I was watching George W. Bush on TV the other day taking questions from an audience and bumbling through the answers when it suddenly struck me. Some people believe that our presidents are essentially picked for us by our corporate paymasters. If that's the case, I'm pretty sure that whoever it was who decided that Bush should be the next president was the same person who gave Magic Johnson his talk show.
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I always assumed that the person who greenlit "Magic Hour" was a Celtics fan.
He wasn't hired as improv talent. I no longer watch, it's embarrassing and infuriating. But politcal realities are forcing them to try any and every option.
The President champions ID and that one 10-second soundbite [essentially] plays in the mass media for an entire day. The far right thus gets lots of stroking in on it's evangelical base. He didn't do that out of stupidity or being ill-educated or by mistake, he did that out of skillful execution of scripts prepared by very smart minds. The latter is who we're up against.
Willy Brown, a consummate inside-player, power-broker, star-Democrat-fund-raiser, intelligent pol, called George W. Bush the best script-following politician he's ever seen. Don't make jokes. That's high, high praise from a very savvy, rabid opponent.
I think many of us, myself included, have underestimated, perhaps not recognized, the nature of Dubya's skills.