Pop Quiz

Constant Comment just sent this to me in an email, and I'm posting it exactly as she sent it. By way of background, in case you hadn't heard, former President George H.W. Bush collapsed from dehydration this weekend (probably from all the crying about his awesome son), but he's fine now. Anyway, Constant Comment says:

"What's the most disturbing thing about this article?

"The next thing I remember ... I fainted and I was on the floor," he told the crowd.

He joked: "The ugliest part was my dear friend from Las Vegas (a male friend) was giving me mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. We had about six beautiful girls there and there was (my friend) doing his part."

a) that he had to make an anti-gay comment
b) that he’d prefer Babs to his male friend
c) that there were 'six beautiful girls there.'

You decide."

That's a tough one. I'm going to have to go with A, though—with the added caveat that I also find it disturbing his comment was reported, of course, as a "joke."

And personally, I thought this bit from the same story was the fucking joke:

Bush addressed a crowd of about 200 people as part of a speaker series at the Music Center of Los Angeles. He received a standing ovation when he came out and a warm reception throughout his speech. But later, during a question and answer period, he was heckled by a man who criticized Bush's son, President George W. Bush, for his handling of the war in Iraq.

Security personnel descended on the heckler, but Bush told them not to remove the man.

In a testy exchange with the heckler, the elder Bush said of his son: "He's an honest and decent man and he calls them as he sees them, contrary to what you read in these left-wing tabloids."

Good one.