Bush’s farewell salute to America
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Hey fastfood: go f*ck yourself.
Ah, lack of humour… loud mouthed bad loser…
‘Shopped.
*squints*
I think it’s shopped, anyway.
Shopped indeed. Still funny though.
I thought this was already demonstrated *not* to be shopped? Well, someone will set us straight with a link to the original if it wasn’t.
Shopped, but not to add the finger. Just to switch out his dog for the flag.
http://realmoftwelve.blogspot.com/2007/10/oh-be-careful-little-hands-what-you-do.html
If you’d been treated like this guy has for almost a decade, would they have to photoshop YOU giving America the finger? Most people are still more interested in talking about his secret weather machine he uses to kill black people with hurricanes, or about how he planted C4 in the World Trade Center, Mission-Impossible style, than talking about failures of policy. I’d give you assholes the finger too. You wouldn’t even have to Photoshop me.
The fact that it’s even a possibility that it’s not shopped just helps to prove what a piss-poor party-boy President half of us stuck -all- of us with.
FIRST!! lol so true
i love when you guys fail
phail 3RD
Why is this man so in love with that finger?
I wonder where he wants to stick that finger..
Where he has ALREADY stuck that finger… many mnay times…
I thought we were lucky he didn’t have his dick out
In other words: the anus.
Owchie.
Only one place TO stick it….;)
His nose?
up Cheney’s ass
Same place his head is.
The fingers are offcolor but that might be an issue with the lens. I am trying to figure out what else his hand might be doing but flipping off fits the expression on his face so I am inclined to believe the color is an aberration instead of proof of being shopped. However, I will leave that for others to wince over.
Yeah, he does love to flip the bird.
Haven’t you heard, the bird is the word.
Well a bird bird bird, bird is the word!!
I hate you people so damn much…now it will never go away. Ever. I swear, that song is eating my brain.
nomnomnom
mmmmm, junk food
MEG EVERYONE HAS HEARD THAT THE BIRD IS THE WORD
Have you heard?
And here all this time, I thought GREASE was the word….
The Bird is cruel.
Too late – I already painted over the mirrors!
Bush is just asking for someone to check and see what that dark gunk under his nail is…and why he can’t seem to remember how to do his job…
He’s most likely beckoning with a full open hand to someone to come help, and the other three fingers are shopped out. Classic though — like the man said, “if it ain’t true, it should be”
I don’t think so. It looks to me like his hand is in a fist with the thumb sticking out and they shopped the middle finger up. If you look around the edge of the middle finger, it’s very sharp as opposed to the outer edge of the thumb.
He already knows we’re fucked once he leaves.
Aren’t we more fucked with him in office than out of office?
Ha. Not even close. Once he’s out of office, you’re gonna see TRUE incompetence, arrogance and idiocy. You’ll wish you only had Bush in office again. Don’t believe me? Check out Wall Street. They know.
I know you’re not supposed to feed the trolls, but…
You’re a moron.
Wall street has been plummeting because droves of rich people are getting spooked and selling their stocks, and it’s cascading out of control. The more people sell, the more the market plummets, and the more the market plummets, the more people sell.
As for the competency of our new president, anyone who truly thinks that we’re in more trouble now than before is an honest to goodness idiot. We are in the best shape we’ve been in for 8 years. Heck, perhaps other countries will actually respect the US again. It’s already beginning: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/barackobama/3387760/Barack-Obama-victory-allows-Britain-to-love-US-again.html.
And honestly, how could you hate a candidate that plans tax cuts for the great majority of America, wants to end unnecessary wars, not start new wars, and bring outsourced jobs back?
i’m curious, how exactly does he propose to “bring outsourced jobs back”? Last time I checked those companys are free agencies and can set up shop anywhere they please.
*sigh* companies
By raising taxes on american based companies with factories in low wage countries–> then they’ll come back and give the jobs to americans…
Or they’ll just cut jobs and increase prices to cover the bottom line.
In that case, they deserve to fail, and native born industries will have to be restarted.
