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The one you removed--drug instead of dragged is a Bushism that's been made more than once, probably often and should probably be moved to the characteristics section. Do you think you could do this Nadav? I was having trouble writing it.
Miss Mondegreen
talk 06:26, June 12 2007 (UTC)
Fair enough. I have rephrased to take out your concerns that it is common to his speech. I think now there is no more a need for the {{synthesis}} template. -- However whatever 22:48, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
Does some kind of note need to be made in here about how as recently as 10 years ago (while he was governor of Texas) he appeared not to have these same difficulties in putting together sentences? If you watch this video, he appears to speak quite fluently, without stumbling over words or pausing. There appears to be a very substantial decline in his speaking skills just over the last several years since he became President. Clinevol98 04:44, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
Actually, nucular weapons is also correct because it is related to Nukes. I dunno why people make fun of it.- Saince 14:30, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
Because nuke is short for nuclear,nucular is just a lazy mispronounciation. 94.196.207.248 ( talk) 15:57, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
I have found a video on youtube ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-S47qZm3CI) that shows some common 'bushisms'. Might it be integrated into the article?
I added a couple of sourced quotes but only one is appearing in the article and I can't see why. SmokeyTheCat •TALK• 08:48, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
The only thing keeping me from adding the caption "George W. Bush, grinning like an idiot" under Bush's picture on the article is my utmost respect for the Wikipedia project. Curses. - Throw 15:31, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
OK, so at least some of the blame for the confusion and the mini-edit war here is my fault: I didn't see that the same example ("cash money") was used in both places. This was unintentional; sorry for the confusion.
However, I still say that these examples illustrate different things (so long as you remove the "cash money" example from the second item). The first illustrates using two words with the same meaning for emphasis; the second shows the use of redundant phrases ("Teresa Nelson who's a parent, and a mom or a dad"), which is similar but different. So they ought to both stay (but please take out the redundantly redundant parts which are the same in both parts and are repeated ...). + ILike2BeAnonymous 17:23, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
Shouldn't there be the phrase from Bush's APEC speech:
I thank you all for inviting me to this OPEC meeting...
Efansay--- T/ C/ Sign Here Please 10:32, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
I'm not sure about this one. Really it is more a case of people misunderstanding what he said, than him saying something stupid. It is perfectly understandable that he not suggesting Nelson Mandela is dead, just that an Iraqi Mandela-like person would be dead due to the actions of Hussein. Evil Monkey - Hello 11:48, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
Characteristics as desribed by the article | ||||||||||
Examples given in the article | Malapropism | Neologism | Spoonerisms | Folksy pluralization | Informal Desc. of Presidency | Redundancy for emphasis | Change of subject midsentence | Wrong word order | Explaining the obvious | No characteristics |
is our children learning? | X | |||||||||
the human being and fish | X | |||||||||
Enemies never stop ... harm our country ..., and neither do we." | ? | X | ||||||||
I talk to families who die." | X | |||||||||
a half-glass-full mentality. | X | |||||||||
put food on your family. | X | |||||||||
OB/GYNs ...practice their love with women | ? | |||||||||
Families is where .. wings take dream. | ? | X | ||||||||
potential mential losses. | ? | |||||||||
Fool me - you can't get fooled again.. | X | |||||||||
he or her will be able to pass a literacy test. | X | |||||||||
disassemble—that means not tell the truth. | ? | ? | ||||||||
Africa is a nation | X | |||||||||
hold ... Hostile | X | |||||||||
Nigeria... a continent | X | |||||||||
Investigation drug out | X | |||||||||
a chicken-plucking factory...you know what I'm talking about." | X | |||||||||
War .. A dangerous place | X | |||||||||
Iran - I mean Iraq | X | |||||||||
Left hand / right hand | X | |||||||||
Mandela's dead. ...Hussein killed all the Mandelas. | X |
-- Blue Tie 16:05, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
"America needs a military were are breast and bridess are proud to serve, and proud to stay." —Preceding unsigned comment added by Blanknothingoknaruto ( talk • contribs) 21:27, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
After I read this article about bush I assumed the article was about how funny and retarded bush is. But I'm still not sure if Bushism falls under the category of Politics or Political Humour. The only word mentioned in the article about Bushisms being afunny thing is how its refered to as a caracture. -- • Storkian • 17:21, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
highly doubt this ones real but i remember reading it somewhere-
Bush's aids come into his office and tell him that 3 Brazilian soldiers died in Iraq. He then asked "Just how many is a Brazillion?" I'll try to find where i read it. Д narchistPig ( talk) 20:43, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
Perhaps I'm missing something, but could someone explain to me what's wrong/funny about this quote, which is included in the article: "As yesterday's positive report card shows, childrens do learn when standards are high and results are measured." --
82.69.202.14 (
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12:10, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
Okay, I noticed it. -- 82.69.202.14 ( talk) 12:12, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
God people, he OBVIOUSLY meant that people have underestimated him, but not for the many things that he actually did wrong.
What? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.164.244.94 ( talk) 10:38, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
It "obviously" IS a Bushism. By the definition we're going by here (as written on the first line of this article), if it's a phrase that didn't exist until it came out of Bush's mouth (which this one clearly is) it is, per se, a Bushism. Period. End of story. We're not concerned with "what he obviously meant", just what he obviuously said! Anything else is not NPOV. Allthenamesarealreadytaken ( talk) 19:03, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
"I'm telling you there's an enemy that would like to attack America, Americans, again. There just is. That's the reality of the world. And I wish him all the very best." -- This is taken out of context. He is wishing eventual-President Barack Obama 'all the very best' in his attempts to combat global terror. You can easily derive this by reading/watching the entire interview. It should be removed. ( Pl07442 ( talk) 19:24, 20 January 2009 (UTC))
It doesn't matter what context it was in, if people view it as a Bushism it is. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.178.36.182 ( talk) 08:03, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
It's a Bushism because Dubya doesn't know how to properly construct a sentence. You don't say "I wish him all the best" after describing someone that "...would like to attack America..." unless you want that someone (that you just described)to succeed... in attacking America... because that's how English works. Allthenamesarealreadytaken ( talk) 18:40, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
Looking at the side of the talk section verses the amount of text in the article, I think a lot of people have an interest in this and it should be expanded. Bush was an idiot and more references of his stupidity should be included to show future children what a moron he was. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 118.208.242.32 ( talk) 12:02, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
Why does "suicider" redirect here? I can't find anything in the article relating to that. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.119.210.185 ( talk) 22:24, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
It redirects here because Bush made up the word. It didn't exist until he made it up. See http://www.dubyaspeak.com/repeatoffender/suiciders, unfortunately it doesn't cite it's sources but that shouldn't be too hard to track down. Allthenamesarealreadytaken ( talk) 18:45, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
This list fails to quote him for asking the Brazillian President "Do you have blacks too?" —Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.235.57.1 ( talk) 15:53, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
Yeah? And? If you've got a source to cite that backs up that phrase as a Bushism, please, don't keep it to yourself. Allthenamesarealreadytaken ( talk) 19:05, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
Do you think the site http://chimpomatic.net is appropriate for Wikipedia? Jupiter.solarsyst. comm.arm.milk .universe 22:52, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
I think something should be said about the man's intent concerning some of these statements and malapropisms. For example, the quote: ""I want to thank you for taking time out of your day to come and witness my hanging", which was made at the dedication of his portrait in Austin. This was an intentional play on words, as was apparent to anyone in attendance or who has seen video of the event (which I have). There needs to be either a distinction made concerning intentional remarks of this nature, and/or a disclaimer in the beginning paragraph that states the fact that some of the remarks are purposefully done as humor or self deprecation. As the article reads now, every remark labeled a "Bushism" is the result of bungling on the part of the former President. In fact, the opening paragraph defines these remarks as such: "The term Bushism is a neologism that refers to a number of unconventional words, phrases, pronunciations, malapropisms and semantic or linguistic errors". This definition is misleading, because some of the comments are not "errors", but rather intentional, humorous remarks and word play.
This may be corrected simply by rewording the aforementioned sentence, and perhaps a new topic may be created under which clearly intentional remarks could be listed. Supertheman ( talk) 14:18, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
I read the one about Bush welcoming people to "his hanging," and it sounds more of a joke than a gaffe. -- Iliada 17:10, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
All the other words in the last sentence of the first paragraph have links to pages which I assume define the words, except "neologism"
<quote>It is often used to caricature the two presidents. Common characteristics include malapropisms, the creation of neologisms, spoonerisms, stunt words and grammatically incorrect subject-verb agreement.</quote>
I read the whole article, and most of the discussion page, and still have absolutely NO IDEA what a neologism is.
