George Bush/Alien video on Japanese TV
September 26th, 2008 by James
The following clip of an old “no bailouts” speech by George W. Bush made it on to Japanese TV the other night because there is a strange object in the window behind the president:
The UFO expert consulted believes there is a “very high probability” that the object is an alien.
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I didn´t buy it, but when that thing moved it scared me a little bit though… Funny, nevertheless…
Just a reflection in the window.
oh, c’mon!
It was just a teru teru bozo (weather doll).
He want is to be sunny tomorrow so he can go golfing.
d’ahh! BOZU, not bozo!
Although there is one bozo in the video clip….
You’re right, the “UFO expert” sure is a bozo.
And all the stupid tarento and everyone in the audience are bozos, too.
Apart from that I see a Harvard MBA who is not freaking out that there’s a reflection! in a window! OMG!
Fuck it. We should all give up our jobs and become psychics. Seems like an easy way to make a living AND get on TV in this country.
Fortune tellers charge 3000 yen for 15 minutes, while the average private English lesson rate is 3000 for an hour. Time to learn “palm reading”!
Oh, very good. But I was referring to George Bush. And so what if he got a MBA at Harvard? Barrack Obama went to Harvard, too, and got a law degree. Both fortunate enough have the fortune to go to Harvard. Big deal!
Actually Bush went to Yale and was average. He went to a prep school for the rich and influential and pretty much had free pass into Yale.
Obama came from a poor family, went to Occidental College, got himself transferred to Columbia, and finally completed graduate studies at Harvard with magna cum laude, ala within top 1% of his cohort. He recently repaid his student loans.
So yes, there is a huge world of difference. But hey, it’s cool to look down on education and qualifications. Real men don’t need no fancy Harvard degrees.
When was this speech made? Can the original be seen somewhere [on the web]?
How small is that alien? For it to be seen clearly through the window, it would have to be pretty much pressed right up against the glass, making it doll size. Not too scary.
Dammit Japanese TV and their love of stupid easily disproven paranormal BS! 2 weeks ago they were giving airtime to that stupid frigging psychic who predicted Nagoya was going to be detroyed by an earthquake on Sept 13.
This is just the reflection, distorted a bit, of some dude’s white shirt sleeve, which is why it moves a bit.
Go to youtube and look up Captain Disillusionment, he debunks this, and has a few other stupid UFO/ghost “videos”, and Japanese TV is becoming a frequent target. The Japanese one with the “ghost girl” in the mirror is pretty good, but it is so obviously a simple video editing trick I’m amazed people still fall for it in this age where anyone with a bit of knowledge, free video-editing software and a digital camera can basically make anything happen.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=fjMh6e_wxbY
then watch the rest
And then 55% of Americans believe they’ve been helped by guardian angels, and that made the front page and an article featured in TIME. Your qualm is not with Japanese – it’s with people.
I agree. For that matter, on some American TV channels there are also stupid shows about UFOs, “conspiracies”, etc. There’s always going to be people who believe in that sort of stuff and there’s always going to be TV shows that try to prove that sort of stuff anywhere in the world.
Yes, people are stupid.
But Japanese TV gives this BS an outlet. And the 100% stupidity and/or lack of someone willing to take a stand and say “IT’S JUST A REFLECTION!” just seems to be part of the the groupthink, which seems to be worse in Japan.
Where’s the Mythbuster spirit? Where’s the Japanese version of Penn & Teller?
Or are they afraid they’ll get sued for slander, as TV psychics tend to do for the money and publicity, and risk that some judge who also believes in psychic BS will rule against them?
It still amazes me that the people of Japan, who score so well on standardized tests and live in a technologically advanced society, AND are not slaves to religion, still believe in ghosts, fortune telling and other such BS at really high levels, like 70-80% according to some polls.
I escape one country of rednecks and Oprah only to be greeted by even worse here in Japan.
> “IT’S JUST A REFLECTION!”
So, what? You’re saying that the alien was actually -INSIDE- the White House?! Holy shit! I always knew it! It’s a scam and GWB is a sock puppet for an alien government!
*flees the country*
I tend to think that the lack of being a slave to a religion drives the Japanese people to those believes about psychic things. People have to believe in something, that’s sadly part of the human nature…
It could have been a dream, but I seem to remember a Japanese tv show, maybe back in 2006, that actually tried to disprove such myths as psychic phenomena and whatnot. It took the approach of setting up similar situations as when the incident happened and testing it out for themselves. I was rather happy that such a show had started, but It didn’t last long, probably due to lack of support. Nobody believed them anyway.
Yeah, I remember it too. I’m pretty sure Beat Takeshi was the host. The one I remember was about a UFO that a guy captured a few times at the same place that turned out to just be the reflection of a building with aluminum sheet roofing.
Nice to see that Japanese TV still has its finger on the pulse of world politics.
I thought the USA had the dumbest celebrities, but looks like Japan has them beat. Every show I’ve seen featuring a panel of celebrity judges just shows them acting awestruck by some cheap video editing or optical illusion. It’s like FOX, but it’s every channel.
No the USA still has very dumb celebrities, and they still win because they not only fall for this kind of crap: they actually go out and PROMOTE it, do talk shows, have press conferences and charity dinners, go on Oprah.
i.e. Jenny McCrathy going around convincing people not to vaccinate their babies because she says it causes autism.
But it goes back to Old Ben Kenobi’s wisdom:
“Who is more foolish? The fool? Or the fool who follows him?”
But still, Japan does have a cetain talent for getting large groups of people to believe in wacky shit with no dissent. I guess believing in ghosts is better than believing a certain old man in Tokyo is a living god and that all gaijin are no better than animals.