American Idol executive producer Nigel Lythgoe, explaining why he originally didn't want George W. Bush to appear on the show's charity episode:
We didn't ask the President this year to say anything because we are all a bit embarrassed about him, and the office insisted that, because the [primary] candidates were on it, the President would like to come on and say ‘thank you.’
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The producers of the karaoke show that brought us Sanjaya and Antonella find Bush embarrassing. Can the prez get any lower in public esteem?
He probably saw the chest bump the President did last week. Boy, I'd be embarrassed if I was the guy who did it with him.