The Shit Hits This Washington Post Fan
July 17, 2006 at 1:39 pm
Washingtonpost.com runs a Peter Baker story about President Bush cursing at the G-8 summit:
“What they need to do is get Syria to get Hezbollah to stop doing this shit, and it’s over,” Bush says with his mouth full as he buttered a piece of bread.
Does Washingtonpost.com have precedence in explicity quoting Republican presidents saying this naughtiest of words?
Yes. From its transcripts of Richard Nixon phone conversations, a 1973 conversation between Nixon and William P. Rogers:
Nixon: Hello.
Rogers: Hi, Mr. President.
N: Hi, Bill.
R: Gee, that was terrific. Really superb.
N: Don’t give me that shit, you know.
Things were a little tamer with the Washington Post before the Internet — when Harry Truman was stopping bucks in the White House.
In response to Washington Post Music Critic Paul Hume’s harsh December 6, 1950, review of Margaret Truman’s singing performance at Constitution Hall, President Truman wrote: “you write such poppy-cock.”
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July 18, 2006 @ 8:19 am
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