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Isn't A Moron, He's A Cunning Sociopath
by Bev Conover, Online Journal Editor And Publisher, December 5, 2002
If any of us are to have a future worth having, the world's leaders, the
members of Congress, the US corporate media and people of all political
persuasions who value freedom and democracy had better start seeing George
W. Bush for what he is: a sociopath and a passive serial killer.
Psychiatrists tell us that all serial killers lack the emotions that make us
human; that they have to learn to emulate those emotions in order to get by
in society. Hence, a charming, well educated fellow like Ted Bundy who is
known to have murdered 15 women and may have killed 36 before he was caught.
While Bush is no Bundy, when it comes Bundy's education and acquired charm,
and to our knowledge has never personally murdered anyone, it has been
evident to us that there is something missing in George W. in terms of his
lack of compassion and empathy. As governor of Texas, he set a record in
signing death warrants-154 in five years. He even made fun of the way
convicted killer Karla Faye Tucker begged for her life.
If we believe the psychiatrists, a sign of a future serial killer is a child
who delights in torturing and killing animals. George W., as a child, did
exactly that. In a May 21, 2000, New York Times' puff piece about the values
Bush gained growing up in Midland, Texas, Nicholas D. Kristof quoted Bush's
childhood friend Terry Throckmorton: "'We were terrible to animals,'
recalled Mr. Throckmorton, laughing. A dip behind the Bush home turned into
a small lake after a good rain, and thousands of frogs would come out.
'Everybody would get BB guns and shoot them,' Mr. Throckmorton said. 'Or
we'd put firecrackers in the frogs and throw them and blow them up.'"
On Sept. 12, 2000, Baltimore Sun reporter Miriam Miedzian wrote, "So when he
was a kid, George W. enjoyed putting firecrackers into frogs, throwing them
in the air, and then watching them blow up. Should this be cause for alarm?
How relevant is a man's childhood behavior to what he is like as an adult?
And in this case, to what he would be like as president of the United
States."
We're finding out, aren't we? While we, in two articles before the 2000
election-Sept. 21 and Oct. 23-noted Bush's penchant for blowing up frogs,
the corporate media blew it off, just as it had no interest in what he was
trying to hide by obtaining a new Texas driver license and his 1976 drunk
driving conviction, or the fact he was AWOL from the Texas Air National
Guard. Instead, they bought into his nonsensical claim of being a
"compassionate conservative" and "a uniter not a divider" who was going to
"restore honor and dignity to the White House."
All through the 2000 campaign and up to Sept. 11, 2001, the corporate media
depicted Bush as an affable, tongue-tied bumbler-the kind of guy Joe
Six-pack would like to have a beer with-turning a blind eye to his dark
underside. It mattered not that he stocked his illicit administration with
the worst of the worst: John Ashcroft, Donald Rumsfeld, Gale Norton, Paul
O'Neill, Harvey Pitt, Thomas White, John Negroponte, Otto Reich and
convicted Iran-contra felon Elliot Abrams who received a 1992 Christmas Eve
pardon from George W.'s father.
Then, despite his peculiar behavior on Sept. 11, the corporate media and his
handlers transformed him into a leader extraordinaire in the mold of
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill rolled into
one.
And as Bush had Afghanistan bombed back beyond the Stone Age to rid the
world of Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda, then switched to claiming it was the
Taliban that had to go, then declared there was an "axis of evil" and it was
really Saddam Hussein who was the "mother of all evil" and that war with
Iraq was in the offing to get rid of Saddam, the corporate media cheered him
on and to this day continues to beat the war drum. They have yet to consider
that the passive serial killer needs to feed his lust for blood by sending
others to put their lives on the line and do the killing for him.
In his Sept. 12 article, White House insiders say Bush is "out of control,"
Mike Hersh wrote, "Some among Bush's trusted White House staff fear what
they are seeing and where Bush is taking us. His state of mind hauntingly
reminds them of Richard Nixon's Final Days. They fear Bush is becoming
Nixonesque . . . or worse. Although Bush lacks Nixon's paranoia, he may
entertain even more dangerous notions."
