I understand why they're pissed: he's made their boy in the White House look like the ne'er-do-well buffoon that all the real evidence suggests he is. Don't get me wrong: lots of folks here in Austin know George Bush, personally. They attest to him as jolly dinner company. But ne'er-do-well buffoons often are, and that is neither here nor there. The worry is that he is not equipped to be President, that he has neither judgment, nor experience, nor knowledge adequate for the job. (It's actually not clear that he's equipped to hold any job, but that's a different matter. Texas Monthly recently ran a profile of another Bush brother, Neil, who like George W. has been a chronic screw-up, despite having every opportunity and benefit of the doubt. George Sr. and Barbara must, at some level, be deeply embarrassed by all this.)
But surely right-wing conmen can do better than this rebuttal to Michael Moore:
"In one of the best-known scenes from Fahrenheit 9/11, President George W. Bush is captured on film appearing more concerned about his skill at golf than his leadership in the war for civilization. Speaking to a throng of reporters, President Bush remarks, 'I call upon all nations to do everything they can to stop these terrorist killers. Thank you. Now, watch this drive.' These three phrases alone seem to many incontrovertible evidence that Bush, insincere about the threat of al Qaeda, merely mouths boilerplate that looks robust in the morning papers. It makes for great sneering. Now, as it turns out, President Bush was talking not about al Qaeda, but Hamas, which had suicide-bombed in Israel hours before. But don’t expect the movie to mention such a detail, for here Bush looks silly, and this is the great purpose of Fahrenheit 9/11."
Yes, indeed, knowing that it was merely Hamas, not al Qaeda, that had distracted Bush from his golf game does change my entire view of the man.
And so it goes in right-wing conman land.
(Even more amusing is that I found this link via Francis Beckwith, creationist apologist extraordinaire, who on the basis of the link discussed above denounces Moore as a "pathological liar." Now I wonder where he picked up that turn of phrase?)
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