‘Even if this were true…’

September 21, 2006

I don’t like to pick on PowerLine, a leading far-right blog, but as Jason Zengerle noted, this line from a post today is too amusing to ignore.

“We stand accused of being over-the-top partisans who worship President Bush as a visionary. Even if this were true…”

Please. In July, PowerLine ran an item that called Bush “a man of extraordinary vision and brilliance approaching to genius…. He is like a great painter or musician who is ahead of his time, and who unveils one masterpiece after another.”

A month later, after an audience with the president in the Oval Office, PowerLine described Bush as someone who is “by turns instructive, persuasive, and funny. His persona is very much that of the big brother…. [H]e clearly derives real joy from the opportunity to serve as President and to participate in the great pageant of American history.”

And now PowerLine isn’t sure if it’s authored by “over-the-top partisans who worship President Bush as a visionary”? What more, pray tell, would it take?

Maybe little kids bowing down and praying to a cardboard cut-out of Bush?

Nah, that could never happen. Oh, wait……

  • Someone has got some seriously misfiring synapses here. The cult of Bush just keeps looking dumber with each statement.

  • “His persona is very much that of the big brother”? If they mean that in the Orwellian sense, they’re quite correct.

  • Cult believers are willing to die before giving up the belief. What is amusing is the Bush cult railing about the “Islamic fascists”.

  • “His persona is very much that of the big brother”? If they mean that in the Orwellian sense, they’re quite correct.

    Comment by Charles

    Ha! Good point, Charles. Bush will ‘take care of us’ alright–in the gangster sense of the phrase.

    I like the Freudian ambiguity of precedent in your quote,

    “We stand accused of being over-the-top partisans who worship President Bush as a visionary. Even if this were true…”

    If Bush was a visionary?

  • In July, PowerLine ran an item that called Bush “a man of extraordinary vision and brilliance approaching to genius…. He is like a great painter or musician who is ahead of his time, and who unveils one masterpiece after another.”

    Hate to be picky here, but why exactly would an artist “ahead of their time” have an unveiling? Maybe if I were “approaching to genius” I would get it.

  • Come on, can’t you recognize satire? Hindy says his suckupitude was “obviously tongue-in-cheek.” Sure, yer lyin eyes may have seen his tongue planted elsewhere, but ya gotta believe him.

  • This is super-hilarious – to those of us who don’t live in the U.S. I can see why Americans, at least reedin’ an’ ritin’ Americans, might not find it funny to see a cloth-eared dunderhead who has set the entire Middle East afire described as extraordinarily brilliant; a visionary, no less.

    Compared to what? I guess ol’ Saddam must have been the “unveiling one masterpiece after another” type too, since much of Iraq’s outside-the-green-zone population now affirms they were better off under his rule.

    As some pointed out in an earlier post, 37 – 40% of Americans will worship Bush no matter what he does – he could shit in Macy’s display window at high noon on Saturday and draw a standing ovation from that crowd. The threshold for brilliance and vision in nutland is low indeed.

  • So he called Bush “a man of extraordinary vision”. And you’re equating THAT with thinking of him as a visionary?

  • Powerline nailed it. The President thinks this is a pageant, like they have back in Texas. He is focused on the Commander in Chief competition since he is weak on the Q& A Section and hit or miss in the evening gown competiton.

  • Dear PowerLine:
    A person who suffers from hallucinations is not a visionary.

    I think this shows why Shrub will always have some sort of following: People like knowing someone as thickwitted as they are can gain infinite power. Talk about inspiration!

  • “His persona is very much that of the big brother…”

    I’ve got five older brothers. That’s not a complement.

  • ***…a cloth-eared dunderhead who has set the entire Middle East afire described as extraordinarily brilliant; a visionary, no less.***
    ——————————Mark

    Well, one should remember that Herr Bush’s “mentor” was a petty postcard painter who set all of Europe, the North Atlantic, North Africa, and a fair portion of that same Middle East aflame, not quite 70 years ago. And if you should visit Flying Fish, you’ll note an uncanny resemblance between those two dunderheads.

    Oh, and powerline—people once referred to Herr Hitler with those same terms—“brilliant,” “a visionary,” and “genius.”

    *sigh*—the company some people keep; it makes one wonder, doesn’t it?

  • “PowerLine ran an item that called Bush “a man of extraordinary vision and brilliance approaching to genius…. He is like a great painter or musician who is ahead of his time, and who unveils one masterpiece after another.””

    999 bottles of koolaid on the wall…
    999 bottles of koolaid…
    You take one down
    You pass it around
    998 bottles of koolaid on the wall…

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