WTF Is It Now?!?

The 'big lie' on Bunnypants' nightstand
Right next to his Batman lamp and his Lance Armstrong bobblenut doll.

The significance remains that [Bush's] summer reading list is about the most transparent example of the administration using the big lie technique -- that is, playing the public and the media for fools. The idea that the President reads anything at all -- much less scholarly tomes -- shows how much contempt his handlers have for the public.

Bush's interest in the printed word has been spotty at best:

asked the title of his first favorite book, Bush responded, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, a book published after he graduated from college

asked for the name of a political philosopher with whom he identified, his response, Jesus Christ, showed he wasn't conversant either with political philosophy or the difference between philosophy and religion

when quizzed in the 2000 debates, he was unable to say anything meaningful about a subject (Dean Acheson) on which he said he was reading

Bush himself said in 2003 that he doesn't read newspapers. Even his former speechwriter David Frum called him "uncurious and as a result ill-informed."

But only the LA Times swallowed this blatant, laughable piece of propaganda like Jeff Gannon with a warm mouthful of WH jizz.

Makes you wonder if the mainstream outlets are catching on, finally, and that they saw the administration's attempt to portray Bush as an intellectual as what it was: a big lie, the deliberate seeding of misinformation.

- Kir Slevin, AlterNet.


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