HAIL TO THE GAFFE

Been wondering.

Tuesday on the way to work I caught the AM report about John Howard's speech at that Liberal fund-raiser in Brisbane; the one where Howard made his crack about gun control:

Former PM John Howard breaks his silence

JOHN HOWARD: Part of being in Texas was to go down to College Station which is where the library of the 41st President of the United States, George Henry Walker Bush is located. We had a very pleasant occasion and a gathering of supporters and friends turned up and I was invited to make a few remarks and one of the questioners got up and said would you name three things that, you know, you are really proud of about what you did as Prime Minister?

And I said, well yes. Chronologically, the first thing I'll start with is gun control.

(laughter)

JOHN HOWARD: That wasn't their reaction.

Zing. Take my AK-47... pleeeease!

And yet.

I must be missing something.

Where is the fake outrage? The wrongeous indignation. The high muzzle velocity criticism. The pot-shots.

The 41st President of the USA is George Herbert Walker Bush.

Comments

[nick]

1.

They're all getting pissed at THE SUMMIT.

[Tony T]

2.

A new saying: as pissed as a summiteer.

Whaddaya know! It's a real word:

summiteer n. sum·mit·eer pronunciation(sŭm'ĭ-tîr')

An official who takes part in a summit conference.

I thought some PR hack had made it up.

[brownie]

3.

the summit thingy is rubbish:
it has no taxi-drivers.

Henry or Herbert, he knew it was an 'H' and there's no 'H' in CI effing A.
Bush41 was head of the bloody CIA and his 'library' was all the Callan novels, Spycatcher by Peter Wright and a very worn copy of The Second Oldest Profession.