Blogger News Network managed to get a full headline in Google News by claiming that with absolute power comes absolute purity:
In his new book titled “State of Denial,” Bob Woodward (star scandalmonger at the Washington Post) alleges that President Bush did not tell the public or the Congress everything he knew about what he calls the deteriorating Iraq situation that was leading to a civil war.
The problem with Woodward’s charge of malfeasance is the same problem you see with anyone who makes an allegation, especially the ones who are being highly paid to make allegations. You must either choose to trust the accusor or trust the one being accused; in this case you must either trust Bob Woodward’s words and sources more than you trust the man you elected to be President. You decide!
Emphasis on stupidity mine.
These immortal words come from an essay titled “The Woodward Assumption.” As such, I feel it is my duty to point out some of the assumptions made by this author:
-That I voted for this president
-That a vote for a president is a vote for her/his infallibility
-That an elected president is above media scrutiny
-That being paid for your scrutiny means you can’t be trusted
-That the media is financially motivated to lie but the president is not
-That I have recently been hit on the head with a blunt object
When the best defense one can muster against allegations of misconduct amounts to “he didn’t write that book for free,” cash in your chips and head for the exit, because you’re running cold. You may also want to check your drinking water for mercury, as I’m told it can impair your faculties.
If I sound like I’m being an apologist for President Bush . . . I’m far from that
After all, he didn’t demand that Woodward give up writing immediately, move to Washington, and take up a full-time career of smoking Bush’s cock.
Something else that I feel we can be sure about: if there was something that the Congress or the general public really needed to know, they would have known it.
By golly, I’m sure going to be sleeping soundly tonight.
It’s like I’ve seen the light! I just realized that the Constitution provides for the inevitable correctness of Dear Leader and I understand that a scrutinizing press makes that OBVIOUS infallibilty inovbious, thus it is unconstitutional and must be inherently wrong.
[gets smacked in the face by reality] Oh…no…that dude is a complete moron.
The answer to the question, “Idiot or dumbass?” is YES…
I agree Junk and also, let us not forget the wisdom of said writer in reminding us:
“I feel that while President Bush may have made some decisions that seem to me and you like they were bad decisions and they may or not have been — time will tell — but you can be sure they were honest, well intentioned decisions based on his best information.
Such platitudes have universal appeal and offer a wide variety of applications for supplication. For example, when confronted with the behavior or results of the behavior of theives, liars, psychotics or mentally challenged individuals, such words can help ease the cognitive dissonance that usually occurs.
is he talking about 2006 or 1974?