APEC Fake Motorcade Carrying "Osama" Gets 10 Meters From Bush Hotel
By bluegal Wednesday Sep 05, 2007 5:33pmWe've posted about the Australian comedy show "The Chasers" before. This prank is their most daring, and makes us all wonder about the $140 million dollar security price tag for the City of Sydney (which one White House press release misspelled "Sidney." )
We can't get enough of The Chasers now, of course:
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I knew the Aussies would do something.....can't wait to see whats next...
Bwaaa haaahahahahahhahahahahaha. $1mil/hour security vs. 10 guys and a false beard.
Arrested on what charges? Making the government look like idiots?
George W. Bush - The most hated man on the planet. Mission accomplished.
The second video goes to show either
A) Security relies mostly on racial/ethnic profiling and can therefore be easily defeated.
or
B) Most "non-browns" are racist assholes.
Take your pick.
baby jesus once snuck into the nativity scene at the capitol
They should have kept going. "But we might have been shot by snipers". Well, Boo-hoo. "Entertainers", my ass. They're nothing but a bunch of damn wusses.
So the second video goes to show that Arabs are viewed as a threat simply for their traditional dress. Nice. I love how they kept calling the guy, "mate". Jerks.
baby jesus @ 5:
lol Do you mind if I use that one in the future?
That was fucking hilarious!! I love those guys....
baby jesus @ 5:
You weren't the one with the camel were you.......or maybe the beard??
I love how comedy has a way of speaking truth to power. You can only wonder how far they could of made it if they didn't have a cast member dressed like Osama Bin Ladin in the back seat. That's really bad security.
Jim: Apparently you have never been to Australia--mate is a very common term for friend or pal.
This was on the BBC at dawn this morning and it is hysterical. I am a little nervous because the tough talking prime minister or whatever his title is, is a clone of Bush. They have very strict punishments over there and I hope these guys will be ok.
O/T The cable stations are all warning us that Osama is going to be addressing the nation in the next 72 hours. Amazing, he must have gotten a new IBook or some amazing computer. I have a home in the Berkshires and I can't get DSL--yet OBL has it in his caves--is there something wrong with this picture or has Chimpy and Darth just gone one step too far in their campaign to keep us all afraid?
Is there anyone who has waaaay more knowledge than I'll ever have, know how Bin Laden can address a nation on his computer as put forth by our MSM? I'm just one step ahead of "a series of tubes" technically. Thanks.
The MSM loves bin laden almost as much as Bush-Cheney do. They give the bin ladens more freedom to come and go and do what they please, than they do for their fellow republicanzi.
Who was that putz at the end? the guy who tried to float the argument that it was the jokers fault and not the failure of the security detail that put the Dim Son in harms way, yeah, that's it! What a shit head!
I was reeling with laughter when I saw what The Chasers did. 600k water cannon, 240 million and the rousting of tenants and workers in the Sydney area, and the shutting down of Sydney, and a group of comedians bust their security.
What I find galling is how the kiss ass talking heads keep referring to that fuqtard. "The most powerful man in the world". What I am worried about is that moron will start believing them. He gets enough ego stroking being surrounded by his ever nodding yes-men.
Hey guys,
slight correction. The current show is called "The Chaser's War on Everything" - it's the T.V version of what they started from, which was a satirical newspaper called "The Chaser" (much like the fantastic "Onion" in the U.S)
Here in Australia, we tend to call them the Chaser boys or the Boys from the Chaser, but not "The Chasers" - I know it's a small point, but when i hear "The Chasers", it makes me think of people who say "The Internets" or stuff like that - hope that wasn't too picky of me to point out.
Just while I'm here - Crooks and Liars absolutely rocks!
John and all involved - you guys have done the world a favour, thank you so much and please keep up your excellent work - bravo!
Really Chris? I call them "The Chasers". Maybe it's a Victorian thing...
Nowonmai @ 15:
Dear Australia, please stop referring to chimpy as "The Most Powerful Man in the World". I know 4th graders who have more intellectual abilities than he does. Thank you. Sincerely, the U.S. of A.
Kudos to the Chaser boys. They just proved their point that APEC stands for A Pointless Expensive Crock!
C&CL rocks boys and girls...keep up the good work.
