once California was a middle of the road state, it became decidedly and completely controlled by the Hard Left.
Gee thanks, George H.W. Bush! What a job! Buraq Hussein Obama couldn’t have done better.
Ross Perot? Is that you?
I didn’t see it on here, but I wanted to mention on here that Heather Lind was “assaulted” four years ago. That’s a long time to be outraged.
Next we’ll have womyn’s studies classes taking field trips to nursing homes to expose all the sexist microaggressions committed by alzheimers and parkinsons patients.
Mis,
Is there any way to invest in this. Sounds like an SJW growth industry with unlimited upside potential.
Regards,
Jim
My dad was a gentleman, and he had a great sense of humor. When he was quite old his eyesight was nearly gone, so one day at a restaurant, he briefly put his arm around the young waitress standing next to him and said, “I can’t see you, so I have to feel you.” He didn’t do anything more than the arm around her waist, and she was smart and sensitive enough to understand he wasn’t doing anything untoward.
This is both innocuous and gross. I can’t imagine doing something like this, let alone feeling like it’s socially appropriate.
But, everybody does it:
https://medium.com/@jblistman/when-i-was-nineteen-years-old-elie-wiesel-grabbed-my-ass-10370829c4bd
The author of that article presents a false dichotomy:
I agree that if it’s not a big deal then there’s no reason not to mention it. However, that doesn’t mean one must portray the incident as if it’s a crime against humanity. Reporting the facts of the incident should be enough. Anything beyond that is slander unless you have evidence to back up your claims.
A quick reply—Trump was running for president. President GHWB is not. Trump was a young (ish) man with full powers; GHWB is 93 and in a wheelchair. A reasonable comparison might be Joe Biden’s “creepy old Uncle” routine, but even then, Joe Biden was the VP at the time. Not sitting in a wheelchair. The fact that the differences can be time-consuming to sort out does not mean there are no differences.
(Having said that, I think the Hollywood Access tape was unattractive, but ultimately irrelevant—Trump, like GHWB, was “messing around,” trying to be funny, thinking he was among (male) friends. Oops. Compare that to Bill Clinton and…well, there’s no comparison.)
And the appropriate person to report it to in the case of GHWB is, in the first instance, GHWB himself. As in “I don’t like that. Please don’t do it.” If the starlett does not feel she can do this —that it would embarrass the former POTUS or cause a scene—she can bring it up with his care providers, relatives or security people. “Look, this is what happened. It was inappropriate. Perhaps steps could be taken to ensure that other young women won’t have similar experiences?”
Put on your big-girl pants, in other words.
Does sitting in a wheelchair or being 93 explain or justify it? Or are you assuming his mental capacity and or sense of decency is diminished?
Unless you believe that he has radically changed in his old age, or has lost control of himself, his ‘morals’ are the same as they ever were. Yet I hear from some that Trump is just not morally acceptable to be the president nor to lead the Republican party.
If that is true of Trump, it is equally true of Bush I. I would further suggest it is true of the rest of them as well. They are politicians, not popes.
Nope, womyn are fragile snowflakes that must be protected and taken seriously or they are harmed for life. They are completely equal or superior to any man and thus must be treated gently.
I do not like the picture of 41 I’m seeing all over the Internet. Here’s one I like from years ago, from the Super Bowl 2005 (it’s hard to believe this was taken just 12 years ago when he about 80 years old):
He’s so awesome in that picture!
The difference between 80 and 93 is the difference between 7 and 20 years old. I am as sad as you to see it happening to him.
Explain? Yes. It certainly can. Senility, or even mild dementia, can create marked changes in behavior. That’s one of the things that makes caring for family members with Alzheimer’s so difficult and painful.
That doesn’t seem like a particularly outlandish or unusual observation to me—does it to you?
I’m not claiming that Trump is morally unacceptable as president. (Did you think I was?) I’m just saying that it is not unreasonable to expect an ordinary, non-impaired person to abide by ordinary rules and display ordinary good manners, especially toward subordinates. As far as is known, GHWB managed to meet these standards when he was president. As far as we know, Trump is meeting them now and, frankly, probably met them for most of his life before now as well, his boorish boasting notwithstanding. A lot of what people cite when condemning his morals comes down to “he talks dirty.” Well, fine.
