[lit-ideas] Re: Bush the Sphinx
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 10:03:56 -0400
> [Original Message]
> From: Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 8/25/2005 6:31:08 AM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Bush the Sphinx
>
> Somehow giving someone a label of religious ex-boozer doesn't strike
> me as a bang up job of spinning an embarrassing past.
>
> ___
>
> The point was that Bush's PR teams can use the religious ex-boozer
> persona to spin any embarrassing things from Bush's past,
> allegations of snorting cocaine at Camp David under Bush I, for
> example, as in Kitty Kelley's book.
>
> That someone is unknown does not make them bumbling or otherwise.
> Bush could be an arch-fiend, a Chauncey Gardener, a misunderstood
> and misled fall guy ... anything.
>
Bush is degrees of negative. They can never say that Bush didn't do drugs,
only that alcohol isn't as bad as cocaine (until you look at the effects of
alcohol in a family. Arch-fiend, Chauncey Gardener, misunderstood and
mislead fall guy ... those are all negative. Even that someone can't be
described is itself a description. Unless you're describing him as having
no pulse, everyone is known *only* by what they do or don't do. He's the
most documented person in an open society. If we don't know what he's
done, then we have major problems in the system.
> To me he's unknown...can't get a handle on him at all.
>
I have a feeling the Bush you'd like to see in the White House is unknown.
Bush, the guy who really is in the White House, is well known, no matter
who spins what.
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