Bad Sushi

January 8, 1992: President Bush becomes ill on a visit to Japan and vomits on Japanese Prime Minister Miyazawa Kiichi.

While the footage was widely seen of Bush recovering from having emptied his stomach contents on the leader of his host nation, the actual moment of puke was only shown once on US television, on ABCNews. And somehow I ended up with a copy of it on VHS.

Here's what's on this tape:
1. Brief news story about the vomiting.
2. The complete footage of what happened.
3. Slow-motion forward and reverse footage of the projection in progress
4. Brief exceprt from a Saturday Night Live sketch parodying an Oliver Stone recreation of the vomit conspiracy.

Enjoy!

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  News & Politics

[Andy C]

"shows clearly what happened" yeah right, part where he actually vomits is cut. wouldn't happen these days.. straight on the front page instead

[MarcoEsc]

The part where he vomits is not cut from this video.

[djellema]

During WW2, George HW Bush was a naval aviator while submarines were used to starve Japanese islands by destroying merchant shipping. This forced the Japanese to resort to cannibalism of American prisoners of war. George HW Bush was shot down and stranded in the ocean on a raft for hours before being rescued.

At this dinner with the prime minister of Japan, he was told something along the lines of that they were rowing out to get him, before the rescue submarine surfaced. Then came the vomit.

[Zak Lane]

Yeah the part of the video where he vomits is totally cut. He leans forward and vomits in the lap of the prime minister this should happen at about 0:14 but the news agency faded past it. Where is the full original video?

[Hermann Jones]

bad sushi?

[mikey39977]

0:53 Secret Service: "ASSASSIN!"

[shamantrainer]

I bet Bush lost a bet with a Skull and Bones fellow member and had to vomit on a foreign dignitary, then pretend it was an accident.

[zaaMsy]

That's China...

[Myk McGrane]

If that's true, that's awesome Karma.

[OX BigGun]

Maybe I should have stated the Japanese government, but either way, nor the government and people never apologized.

[Sushimaniac96]

Oh, so that justifies blaming the ENTIRE population of Japan for the evil deeds of a few more than 80 YEARS AGO? Try harder, asshole.

[Ivanov1690]

I'm a whacked-out liberal hippie and even I feel bad for Bush Sr. here. Those bugs always seem to strike at the worst possible time...