Bush Unplugged at the G8 over Middle East Conflict

Let me give you the Leader of the Free World.

Watch Mics Pick Up Bush’s Private Conversations: “What They Need To Do Is Get Syria To Get Hezbollah To Stop Doing This Shit…”

By: John Amato on Monday, July 17th, 2006 at 8:30 AM - PDT









(scroll down for update. I have multiple videos now)

Bush and Blair got caught talking with a mic nearby:

Video-WMP Video-QT

TAN: Mr Bush was caught saying that a key to defusing the Middle East crisis was for "Hizbollah to stop doing this s**t". "What they need to do is get Syria to get Hizbollah to stop doing this s**t, and it’s over," Bush told British Prime Minister Tony Blair at a leaders’ lunch at the Group of Eight industrial countries gathering here. The President was on camera but apparently unaware that his words were being captured by a microphone.










Here’s another video version unfiltered: Video-WMP (.42) This one is just Bush talking about Syria-stuffing himself. ( h/t DavidB)

Video-WMP Video-QT This one is longer from CNN ( h/t Paula)

FDL: While munching on a roll, George Bush had a conversation with Tony Blair about Hizbollah cutting out their "shit." So much for that born-again veneer…this deciderating and Presidenting is hard work. (And the fact that the curtain gets lifted from the "moral majority" act for public consumption is just a side bonus, I suppose, since neither Bush nor Blair knew the microphone was on…read on"

Dan Froomkin has a great roundup on this with the full transcript as well.

Link here