Nice long discussion about bushisms, ALL about bushisms, with a weak definition for the word and a desparate struggle to find examples, and faint hope of finding sources for those examples, yet here's this huge and (I assume) very well-defined word in the very first paragraph that has no link to a definition. And it's used throughout the article, and in your discussion pages also. WTF are you people doing, and thinking ?
"Neologism". How many people off the street are going to know what that is ? Seems like everyone wants desert, but no one wants to cook dinner first. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.137.251.249 ( talk) 07:19, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
I wrote the above, and clicked save before signing it. Can someone please fix. (I would but don't know how.)
99.137.251.249 ( talk) 07:21, 7 January 2010 (UTC)Jonny Quick
Wouldn't "malamanteau" more percisely describe what is coined as being a "bushism"? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.78.177.146 ( talk) 18:01, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
That phrase contains no linguistic errors. To do something forever is semantically the same as doing something ever. "I will ever do it / I will do it ever." While Bush certainly didn't know this when he said it, it remains semantically valid and is only funny to people who haven't read a run of the mill 1940s strict verse poet or anyone else whose speech isn't solely composed of vulgarisms. I'm removing it from the list. Unless I'm not getting the joke? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Yalk ( talk • contribs) 17:33, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
The line "The first, Bushisms/President George Herbert Walker Bush in His Own Words, was released in 1992." refers not to GWB, but rather his father GHWB. It either does not belong here OR the article needs to be expanded a bit to be inclusive of GHWB style of speech, which also, shall we say, had a special "flair". — Preceding unsigned comment added by Acm acm ( talk • contribs) 14:40, 17 August 2011 (UTC)
I don't believe Bush ever said this. This link to this quote, http://www.newstatesman.com/200212160048, is a newspaper which is quoting a website which seems to now be defunct. See http://www.snopes.com/quotes/bush.asp — Preceding unsigned comment added by 182.13.31.236 ( talk) 17:14, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
Can someone please explain the inclusion of the "Wall Street got drunk" quote on this page? It isn't readily apparent how it qualifies as a spoonerism, malapropism, etc. It just appears to be a candid assessment aided by an apt metaphor. Robert K S ( talk) 22:19, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
What is the [sic] after "TV" referring to? I cannot seem to find any grammatical mistake there. 85.24.223.146 ( talk) 04:04, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
I don't see how this qualifies. One can agree or disagree with the merits of the statement, but how does this qualify as any form of "Bushism," as defined in this article? Dikteren ( talk) 22:42, 6 September 2013 (UTC)
Has someone ever compiled actual statistics of Bushims? Or compared them to similar gaffs from Clinton or Obama? If so, they belong in this article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 143.215.75.149 ( talk) 21:11, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
I removed the John P. Briggs statement as it doesn't appear to add anything productive to the article. It's mostly a partisan rant of nonsense. There's still a lot of work needed to make this article less biased. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 143.215.75.149 ( talk) 21:17, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
At the top of the page it says two times that the article is about statements by George W. Bush, while in the Discussion section it says "Bushisms, particularly those of George W. Bush". This doesn't make much sense and is probably due to the fact that the term was used before G.W. Bush became a public figure, inspired by statements from G.H.W. Bush. MAKreler ( talk) 23:45, 18 June 2014 (UTC)
The reason may also be the fact that many of the published "Bushisms" have been found to be misattributions of the verbal faux pas of a large number of politicians and public speakers. Commonly mispronounced words like "nucular", have also been called "Bushisms", but have been used by other Presidents as well. Merennulli ( talk) 16:41, 17 September 2014 (UTC)
If people thought (or even thought they thought) George Bush's linguistically or semantically pronounceable errors were deliberate, they wouldn't find then as amusing as they do. Anonymous1 ( talk) 08:53, 14 January 2016 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.164.39.232 ( talk)
And how many actual Bushisms were (semi-)deliberate, to get some sort of reaction? 193.132.104.10 ( talk) 15:10, 6 April 2017 (UTC)
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--Respectfully, nadav ( talk) 05:24, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
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The one you removed--drug instead of dragged is a Bushism that's been made more than once, probably often and should probably be moved to the characteristics section. Do you think you could do this Nadav? I was having trouble writing it.