But their desperate late night phone calls to trusted reporters has not seen
the light of day in the corporate media. Yet, some of us outside the Beltway
have long had an inkling of what we are dealing with.
More proof lies in Alexandra Pelosi's documentary, Journeys with George.
Pelosi, the daughter of incoming House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, was a
producer for NBC when she wangled the assignment to spend 18 months as part
of Bush's campaign press corps.
>From the surface, Pelosi's "home movie," as she calls it, seems to be
nothing more than a love fest as George W. works to charm the pants off her
and the rest of the press corps. The striking thing about this George, even
though Karen Hughes is often seen hovering at his elbow, is that he isn't
tongue-tied when he is pumping up his ego, dishing out digs and being
sarcastic and crude.
Mark Crispin Miller, author of The Bush Dyslexicon and professor of media
studies at New York University, who also sees the darker Bush, said in a
Nov. 28 interview with the Toronto Star, ""Bush is not an imbecile. He's not
a puppet. I think that Bush is a sociopathic personality. I think he's
incapable of empathy. He has an inordinate sense of his own entitlement, and
he's a very skilled manipulator. And in all the snickering about his alleged
idiocy, this is what a lot of people miss."
Miller said he did intend The Bush Dyslexicon to be a funny book, but that
was before he read all the transcripts, which revealed, according to
reporter Murray Whyte, "a disquieting truth about what lurks behind the cock
-eyed leer of the leader of the free world. He's not a moron at all on that
point, Miller and Prime Minister Jean Chretien agree."
"He has no trouble speaking off the cuff when he's speaking punitively, when
he's talking about violence, when he's talking about revenge," Miller told
Whyte. "When he struts and thumps his chest, his syntax and grammar are
fine. It's only when he leaps into the wild blue yonder of compassion, or
idealism, or altruism, that he makes these hilarious mistakes."
In a speech last Sept. in Nashville, trying to strengthen his case against
Saddam, Bush's script called for him to say, "Fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me twice, shame on me." But the words that came out of his mouth were,
""Fool me once, shame . . . shame on . . . you," followed by a long pause,
then, "Fool me-can't get fooled again!"
Said Miller, "What's revealing about this is that Bush could not say, 'Shame
on me' to save his life. That's a completely alien idea to him. This is a
guy who is absolutely proud of his own inflexibility and rectitude."
Another example, Miller said, occurred early in Bush's White House tenure
when he said, "I know how hard it is to put food on your family."
According to Miller, "That wasn't because he's so stupid that he doesn't
know how to say, 'Put food on your family's table' -- it's because he
doesn't care about people who can't put food on the table."
Miller told Whyte, ""When he tries to talk about what this country stands
for, or about democracy, he can't do it."
"This, then, is why he's so closely watched by his handlers, Miller says not
because he'll say something stupid, but because he'll overindulge in the
language of violence and punishment at which he excels," Whyte wrote.
"He's a very angry guy, a hostile guy. He's much like Nixon. So they're
very, very careful to choreograph every move he makes. They don't want him
anywhere near protestors, because he would lose his temper," Miller said.
"I call him the feel bad president, because he's all about punishment and
death," Miller told Whyte. "It would be a grave mistake to just play him for
laughs."
A grave mistake, indeed.
If all that has happened since Bush was first mentioned as a possible GOP
presidential candidate hasn't set off alarms, his naming of war criminal,
mass murderer and international fugitive Henry Kissinger last week to head
up the 9/11 investigation should have. And this week another alarm should
have gone off when Bush promoted Elliot Abrams to lead the National Security
Council's office for Near East and North African affairs, which oversees
Arab-Israeli relations.
Bush must be stopped now, before he sets the world aflame. And set it aflame
is what he intends to do, even if Iraq has no "weapons of mass destruction"
or Saddam stands on his head, naked, on the White House lawn.
