Pierre Tristam writes with fire in his piece entitled Choreography by the Scriptures For a Struts-and-Bull Presidency, which serves as another examination of the media-saturated stagecraft that is this black mark on the American Presidency.
An excerpt:
Then again we’re an unsubtle people, duped as easily as Lewis and Clark duped Indian tribes, upriver of those same Mississippi waters, with promises of benevolence from “the great white father.” We were duped again Thursday night, when the great white featherweight’s allusions to New Orleans as a battleground (“we will do what it takes, we will stay as long as it takes”) should not so easily have been lost, especially in the earthshine context of that cathedral. Remember that Sept. 16, 2001, mini-speech in which Bush spoke of “this crusade, this war on terrorism”? Official history has it that he didn’t mean to use the word crusade, that he knew not what he was doing. Speaking of bull: No breath goes unscripted in this by-the-Scriptures administration.
And if you’re of the sort that’s still happily buying this kind of manipulation of the truth then may I interest you in a glass of Victory Gin at the Chestnut Tree?
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