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Edited on Wed Apr-14-04 09:37 AM by scottxyz
After a speech like that it doesn't even matter if the usual 49% of the country or whatever got taken in by the notion that he was "forceful" or whatever buzzword was given to the presstitutes for spinning purposes.
Idiots always latch on to whichever buzzword the presstitutes use - whether it's "waffler" on Kerry or "forceful" on Bush. (It makes them think they're smart that they are able to parrot an applicable adjective after an event, as if they were actually capable of performing their own analysis of something - which they no longer are, after regurgitating so much bullshit over the years.)
At a certain point whether or not you snowed the usual idiots doesn't even matter any more. The old rigged horserace is bearable only on lesser points. In cases of dire danger - where asking normal questions really does become a threat to national security - there is a different sort of closing ranks. We don't even need to say out loud what we think - we're EMBARASSED or SCARED to say out loud what we think - but there's no need to, it's so obvious. A trainwreck is a trainwreck; a dry drunk on meds is a dry drunk on meds; a confused, spoiled, smug fratboy in over his head for the first time is a confused, spoiled, smug fratboy in over his head for the first time.
Note how CNBC had to rig its poll to include 5 options this time, instead of the usual "good", "bad", "indifferent". The worst option this time was "disaster".
They did that for 2 reasons (1) because the speech WAS a disaster, and they needed that category, and (2) to split the "bad" vote into smaller pieces so it wouldn't look so bad. (See "approval voting" at accuratedemocracy.com for how this works.)
Believe it or not, this confused, incoherent mess WAS Bush's mea culpa. We've all been shocked and disappointed by the inarticulately of infomercial bimbos and reality-show wannabes, unreprentent 90s corporate execs, fallen politicians stuck in deniability, a whole parade of not-quite-admissions and adamant apologies from people who don't know how to act because they've been living in a media bubble for too long.
This WAS Bush's swansong - and in NewSpeak you never really do say goodbye, you just sort of mumble your way into irrelevance and never stop talking.
Nobody's listening to him anymore. Except most isolated, most desperate people in the country.
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