Protester: I am really angry about the way the government keeps interfering with my reproductive choices!
Bush: Ha ha, I don’t want to fuck you!

I just can’t understand the people who are saying this isn’t sexist.

I know they do it all the time, but it always seems to get worse after step #1 happens.

He lives in a world in which it’s still jolly good fun to ridicule older, unbeautiful women as pathetic because of how obvious it is that nobody would want to fuck them anyway. My father used to make similar jokes, and when I got old enough, I saw it for what it was, and could only wonder about the sense of entitlement men like him feel, especially when they are older and unbeautiful themselves. Doesn’t matter, doesn’t apply to them ever, because, after all, penis, right?

I wouldn’t be surprised if some of the laughter was the uncomfortable kind. Blitzer sucks for passing off the story as light-hearted. Bill Clinton pisses me off on a regular basis, but I think he did the best he could here. His ostensible complaint about not being able to get away with a joke like that is flimsy, as I believe he meant it to be – check out his unamused expression – but, listen, these two guys are buddies, they’ve been doing the global elder statesguy charitable foundation tour together: how sharp a smackdown could he have issued? I have to say I think he stuck up for ugly old women like me. Poor 41 even whined about the Secret Service. GHW, dude, your son got shoesed. Wait till I chuck my sensible orthopedic footwear at you.

Wolf Blitzer introduces the clips by saying, “There were also some lighter moments. I want you to listen to this story that Mr. Bush told and check out Bill Clinton’s reaction.”

Bush: “One time, we though we’d outsmarted the crowd. We sent a decoy limousine off in another direction while I snuck out a back entrance. And as we rounded a corner – I’ll never forget it – I saw one of the ugliest and angriest women [this is where people start laughing] I have ever seen in my entire life. Boy, she was really bad. And she charged my car with a sign – I don’t see why the Secret Service let her up there – coming right up to the window. “STAY OUT OF MY WOMB!” No problem, lady.”

Clinton: “You know, he tells jokes that I just couldn’t get away with telling. [laughter and applause] Can you imagine what they would do to me if I told that joke he told up here? Some people can do things other people can’t. It reminds me, you know, of the story of the two dogs who watch kids breakdancing, and one dog said to the other, ‘You know, if we did that, they’d worm us.’ I mean… some guys got it, some guys don’t.”

Links? Arguments?

Because it’s douchey.