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December 02, 2002
Uh oh Dubya, he's onto you!
Man, talk about delusional fantasies. Mark Crispin Miller is a professor of "culture and communication at New York University." His claim to fame is putting together some stale little hack book of President Bush's minor rhetorical gaffes. In the ranks of literary achievement, this rates somewhere a couple of creative steps below writing the screenplay for a porno movie.
He discovered something in the course of his research, though: George W Bush is really an evil sociopath! See, he has no trouble with words when he's saying something mean, talking about killing and punishment and retribution. He only has trouble with the language when it comes to saying something nice.
"I know how hard it is to put food on your family," Bush was quoted as saying.
"That wasn't because he's so stupid that he doesn't know how to say, `Put food on your family's table' � it's because he doesn't care about people who can't put food on the table," Miller says.
That rates as perhaps his best, most well founded piece of analysis. I'd say the guy's a retard, but I'd feel bad about slandering folks with Down's Syndrome by comparing them to someone this goddam willfully dumb. More than anything against him though, how could any sentient being feel anything but contempt for anyone who would treat him as a respectable intellectual?
The thing that catches me is that something this foolish, this self-indulgent gets treated as insightful thinking- indeed that it is considered to constitute "thinking" at all. Yet lots of stuff this slanderous and worse, utterly unfounded and at odds with all empirical data routinely gets presented as respectable opinion by big parts of the left-wing intelligentsia, particularly college professors. I am continually astonished by the lack of self-awareness that allows people with advanced degrees to indulge in such childish posturing.
posted by Al at 12/02/2002 01:33:00 AM
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