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Who do you consider the biggest sycophant of George W. Bush? NSGers and members of the administration do not count.

Poll coming.

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I change my mind. I'd have to say that Fox New is the biggest Bush Sycophant.

Thanks wilgrove for clearing that up :)

My personal vote goes to PM John Howard.

-wishes he had a larger vocabulary....googles word.....-

Big business war mongorers?

I think sycophant means someone who supports Bush, or who gives him blowjobs no matter what, either one works.

I think sycophant means someone who supports Bush, or who gives him blowjobs no matter what, either one works.

Correct.

Except for Tony Blair, I don't even know who these other people are.
Luckily, I don't need to know, and heck, I don't want to know...

You've got it backwards. Dubya is Dick Cheney's biggest sycophant.

Holy Joe?

Not totally, but he seems to have ass-kissing, brainless follwing, and suicidal devotion down, anyway.

Chose Howard over Hannity, but it was close.

Except for Tony Blair, I don't even know who these other people are.
Luckily, I don't need to know, and heck, I don't want to know...

Coulter, Hannity and Limbaugh are American conservatives who write books and host radio and tv shows, Fox News mainly. Pat Robertson is that crazy 700-club guy who blamed Hurricane Katrina on lesbians amongst other insane ramblings. John Howard is the Australian Prime Minister. McCain is a Republican who is in the running for the Republican nomination.

I knew all that and I'm Aussie, not bad eh.

Sadly I had to use wiki to find that Stephen Harper is the current Canadian PM.

My personal vote goes to PM John Howard.

I wouldn't worry, he got the political crap kicked out of him by Labor for that Obama comment, and his firebrand rhetoric about sticking by the US has alienated any support he has, Rudd is now like 20% ahead of him in the polls and like the whole country wants a different direction. By the end of this year we'll have a sane government, and one that isn't so anti-welfare also.

I wouldn't worry, he got the political crap kicked out of him by Labor for that Obama comment, and his firebrand rhetoric about sticking by the US has alienated any support he has, Rudd is now like 20% ahead of him in the polls and like the whole country wants a different direction. By the end of this year we'll have a sane government, and one that isn't so anti-welfare also.

Bad enough Bush's lies are getting Americans and Iraqis killed; worse that other nationals are being slaughtered over his lies.

Bad enough Bush's lies are getting Americans and Iraqis killed; worse that other nationals are being slaughtered over his lies.

True. But just to clarify, in this specific case of Australia, only two of our guys have died: one in Baghdad by accidently shooting himself and the other I could find was actually in Kuwait and was in a vehicle accident.

True. But just to clarify, in this specific case of Australia, only two of our guys have died: one in Baghdad by accidently shooting himself and the other I could find was actually in Kuwait and was in a vehicle accident.

Even so...IMO, Howard, Bush, Blair, and all the other "Coalition of the Willing" leaders should be tried for war crimes.

I accidentely voted for Harper, but I meant Howard. My mistake, as I mixed up the two Prime Ministers for a moment.

True. But just to clarify, in this specific case of Australia, only two of our guys have died: one in Baghdad by accidently shooting himself and the other I could find was actually in Kuwait and was in a vehicle accident.

Yeah our troops aren't really in a combat zone, apart from occasionally getting a mortar or RPG fired at long range at them, nothing much happens, we have been just training Iraqi police and army units. So I don't object to them being their so much, I mean apart from the revenue used to provision them of course. Given our small force in Iraq, I think the debate in Australia over Iraq should not be about our troops specifically, but instead about us supporting such a stupid war.

Rick Santorum was up there, but I'm not sure if it should count since he currently doesn't have much influence.

Sycophant -

–noun a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.

A servile self-seeker who attempts to win favor by flattering influential people.

noun
a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage

Im sorry (but not), but this really sounds like Bush and Blairs relationship...Especially the fawning parasite bit.

... I don't want to know...

Coulter, Hannity and Limbaugh ...

Now you forced me to know, and I have to go shoot myself... :(

Oh well, I'll have forgotten before I finish writing this reply anyway. :p

Being an Aussie I have to say John Howard.

I will say Blair, but it could be easily Howard too.

I accidentely voted for Harper, but I meant Howard. My mistake, as I mixed up the two Prime Ministers for a moment.

It's not that much of a mistake. Harper is equally, if not more, involved in Busheries at the moment (in Afghanistan, mainly).

It's got to be Tony "Excuse me Prime Minister, you've got some brown on you" Blair. Given how friendly he was with Clinton when he first became PM, his sycophancy for Bush now is frankly sickening.

Well, I don't know many of these American TV personalities. I know Ann Coulter, and I reckon she goes much further than Bush would ever dare.

Blair has at least the semblance of an independent mind. On issues like climate change or Iran he's taken a very different line from Bush's and even now with his announcement to take troops out of Iraq he's moving away from the Bush line (which at the moment seems to be "the surge").

Howard on the other hand...well, it's ridiculous really. There is not an issue on this planet that he doesn't 100% agree with Bush on. Including the detention of an Australian citizen in Gitmo for five years running. The beauty of it is that he's alienating the voters, but it also gives him my vote on this poll.

Holy Joe?

Not totally, but he seems to have ass-kissing, brainless follwing, and suicidal devotion down, anyway.

That's actually a really good example, assuming you're talking about Joe "I'm mostly a Democrat out of habit" Lieberman.

Well, in the UK we have such a disgusting close-up of the oral favours Tony Bliar is bestowing upon George's Bush that I can't really choose any other option.

Some of the right-wing media nutters mentioned might be slightly closer to him politically, as is John Howard, but I think that makes Bliar's behaviour even more disgustingly sycophantic.

Its gotta bee teflon Tony

My personal vote goes to PM John Howard.

Agreed.

Sycophant... someone who sucks up to the boss to ty to better his own position?

Condi Rice or Joe Lieberman are good choices. *nod*

Was gonna go for Blair till I realised how Howard actually edge ahead by caring even less about what his people think about Bush.