Monday, June 26, 2006
White House Releases Blooper Reel
Washington D.C. (FN) - President Bush took a cue from sports broadcasting today as the White House released the first in a series of "Iraq War Bloopers" videos.
The videos, hosted by NBC sports commentator Marv Albert, will feature mishaps and comical misunderstandings by American troops in Iraq.
The previews shown to journalists included such hilarious bits as a soldier accidentally shooting a civilian and a man being imprisoned and tortured because he had a somewhat similar name to a known terrorist.
"They thought they had Mohamud, but they really had Muhammed. Yikes!" chimes Albert.
The climax of the video is a gut-splitting routine showing the efforts of U.S. weapons inspectors. The video is sped up and set to a soundtrack of Benny Hill-style music so that the inspectors appear to be frantically running in and out of buildings at super-fast speed searching for the non-existent weapons of mass destruction.
The video is part of White House efforts to regain public support for the Iraq War.
"The difference between an atrocity and a goof-up is just semantics. Some people might think that two baseball outfielders running into each other at high speed is an atrocity. To others, it's just comedy. We are hoping these videos will help show the public that our problems in Iraq fall into the category of life's little mix-ups," said White House press secretary Tony Snow.
posted by Mentok @ 10:53 a.m.,
6 Comments:
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At 8:28 p.m.,
jamwall said...
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you and i are fake news soul-brothers.
i did a benny hill themed story based on the infamous cartoon protests:
here
in the comments section, we talked about the theme song called "Yakety Sax" by Boots Randolph
bush would be a lucky man if he was chased around the white house grounds by large-breasted women at high speed to boots randolph's classic tune.
most likely, though, he gets chased around the press room by UPI's helen thomas. -
At 8:32 p.m.,
jamwall said...
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incidentally, one of my blog buddies thought i was going to be the victim of a jihad for taking the cartoon protest rather lightly.
his concern, in part, was heightened by this post -
At 9:11 p.m.,
Mentok said...
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Killer! I love the Benny Hill photoshop.
I did a cartoon protests thing as well, but not nearly as funny as your bits.
But, looking back, I had some other pretty good bits in February, including my curling bit and My Thing.
Thanks for the link to the tune. I did not know its name before. Man, it's classic. You know, it's impossible to be sad when that tune is playing ;-) -
At 9:14 p.m.,
mkecurler said...
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like the new photo! Article was hi-ar-ious! I still think the curling article was the best!
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At 7:25 a.m.,
jamwall said...
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those are funny posts!
its a good thing no ACME products were used during the cartoon riots.
i watched quite a bit of olympic curling this year. mostly i just like saying the name "Brad Gushue"
GUUUUUUUU-SHUUUUUUUE -
At 7:40 p.m.,
Bathroom Hippo said...
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My fav Bush blooper was during the Dubai Ports Deal...when the President defended the "Dubya" Ports deal....he later apologized.