$140 million for security....Man, what must it cost to protect bush-lite when he is
"home"?
Great prank. I bet the police are gonna throw the book at them, though and destroy every piece of equipment they confiscated (that's what keeps me from trying stuff like this - I know they'd take my camera and I'd never get it back) or at least keep it. The suits do NOT like being made fools of.
But still, an amazing stunt and a great way of pointing out how redundant all these "security" measures are... they're meant to make us "feel" safer but do nothing to change the situation. When people talk about why there's been no terrorist attacks since 9/11, etc - it's not because we know how to stop them, it's because they're not trying! These guys make it look EASY.
Mark from Aus @ 19:
APEC...how about " A Prick Entering Consultations"
The guy at the end is probably the next PM Kevin Rudd btw
The Chaser makes me proud to be an Aussie every time
OMFG! that takes balls... coulda been shot!
It gets even better. The Chaser programme is on the ABC television channel, which is our government TV channel, paid totally for by our taxes. So basically, the government paid for themselves to be totally humiliated (well, originally with our money).
There's another interesting film clip they did where one of them dressed as a typical American or European tourist wandering around the Sydney Harbour Bridge for some time filming it without any problems. Then when they substituted the tourist for someone in traditional Arab clothes and tried the same thing ...
It just goes to show you how much of an illusion security is. These guys didn't even have a sophisticated plan: a fake motorcade and a beard and they got passed "tight" security. So much for all that money spent on "security." Taxpayers would have been better off putting the money in a pile and lighting it on fire.
OTOH, this kinda scares me. One more successful attack on US soil would probably give the neo cons all the excuses in the world to rescind rights and liberties and basically end US democracy as we know it.
They shut down all the freeways around Bellevue, WA when the boy king came to fundraise for one of his toadys (Dave Reichart, who is going to be defeated by Darcy Burner in 2008.) Despite that, there was still a pretty good protest. Some people even figured out the trick that they were going to use (coming in a back way) and the Boy King was subjected to a few seconds of viewing real, live protestors. The economic costs of the freeway shutdown must have been staggering -- Seattle is a port city and shutting off freeways to the airport has a big effect.
When the protestors shut down the freeway in San Francisco during the first gulf war protests, the media made a big deal about all the people who could have been hurt if they were in ambulances that desperately needed to get to the hospital. No such consideration when the boy king orders a shutdown.
Wow, big cajones! These guys would be in some Dick Cheney gulag if they tried that here. Their relatives wouldn't even know where they were being held or extraordinarily rendered.
Be sure to check out the other video clip, which I find even funnier.
The best part is they got the film away
There stuff is all over Youtube. Just look for "Chaser" or their previous show "CNNN"
This is the second time I've seen these guys. the other time, it was a spoof on the Book and Oprah BS craze "The Secret" It was hilarious.
Even Bush Bin Laden was fooled as he waived to his brother from the hotel window.
Putz @ 19:
As an American living in the Land of Kangaroos, I get annoyed at the butt smooching that goes on here concerning him. Of course, he lack of mental facilities does make the current toad errr Prime Minister look intelligent.
These days are ripe for satire.
They will probably face consequences, but I'd say they were ready for one of their APEC pranks to have this kind of response. It's amusing in the end, because if you look at the whole setup and it was all veneer... they weren't looking to 'get away with it'. As a tax payer, all you can do is groan and think of all the money that's been pissed away, and the fact that the government won't learn anything from this incident.
They want to charge them "under newly legislated APEC laws that restrict anyone from entering declared zones", but it looks like it'll be hard getting those charges when it comes in front of a judge. It's been mentioned that the area may not even have been officially designated a 'declared zone' until 6am EST Friday, after the event.
Dreamer @ 35:
Why do I find this not surprising?
The ABC network in Australia is both television and radio and is government funded, therefore paid for by our taxes. Ironically it is the most subversive media in Australia and has even helped bring down a few governing individuals as well as parties.
The fact that these guys are able to have a show like this, paid for by the people, makes me quite proud to be Australian.
To all those at C&L, keep up the good work and we'll keep at it down under!
Wow, $70 million/asshole for security.
I don't think you can cross the line when it comes to embarrassing Bush and Howard.
13 sconset Says: O/T The cable stations are all warning us that
OsamaEmmanuel Goldstein is going to be addressing the nation in the next 72 hours.Fixed your typo.
