The mote in The Guardian's eye
The Guardian catches up with the rest of the world today in finally reporting on the fact that – shocker! – John Kerry is not in fact more intelligent than George Bush, at least if his grades from Yale are any indicator. Reporter Anna Bawden concludes:
It would have been nice if The Guardian, while it was naming names, had the intellectual honesty to come clean on its own part in portraying Bush as "intellectually inferior". Too much, of course, to expect. Silly me.
Bush's results appear to counter the image portrayed of him in the media as being intellectually inferior. Cartoon sketches, films and books like Stupid White Men, by Michael Moore, have all picked on his supposed dimness, pointing to his at times slow speaking style and use of mid-American vernacular.The image portrayed of him in "the media"? You mean like the portrayal of Bush as a dim-looking chimpanzee by The Guardian’s own Steve Bell back on May 27? Or on June 7? Or again on June 8? Or, indeed, in nearly every cartoon in Bell’s archive, including even today’s?
It would have been nice if The Guardian, while it was naming names, had the intellectual honesty to come clean on its own part in portraying Bush as "intellectually inferior". Too much, of course, to expect. Silly me.
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Yes, yet the sainted Jimmah is fawned over by the Brit left: if you're perfidious, sanctimonious, mediocre and wrong, even better if you emit the moron vibes known by Briddish editorialists to attach to all Americans, well, you're God in Guardianland.
The pathologies behind the tedious and trashy Dumb Bush headlines are more interesting. Big whiff of projection here. Pick any ten card-carrying members of the Guardian/Independent/NStatesman/BBC commentariat and you'll find eight shuffling dimbulb losers -- smug, alientated, embittered, disappointed by life. Maybe that's a definition of decadence, too.
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