The Bush dyslexicon

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"It seems like too easy a target, too cheap a laugh, but Mark Crispin Miller, with the deftly trenchant wit that always distinguishes his writing, uses the blunders and malapropisms of George W. Bush to make a larger point about the way in which we elect our presidents.". "The book is a raucously funny ride - whether it's Bush envisioning "a foreign-handed foreign policy" or Miller skewering vociferous cultural conservatives like William Bennett and Lynne Cheney for their silence on Bush's particular "West Texas version of Ebonics" - but there is also a strong undercurrent of outrage. Only because our elections have become so dependent on television and its empathic emptiness, Miller argues, can a man of such sublime and complacent ignorance assume the highest office in the land. To quote Bush himself, "It's not the way America is all about.""--BOOK JACKET.

subjects: Legasthenie,  Humor,  Language,  Quelle,  Presidents,  Sprachstil,  Malapropisms,  Politics and government,  Knowledge and learning,  Election,  Politische Rede,  Humor (grappigheden),  Quotations,  Politieke communicatie,  Bush, george w. (george walker), 1946-,  Presidents, united states,  English language, terms and phrases

People: George W. Bush (1946-),  George W. Bush

Places: United States