Is it any wonder the Howard gang want to scrap the ABC?
Man, the Chaser proves time and time again that it's not only funny, it's vitally important television.
Man I wish we got that here in the states. One of my local stations carried the 'Frontline' series and it is one of the best bits of TV in existence.
I get that 'The Chaser' is probably somewhat different in format, but gotta love that Oz humour.
For anyone concerned about the Bush ass-kissing going on here right now, allow me to explain something about Australia. I know some Aussies won't like hearing this, but I'm an Aussie boy, so I gotta let my opinion out. Australians like to think of themselves as cheeky, anti-authoritarians - the Australian slang for someone like this is "larrikin" - a jokey, rebellious type with no real regard for serious authority - it's a character trait that we love to watch in our movies (Croc Dundee is an example you might be familiar with or perhaps Daryl Kerrigan in the little Aussie movie "The Castle")
The reality is that most Aussies aren't like that at all - we suffer from a National Napolean syndrome wherein we are so keen to prove ourselves to the big boys on the world stage that any, and I mean ANY performance by an Aussie that rates coverage overseas, gets highlighted here....simply because it got onto American T.V - in fact, on commercial networks, the story is no longer about The Chaser boys, it's about international coverage of The Chaser Boys... this problem extends everywhere.....I'm so cynical about it, that i took special notice in 1996 at the number of Australians who made a point of mentioning that the Port Arthur gun massacre in Tasmania was a "world record." No question, it was a sickening and heartbreaking event, but why would Australians make a point about it being a world record?
An Australian makes a movie in Hollywood? Hold the front page! An Australian wins one stage of the Tour de France? Stop the presses! An Australian got a scratch in the London Bombing? Exclusive scoop! - it's sooo embarrassing!!!
This syndrome is showing itself clearly during APEC - especially among journalists. The other day on one our cable network, one of the senior journalists was GUSHING about how ELOQUENT, that's right, ELOQUENT George Bush is.....it's incredible how much hero worship there is. Another journo was on Air Force One for the journey to Australia and wrote a piece about what a privelege it was to be invited and how touched he was when Bush said.."You know why you're here? Cause we trust you." The journo beamede on morning T.V when he told this story AGAIN - of course, he saw that as an honour for an Australian journo, when in reality it is standard for a Murdoch journo (which he is). Anyhoo, despite that fact that 70% of Aussies disagree with Bush's policies and always have, we can't help but swoon in fron ogf world leaders. I love this country - i just wish we could get over this small-man syndrome and be ourselves. Perhaps things will get better when we get rid of the small man leading the country - election is weeks away, GO LABOR!!!!!!!!
Chris from Oz @ 44:
Howard's only succeeded on the back of Labor's economic reforms, the minerals boom, and the 'War on Terror' BS. Take those away and he's the same turd who failed as treasurer 30 years ago.
Happily, people are seeing through the sham. The wizard is shown to be a pathetic little shit with a loudspeaker. And his hobnobbing with Bush is only making things worse.
So it looks like he's on the way out politically. Now we need to work out a way to indict the bastard on war crimes charges and let the Hague look after him for the rest of his miserable life.
Bush coming to Oz and endorsing Howard is the best thing that LABOR could've asked for!
To Chris from Oz: I live in Japan and naturally have many Aussie friends who feel exactly as you do. I happen to feel that Australia is an incredibly beautiful country and that Aussies comparatively have a better understanding of what is happening outside of their own country than most people from the U.S. have. Every country has their share of people who feel differently than the way most of us who visit this site. Be happy that your country is not the country that is leading those misguided fools toward more of the hatred and violence that they seem to cherish more than anything else.
I have a lot of respect for Australia and for the Australian people. We all make mistakes in electing our officials who run our governments. And that said, the U.S. takes first prize again.
Chris from Oz @ 44:
BRAVO! BRAVO! I was just saying the exact thing to a new English immigrant to Sydney the other day. We have the small man syndrome in spades.... still, as I know you're saying Chris, this is a you beaut country - we just need to get past feeling like we're some poor second cousin twice removed from the glamour other 'bigger' countries have. We're a young country, we're a long way from everywhere (except when your 'everywhere' is here) and we're learning about who we are.
