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Belgians Compare Bush to a Chimp, Forgetting This Has Already Been Done 50 Million Times... |
2005-03-31 |
I guess they don't realize the chimp=Bush thing is so 2004... Belgium's interior minister was left red-faced after it emerged that photos comparing US President George W. Bush to a chimpanzee had been used in a police training manual. "I hadn't seen these photos and I think they are in bad taste," the minister, Patrick Dewael, told the Flemish-language daily Het Laatste Nieuws, which first reported the story. "They're much less classy than the urinal stickers.... The pictures in question -- reprinted by the newspaper -- showed a series of the US leader's facial expressions next to shots of a chimpanzee making apparently similar faces. They were intended to |
Posted by:Desert Blondie |
#5 And Raj... other than the odd OutDoor Channell... is there anything else? /Hi Lucky! |
Posted by: Shipman 2005-03-31 6:29:17 PM |
#4 Are you ready Raj! |
Posted by: Shipman 2005-03-31 6:27:37 PM |
#3 I used to have that series (it dates from pre-9/11/2001 days), and I voted for the man. Funny is funny, and that was at least a little funny. Of course, nothing much funny about Belgians. Even the French disrespect them. |
Posted by: Carl in N.H. 2005-03-31 4:40:19 PM |
#2 That's rich, coming from a country derisively nicknamed the French Poodle. Shut up and give me some Spring Classics already! |
Posted by: Raj 2005-03-31 3:37:22 PM |
#1 The Prez compared to a chimp? How about: Belgian on the White House dinner menu... |
Posted by: BigEd 2005-03-31 2:23:34 PM |