{"id":8267,"date":"2006-08-22T12:29:30","date_gmt":"2006-08-22T16:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/8267.html"},"modified":"2006-08-22T12:29:30","modified_gmt":"2006-08-22T16:29:30","slug":"animal-house-in-the-west-wing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/animal-house-in-the-west-wing\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Animal House in the West Wing’"},"content":{"rendered":"

My opinion of the president couldn’t get much lower, but even I find this<\/a> hard to believe.<\/p>\n

[Bush] loves to cuss, gets a jolly when a mountain biker wipes out trying to keep up with him, and now we’re learning that the first frat boy loves flatulence jokes. A top insider let that slip when explaining why President Bush is paranoid around women, always worried about his behavior. But he’s still a funny, earthy guy who, for example, can’t get enough of fart jokes. He’s also known to cut a few for laughs, especially when greeting new young aides, but forget about getting people to gas about that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This comes by way of U.S. News & World Report, not Capitol Hill Blue, so there’s a bit more credibility standing behind the piece. For that matter, presidents engaging in odd inter-personal behavior isn’t entirely without precedent (how many people were asked to look at LBJ’s scar?).<\/p>\n

That said, is it really possible that the president will pass gas, “especially when greeting new young aides,” for a cheap laugh? It sounds like a bit of a stretch.<\/p>\n

Then again, perhaps it’s best not to expect too much of Bush’s social graces. I would have found it hard to imagine the president giving an unsolicited neck-rub<\/a> to the Chancellor of Germany, or trying to publicly embarrass<\/a> top administration officials for getting post-graduate degrees, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My opinion of the president couldn’t get much lower, but even I find this hard to believe. [Bush] loves to cuss, gets a jolly when a mountain biker wipes out trying to keep up with him, and now we’re learning that the first frat boy loves flatulence jokes. A top insider let that slip when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}