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Thursday, February 16, 2006

Proof that the pen is mightier than the sword
Posted by Jill | 12:33 PM

Damn. Glenn Greenwald is nothing short of brilliant today in his further exploration of Bush Worship. But it's posts like this that make me worry about his safety in George Bush's America, given the wingnut lunatics running around....because he may hit just a wee tad too close to home here (emphases mine):

People like Gedalyia who see George Bush as a figure of phallic greatness live in a fantasy world where the "vast majority" of people support Bush's policies and actions, and criticizing the Leader's actions -- especially those designed to heroically protect us -- will therefore lead to certain electoral defeat, even though every available fact demonstrates that the opposite is true.

People like that are beyond the reach of reason, because the fulfillment which they derive from being a Bush follower and all of the ritualistic, risk-free chest-beating which that entails renders them indifferent to rational discourse. This genuinely brilliant analysis by Digby -- which dissects the grotesque episode in which the mushy Chris Matthews drooled with sad, needy homoerotic reverence over Bush's strutting around on that aircraft carrier in his little pilot outfit, while G. Gordon Liddy expressed overt admiration for Bush's masculine package -- remains the gold standard for understanding why and how meek male losers find such personal satisfaction and fulfillment by being a Bush follower. It is as physically unpleasant as it is important to understand.


And isn't it interesting, that those males with the most obviously phallocentric adoration of George W. Bush are among the most homophobic pundits in the country?
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