Nov 172007
 

I’ll bet George W. Bush didn’t know he was being a folksy character when he called reporter Adam Clymer a major league asshole.

And I’ll bet Dick Cheney didn’t know he was being a folksy vice president when he told Patrick Leahy to fuck himself.

But if they would read Reuters, they would know.

On Tuesday, [Chavez] said the king’s “arrogance” exposed that colonial attitudes toward South America have not died out.

But the folksy president also showed he had a sense of humor over the flap.

When a reporter asked him a series of questions about the raft of constitutional changes expected to be passed in next month’s plebiscite, he joked: “Why don’t you shut up?”

HT: opinionjournal.com