bobquasit | "Teflon" W.

This morning I saw a comment someone made in Scott Rosenberg's blog saying that the Bush administration had the proverbial teflon coating. So of course I had to say:

The "teflon" of the Bush gang is composed of layer upon layer of densely packed corrupt corporate journalists, moronic but distracting "entertainment" media, and the tycoons who own both (to the extent that there is any difference between the two). These exude an insulating layer of bullshit between the truth and the public. Since this layer is often ablated by reality, it is necessary for it to be perpetually renewed.

Fortunately for Bush the supply of bullshit seems endless. Whether or not the public's appetite for BS is also endless is another question, however, and remains to be seen.

The growing economic pain felt by a rapidly growing number of Americans will be harder to soothe, I suspect, than the mere destruction of the US government, Bill of Rights (always excepting the 2nd, of course), and the American tradition of representative democracy and the right to vote. Those are mere abstracts to most Americans, after all. Maybe it will take getting laid off, running through unemployment, and homelessness to get the American people to wake up and smell the bullshit.

Peter Maranci • 9/10/03; 5:23:41 AM