Barbara Bush passed away at her home, surrounded by her children and grandchildren, as she sipped some whiskey. Everything was on her terms, and the matriarch of the Bush family is now gone. Rest in peace, Mrs. Bush. [Dlisted]
I keep forgetting that Eva Longoria is pregnant. [Go Fug Yourself]
Kanye West’s philosophy book will be… interesting. [LaineyGossip]
This hockey-game video is infuriating. [Pajiba]
McKayla Maroney talks about Larry Nassar & abuse. [Buzzfeed]
That’s not how any of this works, dude. [The Blemish]
Recap of the RHOBH season finale. [Reality Tea]
Stop writing sympathetic articles about how sexual predators can “come back.” [Jezebel]
A Jersey Shore guy named his daughter Ariana Sky. [Starcasm]
Kathie Lee Gifford doesn’t use an alarm clock. [OMG Blog]
Barbara Bush was a remarkable woman. She had grit & grace, brains & beauty. She was fierce & feisty in support of her family & friends, her country & her causes. She showed us what an honest, vibrant, full life looks like. Hillary and I mourn her passing and bless her memory.
— Bill Clinton (@BillClinton) April 17, 2018
Our statement on the passing of Former First Lady Barbara Bush: pic.twitter.com/MhTVYCL9Nj
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) April 18, 2018
lovely statements.
RIP Barbara Bush. I noticed the current occupants of the WH got the date of her death wrong.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they did something like that intentionally
Omg! That hockey video!! That dude needs to be found out but it’s obvious from his actions that he’s the type that wouldn’t care anyway, ugh.
Reminds me of one of the dads on my son’s soccer team. First game he says to my husband, “how did my son get on a team full of girls?!”. Dude, it’s not all girls and they’re FOUR!! I can just imagine the things he’s teaching his one year old daughter at home.
It’s just so annoying how that guy assumed the pucks were for the boys and couldn’t possibly be for the little girl. That video represents so much on how it feels to be female in a male dominated world. I’m glad she got a puck in the end…she was so happy !
Oh I know. I’m a huge sports fan, hockey being just about my favorite and it’s just infuriating. It’s starts so early too, the dad at the soccer game is so that guy in the video and it’s so gross these guys are still alive and well in 2018. It’s also so gross that he assumed my husband would yuk it up with him about it too, no.
But he didn’t. He purposefully was banking on Connolly throwing over more pucks. It was for the little girl initially, then idiot took it and gave it to one little boy and then Connolly did it again, after tapping the glass to the little girl. Idiot took it and gave it to the other little boy. Connolly, who you can see was not thrilled went for another and aggressively tapped the glass to the little girl.
You can see the player getting increasingly frustrated, too. Like, uh, motherf*cker, that puck is for her, not your boys. And it’s a shame because I suspect he singled her out BECAUSE female sports fans are in the minority and he was glad to see such an engaged little girl.
RIP, Barbara.
I was hoping for a shout out from this site to the captain of the SW flight who landed that plane. She was amazing. I know that one person died, but because of this veteran pilot a lot were saved Thank you Captain Shults
I read about that this morning, that pilot was amazing and saved many lives.
I am so sorry for the woman who died and for her family. What a horrific thing.
Did you hear the audio of her before the plane landed? Cool, calm, collected.
Was just reading about her. One of the first female navy pilots. What an amazing woman. She saved many lives, and the passengers being interviewed keep saying how calm she was, so caring.
I was hoping as well. Her ability to remain calm and focused (and I am sure the crew was briefing her about what had happened to Mrs. Riordan along the way) and land that plane was everything. I am sure her training kicked right in and clearly she loves being a pilot. Kudos to her and many thoughts and prayers to the Riordan family.
Sully gets a movie, this sis can’t even get press coverage.
She’s getting tons of coverage right now, but I bet no movie. Even though her story, from the beginning of her interest in aviation, is fantastic.
Wonderful statements from the Clinton and Obama families. Barbara Bush was of a generation that honoured service to others. I think in her case she lived and wore her life well and left it on her terms also. Vale Barbara Bush.
