THE BUSH DYSLEXICON: Observations on a National Disorder
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Re: WHEN WILL THE BOOK COME OUT?
It is already out. It has been quietly gathering readership, in spite of the best efforts of the publisher, distributors and books store owners to keep a lid on it.
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How then, Miller asks, and this is his larger concern, did someone in Miller's opinion so obviously unqualified to be president convince so many voters that he was? Miller's answer is, in a word, television: Bush succeeded on TV not despite his "utter superficiality," but because his superficiality blended seamlessly with the vacuous culture of the tube. It was not simply that Bush's handlers were able to manipulate his image, attempting to construct out of his ignorance an anti-intellectual "good ole boy" persona, but that news professionals in the medium were all too willing to go along with this ploy. They went along because the pundits of TV have become, according to Miller, increasingly right-wing, thus natural Bush allies, but also because they no longer care to talk about substance, preferring instead discussion of "likability" and other attributes of pure image. While Miller is sometimes vague in his arguments, he has produced a sharp-edged polemic questioning the wisdom of how we elect our leaders. As President Bush has said, "It's not the way America is all about."
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Bush, it turned out, was the perfectly vacuous vessel for the cabal of corporatists to foist their brand of harsh "realities" on an unsuspecting electorate....
-Ray |
