New Bio Shows President Bush in "Pop Culture Void"

NY Daily News/Drudge ^

[SBeck]

From Amazon, a reviw of the forthcoming book. Given the next to last sentence I'd say that the book is probably pretty even handed.

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" Frank Bruni, a New York Times reporter, has, in Ambling into History , drawn an informal, evenhanded, largely anecdotal and revealing portrait of George W. Bush, whose presidential campaign he covered. Bruni initially describes Bush as "part scamp and part bumbler," but his respect grows, and he finds that, with the September 11, 2001, bombings, Bush "inherited his true purpose," thereby spurring his emergence as a leader. Bruni is not especially concerned with Bush's political philosophy, preferring instead to relate many "small moments" to show what Bush "looked and acted like on the edges of what was usually considered news." Bruni is at his best when describing--often humorously--the exhausting life of the media corps during a campaign: the 24-hour days, the harrowing deadlines, and the brutish tedium of listening to and reporting on the same speech over and over again, a process he likens to "aerobic stenography." An equal-opportunity cynic, Bruni decries the "superficiality" not only of American politics but the media's coverage of it. This is an amiable and seemingly trustworthy peek behind the presidential dias and into a reporter's notebook. --H. O'Billovich"

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I look forward to taking a peek at this one.

[irish_lad]

I agree. The nation is better off without the Arkansas hillbillies.

[Eva]

This is too funny. I thought that he was going to say that Bush never heard of Leonardo Da Vinci, not DiCaprio. If DiCaprio and Sex in the City is this author's idea of high brow, hip culture, he belongs back in the eighth grade.

[Moonman62]

On one of the biggest nights in his political career, "Bush was focused on whether one of his deputies was having a little naughty extracurricular fun," Bruni writes.

I guess to a Clymer, cheating on your wife is just a little fun.

[Miss Marple]

Mrs. Bruni should hire a private detective and possibly an attorney.

[DouglasKC]

Asked about HBO's smash hit "Sex and the City," Bush thought it was "an inquiry into his erotic and geographic whereabouts," Bruni writes.

I have not a clue as to what this show is about either...

[IVote2]

I haven't seen a DiCaprio movie either, I have no interest in watching Titantic or Sex in the City.

I also commend Dubya for not knowing who Stone Phillips! This is exhibiting excellent taste in watching television.

[Paul Atreides]

Wow! W's sky-high approvals really have the Clinton War Room desperate. I think I speak for a lot of people when I say that I do not want a President who is in tune with the average fat horny frump housewife's entertainment choices. But, it is so much worse than a President using Cuban cigars as dildos and a Junior Senator who only wears the same old ratty pantsuit all the time.

I am reminded of an old saying; if you want to get something done, ask a busy person. If W has so much time on his hands to know about these Tinseltown freaks, then he won't inspire much confidence.

[SBeck]

" I guess to a Clymer, cheating on your wife is just a little fun. "

Don't take this personally, but I learned something a long time ago from someone I consider an absolute genius, my Dad: you never know what goes on behind closed doors.

[mware]

Asked about HBO's smash hit "Sex and the City," Bush thought it was "an inquiry into his erotic and geographic whereabouts,"

Well GW just went up a couple more notches in my book.

[Schakaljager]

oh well, I was dragged to see Titanic and fell asleep half way through, so I don't blame the president for not knowing DiCaprio. but naming Norris as his favorite actor was pretty lame, if I were W., I'd just say no favorites.

[Paul Atreides]

I will never forget the tacky public spectacle of trashy Bill Clinton "auditioning" before the nation, on Arsenio Hall, with that saxophone.

[Kryptonite]

GWB probably doesn't know anything about meth cocktails, speedballs and fisting either . . . good for him and especially for us.

[Inkie]

Better you should be raised in a whorehouse and leverage the Presidency to make you and your sheister wife rich. Silly me.

[Inkie]

Better you should be raised in a whorehouse and leverage the Presidency to make you and your sheister wife rich. Silly me.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

Re: Yentagate/DiCapriogate

Is a "yenta" by any chance a New Yawk version of the Yeti?

[Mr. Bungle]

This bio (which obviously intends to mock the President for the sin of pop-culture illiteracy) mocks nobody but the author, and those who might imagine significance in such useless spew. But it will actually serve to remind, at least in flyover country, just how refreshing a departure we've made from our former president ***stain. Who, of course, broadcasted his pop culture awareness so agonizingly often that nobody with any sense could bear to watch him without vomiting.

[altura]

You know what? I blame Drudge for this. Why would he give so much publicity to some hack who combed through this book to find anything derogatory about Dubya.

This just makes up my mind to forego Drudge radio tonite. I usually like to get on the Drudge thread and bash him, but I managed to live without him last week and think I can do it again.

BTW, I find it very hard to believe that the Prez likes Austin Powers. I mean, my son-in-law does, but it is just so cheezy!

[nopardons]

I've never seen this latest vesion of the Titanic going down. I suppose that that somehow makes me a " lowbrow " ? In what universe ? DiCaprio , to quote the British papers, looks like a pubescent girl. Who cares that President Bush is uaware of him and begans, and whar a yenta is ?

After 8 long, weary, immoral, corrupt , horrible years of Slick and his crew, President Bush is a GOD send !

[xp38]

YEAH BABY!!!!