Your post was great! Thanks and Ozguy - well said.
For anyone that would like to see more of 'The Chaser's War on Everything', you can download all of their episodes for free on their website. No DRM, no streaming, just download and enjoy. :)
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/chaser/war/vodcast/
Retired Navy,
good points. You're right - i need to focus on those good qualities and do my best to see them become more of a guiding force for Australia - sorry to all if i ranted there a bit - the last 11 years have been very hard for many of us, but people like me need to let go of the anger and devote ourselves to making Australia the country we know it can be.
On a slightly different point, one thing i still can't stand in Australia is the idea that if you disagree with Bush, you're somehow anti-american. I love the idea of America and what it stands for. I, like many of my American friends are outraged by this White House and see it as not only a threat to peace in the world, but a threat to the values that have made America a great nation - ask me why i hate Bush and I'll tell ya - it's because I love the United States of America!
Just as defence of American values in the face of Bush will see your patritotism questioned in the U.S - defence of democratic ideals in Australia will see you labelled a rascist, anti-american. To hell with that crap - Bush is on the way out and hopefully his few remaining allies will be gone soon too - then begins the clean-up. I hope that we can pull together with our American friends and get that job done
Chris (44) and Lynda (48). The phenomenom of which you speak is long been known as the "Cultural Cringe" which harkens back to the idea of us just being colonials in exile from the Motherland. Only the UK and Europe (and later the USofA) can do anything of importance. So when we little upstarts in the corner get recognition we seem to react just like a little kid getting praised.
Thankfully, the cringe is nowhere as bad as it used to be, but we still see a lot of it. Maybe a new term for people like us: "the Cultural Cringe Cringers"...
Chris from Oz (and the other Aussies who are with us here): I didn't take yours as a rant. You explained yourself quite well (with a few exceptions of mispellings that I'm sure were a product of a bit of fast typing brought on by a hint of anger!)
No need for Aussies to suffer the small man syndrome. Anyone who feels that Oz is small either hasn't been there or simply looked at a map. And if they know anything of your history and how Australia was settled, they probably cannot understand how difficult it was for the original settlers of the U.S. to make it as well.
Any animosity that is felt toward Australia is probably based in jealousy anyway.
I'm in awe of the White House Typo in their press release. How could they POSSIBLY be so bone-headed?
Sidney instead of Sydney?
I'm red-faced.
*
The "Americanization" of Australia shits me to tears....
This buddy-buddy relationship between Howard and Bush is also shitting me to tears. When Kevin Rudd had his meeting with Dubya the other day it was a friendly meeting but Rudd told him that he is in disagreement with America's foreign policy. I'm now wondering when the Diebold voting machines will be installed for this coming election....
Putz @ 19:
Hey, he is the most powerful man in the world. Don't blame us, we didn't vote for him.
Josh T @ 54:
Unfortunately, Josh T is correct. Forth graders (and even younger) having greater intellectual abilities notwithstanding.
I wonder what would happen if they sent them to Gitmo. That would be a interesting international outrage.
Great stuff! I'd buy them all a pint or two if I was there.
The Chasers can escape to New Zealand if they have to...or the west coast of the USA.
Be afraid, be verrrrry afraid.
Funny as this may seem, these guys got right into the kill zone of the most protected man in the entire world. If those three cars had been loaded with high explosives instead of Chaser's out to score, we'd be forced to endure a week long State funeral for the yutz.
If anything proves the fact that the only thing that's protected us from another major attack in the last six years is just idiot's luck, it's this made for TV humliation.
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Scottie @ 53:
During election mode.........
1. Study Karl Rove's playbook.
2. Plant scandals in the media regarding the opposition leader - check
3. Have media cronies (Rupert Murdoch) milk every drop possible from aforementioned
scandals. - check
4. Discuss the abolition of non-compulsory voting - check
5. Fuel anti-immigration sentiment - check
6. Fuel anti-aboriginal sentiment in order to steal back land - check
7. Scare the voters with fake terrorist alerts - check
8. Court the fundamentalist christian vote. - check
9. Throw money at the Australian public in an effort to buy votes - check
10. Accuse the opposition of being fiscally irresponsible - check
11. Tell the voters that interest rates will go up if the Labor Party win - check
12. Accuse ethical media outlets, particular the ABC, who refuse to observe points 1, 2 &
5, of political bias - check.
