A Show for the Media
ACCRA, Ghana -- President Bush is here in this West African nation, the fourth of five stops on his trip, but the first one where we were threatened with a striptease.
"Mr. President," his host, Ghana's President John Agyekum Kufuor said as they opened a brief question-and-answer session with reporters today, "I believe we agreed to expose ourselves to the ladies and gentlemen of the media."
Yikes. Fortunately the presidents kept their clothes on.
-- Peter Baker
By Sarah Lovenheim |
February 20, 2008; 10:25 AM ET
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Posted by: Margaret Shannon | February 20, 2008 3:02 PM
Everyone in DC is wound just a little too tightly...relax, it's lighthearted.
Posted by: calm down, Margaret | February 20, 2008 4:17 PM
"Expose ourselves to the media" = "Make ourselves available to the media". The author of this article needs to understand that people around the world all speak English in very different ways -- Canadians, Jamaican, Brits, Australians, even "US Americans" all speak dialects of English.
Posted by: Anonymous | February 21, 2008 12:07 AM
Who says Peter didn't understand that the word choice and its implications in American English were unintentional?
If I trip and fall into a fountain, making a fantastic splash in the middle of a stately event, does my fall need to be intentional to be hilarious? No -- in fact, it is hilarious because it is not intentional.
Since we obviously need to make this obvious -- President Kufuor's comment was also hilarious because it was not intentional.
This is a BLOG people. Y'know, a BLOG? Lighten up.
Posted by: who says? | February 21, 2008 11:45 AM
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I hope that you never get caught in a grammatical error when you are attempting to speak French, German, Farsi, or Urdu.
Really! Must not be much to report if you had to resort to this high-school level haw-haw.