Looks like the president who tried to "change the tone" in Washington by, among other things, insulting blind people, is at it again. Only this time, his victims are the BALD:
Bush Insults BBC Political Editor at Press Conference
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NEW YORK At a recent press conference at Camp David, President George Bush insulted BBC political editor Nick Robinson, the Daily Mirror reports.
Robinson, who has asked Bush pointed questions in the past such as whetherthe president was “in denial” over the Iraq war, posed a question to Bush about whether he could trust visiting British Prime Minister Gordon Brown not to “cut and run” from Iraq.
Bush replied with a dismissal: “Are you still hanging around?”
Later on, Bush poked fun at the bare-pate of Robinson, joking, “You’d better cover up your bald head, it’s getting hot out.”
The respected British reporter shot back, “I didn’t know you cared.”
Bush responded with a cool, “I don’t.” The Mirror reports that Bush then “snorted disdainfully” and “walked away to laughter.”
Well well. Perhaps I'm overly sensitive due to my own diminishing follicular assets, but there is just something so profoundly...childish about this incident, beyond even his usual frat boy jocularity. Attacking a critic by going after their physical appearance? Really? When you're standing on the podium as the (in your own mind) leader of the free world, speaking to the representatives of the press, your words being transmitted all around the planet? Is that what you meant when you came to power with the promise that "the grownups were back in charge"?