Roger's Ailing Over "Bush Good, Liberals Bad"
Well, not "ailing", but I'm striving for creativity while napping on the keyboard.
In any event, Roger talks to us about Times' columnist Nick Kristof's latest fun, useful project:
Self-loving twit Nick "Pistof" Kristof takes a break from his round-the-world crusade to purchase child prostitutes to lecture those nasty liberals who are "polarizing the political cesspool." (Oh, for those halcyon days of the non-polarized political cesspool!)Sometimes, I think Kristof needs to take the same medication that Thomas Friedman should be taking but isn't. I also wish Bill Keller was back writing columns and David Brooks was not, while Safire should retire and chronicle Henry Kissinger's life before somebody finally manages to arrest "Hanky Panky Henry" for war crimes. Krugman is usually quite excellent and Bob Herbert's pretty good but you get the feeling his voice gets lost in the Friedman-Safire shrillness.
You see, it turns out that Bush wasn't lying about weapons of mass destruction because Bob Woodward quoted Bush as saying so. Bush wouldn't lie about whether he would lie, because that would make him a liar, and he's not that.
Sure, Bush does stretch the truth and exaggerate, but those aren't lies when Bush says them. And besides, the lies were only about a war with Iraq.
And look how hard Bush tried not to lie about his use of illegal drugs.
Further, Bush says things that aren't true all the time. But he's confused, delusional and inarticulate, so those aren't lies.
And he surrounds himself with liars, and they all tell lies to each other and deceive the public. But that doesn't make him a liar.
In summary: Bush is an illegal drug-using, dimwitted, dishonest, self-deluded zealot who got us into "a mess," that is, an unnecessary war which has caused thousands of deaths. Therefore, liberals are bad.
(And yes, I'm leaving Maureen Dowd out of this mix purposely since I only seem to have three reactions to her columns: YAY! EXCUSE ME? or Take off your pearls and let's duel!)
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