Friday, October 27, 2017

David Cop-A-Feel

I think this one doesn't quite fit in the category of the other stories that have been coming out, but former President George H.W. Bush is also in the crosshairs for his behavior. He apparently sits in a wheelchair, so when a photo is taken with him, his arm can only go as high as a person's backside. That has led to a few butt pats...

“To try to put people at ease, the president routinely tells the same joke — and on occasion, he has patted women’s rears in what he intended to be a good-natured manner,” said a spokesman for Bush on Wednesday, while noting that the former president’s wheelchair posture keeps his arms at butt-level.

Could that “same joke” be the one that he allegedly told another actress, Jordana Grolnick, while posing for a photo with her in August 2016? Grolnick told Deadspin that Bush and wife Barbara visited her backstage at a Maine theater, that the president asked her to guess his favorite magician, and then, as he squeezed her rear end, revealed that the answer was “David Cop-a-feel.”

Clearly he shouldn't do it, but I doubt any woman was worried about her safety around this 90-something year old man. That's like a scene out of a Mel Brooks movie.