Source:
http://www.onlinejournal.com/Commentary/Conover120502/conover120502.html
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Isn't A Moron, He's A Cunning Sociopath
by Bev Conover, Online Journal Editor And Publisher, December 5, 2002
If any of us are to have a future worth having, the world's leaders, the
members of Congress, the US corporate media and people of all political
persuasions who value freedom and democracy had better start seeing George
W. Bush for what he is: a sociopath and a passive serial killer.
Psychiatrists tell us that all serial killers lack the emotions that make us
human; that they have to learn to emulate those emotions in order to get by
in society. Hence, a charming, well educated fellow like Ted Bundy who is
known to have murdered 15 women and may have killed 36 before he was caught.
While Bush is no Bundy, when it comes Bundy's education and acquired charm,
and to our knowledge has never personally murdered anyone, it has been
evident to us that there is something missing in George W. in terms of his
lack of compassion and empathy. As governor of Texas, he set a record in
signing death warrants-154 in five years. He even made fun of the way
convicted killer Karla Faye Tucker begged for her life.
If we believe the psychiatrists, a sign of a future serial killer is a child
who delights in torturing and killing animals. George W., as a child, did
exactly that. In a May 21, 2000, New York Times' puff piece about the values
Bush gained growing up in Midland, Texas, Nicholas D. Kristof quoted Bush's
childhood friend Terry Throckmorton: "'We were terrible to animals,'
recalled Mr. Throckmorton, laughing. A dip behind the Bush home turned into
a small lake after a good rain, and thousands of frogs would come out.
'Everybody would get BB guns and shoot them,' Mr. Throckmorton said. 'Or
we'd put firecrackers in the frogs and throw them and blow them up.'"
On Sept. 12, 2000, Baltimore Sun reporter Miriam Miedzian wrote, "So when he
was a kid, George W. enjoyed putting firecrackers into frogs, throwing them
in the air, and then watching them blow up. Should this be cause for alarm?
How relevant is a man's childhood behavior to what he is like as an adult?
And in this case, to what he would be like as president of the United
States."
We're finding out, aren't we? While we, in two articles before the 2000
election-Sept. 21 and Oct. 23-noted Bush's penchant for blowing up frogs,
the corporate media blew it off, just as it had no interest in what he was
trying to hide by obtaining a new Texas driver license and his 1976 drunk
driving conviction, or the fact he was AWOL from the Texas Air National
Guard. Instead, they bought into his nonsensical claim of being a
"compassionate conservative" and "a uniter not a divider" who was going to
"restore honor and dignity to the White House."
All through the 2000 campaign and up to Sept. 11, 2001, the corporate media
depicted Bush as an affable, tongue-tied bumbler-the kind of guy Joe
Six-pack would like to have a beer with-turning a blind eye to his dark
underside. It mattered not that he stocked his illicit administration with
the worst of the worst: John Ashcroft, Donald Rumsfeld, Gale Norton, Paul
O'Neill, Harvey Pitt, Thomas White, John Negroponte, Otto Reich and
convicted Iran-contra felon Elliot Abrams who received a 1992 Christmas Eve
pardon from George W.'s father.
Then, despite his peculiar behavior on Sept. 11, the corporate media and his
handlers transformed him into a leader extraordinaire in the mold of
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill rolled into
one.
And as Bush had Afghanistan bombed back beyond the Stone Age to rid the
world of Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda, then switched to claiming it was the
Taliban that had to go, then declared there was an "axis of evil" and it was
really Saddam Hussein who was the "mother of all evil" and that war with
Iraq was in the offing to get rid of Saddam, the corporate media cheered him
on and to this day continues to beat the war drum. They have yet to consider
that the passive serial killer needs to feed his lust for blood by sending
others to put their lives on the line and do the killing for him.
In his Sept. 12 article, White House insiders say Bush is "out of control,"
Mike Hersh wrote, "Some among Bush's trusted White House staff fear what
they are seeing and where Bush is taking us. His state of mind hauntingly
reminds them of Richard Nixon's Final Days. They fear Bush is becoming
Nixonesque . . . or worse. Although Bush lacks Nixon's paranoia, he may
entertain even more dangerous notions."
