It occurs to me that I have been a bit somber in tone in my postings here. In an effort to balance things I decided to lighten up a bit and talk about impressionists.
Most of you will only know Rich Little from his head in a jar stint on Futurama. But back in the days of 3 networks TV he was a mainstay on the tonight show. He did the, "I am not a crook" Nixon thing and I almost died laughing.
Following in those footsteps were the Likes of Chevy Chase as Ford, Dana Carvey as Herbert Walker Bush and Darrell Hammond as Bill Clinton was brilliant on SNL.
Up until this week I thought that Timothy Bottoms was the Best George W. Bush ever. He played the Dubya on the short-lived series, "That’s My Bush." A hysterically funny show it was a casualty of the war on free thought following 911 like, "Politically incorrect" with Bill Mahr. I guess without TV to remind us we would all forget that the day before the attack he was a moron.
I say up until today because after watching John McCain on his "Watch Me Look Presidential" World Tour he has captured the essential George Bush in the way that Mr. Little captured the essential Nixon.
He has mastered the art of hanging out with other world leaders to project the "Illusion of Gravitas." He has that can do GW spirit when he parrots the surge is working the surge is working. The way someone like Joe Lieberman has to whisper in his ear that he has confused the Shia and Sunni status of Iran. Didn’t the Beach boys play at GW’s inauguration? You have to admire that level of dedication to spend 7 years learning a character.
He has perfected that Bush level of commitment to sticking to the bulls**t no matter what the facts say. Invoke the "Al-ki-ee-da" at every opportunity to justify whatever bad move you want to make. This is the clincher, the secret sauce on this Mcbush Big Mac if you will. It is quintessential George W. Bush in that Even after being corrected now three times by aids he continued to insist in that testy petulant way that Al Qaeda is in one of the places it has no possibility of being.
Here is a little clip of Timothy Bottoms as George from the canceled show. Let us hope this McCain pilot doesn’t get picked up.
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