Swooning

I know that most of you have already seen this, but I wanted to post it anyway, just for posterity.

Armando at Kos caught this from Hindquarter and the Gang:

It must be very strange to be President Bush. A man of extraordinary vision and brilliance approaching to genius, he can’t get anyone to notice. He is like a great painter or musician who is ahead of his time, and who unveils one masterpiece after another to a reception that, when not bored, is hostile.

I’ve written a lot about “up-is-downism” and “epistemic relativism” and “bizarro world” trying to analyse the Republicans’ alternate reality, wondering whether it comes from a full absorbtion into the field of public relations, a consciously created competing discourse or simple lying with a straight face. All of that is bullshit. It’s a form of mass hysteria —- along the lines of the Salem Witch trials or the audience at an NSynch NSync concert.

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