12. Invite a respected foreign leader to our country for photo ops........er......oops!
As an Aussie, I find it quite ironic that the story of the Chaser boys (I'm a victorian too, Angie) is being shown by Today Tonight, which is for those who don't know, Australian tabloid TV at its best. More often than not, Today Tonight & it's 'journalist standards' is the Chaser's target.
Chris from Oz: I don't like hearing what your saying, even if it is true. Historically, it has always been the case. It just used to be Aussies showing up in Europe. Australia has always had a bit of a cultural inferiority complex. However, having said that it has worked for us. Despite being a drop in the ocean in terms of population, and geographically isolated from much of the world, we are *significantly* over represented in the world in many areas of excellence such as science, sport, theatre & business.
BTW, Casey Stoner is about to knock Valentino Rossi off the World Champion list soon too.
=my2c
BC
Josh T @ 54:
I don't think this thread is about Darth Cheney
B.C - would you prefer i didn't say it or would you prefer it wasn't true?
Jake @ 49:
Thanks jake. They have a very slow server. But I'll have my computer on for awhile.
This cracks me up. Serious style points!
OK, I'm not kidding about this - Bush held a press conference in Sydney today (Sidney if you're part of the White House press office) in order to say how great it has been being at OPEC (yep, he said OPEC) and to thank the Austrian (yep, Austrian) troops for their contribution in Iraq and Afghanistan!
Thanks for the kind words - genius!
Chris from Oz @ 66:
Remember when Poppy gave you lot the 'vee' sign? Out of ignorance? Good times. Good times.
:lol:
There is an old Aboriginal saying from down under....
"if you build it, they will come"
Um Patriot Actor was that the Kevin Costner movie... hahahah the baseball one... um...
Patriot actor,
ummm......zing?
The Chasers rule
The people who thought they 'crossed the line' were generally the ones who were revealed as incompetent. Any old motorcade shouldn't be able to sneak into such a high security environment. Obviously these comedians weren't going to hurt anyone. And pointing out security flaws only helps to have them fixed. Does anyone think a terrorist couldn't come up with an idea like that? It's sad to think security had not considered how to deal with it beforehand. Kudos to the Chasers.
Hail, all Hail the Chasers!
Lee,
couldn't agree more. Those cops are pissed cause they screwed up - they should have known it was gonna happen - d#ckheads!
BC @ 61:
Don't forget in matters of romance too. I haven't met many Americans who didn't want to tumble an Aussie after listening to him or her for more than 5 minutes (excluding the late Steve Erwin, sorry to say. That man was too goofy to be a sex symbol).
"Funny as this may seem, these guys got right into the kill zone of the most protected man in the entire world. If those three cars had been loaded with high explosives instead of Chaser’s out to score, we’d be forced to endure a week long State funeral for the yutz."
You are so correct, Outraged@ 59. What the world has just witnessed is one of the most brilliant pieces of anarchic comedy for quite some time.
The subtext of the "in your face" nature of their stunt was:
All the king's horses and all the king's men with all their $Billions and all their hubris and hype, coundn't prevent a group of 11 very courageous and clever TV comedians from positioning themselves where they could have guaranteed the presidential Warmonger-In-Chief an early Rapture.
If there were Purple Hearts awarded for comedic courage, the lads from "The Chaser's War On Everthing" would be among the first nominees.
If this stroke had of been pulled in America, Team Chaser would have met the same fate as was dispensed the Symbionese Liberation Army.
All the merry pranksters are now out on conditional bail and face court next month when our Federal Election Campaign is in full swing. Bush's South Pacific Poodle, John Hunt(sorry, Howard) who resides in Sidney(sorry, Sydney) has drifted in the election betting since "King" George rolled his juggernaut into town. For a buck, Howard's Party is now paying $2.85 while the Opposition have been backed in to $1.43.
We, The People of Oz, are going to ROOT Prime Minister Howard on Election Day, democratically, and with a great deal of relish.
Enemy Combatant - ROOT on my friend...roll on election day!
Extra salt with in the wound?
THE CHASER BOYS ARE FUNDED BY THE GOVERNMENT.
Brilliant tax dollars at work.
