The Week In Bush
Comments: putting a M60E4 light machine gun in the hands of George Bush only offends his more moderate supporters -- the die-hards think it's cool, and everyone else has to either stifle a chuckle or fake boisterous laughter. Bad reporting, good entertainment.
original image © Jean-Pierre Kunkel, auf der Spiegel
Here's what a few selected Amero-Germanican blogs have to say about the man of the hour, Our Friend and Lord George W., this week:
-Observing Hermann observes that not all Texans are for the for-us-or-against-us former governor of their state. Will the tireless crusading/groveling of two expat [and technical] Texans convince their erstwhile allies, or will they be all the more reviled for trying? I wish I knew; I, as you might remember, was blubbering mindlessly before the throne of Bret Easton Ellis (a patently Blue State move -- my bias must be so obvious), which unfortunately disqualified attendence at the Tourist Fair.
-Dialog International gives a much-needed formality to the cult of Bush, highlighting its neglected demographic: middle-aged Bush priestesses, who David christens "Christo-Fascists." It's about time that whole "calling people fascists" thing got moving -- one step closer towards oblivion. It's not much of an overstatement, though.
-That frightening quote from an unnamed White House aide that's been making the rounds, referring to the president as a "strong executive who alone is not subject to the conflicting pressures that legislators or judges face," is compared with a material from Third Reich PR man Josef Goebbels in this post from the Newsrack Blog. Low but delicious. Everyone from home has been telling me that the chances of Bush getting impeached are very low: fool that I am, I believe them.
-Okay, so Bush has been giving European haters plenty of fuel since he's gotten into office, but they've hated us for 200 years plus, so this is nothing new. Die Welt's signature blog The Free West says so, and goes even further: European criticism of America and its policies gives them a a sense of unity and identity. They might be on to something, though criticizing an elite press corps reflexively helps America with its unity and pride. Have you watched any American news lately?
-Personally, I'm still chafing from Bernard-Henri Levy's half-baked, dog's dinner of a book American Vertigo. What does a foppish billion-Franc-ionaire know about the New World? Well, David of Davids Medienkritik isn't happy either, and he slugs back at the foreign correspondents sent to the States with an agenda -- this time, of course, the Germans. Although the post needlessly lionizes John Bolton, it's totally right: only Americans are able to gaze upon the horrors of their own country with truth; other countries need sophistries to approximate it. That's why we all have personal armories and need gas stations for every five miles or so of highway, as their lights serve as beacons for our heedless, tortured souls.