I’d prefer a president who didn’t talk dirty, of course, but the previous president didn’t talked real nice. But he was truly and knowingly horrible to police officers, which is far, far worse in my book.
The H stands for Handsy.
Re comment # 42
About 20 years ago, I worked as a caregiver for a 92 year old man. I had been working for him a few months when one day he gruffly said to me: “I don’t mind being hugged every now and then, ya know.”
I know the elderly, if experiencing cognitive problems , can forget themselves and get out of line. It’s also true it must be very hard to be old and not have a spouse to just touch or hold you every now and then. Never mind sex, though that’s nice too.
I’m sixty and I dread getting older. It’s selfish of me, but I want to go before my husband.
There is a commercial that always brings tears to my eyes. I can’t remember what it’s about, but it goes like this: An elderly woman is in the bathroom talking to her husband about her day, and she walks out to find he isn’t there, because she forgot he passed away some time ago. I want to grab her and hug her so hard!
What ?
“This was Sue Logue, the only woman in the state ever to be sent to the chair, but not before she’d been sent to the back seat of Judge Thurmond’s car for a lively final ride. It was a particularly bloody murder case that had begun when Mr Logue’s calf had been kicked to death by some other feller’s mule. Things had escalated from there. Strom was said to have had a soft spot for Mrs Logue, whom he’d hired as a teacher back when he was school superintendent. She didn’t meet the minimum qualifications for the post, but she was said to have had unusual ‘vaginal muscular dexterity’. Nothing could be finder than to be in Carolina with a muscularly dextrous vagina.” — Mark Steyn
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“Sue Logue was a teacher and farmer’s wife in South Carolina. The neighbor had killed her husband, and urging for revenge she arranged for someone to kill him. Unfortunately for her, the killer couldn’t keep tight. Police cars mustered outside Sue Logue’s farmhouse. It was a standoff until the local judge (and later Governor of South Carolina) Strom Thurmond arrived. He went in unarmed, and persuaded her to give herself up. It was uncharacteristic for Sue to be submissive and surrender. Rumors went that Strom had had an affair with Sue when he was a superintendant at the school where Sue worked as a teacher. The lore includes a tale of her and Strom found flagrante delicto in the superintendent’s office. The 43 years old woman’s reputation for sexual prowess was such that men told stories of her reputed vaginal muscular dexterity. As Sue was driven from the women’s penitentiary to the death house at the main penitentiary in Columbia, she was sitting on the back seat with Strom. According to the driver, they were ‘huggin’ and kissin’ the whole day’. Probably Sue was the only woman ever to have sex on her way to the chair!” — murderpedia.org
Re: comment 56
Thank you.
The story greatly exaggerates the driver’s description, it seems.
I’m sorry Strom Thurmond didn’t have the influence at the time to save her life.
I just don’t think it is right to assume anyone of advanced age is senile. Seems a bit ageist to me, and have a number of 80+ year olds in my life that are still mentally sharp who would be deeply insulted by the insinuation that their age proves them unable to control their impulses.
Also, I’m not claiming President Bush is morally unfit or anything of the sort, just pointing out that if Trump’s crude comments demonstrate to someone he is unworthy of higher office, President Bush’s actions are marginally worse, so why the double standard?
I want to repeat, I find the accusations of what President Bush did to be trivial, mean spirited and they don’t significantly affect my opinion of him. But them I don’t expect my political leadership to be role models, just honest public servants and patriots.
Ah, okay. Got it. We agree!
I’ve been thinking a lot about your last point. As more (and more) information finally emerges confirming that the “scandal-free” Obama administration was, or rather should have been, anything but, perhaps a healthy disillusionment will start to set in on the left.
A politician with a nice crease to his trousers can smile and smile and yet be a villain.
I’m reminded of this quote from Once Upon a Time in the West
Cheyenne: [to Jill] You know what? If I was you, I’d go down there and give those boys a drink. Can’t imagine how happy it makes a man to see a woman like you, just to look at her. And if one of them should, uh, pat your behind, just make believe it’s nothing. They earned it.