While I don't
ever watch Fox News, there are occasions where I read a blurb somewhere and hope that MediaMatters or the AP picks it up so that I can read the story without visiting their (lousily designed, by the way) website.
Today was one of those occasions. Thankfully, I found the story elsewhere. It seems that Laura Bush wants everyone to assimilate to the stagnant opinions from within her husband's bubble:
Yesterday, she went to her loyalist press, and with a straight face
proclaimed that America is pro Bush despite the polls.
"I don't really believe those polls. I travel around the country. I see people, I see their responses to my husband. I see their response to me," she said at a talk show.
"As I travel around the United States, I see a lot of appreciation for him. A lot of people come up to me and say, 'Stay the course'." Laura took the position that in spite of record lows for her husband's Presidency, she did not believe that American people were losing confidence.
I beg to differ, Mrs. Bush; strongly, in fact. You see, madam, the reason you are so fast to "see people" and "hear `stay the course'" responses from them is only because your staff surrounds you exclusively with loyalists. Further, the fact that you could only get away with saying such nonsense on Fox News speaks volumes to me and (I strongly believe) people like me.
The tricky thing about polls for people like you is that they represent the voice of the general public and not those waning crows that are hand picked to give the illusion of support from `ordinary' Americans.
Clearly, your husband, et. al. must realize by now that that while this brand of rubbish may work for a little while, it's not the end-all-be-all of tactics. I remind you that people are more sophisticated than you may think. You can learn this easily by not surrounding yourself with a gaggle of self interested lackeys. Oh, wait, sometimes, I forget that I am speaking to a woman who has remained married to a man who strummed a guitar rather than saving a life.
I propose that your whole schpeal yesterday was a scripted tactic to lessen the damage that your husband will do this evening and what his [your] pear faced buddy will do when he is at last (I hope) perp-walked out.
While you may seemingly enjoy `high poll numbers,' I am, in fact, now a reflection of the voice of the American majority. Plain and simple, madam.
Before you spew this new brand of Mehlman-esque garbage, I suggest that you take a stroll outside of the barricades that your lousy husband has put up to keep people like me out of the camera's eye. You shall quickly hear what people really think of your husband, and possibly you, yourself.
Personally, while I utterly detest your husband, I have no real interest in spending a lot of time forming my opinion of you, except to suggest to you that oodles of us out here aren't buying your `nurturing' persona.
You and those inside your tiny little bubble can have whatever delusion you wish. Just be warned that reality is coming and it is coming fast.
Lastly, I would highly recommend that you go out and talk to some real people next time before you propagate such nonsense. After all, it's always better to be respected than having your ass kissed. Or, in your supposed worldliness, have you not learned that little life-lesson yet?
PS: Here's a tip: It's pronounced Kaah-treee-naah.