President Bush and his new book are making their way through the media on an amazingly unimpressive tour. Not surprisingly, our dutiful media has jumped at the chance to dredge up an ignorant and reactionary remark made by a pop star during the Katrina relief telethon. Don't we all just love conflict, especially when it involves a recognizable pop icon? How much more interesting is this story and it’s subject remark are than any real issues that the President had faced with true implications to the lives of real, hardworking Americans?
Since this subject would normally fall under my definition of trash, I will not waste much of your time or mine in making this point. The most shocking revelation that this latest media circus brings up is that Mr. Bush writes in his new book that Kane West’s remarks "represented an all-time low" in his presidency. Either Mr. Bush’s has a very short memory, or he considers this incident more upsetting than the American lives lost on September 11, 2001. I may consider that day the all-time low of my lifetime.
Brock T. Southwick
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