Subject: Anatomy of a Duh-bya
From: Matt Kozusko (mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu)
Date: Sun Dec 24 2000 - 12:00:27 GMT
Just because Scottie claims to be conservative and anti-intellectual
doesn't mean he actually *is*. I've met his children. Intellectually
rigorous. Nobody but the academic equivalent of a hockey coach turned
drill seargent could've mo[u]lded such boys.
Or maybe it's just the way they do things in the Old World. Anyway, I
came upon this, linking Gov. Bush to a reverence for "sport heroes," which
it's certain the good doctor doesn't tolerate, in last week's _Economist_:
"George W. spent his early childhood in the dusty plains round Midland,
the oil capital of west Texas. He says he felt like a fish out of water
at Yale, which was then caught up in anti-war frenzy, and sided with
"ordinary Americans" against the elitists who badmouthed their country
. . . He is perfectly at home with Texan culture, with its hostility to
snobs and eggheads, its reverence for military and sporting heroes, and
its down-home attitudes." (Dec. 16-22, 60)
The same issue mentions a Bush camp press release that lists the foreign
countries the governor has visited. The list is impressive and covers
most of western Europe. Wherefore are these things hid?, you ask! It
appears George W. is better-travelled than has hitherto been let on.
Il n'y a pas de hors texte,
Matt
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