But their desperate late night phone calls to trusted reporters has not seen
the light of day in the corporate media. Yet, some of us outside the Beltway
have long had an inkling of what we are dealing with.
More proof lies in Alexandra Pelosi's documentary, Journeys with George.
Pelosi, the daughter of incoming House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, was a
producer for NBC when she wangled the assignment to spend 18 months as part
of Bush's campaign press corps.
>From the surface, Pelosi's "home movie," as she calls it, seems to be
nothing more than a love fest as George W. works to charm the pants off her
and the rest of the press corps. The striking thing about this George, even
though Karen Hughes is often seen hovering at his elbow, is that he isn't
tongue-tied when he is pumping up his ego, dishing out digs and being
sarcastic and crude.
Mark Crispin Miller, author of The Bush Dyslexicon and professor of media
studies at New York University, who also sees the darker Bush, said in a
Nov. 28 interview with the Toronto Star, ""Bush is not an imbecile. He's not
a puppet. I think that Bush is a sociopathic personality. I think he's
incapable of empathy. He has an inordinate sense of his own entitlement, and
he's a very skilled manipulator. And in all the snickering about his alleged
idiocy, this is what a lot of people miss."
Miller said he did intend The Bush Dyslexicon to be a funny book, but that
was before he read all the transcripts, which revealed, according to
reporter Murray Whyte, "a disquieting truth about what lurks behind the cock
-eyed leer of the leader of the free world. He's not a moron at all on that
point, Miller and Prime Minister Jean Chretien agree."
"He has no trouble speaking off the cuff when he's speaking punitively, when
he's talking about violence, when he's talking about revenge," Miller told
Whyte. "When he struts and thumps his chest, his syntax and grammar are
fine. It's only when he leaps into the wild blue yonder of compassion, or
idealism, or altruism, that he makes these hilarious mistakes."
In a speech last Sept. in Nashville, trying to strengthen his case against
Saddam, Bush's script called for him to say, "Fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me twice, shame on me." But the words that came out of his mouth were,
""Fool me once, shame . . . shame on . . . you," followed by a long pause,
then, "Fool me-can't get fooled again!"
Said Miller, "What's revealing about this is that Bush could not say, 'Shame
on me' to save his life. That's a completely alien idea to him. This is a
guy who is absolutely proud of his own inflexibility and rectitude."
Another example, Miller said, occurred early in Bush's White House tenure
when he said, "I know how hard it is to put food on your family."
According to Miller, "That wasn't because he's so stupid that he doesn't
know how to say, 'Put food on your family's table' -- it's because he
doesn't care about people who can't put food on the table."
Miller told Whyte, ""When he tries to talk about what this country stands
for, or about democracy, he can't do it."
"This, then, is why he's so closely watched by his handlers, Miller says not
because he'll say something stupid, but because he'll overindulge in the
language of violence and punishment at which he excels," Whyte wrote.
"He's a very angry guy, a hostile guy. He's much like Nixon. So they're
very, very careful to choreograph every move he makes. They don't want him
anywhere near protestors, because he would lose his temper," Miller said.
"I call him the feel bad president, because he's all about punishment and
death," Miller told Whyte. "It would be a grave mistake to just play him for
laughs."
A grave mistake, indeed.
If all that has happened since Bush was first mentioned as a possible GOP
presidential candidate hasn't set off alarms, his naming of war criminal,
mass murderer and international fugitive Henry Kissinger last week to head
up the 9/11 investigation should have. And this week another alarm should
have gone off when Bush promoted Elliot Abrams to lead the National Security
Council's office for Near East and North African affairs, which oversees
Arab-Israeli relations.
Bush must be stopped now, before he sets the world aflame. And set it aflame
is what he intends to do, even if Iraq has no "weapons of mass destruction"
or Saddam stands on his head, naked, on the White House lawn.
Source:
http://www.onlinejournal.com/Commentary/Conover120502/conover120502.html
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