Yes, it’s come to this. Expectations for the president have fallen so low, the New York Times devoted an entire piece to Bush’s recent claim that he read a newspaper article.
Is there hope for newspapers after all? Readers may be abandoning the printed versions, but over the last couple of years, at least one person seems to have started reading them, at least sometimes. He lives in the White House.
President Bush declared in 2003 that he did not read newspapers, but at his final news conference of the year last week, he casually mentioned that he had seen something in the paper that very day.
Asked for his reaction to word that Vice President Cheney would be called to testify in the C.I.A. leak case, the president allowed: “I read it in the newspaper today, and it’s an interesting piece of news.”
If the president had read something in the newspaper, it is a break with his admitted habits. In September 2003, Bush told Fox News’ Brit Hume, “I glance at the headlines just to kind of [get] a flavor for what’s moving. I rarely read the stories, and get briefed by people who are [sic] probably read the news themselves.” (”Probably”?)
4 comments:
Bush didn't realize the victims in Katrina needed help until he read it 5 days later in the paper. He didn't know about the Saudi's brought New York Port until he read it in the paper. He didn't know Cheney had to testify until he read it in the paper. I really thought Bush was an idiot but now I know what his problem is. He's smoking Mary Jane. I hope he read in the paper that he's the President.
Ok so he's reading the paper, but does he understand what he is reading?
Chicago Native:
That is why he needs Laura to interpret the big words and letters. He still can't get past My Pet Goat.. LOL!
Depending on what medication, or not she is on for which psychosis must determine how she interperts things.
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