She got crossed off my list after making that vile remark about the Hurricane Katrina refugees in the Houston Astrodome:
“Almost everyone I’ve talked to says, ‘We’re going to move to Houston.’ What I’m hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality.
And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this, this is working very well for them.”
Loved her authenticity. Warm thoughts to her family.
I heard that Melania is going to the funeral, no Cheeto.
he probably knows that no one wants him there.
from what I’ve heard/read, BB was NOT a fan of Drumpf at ALL.
Looking back over the past funerals of First Ladies, it tends to be more focused on the women than the men and the sitting president rarely goes but the First Lady does. I don’t think Barack went to Nancy Reagan’s but Michelle did. although W and Clinton have popped up at a few. It is usually the former First Ladies and a surviving child of deceased presidential couples. W has to show up because she was his mother. So, I expect the list will be Melania, Michelle, Laura, but she would be there anyway, Hillary, showing once again how gracious she truly is, possibly Bill because the families became close, and Rosalyn. If Rosalyn doesn’t make the trip, there should be concern as she is quite elderly too. If not Rosalyn, one of the sons probably, Ron Reagan or his sister Patti, a Ford son, Tricia Nixon, Lynda Johnson, Caroline Kennedy and an Eisenhower grandchild. Melania is really going to look out of place with this crowd
Funeral is by invitation only.
Ah yes, the re writing of Barbara Bush has began.
Exactly what I was thinking.
Let’s never forget she and HW campaigned for Jessie Helms when he was at the height of homophobia and AIDS bashing.
Somewhere Geraldine Ferraro is muttering: “WTF?”
I doubt it,
“Ferraro spoke about the incident years later. “At the time, I was annoyed at her. I thought, ‘How does a woman act like that?’ I felt that it was a terrible put-down, a terrible class put-down,” Ferraro said, according to the late Donnie Radcliffe, a Washington Post reporter who wrote a biography of Barbara Bush. “I was hurt, but I gave her credit for calling as quickly as she did. I told her not to worry about it, that we all say things at times we don’t mean.”
Ferraro owned her hurt, acknowledged receiving a very quick apology from Ms Bush, and gave forgiveness.
And to be fair—Ms Bush said it, regretted it, and apologized very quickly.
Class.
It shouldn’t define her any more Than the time Michelle Obama said she wasn’t proud of America should define her.
No doubt she loved her family, and had good qualities. But I was in her presence once and the imperiousness just dripped off her….she definitely did not come off as the easy going, sweet granny she was portrayed to be at the time.
I don’t think she’s ever been portrayed as a sweet, easy-going granny. Unless your mental image of a sweet, easy going granny is one with a figurative shiva hidden in her pumps.
Read a couple of circa-1992 articles about her that cemented my impression that she was not exactly sweet and was loyal to her own family/“type”. Her own stepmother was too scared to say anything remotely negative about her.
Not that youth always defines us, but she was the ringleader of a clique that would randomly freeze out one girl. She was also said to make fun of others ‘ weaknesses (such as stammering).
I think we’re supposed to ignore all that ‘noise’ and just look at that lovely homey pic of her above with her lovely white hair and gracious smile and think nice thoughts and forget about who she was married to and who she gave birth to and all the ignorant, hurtful words she said when she was alive.
It was fast. A caring woman?!! Tell that to the peope impacted by Katrina!
I’m confused; what did Barbara Bush have to do with Katrina? Her husband had been out of office for 15 years at that point, 3 presidential terms had passed.
What is the correlation between Barbara Bush and a Hurricane?
In the wake of Katrina, Barbara basically said something to the effect of (and I am reductively paraphrasing here) “the affected people were poor, so ‘eff ’em.”
Her son was the president who totally ignored the advancing hurricane and the resulting catastrophe. Many Katrina victims were evacuated to Houston and were staying in the Astrodome. She walked through than told interviewers that “this has all worked out very well for them.” These were people who had lost homes, businesses, workplaces, and, most importantly, loved ones, and were living on the ground in a sports stadium.