Any American who makes his fortune by outsourcing American jobs is a traitor to the nation and ought to be locked up, or at least kicked the hell out of our country.
Amen!
Business owners like to complain, “If we have to do the production over here with AMERICAN labor, we have to pay more, and give benefits, and that makes the product more expensive!”
This may be true…but it’s okay if it becomes a little more expensie, because WE WILL ALL HAVE JOBS!
According to his web site, he plans to alter the tax structure to make outsourcing less attractive, give companies that create jobs here a tax break, and give preference to companies that keep jobs here when awarding government contracts.
I don’t suppose it occurred to you to ask that question before the election.
see my reply below
Actually I didnt vote for president this year, I couldn’t bring myself to vote for either one of these yokels. I have so many problems with both of their proposed policies. Besides the popular vote means very little and my state ( Oregon ) has been a blue state for about as long as i’ve been alive.
that is just brilliant. well, i can’t really decide, so i will not vote and then whing about the president EVERYONE ELSE picks. way to participate in a democracy
Whinge… the word is WHINGE!
and democracy is an asinine joke… we vote for the lies we like and pretend it ain’t so…
Tax breaks to companies that bring jobs BACK to the USA…
Instead of giving breaks to companies that send jobs to elsewhere…
That’s how.
What a novel idea.. Help the American people earn money instead of helping other countries earn money with American jobs… Middle class drives the economy what? How socialist of you.
The Bourgeois have always driven revolutions… the grunts don’t have the intelligence and the rulers don’t want it to change
There is a way. Mussolini did it.
While it’s not quite Hitler, I do believe this statement was accurately predicted by ‘Godwin’s Law.’
No… Mussolini was a Fascist, not a Nazi… I can’t help if most people are too fence post dumb to tell the difference…
Someone at work tried to convince me of that yesterday. I had to point out that the markets have been in free fall for six weeks, and Obama hasn’t even stepped foot inside the white house yet, but she maintains that *this* week’s failures are different from *last* week’s failures.
Logic: FAIL
You’re retarded. I bought stocks a few weeks before the election and I’ve already hit the break-even point. Plus, I got dividend stocks so I’m getting a check for $14 soon. It’s not much but there’s the opportunity to purchase some good stock while it’s cheap enough to be affordable.
so tru
he certainly had a LOT to improve on, but now we really are fucked…
I’m sorry. Are you under the impression that things are going WELL here? ‘Cos I gotta say, I’ve been pretty royally fucked ever since he came into office, and I voted for the SOB in 2000. I will NEVER vote Republican again.
Yeah…McCain was the guy to vote for back in 2000. I honestly think if he’d won the office back then, we’d be in okay shape. The guy was practically a Democrat back then. I don’t think McCain would’ve gone to Iraq, and he’d have smacked the oil companies and Wall St. around for pulling the money-grubbing shyte they’ve been pulling for the past 8 years.
However…THIS time around…he wasn’t quite right for the job…as the American people clearly expressed.
That past 8 years? They’ve been pulling this “money grubbing shyte” for decades. These kind of problems take way longer than 8 years to build up.
That picture is so photoshop’d. His finger is different color than the rest of his hand as well as the knuckle on his first finger.
He was doing this the whole time he was in office.
They either cut off his index finger, or added one.
As long as he actually leaves, he can hold up as many fingers as he wants.
obviously photoshopped.
it’s obvious.
Not necessarily. We’d know more if the context of the photo was more clear. See my link for another lovely example. It’s pretty funny. He was joking around and did it casually. He might have been in the habit of it. Meh.
It could be real. Here’s a real one on video.
I hate to burst all ya’lls bubbles but it’s not photoshopped. The reason the finger looks lighter is because the rest of the hand is in shadow. If you open the image in paint and blow it up you can see that there isn’t any of the obvious artifact that you get from a photoshop job.
Having said all that I doubt that it was intentional on his part. The image is really grainy so it’s probably a still capture from a video. He was probably about to scatch his nose or something.
