They are playing it un-bleeped on CNN. My ears hurt. Make it stop.

I don't think 'irony' is used correctly here.

Also, I do think the situation warrants the word 'shit'. As in, "Shitty shit balls, stop fighting already!"

Addendum: Fuck appears but once, as part of the transcript of the Starr report: "In a recorded conversation later on October 6, Ms. Lewinsky said she wanted two things from the President. The first was contrition: He needed to 'acknowledge . . . that he helped fuck up my life.' "

Nexis has three citations, but they all appear to be typos -- whether the fault of Nexis or the Times is unclear. Two of the entries are for T-shits.

More interesting, I think, are George's table manners - you know, given that it's so frickin prestigous, you'd think Andover would have taught the guy not to talk with his mouth full.

Alessandra Stanley's written 'shit' before, but it was a mistake.

I think he's using Alanis Morrisette's definition "ironic" here. Israel bombing the shit out of Lebanon is a black fly in Bush's chardonnay.

Bush comes across as graceful and well thought out. His mind clearly focused on the issues. What a genius.

Let's all kill ourselves.

I reeeally want to do a Lexis search for the word "cock" but I'm 99% sure that would get me fired.

Why is the Lexis account expired? Was it in Jesse's name?

I'm with Gabe. I was appalled more at the smacking sounds of mastication...and by the fact that he wasn't saying anything substantial.

Appalled but not surprised.

C'mon, Shrub, dumb it down for us. Complex geopolitical and diplomatic concepts make our eyes bleed.

Frankly, I'm surprised he even knows how to pronouce the name of Hezbollah...lotta syllablationousness in that one.

"Shit" has definitly appeared before in the Times. From the Observer obit for Abe Rosenthal (5/15/06):

Rosenthal was famously quotable, although competing publications weren't always smart enough to use his comments. When a Watergate tape revealed that Richard Nixon had said, "I don't give a shit what happens, I want you all to stonewall it," The Times ... The Times printed shit for the first time, though only in the text of the tape, and not in the accompanying news story.

When a Newsweek reporter called Rosenthal to ask if this was a seismic change in the paper's standards, he replied, "No. We'll only take shit from the President."

But the magazine never printed that.

C'mon though, you kids should know this shit.

Agreed with your Traffy.

I wasn't so horrified about our head of state uttering an obscenity on a live mic, other than his total misuse of the word irony in the statement.

Unless of course, before the quoted statement, he said something like, "The Nuclear tipped J-DAM's are loaded on the B-2's and heading towards Damascus as we speak ... The Irony of the situation is..."

Then, just maybe, there might be some irony in the situation.

Fucking brilliant. Why didn't anyone think of telling them to "shtop doin' all 'is shi-it" before?

"Complex geopolitical and diplomatic concepts make our eyes bleed." Hmmmm, seems to be some people are little too in love with overcomplicating certain problems. I think Bush could get a job as a copywriter considering he nailed the issue in less than 20 words. But I guess a 25,000-word meaningless resolution from the UN (sort of like the years-old one that already demands that Hez-bubblicious be disarmed) would make everyone feel better.

And his abuse of the word irony? More proof he could get a living as a copywriter ... or maybe writing songs for Britney's comeback. (Though I really dig Sycophanticide's alternate take.)

I agree with Gabe. The 6 o'clock news video footage confirms that Bush not only talks with his mouth full but chews with his mouth open. Also, why am I not surprised?

At least, unlike his father, he can keep it down once he's swallowed it.

There's a metaphor in there somewhere. Heard the gay rumours about Blair?

"Yo, Blair!"
I don't know who to be more ashamed of.

For the second time in a year, the New York Times today prints the word "shit." The word appears in a quote from an anonymous message left on the answering machine of Elliot Spitzer's father: "There is not a goddamn thing your phony, psycho, piece-of-shit son can do about it."