Previously we have noted (as have many others) that there is often a weird sexual subtext to the rhetoric of Dubya's administration. We were therefore somewhere between amused and disturbed at yet another Freudian slip by Dubya on Monday. He took a few questions from the media after hearing from Colin Powell and USAID about the tsunami relief, and there's one segment that appears quite innocently in the transcript:
Who could have possibly envisioned an election in Iraq at this point in history?
Except that, we've just watched the segment on C-Span, and he said erection. He corrected himself immediately, so the transcript should read:
Who could have possibly envisioned an erection -- election in Iraq at this point in history?
Unfortunately, neither the White House or C-Span have video posted on their websites of the slip; the video attached to the White House transcript linked above is of Dubya's speech to a rally at USAID, not of the Q&A with the media. We will provide a link if one appears, but trust us, we checked 3 or 4 times on our digital video recorder to be sure we heard the gaffe right. We did.
UPDATE (that is not an update) Jan 12: we have spent considerable time trying to track down video of the mis-statement. We can't find video of the event anywhere, notwithstanding that this was a reasonably significant White House event for that day -- Dubya getting a briefing from Powell on his South Asia trip and then taking a couple of questions from the assembled hacks on Iraq and Palestine. Is it a cover-up?
FINAL UPDATE: Got it! Just after the 4 minute point in this audio file.
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