Elizabeth Vargas’s Bush Interview: President Bush, He’s Just Like Us
Wednesday, March 1st, 2006
Okay, we’ll ‘fess up: we kind of loved Elizabeth Vargas’s delightfully substance-free interview of President Bush. We analyzed some parts of the transcript earlier today; after the jump, we continue our parsing of presidential pronouncements.
Remember, these are just excerpts. You should really read the entire transcript, to get a complete sense of how inarticulate the president was — and how, even though he was incapable of speaking in complete sentences, Vargas was fawning all over him.
So, about this ports thing. We don’t see what the big deal is. These UAE guys are just like us! They even like to go on 
Last week, we 
We weren’t going to bother today, but their tireless insistence that people really oughtta care about whatever the hell Bush is going on about this week 
In this edition of Chatology, Department of Homeland Security head Michael Chertoff pulls a half-Ginsburg, spinning through both Meet the Press and This Week. On various issues, Chertoff blames Michael Brown, Mary Matalin blames the media, Joe Lieberman blames Chertoff, Evan Bayh blames the Democrats, and David Gregory blames himself. Random wisdom from Ari Fleischer: “You can be right and still be bonkers.” Speaking of which: Cheney is “almost like the wizard dealing with the muggles” — Howard Fineman.
