The Bush Dyslexicon [antikvár]

LOOK WHO'S TALKING On picking up The Bush Dyslexicon, you may think you Ve seen this sort of thing a hundred times before-and not only in bookstores but on TV* This book, you figure, must be just another snickering ad hominem attack on yet another U.S. president-a blast of easy satire, meanly motivated. On the one hand, it might be a piece of laughing propaganda by, or for, the party out of power, in this case the Democrats now doing to George W. Bush what, say, the Republicans, and/or the Christian Coalition, did to Bili Clinton or what the Democrats had done to Richárd Nixon or what the right had done to FDR: putting out a mocking version of "the record," full of campaign lies and comic gaffes and damning statements taken out of context. Or this book might be a mere commercial venture, with no partisan affiliation-a lite anthology of famous bloopers, offering a bound equivalent of an evening's worth of campaign-season stand-up, TV s sharpest wiseguys taking on the latest round of flubs and pratfalls. Thus this Dyslexicon would fali into the rich-and often lucrative-tradition of Dávid Frye (doing Nixon), Chevy Chase (doing Gerald Ford), countless mimics doing Jimmy Carter, and so on, right up through the last campaign, when everyone was doing the "robotic" Gore and Bush the Bumbler. And so whether you regard it as a partisan assault or an attempt at cashing in, this book may strike you as either a cheap shot or a guilty pleasure, de-