[PEN-L:32619] RE: Bush, moron?

["Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx>]

Title: RE: [PEN-L:32618] Bush, moron?

It's been pretty clear for awhile that it didn't matter if Dubya was an idiot or not, since it's the administration that counts, not the individual. (Cheney and Rove, two horrible people, would run the show if Dubya were an idiot.) We already knew that the administration was sociopathic...

Jim

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From: Michael Perelman
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Sent: 11/28/2002 12:59 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:32618] Bush, moron?

Published on Thursday, November 28, 2002 by the Toronto Star
Bush Anything But Moronic, According to Author
Dark Overtones in His Malapropisms

by Murray Whyte

When Mark Crispin Miller first set out to write Dyslexicon:
Observations on a National Disorder, about the ever-growing
catalogue of President George W. Bush's verbal gaffes, he meant
it for a laugh. But what he came to realize wasn't entirely
amusing.

Since the 2000 presidential campaign, Miller has been compiling
his own collection of Bush-isms, which have revealed, he says, a
disquieting truth about what lurks behind the cock-eyed leer of
the leader of the free world. He's not a moron at all - on that
point, Miller and Prime Minister Jean Chrétien agree.

But according to Miller, he's no friend.

"I did initially intend it to be a funny book. But that was
before I had a chance to read through all the transcripts,"
Miller, an American author and a professor of culture and
communication at New York University, said recently in Toronto.

"Bush is not an imbecile. He's not a puppet. I think that Bush is
a sociopathic personality. I think he's incapable of empathy. He
has an inordinate sense of his own entitlement, and he's a very
skilled manipulator. And in all the snickering about his alleged
idiocy, this is what a lot of people miss."