Charles P. Pierce | esquire.com
25 April 2013
The coverage of the opening of this vast temple to prevarication and
ruin is not about bricks and mortar. It's about an attempt by the
courtier press to absolve itself of a dereliction of duty that rivaled
even that of the president in question while New Orleans drowned, and
while the economy was bubbling toward disaster. (That dereliction of
duty, it should be noted, now and forever, began with the coverage of
the 2000 presidential campaign, and the disgraceful performance of the
elite political press corps towards Al Gore.)
It's about their efforts
to help the country absolve itself from the immense damage it brought
upon itself by electing, and then re-electing, a half-bright dry drunk
who wrecked nearly everything he touched, and who now is trying to
rehabilitate himself by explaining that he hasn't ruined anything else
since he left office, and doesn't that make him a swell fella. The elite
press is dedicating an entire day of coverage to the perpetuation of a
monstrous public lie. Electing George W. Bush twice was a monumental act
of democratic self-destruction from which the country has yet to
recover.
Celebrating him celebrating himself is simply to pour battery
acid into the still-open wounds. I will take theories about dinosaurs in
ancient China over the notion that George W. Bush was a good man
confronted by insurmountable problems dropped on him by an implacable
universe of chance. He was a career fk-up, from start to finish, and he
finally found himself in a job where Daddy's money and Daddy's lawyers
couldn't bail him out.
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