March 30, 2004

Bush's WMD Comedy Bit

For those of you who may have missed it, last week Bush spoke at the Radio and Television Correspondents Dinner and presented a slide show lampooning the search for WMD in Iraq. While this event has a long history of irreverence, it is certainly a legitimate subject for debate as to whether the main reason for the war in Iraq is something that can be joked about at all. Or, if you'll allow me to psychoanalyze Bush through the lens of his presentation, it may offer an honest peek inside his mind (e.g. dismissing the whole WMD argument altogether). Do you think I'm being too serious here? Here's a FAIR Media Advisory with the details, focusing on the media response (albeit from a shamelessly leftst perspective).

Posted by Palabris at March 30, 2004 01:59 PM
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I think this line from FAIR gets it right:

It's the difference between a comedian making a joke about O.J. Simpson looking for Nicole Brown Simpson's "real killer," and O.J. Simpson making the same joke.

Bush's remarks in themselves are pretty funny, I (still) think. His making the joke is problematic because he hasn't come clean about the WMD. If he'd said, prior to this, that the WMD issue was an enormous cock-up, he earns the right to make fun of himself. But he can't maintain that the rationale was a good one while simultaneously admitting it wasn't.

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