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I AM BUSINESS -- I AM ROUND

ook — Wed, 04 Aug 2004 07:55:20 -0800

GW Bush not AWOL: Actually Secret Agent; Deep Throat; Expressionist Art Collector A shocking followup to the tragic Thatcher news earlier today.

By: ZippityBuddha

ZippityBuddha — Wed, 04 Aug 2004 08:08:25 -0800

"Bush impressed Chou En-Lai tremendously. Flush with government-supplied money, he persuaded the Chinese premier to supply land and labor and build him the world's largest eight-track-tape factory, on the outskirts of Beijing. Bush supervised the construction personally, often arriving as early as 8:30 A.M. and staying on the job as late as 3 P.M." ha!

By: billpena

billpena — Wed, 04 Aug 2004 08:21:05 -0800

OK, I'll bite ... this is a joke, right? I haven't read through the entire article, just the first and last page, but WHUUUUU??

By: rough ashlar

rough ashlar — Wed, 04 Aug 2004 08:31:03 -0800

(Bush actually appears, ever so briefly, as a libidinous heroin-addicted pizza-delivery guy in Warhol and Morrissey's film Heat, in a scene that was added at the last minute.) Fact check.....paging dvd frame by frame fact check

By: Outlawyr

Outlawyr — Wed, 04 Aug 2004 08:31:43 -0800

It's an attempt at humor

By: quonsar

quonsar — Wed, 04 Aug 2004 08:34:00 -0800

so, thatcher really IS dead?

By: ZippityBuddha

ZippityBuddha — Wed, 04 Aug 2004 08:38:53 -0800

from the SanFranChron: The August issue of GQ has scored the mock scoop of this Bush-baiting summer -- and toyed with the conventions of straightforward magazine photojournalism in the process. The piece and its presentation once again raise touchy issues of fairness and full disclosure in political humor, touched off earlier this year by Michael Moore's film "Fahrenheit 9/11." This latest media stunt also invites everyone to lighten up and go along with the joke. In a satirical prank complete with a half dozen arty photographs by a British conceptual artist, "Bush: The Missing Year" purports to account for the unexplained gap in the president's Air National Guard service in 1972-73. The story, by senior editor Jason Gay, details Bush's clandestine activities in the U.S. military's fictitious Special Undercover Missions Service (SUMS). The photographer, Alison Jackson, used a young Bush look-alike -- a 25-year-old Philadelphia insurance adjuster in real life -- as a model. In the lead shot, he touches a young Vietnamese woman's waist as she fondles his collar. Three other smiling beauties look on. He's shirtless and grinning wildly in the next shot. Other images show the Bush stand-in playing cards with a Mick Jagger model and touching up a Warhol portrait of Marilyn Monroe. In the final staged photo, a white-haired Barbara Bush type yanks her son out of bed by his ear, a fifth of Jack Daniel's in his hand and pictures of nudes scattered on the floor.

By: jazzkat11

jazzkat11 — Wed, 04 Aug 2004 08:39:45 -0800

Next for Bush was New Zealand, where he assisted officials with helicopter surveillance of sheep poachers, and then Monaco, where he taught the crown prince's bodyguards how to fire assault rifles while waterskiing in tuxedos. I'd always suspected as much..

By: PinkStainlessTail

PinkStainlessTail — Wed, 04 Aug 2004 08:41:54 -0800

The piece and its presentation once again raise touchy issues of fairness and full disclosure in political humor... Anyone who thought this was real for more than roughly 2.5 seconds shouldn't be allowed to vote.

By: jmgorman

jmgorman — Wed, 04 Aug 2004 09:17:43 -0800

GQ should really just leave its comedy writing to Sedaris. This isn't even clever.

By: ook

ook — Wed, 04 Aug 2004 09:42:54 -0800

Tough crowd. I thought it was well-written; nice escalation from weird-but-sorta-plausible to completely-batshit. The photos helped -- pity they weren't included in the online version -- as did the fact that I'm not too familiar with GQ (I read this in a dentist's waiting room) so didn't know if they normally did straight news. Plus, come on. You telling me the image of Cheney performing at the Factory didn't give you a chuckle?

By: gottabefunky

gottabefunky — Wed, 04 Aug 2004 09:52:19 -0800

That dude really looks like Mick Jagger.

By: xammerboy

xammerboy — Wed, 04 Aug 2004 09:53:48 -0800

Another stunning coup by famed GQ journalists. It's a wonder that Bush did not simply leak the information earlier, but, hey, that's humility for you.

By: fenriq

fenriq — Wed, 04 Aug 2004 10:13:58 -0800

Um, don't you at least have to have a modicum of intelligence to be a spy? Yeah, I didn't see any pics in the story. They're only in the print edition? Does anyone still buy GQ? How long before we get the George W. Bush Shameless Spy Action Figure (now with beer guzzling and dry humping action!)?

By: crunchland

crunchland — Wed, 04 Aug 2004 10:28:57 -0800

I can't believe they published this in the Congessional Quarterly.

By: crunchland

crunchland — Wed, 04 Aug 2004 10:29:12 -0800

I can't believe they published this in the Congressional Quarterly.

By: crunchland

crunchland — Wed, 04 Aug 2004 10:29:45 -0800

stupid slow server.

By: ook

ook — Wed, 04 Aug 2004 12:23:06 -0800

Does anyone still buy GQ? Well, my dentist does, anyway.

By: lodurr

lodurr — Wed, 04 Aug 2004 21:18:10 -0800

I have to admit, I was starting to take it seriously, until I got to this: They were masters of disguise, capable of passing themselves off as immigrants, women, even large animals.