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A supermarket scanner moment is a political gaffe in which a politician is portrayed as out-of-touch with everyday affairs. The term derives from a 1992 New York Times report that characterized sitting U.S. President George H. W. Bush as being amazed by commonplace supermarket barcode scanner technology at a grocers' convention.
George W. Bush speaking to a Joint Session of Congress, February 2001. Bushisms are unconventional statements, phrases, pronunciations, malapropisms, and semantic or linguistic errors made in the public speaking of George W. Bush, the 43rd President of the United States.
George H.W. Bush celebrated the New Year of 1992 with a 12-day trade-focused trip to Asia and the Pacific to discuss America's post-Cold War readjustment of economic relations and policies. [1] On January 8, 1992, Bush played a doubles tennis match with U.S. ambassador to Japan Michael Armacost against Emperor of Japan Akihito and his son ...
There’s generally very little love lost between politicians and members of the media, and George W. Bush made that abundantly clear when he was caught on video calling a New York Times reporter ...
Former President George W. Bush is facing criticism after mistakenly describing the invasion of Iraq — which he led as commander in chief — as “brutal” and “wholly unjustified,” before ...
Bush's statement came amid ongoing, nationwide protests over the death of George Floyd. Floyd, a black man, died after a white Minneappolis police officer knelt on his neck for eight minutes.
U.S. President George W. Bush gives the "Mission Accomplished" speech aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln. He continued his mock defense of Bush by satirizing Bush's appearances aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, [21] at the site of the collapsed World Trade Center, [22] and in cities devastated by Hurricane Katrina: [23] I stand by this man.
On 14 December 2008, Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi removed his shoes and threw them at United States president George W. Bush during a joint press conference with Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki in Baghdad, Iraq. Bush quickly ducked, avoiding being hit by either of the shoes. The second shoe collided with a U.S. flag positioned ...