Oh and another appropriate caption “The feeling is mutual.”
lol, but I kinda have a hard time believing it’s real. Look at the flag, it looks photoshopped also. Though this would rock if it was real. I wonder who would he be fliping off (aside from the middle class, the world and anyone who disagrees with him)
it does look a bit fake for a flag now that i see it, but that might just be some weird thing.
My guess is he thinks it’s funny and is the type to take to flipping off his friends and whatever. In the same way you might insult your own friends in jest.
I’m with ya – it’s not photoshopped. When you zoom in tight, there’s a thin and consistent shadow around his entire hand and arm that would be really, REALLY challenging to reproduce. However, I do believe it’s intentional, but probably in jest.
…and I dig your alternate caption.
Thank you but I must give credit where credit is due, my husband. I sent him the pic and that was his response.
ok I did some more research. The finger is real the flag is fake. He was actually carrying his dog. It’s hard to find any images that aren’t on someone’s blog (which makes me naturally skeptical) but some of the images I’ve found were obvious stills from a TV. So I’m comfortable with “real finger, fake flag”.
If you do an image search for “bush finger” on google you’ll find loads of them.
Maybe he was flipping off the dumbass reporter who got bitten by the dog.
I saw the video and if the reporter wanted to pet a dog who didn’t know him, he REALLY should have moved a bit more slowly…not just reached down from the dog’s blind spot.
- If his hand were in shadow his thumb would be lighter too.
– The entire image is full of jpeg artifacts. It would be impossible to notice one around his finger, even if it wasn’t for the fact that:
– Photoshop itself can save a jpeg at full quality. At 100% it will not create new artifacts.
I agree that it’s probably from a video but it looks like pre-Photoshop he was giving a thumbs up.
I also agree with your alternate caption.
Another possible caption, although not a timely one: Here’s your manual recount.
Haha, that’s awesome.
I used preview to blow up the hand, and it really looks like the middle finger was put on top of a curled middle. still, darn good ’shop, at high res it looks very realistic
Thanks for being a tolerant liberal.
I try (I don’t always succeed but hey I’m only human). Some very good friends of mine are republicans and libertarians and we all manage to get along. We have lively discussions about the issues without getting personal and at the end of the day we can all still sit down and enjoy a few beers together. If only the rest of the country could learn from me and my friends.
I think you meant “pick his nose”.
Lol, but you need to make the finger look more like the color of his hand next time, it’s really pale in comparison. Good job though.
Its obviously NOT photoshopped. His expression says it all.
HAHAHA that’s awesome!
I don’t care if it is photoshopped, it’s still funny
Under international law, once he and Cheney leave office they can be prosecuted for war crimes, like complicity in torture.
You really need to stop getting my hopes up.
won’t happen
but wouldn’t it be fun?
Fun like getting head from a beautiful and clean woman of every nationality in pairs. Doesn’t mean it is going to happen. However, if it does, I still won’t hold my breath for all that head.
Only if they leave the country. This is why Kissenger can’t travel abroad.
Wow, this place really is run by a bunch of tasteless retards.
And you keep feedin’ ‘em. How ironic.
It’s the internet. We’re all classless scum!
On behalf of the scum, I resent that Sir!
Wasn’t that his hello to the country as well?
Who cares if it’s photoshopped or not? It’s still funny either way.
GROW UP FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS DECENT!
Growing up is against the spirit of this website.
And i take this to mean that apparently the only genuine expression of being a grown up is blind adoration of the above pictured incompetent troll of a president? This dry-drunk frat-boy whose backers and aides pronounced, upon his ascension, that “the grown ups are in charge now” and then proceeded govern according to his insecurities, prejudices and daddy-issues. If that’s “grown up” to you, Jackie, i’ll stick to my immaturity, thx.
Alternate caption suggestion: And the same to you, “sir”!
