[Recovering_Democrat]

OH MY GAWWWWWWWWWWWWWD!Our President has never heard of Leonardo DiCaprio?????????????????????????????

CONGRESS
MUST
INVESTIGATE!

For God's sakes....who gives a rat's rearend?? After having a President that didn't know what "is" meant, or even what the truth was, I am DELIRIOUS WITH JOY that G.W. has been concentrating on running his state and the nation instead of engaging in the latest "hip" stuff.

The fact he likes Austin Powers is a bonus for me. The first movie was hilarious.

[MizSterious]

"Lowbrow?" After the white-trash crowd that just vacated the White House, carrying off anything that wasn't nailed down? Lowbrow? Fer cryin' out loud!

[Inkie]

Great minds think alike. See the article about Middle America that I posted just before yours appeared.

[newzjunkey]

I noticed the story doesn't mention that Bush openly eschews television favoring books instead. Funny that, a then governor with a family, is "out of touch" with pop culture (and considered "low brow" for it) in an arena where multiculturalism is all the rage, and where people aren't reading. Seems he's pretty in touch with ranch and Texas culture to me. But that doesn't count--wrong ethnicity?

[Dr. Frank fan]

Actually I thought this was a great piece. It details an overhwhelming number of reasons to like and respect President Bush. Each instance of Bush's "ignorance" (i.e. DiCaprio, Sex and the City), as well as the things he does like (Chuck Norris, Austin Powers, making sure a staffer isn't having an affair), are examples of amazingly positive traits, taste, and concerns.

I'm not sure the writer meant it to come across that way, but... ;)

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

I would really feel better if GW Bush knew the lyrics to all of the Backdoor Boys albums.

[AAABEST]

President Bush in "Pop Culture Void"

As an objective observer of Bush, I find this to be a most endearing quality.

[RonDog]

I'll take "Bible Belt" over "Trailer Trash" EVERY TIME.

[Bommer]

If it's anything, its an inditement on Bush's GOOD TASTE and how bad Hollywood SUCKS!

[BunnySlippers]

I have never seen a Leonardo de Caprio movie (last movie I went to was about 7 years ago) ... nor have I seen Sex and the City. Unlike Drudge I think it is commendable that the President doesn't have time for that trash.

[ao98]

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.

If this deputie had been having an affair do you think Bruni would have ingored it? Of course not, the story would be; Bush aid caught cheating, what does this say about Bush?

[jackbill]

Bush,who gets generally positive treatment from Bruni in the book

Looks like it wasn't necessarily the author of the book who did the hit job on the President, but rather the liberal effete snob, Joe Williams, who couldn't resist every negative in the book. In my experience, Pi$$ants lose every time.

By the way, who is this "Leonardo"? If he's not a member of Al Qaeda, why should President Bush care?

[mystery-ak]

What is *vegan and yenta*?
GW is not alone!

[Engine82]

Goooooooooooooooooooooooooooood

[Illbay]

Whenever I read stuff like this my first reaction is, "good grief, consider the source."

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

Re: Yentagate

Boy, Bush didn't know what "yenta" means or who the DiCaprio boy is? Sound the alarm. Civilization is obviously imperiled.

< has been blown by a yenta. Feel safer?

[stripes1776]

This is actually great news. We have a President whose sensibilites have not been dulled by pop culture. No wonder the man is such a capable leader.

[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.

[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.

[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...

[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.