The American Expatriate: Bush fails again

THE AMERICAN ^REEXPATRIATE

"America is often portrayed as an ignorant, unsophisticated sort of place, full of bible bashers and ruled to a dangerous extent by trashy television, superstition and religious bigotry, a place lacking in respect for evidence based knowledge. I know that is how it is portrayed because I have done my bit to paint that picture..." BBC's Washington correspondent Justin Webb, in a remarkably frank admission of his role in misinforming the British public about America and Americans

Tuesday, September 13, 2005

Bush fails again

From a post on National Review's blog The Corner, by Warren Bell (who is that rarest of species: a Hollywood conservative), on yesterday's brief blackout in LA:
We just got power back after a hellish ninety minutes. Apparently the power is/was out over most of the city. I took a leadership role in calming the many stranded entertainment industry people here because I was able to get TV updates in my car. The urge to begin looting swept through the crowd, but Jim Belushi's Mercedes was too heavy to tip over. I think calm has been restored now. Where the hell are the troops? Clearly George Bush hates tan, fit people.