And who cares if it’s photoshopped!
you can definitely see this is a photoshop job where they removed his dog http://whitehouser.com/img/iraq/bush_finger.jpg but idk the finger might be legit.
click my name and you can see that they removed his dog from the picture. this is a photoshop job on the flag but idk i think the finger is legit.
Still the flag on the link. Do you have another link?
sorry… this is the right one this time. in the picture with the flag look near the text at the bottom and you can see where the dog’s foot is suppose to be.
sorry… this is the right one this time. in the picture with the flag look near the text at the bottom and you can see where the dog’s foot is suppose to be.
“The one finger victory salute.”
Yeah, that’s from this link. Pretty funny.
God I hate that man so much. The feeling is soooo mutual, Georgie!
Shopped
photoshop fail
best Obama negative campaign add http://www.nbc.com/Late_Night_with_Conan_O‘Brien/video/clips/conans-negative-obama-ad-11508/812961/ he lied to Conan O’Brien.
Drat. Link does not work.
try clicking my name
still doesn’t work.
go to nbc.com it is on the main page
WHO CARES if the finger is photoshopped?
It’s funny!
funny because it’s true
Dear America
You know he’s still got, like, two months to start World War III, right?
Regards,
the UK
Shhh…. Don’t give them any ideas.
Nice caption haha.
On a side note, I am all for jobs being brought back to the US. However, this means people need to be prepared for those companies that do bring it back to potentially show less profit for a while because, let’s face it, Americans cost more to employ in most cases.
Of course, some times I wonder at it all…. I mean, I have never visited anywhere in the US and not seen signs where people are hiring. Now, does this mean those jobs will provide health benefits and enough money to support a family and live comfortably? Not necessarily. But when people don’t work because they don’t want to take a low-paying job or whatever I get really steamed. If you have a family and you are refusing a job (that can end anytime you want!) because it pays too low… well, it certainly pays more than sitting on your butt.
Not exactly.
I was laid off from a tech job a couple of years ago (me and my whole department, when they sent our jobs to Reynosa…). My unemployment compensation was 80% of what I’d been making. I got several job offers in the first few weeks for 60-70% of what I’d been making, and I didn’t take them, because sitting on my butt DID pay more. After a couple of months, I got a job paying the same amount I’d been making. Why should I have jumped at the first job offered to me, just because it paid more than nothing? I’d have lowered the amount of money I could demand for my work in the long run, which means I’d still, three and a half years later, be making less because my salary history would reflect, “Works cheap.”
Even if you’re not getting unemployment, it can be smarter to live on savings for a couple of months than to take a job where you’ll be supplementing your income with that savings for a couple of years. It seems counterintuitive, but taking a job for substantially less than you’re worth as an employee can result in years of career setback.
Then you were a fortunate example of it paying more. Though, I did not state it was that way every time, though I can see it was written in a way that could be interpreted that way.
I still stand by what I said though because I know many people that live off of unemployment compensation and don’t get a job because they are waiting for that ‘big one’.
Bush rocks!! I am gonna miss him
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Truthfully, this has been his enduring, ongoing salute to the nation if not in such literal terms as in the picture, then couched, like a hidden message at the festering, diseased heart of every policy he has enacted during his time in office.
I, for one, return the salute with enthusiasm.
this alcoholic coke-head of a “man” never had any class. Even if this is shopped, he never had any class.
at first i saw this from a distance and thought it was real, too bad it’s shopped.
still funny though
The neo cons will cry over his departure! I am sure they would have given him at least the same support McBush got if he could have ran for a 3rd term!
Right back at you, big guy.
Nice.
He’s a dumbass.
To Bush: The feeling is mutual!
wow seriously, who made this pic. i could have edited this better in paint
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What a stupid bunch of people educated in our public schools. Wait til next year when The One sticks it to your parents are to you if your intelligent enough to get a job!
Would you care to rewrite your second sentence in a way that makes it sensible? Or should the “are” simply mean “or”? (Oh, yes: it’s “if you’re intelligent enough”.)
PS: You don’t need to change names between posts, we recognise you anyway.