The Quill & Quire explores the Bush administration’s recent (and rather funny) tendency to compare themselves to literary characters:
They’re doing it again: earlier this week, former Bush adviser Karl Rove compared himself to both Grendel and Beowulf. Before that, he was Moby Dick.
Now, Rove’s ex-boss, one George W. Bush, is doing it – in a speech defending America’s continued presence in Iraq, Bush cited – wait for it – Graham Greene’s The Quiet American.
It would be even funnier if anyone believed Bush had actually read Graham Greene. It gets better though:
Again, Bush was citing a book about the dangers of American overseas naïveté to support his argument in favour of staying in Iraq. The best part is, as can be seen here, Bush’s critics have often cited the character of Alden Pyle to criticize the president’s foreign policy.
I’m guessing that’s the last time Bush lets his speechwriters reference any book not containing testaments.
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IndieTits raises a very good, if spectacularly crude, question about the New Pornographers.
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