The Chasers boys RULE!
They exposed the so called security for what it is - millions of dollars being channelled into the backpockets of the executives running these security firms - and bugger all on staff in the front line.
The only scary thing about the Chaser stunt is that the police will probably throw the book at 'em - for embarrassing their boss Mr. Howard (yep they are funded by the government) and they will probably also lose their jobs too.
The 2nd video clearly shows the current attitude here in Australia towards people that aren't white, blue eyed and speak ARRSTRALIAN. Our beloved PM has had 11 years to take our once great country back to the White Australia 1950s!
Sadly - we are a racist country - and more worrying - Mr. Howard is PROUD of this!!!
ALL my friends and family HATE this man with a passion and we are eagerly looking forward to the forthcoming election - so we CAN BOOT THE BASTARD OUT!
And we would very much appreciate it if the US can take him off our hands. I hear there is a vacancy for Attorney General! Mr Howard can lie as good as Gonzalez did - and Bushy loves him too - a PERFECT ARRANGEMENT!!!
Hooray! BUMS WILL BE KICKED!!
The "Chasers" rock-- big time!
If any CHASERS need to fleeeeee, I'll sponsor you to live in Canada. Male or female, we have LEGAL gay marriage.
I live & work in Sydney's CBD, right in the middle of the whole APEC security lockdown & as much as I applaud the Chaser boy's cunning stunt, I've gotta say it's made my life a lot worse. For the past couple days I've been searched, questioned, stopped at checkpoints about 3-4 times a day. All these times I've been in a suit & tie for work, & had plenty of ID 'justifying' my presence (!) at my home & nearby workplace. Today, after the Chaser stunt, I've been stopped, searched, questioned 11 - that's right ELEVEN - times. The security fenced sidewalks around my place are bristling with steroidal Secret Service types, armed Special Forces guys & cops in riot gear. Bulletproof motorcades thunder past amid sirens, loudspeakers, squawking security radios & the skies above grumble menacingly with pairs and trios of low-flying Blackhawks swooping between the office towers.
My fellow city workers & residents don't seem remotely impressed, awestruck or "swooning" by the near proximity of Great World Leaders. They, like me, are REALLY pissed off that we're being treated like intruders in our own workplaces & homes, that we're being subjected to thoroughly unreasonable searches, aggressive interrogations & lengthy delays, with an implicit assumption of guilt, or being 'suspicious', on our behalf for daring to be where we happen to live & work. Many of my fellow city workers & dwellers tended, unlike me, to support the conservative Coalition government & our unctuous, loathsome PM Howard. But after a week of being bullied, menaced, massively inconvenienced & treated like suspects - they are ALL beginning to sound like budding revolutionaries, anti-authoritarians or, at the very least, potential new Labour voters. If Howard was hoping to get a desperately needed poll bounce, or prestige by association, out of hosting Great World Leaders, it sure as hell won't be coming from the formerly pro-Howard business-types in my embattled neighbourhood.
In closing I'd reiterate that I DO heartily support the Chaser boy's stunt. I wish however that they'd timed it towards the END of APEC, so that those of us who live & work in the city didn't have so many extra days of repercussions & greater security crackdowns. I do appreciate its' indirect effectiveness in radicalising my conservative neighbours, but I'm seriously getting COMPLETELY FUC*ING OVER the massively increased infringements on my movement, privacy & liberty.
Update:
Three more of the Chaser boys got arrested this afternoon while approaching security checkpoints in cardboard cutout cars bearing the canadian flag! They were shimmying along in little cardboard cars and the cops nabbed them - can't see what they did wrong aside from "approaching" security points - they looked hilarious - the cars looked like props from a kids play - bravo!!!!!!
Story is here - non-Murdoch media.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/chaser-team-does-it-again/2007/09...
These guys make me proud to be an aussie
Can't believe how many Australians are hooked in to C&L. Maybe there's a local movement happening?
The election is weeks away??
They havnt even set a date yet!!!
And you talk about us sucking up the butts of the yanks, and here you are on an American Political Blogg site writing novels dropping Aussie talents names.
You just cant help it can ya!!
Chris from Oz @ 50:
No one gives a crap in Australia, thats the beauty of Australia..
