Bush’s Greatest Embetterments of the Language
By Alan Stewart Carl | Related entries in Bush
If I had to speak in public every day for eight years, I’d probably make a few verbal flubs. That said, few public figures have ever given us such malapropisms as has George W. Bush. Collected by the AP for your amusement, here’s a list of Bush’s most memorable misstatementizing.
It’s good enough for a chuckle.
My favorite:
“There’s an old saying in Tennessee — I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can’t get fooled again.” — Sept. 17, 2002, in Nashville, Tenn.
Ahh, the classics.
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January 6th, 2009 at 10:03 am
Sorta like Yogi Berra, but without the underlying if garbled insight. The Bushiest Berra-ism is probably “when you come to the fork in the road, take it.”
January 6th, 2009 at 4:35 pm
My favorite: “Thank you, Your Holiness. Awesome speech.” April 16, 2008, at a ceremony welcoming Pope Benedict XVI to the White House.
This is when the line between him and Will Farrel really blurred.