Watchin' the Shuttle launch in style…

Could someone please buy the man a plasma TV?

[Thanks, David]

[L @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

Nice patch job on the carpet there...

[Lee @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

He is not eating pretzel!!!

[Serafin @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

and i thought i was poor

[Andrew Stone @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

Makes me feel good to see the leader of the free world is rocking a TV smaller than the one i used for my PS2 in the dorms a couple of years ago. Like "You've got nukes, but at least i can see CNN's coverage if you use them."

[Matt @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

WAIT WAIT A SEC, I THOUGHT EVERYONE COOL HAD A 19 inch VCR combo TV. GOSH I AM SUCH AND IDIOT!

[H mall @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

Small tv for a small mind.

[Keith @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

Come on George, come on. If I was President, of the White House dog? I would have plasmas, plasmas, plasmas, plasmas, plasmas!!!

[paperless @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

Whats the problem? Do you think hes brain would be capable of processing images in a big TV?

[lookathis @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

suckers...this is the formal living room at his crawford ranch

[Jordan @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

It is pretty sad that the President had to watch the launch on what looks like a 13" TV. All of my TVs and computer monitors are over twice that size.

This is the United States the richest country in the world. Put our Tax dollars to good use and buy some big 65" Plasmas for the White House :)

[my moustache @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

hey, killing brown people to raise approval ratings and open up some oil fields for daddy's buddies isn't cheap.

gotta cut corners somewhere.

[Mike @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

$30,000 for a 13in TV?

[deuce @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

Do you forget where that plasma tv would come from? Your paychecks. So the smaller the tv the better for me.

[ventivent @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

being a member of the us government, he probably shouldn't be seen using fancy imported goods from japan or korea - thus he's stuck with the Zenith TV/VCR combo from 1992.

[Lectiod @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

How many of you know somone the President's age that has a TV larger than that? Hell my grandma watches her B/W 13" TV more then the 27" in the living room.

[Gunnar @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

"$30,000 for a 13in TV?"

Sounds like the government all right.

Look on the bright side people. At least the taxpayers money isn't being wasted on the TV or carpeting.

[Mike #2 @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

Small TVs for the small minded. Makes sense to me.

[GLN @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

No, he must have a big dong I reckon. He obviously feels no need to get a plasma - he's got them missile systems and $200 bn in invested in Eye Rak.
It's all relative!
But hey didn't he have one when they atched the election win??

[Oliver Clothesoff @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

"He he he he, look at the funny pictures. that space man is funny. Look...look at the funny space man, he he he, spacey man spacey man, he he he."

[Michael @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

He could have a plasma but all the money is in Iraq

[Oliver Clothesoff @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

"He he he he, look at the funny pictures. that space man is funny. Look...look at the funny space man, he he he, spacey man spacey man, he he he."

[Michael @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

He could have a plasma but all the money is in Iraq

[James @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

if you can't spell plasma, you shouldn't have one :)

[devilhell @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

this is the largest American made TV the white house can find...
I would rather be a japanese PM (SONY WEGA) or korean president (SAMSUNG LCD)

[Edge @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

That is not a patch job on the carpet. That's his underground entrance to his personal theatre. He had to watch it on the 13" just for the press and then when they were done he dipped into his theatre with the 65" Plasma's.

[GLN @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

Number 13 - you're dead right buddy, Haliburton delivered it!! NEW!!

[Malfoy Roark @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

Re: 12

Uh.. yea, Jordan, we're gonna need photo verification that all your computer monitors(27" TVs are nothing special anymore) are indeed 26.1 inches diagnal or larger.

[Xiaolei @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

My money is that the whole shot is staged for publicity. A huge plasma screen would probably turn off the average American. But now, I can really relate to him! I mean, I had the same size TV in college. I use a patch of carpet at my door, too.

[GLN @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

Sorry I meant 14.
It also represents the age he lives in - Reagan era or Lenin era??

[Blue Balloon @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

Why need plasma? It suck. Should get Projector or at least, hologram tv.

[OMGWTFBBQ @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

you're all nerds =p Just shows he's a modest man

[brad @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

i'm betting that "patch" of carpet is there for a reason.

i would only assume that it's the entrance to a secret tunnel that leads to the center of the universe.

[Handsome Jon @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

It looks to me like that patch of carpet is just a door mat, for the doorway...

It'd relate to us more if he had a couple of xbox controllers laying tangled on the floor.

[phi @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

i'd rather he keep the crappy tv. no need for my tax dollars to pay for the white house's extravagance. We're paying enough for everything else.

[phantomprophet @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

guys, it's a freaking tv. Do you think the pres. really has enough time to sit down and watch it all that often?
Lets not read too much into it.
It's just a tv.
It's also not to say that he doesn't have some hugh tv in another room, it just happens to be the one he was watching.
And it was intentional too. What are the poor saps stuck making 25K a year supposed to think when they see their pres watching a hugh, expensive tv that the taxpayers' hard earned money paid for.
There is a reason they are called politicians, they pay attention to politics.

[r1cky @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

you guys are all m0r0ns --- faked photo!!!

[David @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

What will our President do when we all have to make the switch to digital? I guess we'll have to hope the next guy actually reads the paper.

[Luke @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

George-"I can't wait to see all the reaction this photo creates." Cheney (in background)-"Yeah they're all suckers (laughs heartily)"
Bush-"(laughing heartily)"

[Brian @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

you'd think a guy who didn't read too much would watch more tv.

[James Scott @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

All new meaning to the term "Idiot box"

[Josh Einstein @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

"Hey Turd Blossom, why did they interrupt Teletubbies to put on this dummy space stuff?"

[Luke @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

Rumsfeld-"So how did the terrorists Blow up the plasma again?" Cheney-"I don't know where are all the writers?" Bush-"Bunch of lazy hippies (laughs heartily)"

[Michael S. @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

The only problem with the carpet is that it appears to be at a window, not a door.

[Kyle @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

I guess everything isn't bigger in Texas

[Richard @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

I'd imagine that:

1) The TV was brought in from another room (I can't imagine Bushie has all that much time to watch TV, you know, with him taking all those vacation days in Crawford, and all...)
2) Bigger doesn't matter anyways, not like he could read any of the text on the screen, even if it was bigger.
3) "Golly, Dick, why is all that smoke comin' outta that there airplane?"

[deadmonkey @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

Dudes, that IS a 50" plasma display. He's just an enormous man.

[akp @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

Hey, if it aint broke, don't fix it. These are my tax dollars you are talking about.

If he wants to buy a new TV, he can buy his own :)

[Shippy @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

Notice how he doesn't reflect in the mirror...

[james @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

You REALLY know it's bad when the president can't afford a better tv *shakes head*

[slowmodem @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

"What's wrong with this microwave?"