SmithAntics

I’ve been watching Bob Woodward make the cable “news” rounds all week, selling his new book, Plan of Attack, which is being touted as oh-so-damaging to BushCo (Chris Matthews of Hardball referred to it as a grenade thrown into the Oval Office, or something to that effect). But damn if “Woody” (as Dumbya lovingly refers to Woodward) is not pushing—underneath some genuinely damning revelations in the book— the infuriatingly popular narrative of Bush the Strong. This was the theme of Woodward’s last book, Bush at War, which could fairly be characterized a BushCo propaganda piece. I think Woodward is painting Bush in a falsely romantic light; as if this reckless frat boy idiot with a messiah complex is some flawed but compelling—or even complex—real-time historical figure. It’s sad to see the guy who helped blow the lid off of Watergate promote an obscured and truly counterproductive assessment of this imbecile “president,” who is really just a figurehead for a seriously dangerous movement.