Now They Tell Us (Froomkin / WP)

[struggle4progress]

By Dan Froomkin
Special to washingtonpost.com
Monday, September 12, 2005; 1:33 PM

<snip> Is Bush the commanding, decisive, jovial president you've been hearing about for years in so much of the mainstream press? <snip>

Judging from the blistering analyses in Time, Newsweek, and elsewhere these past few days, it turns out that Bush is in fact fidgety, cold and snappish in private. He yells at those who dare give him bad news and is therefore not surprisingly surrounded by an echo chamber of terrified sycophants. He is slow to comprehend concepts that don't emerge from his gut. He is uncomprehending of the speeches that he is given to read. And oh yes, one of his most significant legacies -- the immense post-Sept. 11 reorganization of the federal government which created the Homeland Security Department -- has failed a big test. <snip>

An emperor-has-no-clothes moment seems upon us. <snip>

Yochi J. Dreazen writes in the Wall Street Journal (subscription required): "The Bush administration is importing many of the contracting practices blamed for spending abuses in Iraq as it begins the largest and costliest rebuilding effort in U.S. history. <snip>

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2005/09/12/BL2005091200806.html

[Erika]

1. He is not intellectually curious

and his void in human knowledge and compassion is making him stick out like a sore thumb.

[Amonester]

4. Like an arrogant and stupid middle finger... n/t

[HysteryDiagnosis]

2. Hey.... it's only money.... too bad they don't think like that BEFORE

everything goes "south". Much cheaper to do a little "preemptive" CONSTRUCTION, rather than the ongoing preemptive destruction we have put upon Iraq and her people.

[eek]

3. This is a must-read

Froomkin gives an invaluable digest of the ( at long last) journalistic equivalent of the melting polar icecaps.

On offer are quotes and links aplenty to articles thatconfirm what we all know: he's incompetent and mean. His staff reallydoes protecty him and that "The MSM" has indeed been keeping mum - abetting the spin machine.

The piece provides a nice list of people to whom we should all congratulate for finally fessing up to the truth.
What's more, the quotes are quite hndy to send our politicians, our email lists and any other media we can, encouraging them to take a stand as well.




Nominated for greatest.:thumbsup: