George W. Kowalski? Bush’s Macho Facade Goes Limp

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By Maureen Farrell, Buzzflash


This is so true. I only wish Chris Matthews would read it. I would email it to him, but I don't think he reads his email. :eyes:

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The clarity with which most Americans saw George W. Bush before Sept. 11, 2001 perished in the rubble and suddenly, intelligent men and women mistook arrogance for masculinity and hubris for assured sexuality. Before long, it was like attending a wedding where you knew the groom was a boisterous galoot, while, much to your bewilderment, everyone else found his swagger reassuring. While Bush’s machismo might have initially made a wobbly nation feel safer, beyond the illusion, America became little more than a frightened former beauty queen, enduring the outbursts of a deceitful, ill-mannered and intellectually-challenged caricature. Despite Newsweek’s Howard Fineman’s depiction of Bush as the reluctant sheriff in High Noon, the rest of the world, wary of Bush’s bullying, found him to be more Stanley Kowalski than Gary Cooper.

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"One of the more cringe-inducing TV moments in recent memory was Matthews and G. Gordon Liddy sprouting rhetorical woodies over the spectacle of Bush on the carrier deck in his flight suit..."

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To borrow a line from the late critic Marvin Mudrick, the two of them should take a cold shower, preferably not together.

http://www.buzzflash.com/farrell/03/09/23.html