In her death, let’s focus on her and not her son.
Ok I looked it up …..she was touring the Houston Astrodome that housed Katrina evacuees and she commented that many told her that they enjoyed Houston and wanted to stay. She referred to them as underprivileged.
Yes she sounds like white privileged clueless,,,,,,but she didn’t say “eff them” AND she was physically involved in personal discussions with them and physical outreach and she was well meaning in her cluelessness.
I lived in Texas during Katrina and the whole state really reached out and cared. And La did the same for Texas last year when Houston was hit.
C,Mon folks, Yes she was from a republican family …..but get it right at least.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/barbara-bush-astrodome-quote/
@cmon Nancy, Anything her DIL did years before they knew each other isn’t relevant to her life.
And as far as Katrina victims…..this is,the truth, She visited with them. She was clueless and white privileged and well intentioned. But she showed up.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/barbara-bush-astrodome-quote/
That’s why I deleted it. I was reading an article on LB and man it got me furious…..but this is the death of a former First Lady and First Mother. I will get another chance at another time to voice my opinion of her daughter-in-law.
Same. I’ve been rolling my eyes so hard since last night at the revisionist history happening immediately. Our perception of not criticizing those that have passed has changed to never holding people accountable for the crap they did while alive.
And what did she do she needs to be held accountable for?
Call Geraldine a bitch? She did, She regretted it, She apologized,
What else?
And please….don’t bring up her husband, her son or anyone else,
What did she do that has you so distainful?
RIP Barbara Bush
Yep that didn’t take long at all.
I know that Mrs. Bush had racist attitudes fairly typical of her age, but I am glad that she gets to be with her daughter, Robin.
And I can’t say I ever had very strong feelings about her one way or the other but my Democratic grandma liked that Mrs. Bush wasn’t exactly a retiring blossom. Mrs. Bush dying is another one of those lights that blinks out as another era slowly cedes to a new one, some parts better and some parts worse.
So beautifully put 💔
I remember in college there was a scavenger hunt and teams were coming to dorms looking for items and a bunch of guys knocked on our-girl dorm looking for nail polish and something else and we asked what else they needed, one of the items was a hockey puck and I had a few commemorative ones. The response was YOU have a hockey puck? Female fans get constant disrespect and that video made my heart hurt.
Barbara Bush was salty. “I thought she was beautiful.
And she’s very happy in Alaska. I hope she’ll stay there.” –Barbara Bush, asked to comment on Sarah Palin
Barbara Bush shades Nancy Reagan at a genteel First Ladies’ conference: I loved my little office because it was—besides being Nancy Reagan’s beauty parlor, which she didn’t like me to say, but it was—the dogs were born here and you could look out the window at Jackson Place and Lafayette Square and you could see all sorts of wonderful things.
That is the authenticity I loved! Rofl
She was pretty salty, in good ways and bad. I’m reading about her a bit now, and it’s an interesting mix of what you’d expect from a conservative GOP matriarch, and also someone who was willing to learn and change her mind on somethings, even in old age.
i didn’t care for her.
Why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?
Ditto @ Littlewing. That was one of her worst ignorant comments. I never cared for her.
Barbara Bush laughed in a filmed interview at the superdome (after Hurricane Katrina for the forgetful):
“So many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivledged anyway. So this is working very well for them.”
Then she doubled down, and dropped this precious gem:
“What I’m hearing which is sort of scary, is that they all want to stay in Texas.”
Yeah.
Youtube it if you don’t believe me.
Barbara Bush was a mixed bag, as we all are. But she was a strong and independent woman in an age when that still wasn’t so acceptable, especially for the wife of a President. I remember liking her a lot more than her husband.
I love the image of her dying as she casually sipped some whiskey….
Good god… Mr. Edgy with hair implants, a spray tan, a gold Rolex and an LV backpack. And someone said elsewhere that the girl is 20 according to her Twitter, which is now no longer public. There’s not much edginess in being a cliché.