Newsweek report

[daniel]

NEWSWEEK reports that President Bush, appearing before a right-to-life rally in Tampa, Florida on June 17, stated: "We must always remember that all human beings begin life as a feces. A feces is a living being in the
eyes of God, who has endowed that feces with all of the rights and
God-given blessings of any other human being."
The audience listened in disbelief as the President repeated his error at least a dozen times, before realizing that he had used the word 'feces" when he meant to say "fetus."

[kinright]

As much as I laughed about the Bush quote I thought it was to good to be true so I took a look on the net and to my sadness I found the following info on urbanlegends web site web page (http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_bush_feces_speech.htm)

Comments: False. President Bush has been known to commit verbal gaffes on occasion, but nothing on the order of mistaking the word "feces" for "fetus" a dozen times in a row in a single speech. I'm not sure it's even humanly possible.
As it happens, Bush was in Tampa, Florida on June 16, 2004, the day before this event supposedly took place, but according to the White House press log he gave no speeches in Tampa on June 17.

No such news item appeared in Newsweek, nor any other venue, for that matter.
It is clearly a joke.

I hope the urbanlegends web site is wrong, but even though, it's still a very funny Article that made me laugh!!!!

[Buzz]

Life is a bunch of shit :D

[daniel]

drats, you are right it is made-up - the person who sent it to me seemed like they would be an authoritative enough source that I didn't check it myself ... such is life these days!

my apologies.

it seems so unnecessary to make this kind of stuff up when Bush's real malapropisms are so self-parodic already.

[Rob P]

Well for every good fake-out, there are dozens
of real ones...here are a few from
the Complete Bushisms

seeya
Rob

http://slate.msn.com/id/76886/


"I'm the master of low expectations."—Aboard Air Force One, June 4, 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."—Aboard Air Force One, June 4, 2003

"I recently met with the finance minister of the Palestinian Authority, was very impressed by his grasp of finances."—Washington, D.C., May 29, 2003

"Oftentimes, we live in a processed world—you know, people focus on the process and not results."—Washington, D.C., May 29, 2003