Bush Thinks We're Idiots: That's Why He Talks To Us That Way
Avedon Carol snares a great quote that finally cleared something up for me: why does Bush always sound like he's talking to five year olds?
"He
speaks to the audience as if they're idiots. I think the reason he does
that is because that's the way these issues were explained to him." -
Graydon Carter
The funny thing is that he sounds
irritated too. I think his tendency to sound irritated, as Digby noted, is because he
is a spoiled little shit who doesn't think he should have to explain
himself. Though that doesn't explain away his ignorance, willful or not. But I
agree that when he speaks on issues in that painful, half-stammer,
half-swagger stutter-step of his, you know that all he can muster is to
regurgitate the Gerber baby spoonfuls his advisors feed him.
It has always puzzled me why he seems so inappropriately
impatient in his town meetings, as if his rapt audience needs some sort
of time-wasting remedial education before he can get to the subject,
which he never does.
This is why people who dislike W. do so intensely.
He talks down to people, like he thinks they're stupid.
When
he said the other day that we had to sign over our ports to the UAE to
send the right kind of message to Arabs, he got a negative reaction
because more people than usual picked up on the fact that he thinks
they're stupid.
But I think the resentful tone comes from having to say anything at all. Royalty doesn't explain, it just orders.
So
he resents having to explain it at all, and he resents even more having
to go to the trouble of getting the Etch-a-Sketch briefing when he
could be riding his bike, and he's afraid somebody'll ask him something
that was already erased.
