As much as I love this meme and the original, this was actually not a brainfart by Dubya. He just realized mid-sentence that the last part “Shame on me” could be used as a negative soundbite if cut.
Or at least that’s how it was spun.
The clip clearly shows him not thinking on his feet that well, he’s just reacting to something his PR team had probably been trying to drill into him for years, but mid-sentence. Treating it as “quick-thinking” is vastly overstating it.
One could still call that a brainfart, speaking before he knew what he was saying. Just a more normal human reaction rather than the tailored mass-market messaging most politicians try to deliver.
Tbh I honestly have grown to like the quote for its (I assume) unintended meaning.
To paraphrase:
“Fool me once, fuck you I’m not going to trust you anymore.”
It has grown to be more of a “trust people when they show you who they really are” to me over these years than the gaffe I’m sure it was. Can’t get fooled again, because I won’t give them another opportunity to.
As much as I love this meme and the original, this was actually not a brainfart by Dubya. He just realized mid-sentence that the last part “Shame on me” could be used as a negative soundbite if cut. Or at least that’s how it was spun.
This always felt like a convenient retcon. Dubya misspoke all the time, I have a hard time believing he could actually think on his feet that quickly.
The clip clearly shows him not thinking on his feet that well, he’s just reacting to something his PR team had probably been trying to drill into him for years, but mid-sentence. Treating it as “quick-thinking” is vastly overstating it.
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One could still call that a brainfart, speaking before he knew what he was saying. Just a more normal human reaction rather than the tailored mass-market messaging most politicians try to deliver.
Tbh I honestly have grown to like the quote for its (I assume) unintended meaning.
To paraphrase:
“Fool me once, fuck you I’m not going to trust you anymore.”
It has grown to be more of a “trust people when they show you who they really are” to me over these years than the gaffe I’m sure it was. Can’t get fooled again, because I won’t give them another opportunity to.