Retired Navy @ 52:
Were talking about countries right?? not like parts of our bodies :)
Chris from Oz @ 66:
Actually it was Vladamir Putin who said that not Bush...
Another Chris in Oz @ 91:
You can't be serious it was BUSH. I saw three news services in Oz that showed the brilliant bush (not) SAYING EXACTLY THAT. He also wakled off the wrong sid eof the stage. Bright he is not!
mickydub @ 92:
meh, my bad...
I damn near choked on my Pepsi when I saw this. OMG! ROFLMFAO! Good on you, Chaser dudes!
The only thing that would have made their stunt better is if their Bin Laden impersonator started shouting lines from "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" as he was being searched:
"Now we see the violence inherent in the system. Help! Help! I'm bein' repressed. You saw him repressin' me, didn't you?"
I would have paid money to see THAT video clip.
I thought the Bush gaffes were a Chaser joke - until I saw the news reports.
Australian taxpayers are footing the bill to bring this "person" to APEC and not only do they misspell "sidney", he also says "OPEC" and "Austria".
If Bushie was trying to be funny - he FAILED big time. But he was very much HILARIOUS - because we all LAUGHED AT HIM!
And I would dearly love an Australian version of crooksandliars.com - the closest we've got is crikey.com.au - but i think you have to subscribe to it.
Speaking of which - THANK YOU to the C& L team. As an aussie who has enjoyed reading about US politics for over a year - you have brought a smile to my face and heaps of groans and loads of "WTF!".
I think there will be many more fans from down under - thanks to the Chaser boys and of course thanks to you guys.
Like I mentioned elsewhere - we are NOT anti-American - we are just anti-BUSH! (and his motley crue too!).
So basically these guys got arrested and this huge fuss was made because someone responsible for the security fucekd up? If the security was as good as that hefty price tag indicates, they never would've got that close. They would've been stopped, everyone would have a giggle and someone somewhere would have some really silly paperwork to fill out. But no! Because some incompitant dipshits failed to provide proper security, suddenly the Chasers are anarchic fearmongers, out to disturb the peace and disrupt the securty efforts of the government. It makes you wonder what would happen if terrorists really had tried this stunt, and I'd assume that terrorists would be better trained at infiltration than a bunch of clowns with a TV budget.
ahahhahaha I've been youtubing them since I read the news flash. these guys really deserve the publicity they're getting from this. fantastic stuff!
You have to love the Chasers- been a fan since CNNNN. Check out some clips at:
http://www.cnnnn.com/ (look under video vault)
You Aussies definately have a right to be proud of these creative loons!
Vimy @ 27:
OTOH, this kinda scares me. One more successful attack on US soil would probably give the neo cons all the excuses in the world to rescind rights and liberties and basically end US democracy as we know it.
Please do not call them neocons. They are neither neo or con, please just call them what they are ... fascists!
I think The Chaser just hit "cultural icon" status for us here thanks to their latest pranks. And deservingly so.
The reason there's probably an over representation of aussies round these parts might have something to do with us having to put up with our own right wing bugger, in Howard for the last decade or so. I think we can empathize and thanks to the way our head poodle is sucking up to your head poodle, well, we're fighting the same fight.
I've been noticing that not all of my comments make it onto the boards, yet mine are in no way different from any of the other commentors, what gives?
Gotta love those Chaser boys. I'm getting this strange feeling in my chest - is it... a tiny bit of pride to be Australian?
Oh wait - nope, Rudd's bleating about responsibility crushed it. Oh Kevin Rudd. You're our best (and only viable) alternative! Why do you have to be such a speccy git?
The BBC said this morning that one of their passes said something like, "Obviously, this is not a real pass...." The cars were rented and had clear rental identification on them. Most people see what they expect to see.
There is no way that a military force or even ordinary people can keep up this hyper-vigilant attitude forever. For every week that passes without a major catastrophe, everyone's attentiveness drops a little.
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I wonder if Bush has any idea what an idiot the world believes he truly is?
It is great that the people of Australia protested his arrival.
Hopefully he is protested everywhere he goes for the rest of his life, and that includes his trips from his cell to the courthouse at the Hague.
"This video is no longer available" ???
Big Brother strikes again, I guess
shargash @ 108:
Not all Chaser vids just the two to do with this Austrian, I mean Australian embarrassment.
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