bush does the shocker. wtf
November 13, 2008, 4:43 pm
here is bush w/ the arizona state men and women’s track teams.
arizona state, the classy school it is, does a version of the shocker as their official student hand gesture. it’s supposed to be a pitchfork (sundevils. get it?), but really, it’s still THE SHOCKER. you know it was made up by some asshole frat dude who was like, “dude, the shocker is so funny. maybe if we spread these two fingers apart a little, we can call it a pitchfork, the school won’t mind, and we can be assholes on national television all the time.” GREAT IDEA.
i almost do not have words for this photo, but really, i have a lot of words, such as: WHO IN THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS OFFICE THOUGHT THIS WAS AN OK IDEA TO TAKE AND DISTRIBUTE THIS PHOTO? why wasn’t there some young white house aide who was like, “hmmmm. that could be bad.” or “OMG WTF. do you know what that MEANS?”
and let’s say bush didn’t want to be rude and felt the need to take that photo w/ the team … does it mean they have to put it up on the whitehouse.gov site?
wow. thank you paulo for jolting me out of my blogging funk. you can’t even make this kind of thing up. it’s as if he’s not even trying anymore.
Wow. Nice find! Maybe Bush thought it was a variant on the “W” gesture? Sorry, I don’t see a pitchfork. Just the shocker.
Bush can do whatever he wants now. I think this will actually help his approval rating. He’s a lame duck with no where to go.
man, do you remember the giant foam shocker hand we had in the arts room at the daily? pretty sure it’s in the yearbook picture.
Do you think they will come out with a tshirt of this?
Size L please.
I posed the same question that you raised in your blog to my friend who works for the White House:
Dear Big Joe,
Didn’t any of you cool kids who work at the White House teach President Bush anything? As in, that he might not want to do this: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2008/11/images/20081112_d-0077-5-515h.html
And this was his reply:
Ohhhh – I can’t wait til your golden boy doesn’t live up to your expectations…
Nice excuse, buddy.