You have commented 339 times on Rantburg.

Your Name
Your e-mail (optional)
Website (optional)
My Original Nic        Pic-a-Nic        Sorry. Comments have been closed on this article.
Bold Italic Underline Strike Bullet Blockquote Small Big Link Squish Foto Photo
Submit your comments on this article
Britain
Livingstone says Bush is 'greatest threat to life on planet'
2003-11-18
Ken Livingstone, the Mayor of London, launched a stinging attack on President George Bush last night, denouncing him as the "greatest threat to life on this planet that we've most probably ever seen".
"He's worse'n a comet headed straight for the earth! He's worse'n nuclear war! He's uglier'n a bagfulla wart hogs! He has skidmarks in his underwear, jam between his toes! Drool!"
His provocatively timed comments, on the eve of Mr Bush's arrival in London tonight, threaten to create severe embarrassment for the Prime Minister.
Livingstone himself appears to be incapable of embarrassment...
They also come with talks under way on whether to re-admit Mr Livingstone to the Labour Party before his five-year exile ends.
Hell, yeah! They need more people like him! Put him in charge of the Home Office...
Although he made his many differences with the Government on a range of issues clear, he reserved his strongest comments for the American President in an interview with The Ecologist magazine.
Scott Burgess disassembles Livingstone, chortling merrily the while...
Mr Livingstone recalled a visit at Easter to California, where he was denounced for an attack he had made on what he called "the most corrupt and racist American administration in over 80 years". He said: "Some US journalist came up to me and said: 'How can you say this about President Bush?' Well, I think what I said then was quite mild. I actually think that Bush is the greatest threat to life on this planet that we've most probably ever seen. The policies he is initiating will doom us to extinction."
Cheeze. There's no pleasing some people...
Posted by:Fred Pruitt

#15  LOL.
Cowboy.
Bush is a Cowboy.
Cowboy is a Bush.

You're right TU I do feel better!
BTW what happened to the Gangster American Meme?

Fusion
Fort Apache Makes You an Offer
Directed by: John Ford Coupolla.

Posted by: Shipman   2003-11-18 5:34:10 PM  

#14  Go ahead, Ken. Call Bush a "cowboy". You know you want to. You'll feel better.
Posted by: tu3031   2003-11-18 4:42:51 PM  

#13  Does this guy write for the NME in his spare time?
Posted by: BH   2003-11-18 2:31:07 PM  

#12  What makes you guys so angry, Livingstone just voiced what many Europeans think (and not only Europeans)
Gee, thanks for pointing that out Murat, but we're quite aware the Europe and the US has it's share of knuckle-dragging mouth-breathers (watermelon works here too). It's not anger...it's mostly befuddlement at how people with such shocking stupidity are able to dress and feed themselves on a daily basis.
Posted by: Rex Mundi   2003-11-18 12:42:16 PM  

#11  Such bravery by a man who knows that to say such things, about an American president, can lead to torture, even death. A true giant of civil disobediance.

Just heard this on ABC radiio news. A bloke saying, "we attack President Bush because it's easy to do".

Posted by: Lucky   2003-11-18 12:11:16 PM  

#10  Nice Pimp Slap OP! LOL
Posted by: Shipman   2003-11-18 11:56:48 AM  

#9  Murat, the wilful performance of acts of gross stupidity in public always makes me angry. That's one reason I seldom respond to your posts.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2003-11-18 11:51:49 AM  

#8  Disappointed that so many euros are such misguided fools, not angry.
Posted by: Anonymous   2003-11-18 11:44:53 AM  

#7  What makes you guys so angry, Livingstone just voiced what many Europeans think (and not only Europeans)
Posted by: Murat   2003-11-18 11:41:12 AM  

#6  Even those of us who wonder whether Dubya is a damn liar or just stupid have to roll our eyes over such morons who have not had an original thought since '68.

Thank you for the identity statement Lord Mayor, now grab a brain.
Posted by: Hiryu   2003-11-18 11:11:31 AM  

#5  "...[Red Ken] reserved his strongest comments for the American President in an interview with The Ecologist magazine"

And thus we have the term, "watermelon environmentalist": green on the outside, red on the inside. A better illustration would be hard to fine.
Posted by: Dave D.   2003-11-18 11:00:42 AM  

#4  Mayor of Freaking London. You have to wonder if the UK isn't already 'lost'.

Maybe we should move the 'Good' brits to canada, move the shit head canadians to the uk, and give the entire thing to france (or algeria). Let them worry about it.
Posted by: Anonymous   2003-11-18 10:57:58 AM  

#3  Yeah. He never met a totalitarian regime he didn't like.
Posted by: mojo   2003-11-18 10:35:42 AM  

#2  What Mr. Livingstone meant was that Bush is the greatest danger to HIM and his looney liberal loose-mouthed idiocy. He's obviously not bright enough to see that his own personality is one of the greatest threats to intelligent life on the face of this planet. Hope this bottom-feeding pile of algae droppings becomes a Darwin Award winner - soon.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2003-11-18 10:34:05 AM  

#1  This is "Red" Ken, isn't it?
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama   2003-11-18 10:28:49 AM  

00:00