by smiths » Tue Jun 21, 2005 12:03 am
found this opinion piece and couldnt help but laugh momentarily, bush as the master satirist rolling out gag after gag<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://context.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/06/17/120.html">context.themoscowtimes.co...7/120.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>excerpt<br><br>His specialty is the ironic reversal, known by old-time vaudeville gagsters as the "Orwell Twist." For example, you take a man who concocts justifications for torture, kidnapping and the exaltation of presidential authority beyond the reach of law -- and you make him the chief law enforcement officer of the land! It might look easy, but try doing it with a straight face, the way Bush introduced his criminal accomplice Alberto Gonzales as the new Attorney General. It takes real talent to pull off that kind of deadpan.<br><br> Or how about this gem? You steal hundreds of millions of dollars from the public treasury to secretly prepare for a war you've been planning for many years; you tell your closest ally months in advance that the invasion is on, come hell or high water; you unleash a massive bombing campaign against the target months before the war; you deceitfully manufacture and massage evidence to build a bogus case for launching an unprovoked act of aggression against an opponent who has already met all your demands -- and then you tell the world that you only wanted peace! What yocks, eh? Not even Groucho Marx could match such comic subversion.<br><br>somedays i do cry, really let it go, and some days i laugh because i really do have to<br> <p></p><i></i>