The Master of the Small Gesture

[Ripley]

So I’m watching the local news morning show today and they are interviewing Doro Bush Koch about her book My Father, My President: A Personal Account of the Life of George H.W. Bush.

With one of those practiced sincere faces she actually said “He is the Master of the Small Gesture.”

Well, You gentrified fucking lunatic family of self-possessed low-rent royalty snots. I believe people of GHWB’s wealth, privilege and power should not be in the business of making Scrooge-ass, tightwad small gestures. I believe that someone like Al Gore puts Your phoney grace to shame with his Grand gesture of paying for and riding a plane full of supplies to help the stranded people of New Orleans.

What did the etiquette-drop-out family do during the Katrina debacle? Well, we all know Little Lord Pissypants ate cake, licked his fingers and strummed a guitar poorly. We all know Babs took a 50 gallon barrel of hand-sanitizer and mingled with the unwashed in Houston only to insult them in her uncultured, boorish, hostile manner. But, where was the Master Poppy? Perhaps eating beanie weenies and swilling Gallo wine with his golfing buddies, comparing notes about how to Privatize and Profit off of the Horror and Misery that is the declining Empire formally known as The United States of America?

I am sick and tired of every last one in Your Clan, Doro. (What the fuck kind of name is that anyway? Looks like some extinct bird.) The Tribe of Bush has an astounding sense of entitlement, monstrous lack of humility, sheer astronomical callousness and a depraved greed unseen in America.

Here's a small gesture for You.

[elehhhhna]

Well, You gentrified fucking lunatic family of self-possessed low-rent royalty snots

K&R for that line alone!

[elehhhhna]

1. dupe

[atommom]

2. It boggles my mind that she meant that as a compliment,

and that she expected the audience to also see it as a compliment. That family sees itself as the gentry, the ruling class, and expects the proles to worship at its feet whenever a "small gesture" is made. Never mind that the small gestures are few and far between (if you don't count the middle finger gesture), and that their lives have been spent screwing over the public at large.... we're not worthy, and we should be grateful for whatever scraps are thrown to us.

[Ripley]

3. Exactly.

The minute she said that, I said "You got THAT right" out loud, but the interviewer just smiled sweetly, nodded and said Yes, Yes. (Wink, wink, the Christian thing to do is everyday small gestures ya know.)

I think it's pretty lame that because Junior is finally taking some heat, they bring out the family and the Sainthood of the Clan is re-enacted. Frankly I wasn't even aware Doro existed.

:hi:

[atommom]

4. I had never heard of her either. I wonder if she's an extra?

Some starvingactress who would leap at the chance to play the role of a decadent Bush. (They say it's always more fun to play the villain.) Yeah, I know, probably not, but it is fun to speculate, and I doubt my speculations about that family are any weirder than the truth.