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Article Excerpt
Byline: Greg Pierce, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
No movie critic
President Bush, who this paper noted last week has suddenly become Oprah-in-Chief, spent nearly an hour yesterday fielding questions from an unscreened audience of almost 10,000 at Kansas State University.
Most of the queries were mundane - What about the Sudan? Will I have Social Security? How do you lead? - but the Most Powerful Man in the World got one question on which he definitely had no talking points.
"I was just wanting to get your opinion on 'Brokeback Mountain,' if you've seen it yet," said one young male student, referring to the Hollywood film about two homosexual cowboys.
The crowd laughed - a bit nervously, it seemed - before the student said loudly: "You would love it. You should check it out,"
Mr. Bush got his bearings quickly: "I haven't seen it," he said.
"I'd be glad to talk about ranching, but I haven't seen the movie," he said to laughter. "I've heard about it."
The president, looking a...
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