> [from Brit Hume's interview with W
> <http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,98006,00.html>]:
[snip]
> BUSH: I appreciate people's opinions, but I'm more interested in news.
> And the best way to get the news is from objective sources. And the
> most objective sources I have are people on my staff who tell me
> what's happening in the world.
God! No wonder the poor, pathetic fool has screwed everything up! If he thinks those ideologically warped characters on his staff are "objective" ...
It's just what everyone figured back when he was campaigning for the White House. He doesn't have a sixth-grader's comprehension of the world -- he was captured by a cabal that felt entitled to and capable of world domination, and basically turned the keys of the power of the US government over to them because they whispered slogans into his fifth-grader's ear that made him feel good.
This isn't "neo-fascism" -- it's something dumber than that, even. The only parallel I can think of is the old practice of anointing child kings and emperors, with grown-up regents actually making the policies.
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