Dowd exposes "Bushworld" (avoids usual jab at Clinton)

[DeepModem Mom]

New York Times:

OP-ED COLUMNIST
The Orwellian Olsens
By MAUREEN DOWD

Published: April 25, 2004

WASHINGTON

It's their reality. We just live and die in it.

(The entire column is a listing of truths about Bush's bizarro world.)

In Bushworld, flag-draped remains of the fallen are important to revere and show the nation, but only in political ads hawking the president's leadership against terror....

In Bushworld, it's fine to take $700 million that Congress provided for the war in Afghanistan and 9/11 recovery and divert it to the war in Iraq that you're insisting you're not planning....

In Bushworld, you get to strut around like a tough military guy and paint your rival as a chicken hawk, even though he's the one who won medals in combat and was praised by his superior officers for fulfilling all his obligations....

In Bushworld, you can reign as the antiterror president even after hearing an intelligence report about Al Qaeda's plans to attack America and then stepping outside to clear brush....

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/25/opinion/25DOWD.html

[The Backlash Cometh]

1. Yes. Maureen has finally spotted the real enemy.

Here's a good one:

"In Bushworld, there's no irony that so many who did so much to avoid the Vietnam draft have now strained the military so much that lawmakers are talking about bringing back the draft."

[Paradise]

2. Thanks DMM! Hope this gets read by all of DU. n/t

[bigtree]

3. Thanks for this

Dowd has really come into her own on this issue.

[mzmolly]

4. ohhhhhhhhhhh burn!

"In Bushworld, you don't consult your father, the expert in being president during a war with Iraq, but you do talk to your Higher Father, who can't talk back to warn you to get an exit strategy or chide you for using Him for political purposes."

In Bushworld.... indeed, we are all living in Bushville now ey? Gawd please get me the hell out of here! :scared:

[hang a left]

5. This here has been bothering me for a little while.

"In Bushworld, you pride yourself on the fact that your administration does not leak to the press, while you flood the best-known journalist in Washington with inside information."



Why was this book written and published?

[DaveSZ]

6. Thanks for posting that

I enjoyed it, and it scared me at the same time.

Of course I already had realized how close to totalitarianism we are.

[Paradise]

7. kick :) ! n/t

[Scairp]

8. How interesting

The only journalist at the allegedly liberal and venerated New York Times with the balls to go after the Bush criminal organization is female.

[muriel_volestrangler]

10. Not quite true

Paul Krugman (OK, theoretically he's an economist, but effectively he's a journalist now) and Bob Herbert both regularly expose the Bush lies in the NYT.

[robbedvoter]

9. here's my favorite

In Bushworld, it's O.K. to run for re-election as the avenger of 9/11, even as you make secret deals with the Arab kingdom where most of the 9/11 hijackers came from.