Miss Mondegreen
talk 06:26, June 12 2007 (UTC)
Fair enough. I have rephrased to take out your concerns that it is common to his speech. I think now there is no more a need for the {{synthesis}} template. -- However whatever 22:48, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
Does some kind of note need to be made in here about how as recently as 10 years ago (while he was governor of Texas) he appeared not to have these same difficulties in putting together sentences? If you watch this video, he appears to speak quite fluently, without stumbling over words or pausing. There appears to be a very substantial decline in his speaking skills just over the last several years since he became President. Clinevol98 04:44, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
Actually, nucular weapons is also correct because it is related to Nukes. I dunno why people make fun of it.- Saince 14:30, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
Because nuke is short for nuclear,nucular is just a lazy mispronounciation. 94.196.207.248 ( talk) 15:57, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
I have found a video on youtube ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-S47qZm3CI) that shows some common 'bushisms'. Might it be integrated into the article?
I added a couple of sourced quotes but only one is appearing in the article and I can't see why. SmokeyTheCat •TALK• 08:48, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
The only thing keeping me from adding the caption "George W. Bush, grinning like an idiot" under Bush's picture on the article is my utmost respect for the Wikipedia project. Curses. - Throw 15:31, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
OK, so at least some of the blame for the confusion and the mini-edit war here is my fault: I didn't see that the same example ("cash money") was used in both places. This was unintentional; sorry for the confusion.
However, I still say that these examples illustrate different things (so long as you remove the "cash money" example from the second item). The first illustrates using two words with the same meaning for emphasis; the second shows the use of redundant phrases ("Teresa Nelson who's a parent, and a mom or a dad"), which is similar but different. So they ought to both stay (but please take out the redundantly redundant parts which are the same in both parts and are repeated ...). + ILike2BeAnonymous 17:23, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
Shouldn't there be the phrase from Bush's APEC speech:
I thank you all for inviting me to this OPEC meeting...
Efansay--- T/ C/ Sign Here Please 10:32, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
I'm not sure about this one. Really it is more a case of people misunderstanding what he said, than him saying something stupid. It is perfectly understandable that he not suggesting Nelson Mandela is dead, just that an Iraqi Mandela-like person would be dead due to the actions of Hussein. Evil Monkey - Hello 11:48, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
Characteristics as desribed by the article | ||||||||||
Examples given in the article | Malapropism | Neologism | Spoonerisms | Folksy pluralization | Informal Desc. of Presidency | Redundancy for emphasis | Change of subject midsentence | Wrong word order | Explaining the obvious | No characteristics |
is our children learning? | X | |||||||||
the human being and fish | X | |||||||||
Enemies never stop ... harm our country ..., and neither do we." | ? | X | ||||||||
I talk to families who die." | X | |||||||||
a half-glass-full mentality. | X | |||||||||
put food on your family. | X | |||||||||
OB/GYNs ...practice their love with women | ? | |||||||||
Families is where .. wings take dream. | ? | X | ||||||||
potential mential losses. | ? | |||||||||
Fool me - you can't get fooled again.. | X | |||||||||
he or her will be able to pass a literacy test. | X | |||||||||
disassemble—that means not tell the truth. | ? | ? | ||||||||
Africa is a nation | X | |||||||||
hold ... Hostile | X | |||||||||
Nigeria... a continent | X | |||||||||
Investigation drug out | X | |||||||||
a chicken-plucking factory...you know what I'm talking about." | X | |||||||||
War .. A dangerous place | X | |||||||||
Iran - I mean Iraq | X | |||||||||
Left hand / right hand | X | |||||||||
Mandela's dead. ...Hussein killed all the Mandelas. | X |
-- Blue Tie 16:05, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
"America needs a military were are breast and bridess are proud to serve, and proud to stay." —Preceding unsigned comment added by Blanknothingoknaruto ( talk • contribs) 21:27, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
After I read this article about bush I assumed the article was about how funny and retarded bush is. But I'm still not sure if Bushism falls under the category of Politics or Political Humour. The only word mentioned in the article about Bushisms being afunny thing is how its refered to as a caracture. -- • Storkian • 17:21, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
highly doubt this ones real but i remember reading it somewhere-
Bush's aids come into his office and tell him that 3 Brazilian soldiers died in Iraq. He then asked "Just how many is a Brazillion?" I'll try to find where i read it. Д narchistPig ( talk) 20:43, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
Perhaps I'm missing something, but could someone explain to me what's wrong/funny about this quote, which is included in the article: "As yesterday's positive report card shows, childrens do learn when standards are high and results are measured." --
82.69.202.14 (
talk)
12:10, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
Okay, I noticed it. -- 82.69.202.14 ( talk) 12:12, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
God people, he OBVIOUSLY meant that people have underestimated him, but not for the many things that he actually did wrong.
What? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.164.244.94 ( talk) 10:38, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
It "obviously" IS a Bushism. By the definition we're going by here (as written on the first line of this article), if it's a phrase that didn't exist until it came out of Bush's mouth (which this one clearly is) it is, per se, a Bushism. Period. End of story. We're not concerned with "what he obviously meant", just what he obviuously said! Anything else is not NPOV. Allthenamesarealreadytaken ( talk) 19:03, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
"I'm telling you there's an enemy that would like to attack America, Americans, again. There just is. That's the reality of the world. And I wish him all the very best." -- This is taken out of context. He is wishing eventual-President Barack Obama 'all the very best' in his attempts to combat global terror. You can easily derive this by reading/watching the entire interview. It should be removed. ( Pl07442 ( talk) 19:24, 20 January 2009 (UTC))
It doesn't matter what context it was in, if people view it as a Bushism it is. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.178.36.182 ( talk) 08:03, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
It's a Bushism because Dubya doesn't know how to properly construct a sentence. You don't say "I wish him all the best" after describing someone that "...would like to attack America..." unless you want that someone (that you just described)to succeed... in attacking America... because that's how English works. Allthenamesarealreadytaken ( talk) 18:40, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
Looking at the side of the talk section verses the amount of text in the article, I think a lot of people have an interest in this and it should be expanded. Bush was an idiot and more references of his stupidity should be included to show future children what a moron he was. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 118.208.242.32 ( talk) 12:02, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
Why does "suicider" redirect here? I can't find anything in the article relating to that. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.119.210.185 ( talk) 22:24, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
It redirects here because Bush made up the word. It didn't exist until he made it up. See http://www.dubyaspeak.com/repeatoffender/suiciders, unfortunately it doesn't cite it's sources but that shouldn't be too hard to track down. Allthenamesarealreadytaken ( talk) 18:45, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
This list fails to quote him for asking the Brazillian President "Do you have blacks too?" —Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.235.57.1 ( talk) 15:53, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
Yeah? And? If you've got a source to cite that backs up that phrase as a Bushism, please, don't keep it to yourself. Allthenamesarealreadytaken ( talk) 19:05, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
Do you think the site http://chimpomatic.net is appropriate for Wikipedia? Jupiter.solarsyst. comm.arm.milk .universe 22:52, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
I think something should be said about the man's intent concerning some of these statements and malapropisms. For example, the quote: ""I want to thank you for taking time out of your day to come and witness my hanging", which was made at the dedication of his portrait in Austin. This was an intentional play on words, as was apparent to anyone in attendance or who has seen video of the event (which I have). There needs to be either a distinction made concerning intentional remarks of this nature, and/or a disclaimer in the beginning paragraph that states the fact that some of the remarks are purposefully done as humor or self deprecation. As the article reads now, every remark labeled a "Bushism" is the result of bungling on the part of the former President. In fact, the opening paragraph defines these remarks as such: "The term Bushism is a neologism that refers to a number of unconventional words, phrases, pronunciations, malapropisms and semantic or linguistic errors". This definition is misleading, because some of the comments are not "errors", but rather intentional, humorous remarks and word play.
This may be corrected simply by rewording the aforementioned sentence, and perhaps a new topic may be created under which clearly intentional remarks could be listed. Supertheman ( talk) 14:18, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
I read the one about Bush welcoming people to "his hanging," and it sounds more of a joke than a gaffe. -- Iliada 17:10, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
All the other words in the last sentence of the first paragraph have links to pages which I assume define the words, except "neologism"
<quote>It is often used to caricature the two presidents. Common characteristics include malapropisms, the creation of neologisms, spoonerisms, stunt words and grammatically incorrect subject-verb agreement.</quote>
I read the whole article, and most of the discussion page, and still have absolutely NO IDEA what a neologism is.
Nice long discussion about bushisms, ALL about bushisms, with a weak definition for the word and a desparate struggle to find examples, and faint hope of finding sources for those examples, yet here's this huge and (I assume) very well-defined word in the very first paragraph that has no link to a definition. And it's used throughout the article, and in your discussion pages also. WTF are you people doing, and thinking ?
"Neologism". How many people off the street are going to know what that is ? Seems like everyone wants desert, but no one wants to cook dinner first. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.137.251.249 ( talk) 07:19, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
I wrote the above, and clicked save before signing it. Can someone please fix. (I would but don't know how.)
99.137.251.249 ( talk) 07:21, 7 January 2010 (UTC)Jonny Quick
Wouldn't "malamanteau" more percisely describe what is coined as being a "bushism"? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.78.177.146 ( talk) 18:01, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
That phrase contains no linguistic errors. To do something forever is semantically the same as doing something ever. "I will ever do it / I will do it ever." While Bush certainly didn't know this when he said it, it remains semantically valid and is only funny to people who haven't read a run of the mill 1940s strict verse poet or anyone else whose speech isn't solely composed of vulgarisms. I'm removing it from the list. Unless I'm not getting the joke? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Yalk ( talk • contribs) 17:33, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
The line "The first, Bushisms/President George Herbert Walker Bush in His Own Words, was released in 1992." refers not to GWB, but rather his father GHWB. It either does not belong here OR the article needs to be expanded a bit to be inclusive of GHWB style of speech, which also, shall we say, had a special "flair". — Preceding unsigned comment added by Acm acm ( talk • contribs) 14:40, 17 August 2011 (UTC)
I don't believe Bush ever said this. This link to this quote, http://www.newstatesman.com/200212160048, is a newspaper which is quoting a website which seems to now be defunct. See http://www.snopes.com/quotes/bush.asp — Preceding unsigned comment added by 182.13.31.236 ( talk) 17:14, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
Can someone please explain the inclusion of the "Wall Street got drunk" quote on this page? It isn't readily apparent how it qualifies as a spoonerism, malapropism, etc. It just appears to be a candid assessment aided by an apt metaphor. Robert K S ( talk) 22:19, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
What is the [sic] after "TV" referring to? I cannot seem to find any grammatical mistake there. 85.24.223.146 ( talk) 04:04, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
I don't see how this qualifies. One can agree or disagree with the merits of the statement, but how does this qualify as any form of "Bushism," as defined in this article? Dikteren ( talk) 22:42, 6 September 2013 (UTC)
Has someone ever compiled actual statistics of Bushims? Or compared them to similar gaffs from Clinton or Obama? If so, they belong in this article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 143.215.75.149 ( talk) 21:11, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
I removed the John P. Briggs statement as it doesn't appear to add anything productive to the article. It's mostly a partisan rant of nonsense. There's still a lot of work needed to make this article less biased. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 143.215.75.149 ( talk) 21:17, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
At the top of the page it says two times that the article is about statements by George W. Bush, while in the Discussion section it says "Bushisms, particularly those of George W. Bush". This doesn't make much sense and is probably due to the fact that the term was used before G.W. Bush became a public figure, inspired by statements from G.H.W. Bush. MAKreler ( talk) 23:45, 18 June 2014 (UTC)
The reason may also be the fact that many of the published "Bushisms" have been found to be misattributions of the verbal faux pas of a large number of politicians and public speakers. Commonly mispronounced words like "nucular", have also been called "Bushisms", but have been used by other Presidents as well. Merennulli ( talk) 16:41, 17 September 2014 (UTC)
If people thought (or even thought they thought) George Bush's linguistically or semantically pronounceable errors were deliberate, they wouldn't find then as amusing as they do. Anonymous1 ( talk) 08:53, 14 January 2016 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.164.39.232 ( talk)
And how many actual Bushisms were (semi-)deliberate, to get some sort of reaction? 193.132.104.10 ( talk) 15:10, 6 April 2017 (UTC)