Turkey In The Straw

I like this article by Dana Milbank about Bush’s tendency to make straw man arguments. The problem is that Junior isn’t really making straw man arguments. He’s spouting lies and half truths that were spoon fed to him by his staff in small bites that he can understand and remember. By saying that Bush has any awareness of the concept of a logical fallacy serves only to make him seem to have some sort of mental agility when, in fact, he is barely sentient. If Laura circled this article in red crayon for him this morning and he had a look at it between counting the box scores on his fingers and toes, I have no doubt that his response was “Ya’ mean like a scarecrow?”