Laura Bush Discusses Jenna's Wedding During Myanmar Press Conference

A White House press conference given by First Lady Laura Bush took a bizarre and insensitive twist when the focus of the conference, the devastation wrought by a powerful cyclone in Myanmar, switched to Jenna Bush's upcoming wedding. While the reporters and the First Lady bantered back and forth about Jenna's wedding details, MSNBC left up their chyron, saying "First Lady Talks About Deadly Cyclone In Myanmar." They also continued to show images of the devastation in Myanmar while Mrs. Bush offered more information about the wedding, including the "Texas limestone altar" built by her husband.

Watch footage of the press conference below.

Comments

[famu96]

10:50 AM on 05/07/2008

Now just imagine how Michelle Obama WILL handle that type of press conference­.

[LostCause]

06:44 AM on 05/07/2008

Why aren't these people fighting in Iraq?

[Daly]

03:17 AM on 05/07/2008

as far as I could tell, Laura B's only mistake was in entertaini­ng the question - it was the idiot media types that jumped onto the wedding bandwagon.

Laura simply answered the questions and For me this was the first time I've seen her in the political forefront, I am gesiing that Bush and Chaney are such pond scum that they looked for the best image they could or Laura pushed the dummy into offering up more help after what he said on this issue.

Goodness, this is not her job, and from her behavior it seems she is focused on her daughters wedding and getting away from the whitehouse­,

[knowhelpnow]

12:03 PM on 05/07/2008

You are right this is what our media has come to, but then why was she picked to talk about the disaster anyway?

[folksonomy]

02:08 AM on 05/07/2008

Brilliant Mrs. Bush. Go back and rest up from your apparent case of vapours.

[bigeugene]

08:44 PM on 05/06/2008

"I know we called this press conference to talk about the devastatio­n and massive deaths in Burma, but, much like Katrina, that is sooooooo booooring. Let's talk about my daughter's wedding! What fun! Oh hahaha, George and that altar he built, oh ha ha! Weddings are grand!"

"Weren't we talking about something else? Oh, I can't remember what it was, let's talk more about my daughter."

[defneocon1]

12:40 PM on 05/07/2008

you people really are idiotic. I guess she should avoid all questions the media pose her. Of course, then she's accussedof dodging questions. You're twisted little rage filled minds see nothing but hate. Get over yourselves­, chastise the media for asking the f'ing question.

[EvSmith]

07:11 PM on 05/06/2008

That is one of the lamest things I have ever seen. It runs parrallel to the official U.S. stance and response to the Human Rights tragedy that is Myanmar, formerly Burma.

[gala1]

07:57 PM on 05/06/2008

Dear Laura

More Cowbell.


gala

[CompliantMedia]

06:09 PM on 05/06/2008

I am a regular viewer of Keith "I hate Hillary" Olbermann (MSNBC) and even occassinal­ly Bill O'Reilly (FNC) and I seldom see errors by their graphics people.

But the rest of MSNBC (especiall­y Dan Abrahams entertaini­ng show) and the FNC (especiall­y their morning show) make so many mistakes with their graphics I cannot count them.

Howard Kurtz's Sunday morning show on CNN also gets a grade of 'F' from me for its mistakes.

I have to ask, "Where do they get these people?"

[Dannydel]

05:07 PM on 05/06/2008

The sooner this family of redneck morons vacates the White House, the better.

[chronic]

05:26 PM on 05/06/2008

EXACTLY!!

[CharlotteWilson]

05:02 PM on 05/06/2008

Our county should gladly help the suffering people in Burma (yes I said Burma) - it's our responsibi­lity as one human to another. But we can accomplish a lot more if we do NOT insult their government no matter how resistant to Democracy they (the government of Burma) is. Let's tell Laura Bush to use diplomacy, not the bully approach..­.not overbearin­g verbal confrontat­ions.

[JulieSA]

09:51 PM on 05/06/2008

You have a good point, but if the Burmese government doesn't let the US Navy in, many more people are going to die. This is an emergency, and it's a matter of life and death. There's no time.

[gemcando06]

08:42 AM on 05/07/2008

Do we, as the American government­, have the respect and trust of the rest of the world? This is terrible! I, for one, cannot blame any foreign goverment for not trusting us.

Who the hell have we become?

[liberalissima]

07:22 AM on 05/07/2008

Dear CharlotteW­ilson, the Bush government and all its attachment­s have never been famous for diplomacy or caring for anybody including the American people. They only care for themselves and their rich corporate friends and oil friends; we should not expect any of them to speak diplomatic­ally, besides you only have to listen to Georoge W. to know how "sensitive­" his wife can be about other people's suffering. When you have a Vice-Presi­dent replying "SO?" to the suffering or our soldiers
did you expect better?

[samtaylor1]

04:14 PM on 05/06/2008

The real problem I have is with the "journalis­ts" that are covering this story. The run our questions to ask about Myanmar? How do you you run out of questions. I guess when 90% of the 24 hour "news" cycle will be spent on wriight, Ayers, Britney Spears, and a President'­s daughters wedding", you don't need to ask many questions to fill 2.4 hours of news time (not includding the endless commercial­s where where I learned that there is a pill that will make my penis larger).

Honestly these news channels have become the equivalent of my hotmail accounts junk mail box, where most of the e-mails are crap and sometimes I find bit of info that was accidently put there

[Daly]

03:25 AM on 05/07/2008

Bingo

[Myshkin57]

02:32 PM on 05/06/2008

I have no problem with her being excited about her daughter's wedding, but this is the wrong venue. Go on The View and talk about that. Is there anyone attached to this administra­tion that isn't tone deaf?

[GiggidyGeshmoygen]

02:19 PM on 05/06/2008

and don't forget barbara bush, who said she thought the katrina survivors in the astrodome had it pretty good

THEY're living on another planet in another reality...

[ggmome]

01:55 PM on 05/06/2008

STAY FOCUSED! The lost of 22,000 lives is of no consequenc­e, when I have a daughter getting married, that is so appropo for these empty shells, and wastes of human flesh.

[awrightenoughalready]

12:58 PM on 05/06/2008

Give me a break!! I am certainly no fan of Bush---he is a nightmare, but come on! It is ridiculous to criticize her on this point. She was only responding to the reporters' questions. It was obvious that she did not initiate the discussion and that the discussion of Myanmar was concluded. She was ready to leave and the reporters continued to ask her about the wedding. There are infinitely more than enough serious crimes concocted by this horrendous administra­tion: do we really have to take cheap shots like this?

[skeptique]

03:15 PM on 05/06/2008

Unless it was all staged. Not that it was. I'm just sayin'.

[BadgerBoy]

03:54 PM on 05/06/2008

The press asking is hardly an excuse, she could have easily changed the subject back to Myanmar.
But then again, this is the only positive thing that she has from being married to george i guess.

[sandiegoconservative]

04:23 PM on 05/06/2008

You are right. I have never heard a liberal spouse steer the questions back to something else . . . unless it was an embarassin­g question (see Mrs. Obama).

[watchingthings]

12:44 PM on 05/06/2008

Just because a few thousand of "those people" have died and a few hundred thousand have been left homeless..­..it is no excuse to steal the spotlight away from her daughters wedding.