• @bradorsomething
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    262 months ago

    To his credit, he realized on the fly that if he said “shame on me,” it would be on The Daily Show that evening.

    • @skulblaka@startrek.website
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      82 months ago

      People like to laugh at that quote but it’s about as good of a fumble recovery as anyone could have done in that situation. Dubya was no fool, despite his “bumbling everyman” persona.

    • @tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip
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      42 months ago

      Maybe, but it would’ve been joked about once and been done, whereas his wrong quote in fact was on The Daily Show that night AND we’re still talking about how dumb he sounded 20+ years later. Typical con behavior really-- doing something in the moment that only other cons think is the better choice but really fucks things up for decades.

      • @bradorsomething
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        22 months ago

        See, I disagree here, I like to believe there would have been a “shame on me” rap produced from it.

        • @tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip
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          22 months ago

          I guess that’s a possibility, but would it still be getting plays 20 years later? Why would that one phrase be so bad compared to all the other dumb shit he said? There were compilations of his idiotic quotes and people barely make specific references to those now anyway, partly because it’s been so long and partly because his dumbassery has been overshadowed by the more recent GOP fascism.