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Bush brings down the house at Gridiron Club By: Andrew Glass March 9, 2008 01:45 PM EST President Bush brought the 123rd annual spring dinner of the Gridiron Club to a rousing close Saturday by donning a tan cowboy hat above his white-tie and tails singing, onstage, a self-parody of a Texas-flavored country-and-western song. “You have just witnessed the first and final performance of Bush and the Busharoos,” the president said, after rendering a final encore of the “Brown, Brown Grass of Home,” the venerable waltz tune, in a voice that did minimal musical justice to Tom Jones’ popular version....

Man, wouldn’t this be great to see on youtube? President Bush brought the 123rd annual spring dinner of the Gridiron Club to a rousing close Saturday by donning a tan cowboy hat above his white-tie and tails singing, onstage, a self-parody of a Texas-flavored country-and-western song. “You have just witnessed the first and final performance of Bush and the Busharoos,” the president said, after rendering a final encore of the “Brown, Brown Grass of Home,” the venerable waltz tune, in a voice that did minimal musical justice to Tom Jones’ popular version. **snip** In another stanza, Bush sang, “I spend...

WASHINGTON -- President Bush's nomination of Harvard Law School professor Mary Ann Glendon as U.S. ambassador to the Vatican is being held up in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, raising the possibility that the post may be vacant when Pope Benedict XVI visits the United States in April. The selection of anti-abortion advocate Glendon is opposed by Catholics for a Free Choice. No official holds on her confirmation have been filed, but failure to schedule a hearing blocks her confirmation. She is caught up in blanket Democratic opposition to Bush's final nominees. Business tycoon Francis Rooney, current ambassador to the...

CAMP TAQADDUM, Iraq (Feb. 1, 2006) -- Every day, service members in Iraq put on their gear and prepare for battle in the war on terror, but one day a year the two top teams in the National Football League suit up and battle to see who will be the next Super Bowl champion. In Iraq, fans of the Pittsburgh Steelers and Seattle Seahawks hope their schedules will allow an opportunity to watch the game and support their team. They may not be home with their immediate family to watch the game, but from thousands of miles away a few...

The advent of CNN and the 24-hour news cycle has created tremendous pressure on the print media to fill their pages with something—anything—to keep the readers coming back. Amid this brutal competition, high mindedness is often an afterthought. The question became how to grasp the attention of this fractured audience. If there aren’t any good stories to report, make one up--create the news, print a few salacious details, anything to fill your pages and shock readers into paying attention. I believe this is what Historian Daniel J. Boorstin dolefully referred to as a pseudo event—the act of creating news just...

Those that can't understand exactly why President George W. Bush is so popular with Independents and Republicans can just look at his self-deprecating humor displayed during his appearance at the Gridiron Club's 120th annual dinner. The president can definitely deliver one-liners, even when they are at his own expense. The highlights: --President Bush said anyone looking for a transcript of the evening's program should call Doug Wead, the longtime Bush family friend who recently made public tape recordings of private telephone conversations he had with Bush before he started running for president. -- Bush noted, with a little help, the...

WASHINGTON — “Teresa Heinz Kerry” sang about how happy she was that her husband wasn't elected president. “Karl Rove” revealed his successful strategy for winning President Bush a second term. “Wannabe presidential candidates” pressed for advantage in the 2008 race.It was as close to “Saturday Night Live” as Washington gets, as journalists assumed the personas of politicians in song, dance and wisecracks at the Gridiron Club's 120th annual dinner. It's a journalistic tradition in which, for one night, members of the Fourth Estate turn the tables on the powerful people they report and write about daily. The Gridiron Club's motto...

Bush Pokes Fun at Himself at Press Dinner By DARLENE SUPERVILLE, AP WASHINGTON (March 13) - President Bush poked fun at himself at the press corps Saturday night and offered a new reason for overhauling the Social Security system. Raising the name of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Bush said, "We have to fix it or Rumsfeld may never retire." Bush noted - with a little help - the presence of a number of new Cabinet members attending the Gridiron Club's 120th annual dinner. Turning to Vice President Dick Cheney, the president said, "Dick, maybe you can point them out to...

For Saturday night's Gridiron Club dinner, the president was absent but accounted for down at the ranch. The Democrats took the opportunity to unleash the political equivalent of a WMD: Hillary Rodham Clinton. The junior senator from New York swept through the front doors of the Capitol Hilton just before Vice President Dick Cheney, the ranking Republican, who came in through a side entrance. Clinton wore a formidable black satin coatdress that reached the floor and made her look like a companion to Darth Vader. Cheers erupted from tourists in the hotel lobby. If Clinton said nothing to her fans,...

Thank you, President [Al] Hunt, members of the Gridiron . . . at one point during your skits, I had a little scare. I felt a tightness in my chest. I started gasping for air and breathing irregularly. Then I realized it's called laughing. . . . Lots of familiar faces here tonight. I always feel a genuine bond whenever I see Senator Clinton. She's the only person who's the center of more conspiracy theories than I am. But enough of this camaraderie. This is the absolute truth: my last full-blown press conference was when I was Secretary of Defense...

Dick Cheney's Gridiron Remarks Highlights of the vice president's remarks at last night's 2004 Gridiron dinner. by Special to The Daily Standard 03/07/2004 12:50:00 PM Editor's note: The following are highlights of Vice President Dick Cheney's remarks at last night's annual Gridiron dinner. Although the speech is off-the-record, they were obtained by The Daily Standard. Thank you, President [Al] Hunt, members of the Gridiron . . . at one point during your skits, I had a little scare. I felt a tightness in my chest. I started gasping for air and breathing irregularly. Then I realized it's called laughing. ....

Dick Cheney's Gridiron Remarks Highlights of the vice president's remarks at last night's 2004 Gridiron dinner. by Special to The Daily Standard 03/07/2004 12:50:00 PM Editor's note: The following are highlights of Vice President Dick Cheney's remarks at last night's annual Gridiron dinner. Although the speech is off-the-record, they were obtained by The Daily Standard. Thank you, President [Al] Hunt, members of the Gridiron . . . at one point during your skits, I had a little scare. I felt a tightness in my chest. I started gasping for air and breathing irregularly. Then I realized it's called laughing. ....

Dick Cheney's Gridiron Remarks Highlights of the vice president's remarks at last night's 2004 Gridiron dinner. by Special to The Daily Standard 03/07/2004 12:50:00 PM Editor's note: The following are highlights of Vice President Dick Cheney's remarks at last night's annual Gridiron dinner. Although the speech is off-the-record, they were obtained by The Daily Standard. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thank you, President [Al] Hunt, members of the Gridiron . . . at one point during your skits, I had a little scare. I felt a tightness in my chest. I started gasping for air and breathing irregularly. Then I realized it's called laughing....

<p>CHARLOTTESVILLE - Virginia Tech football coach Frank Beamer probably praised the ACC's Southern hospitality when he saw the league schedules for the next two seasons.</p> <p>University of Virginia coach Al Groh might not have been as complimentary.</p> <p>At the conclusion of its fall meeting, for which U.Va. served as host, the ACC yesterday released the scheduling models to be used in 2004-05 and 2005-06 for football, men's basketball and women's basketball.</p>