More George W. Bushisms: More of Slate's Accidental Wit and Wisdom of Our 43rd President
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-- President George W. Bush,
discussing and reading from George W. Bushisms
By now, most of you probably do know about George W. Bushisms, the bestselling collection of misstatements made on the campaign trail by our president. Now, in More George W. Bushisms, Jacob Weisberg reveals that the malapropisms didn't stop on Inauguration Day:
"I've coined new words like misunderstanding and Hispanically."
"I haven't had a chance to talk, but I'm confident we'll get a bill that I can live with if we don't."
"Our nation must come together to unite."
"There's no question that the minute I got elected, the storm clouds on the horizon were getting nearly directly overhead."
These and many other presidential pearls are hilariously on display in More George W. Bushisms.
Jacob Weisberg
Jacob Weisberg is Chairman and Editor in Chief of the Slate Group. From 2002 to 2008 he was the editor of Slate.com. He has written about politics for magazines including the New Republic, Newsweek, New York Magazine, Vanity Fair and the New York Times Magazine.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Funny as hell! Can read in one sitting.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The reader's reaction to this book is almost certainly going to depend on one's opinion of George W. Bush. As someone who doesn't like him, I found it extremely funny. I particularly like the quote about vampires and cell phones. I am completely unable to guess what he is talking about!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The reader's reaction to this book is almost certainly going to depend on one's opinion of George W. Bush. As someone who doesn't like him, I found it extremely funny. I particularly like the quote about vampires and cell phones. I am completely unable to guess what he is talking about!
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More George W. Bushisms - Jacob Weisberg
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Foreword by Garry Trudeau
While a great deal of thought and care has gone into the creation of this little volume, it is altogether fitting that none of it was by its author. That credit falls to the book’s editor, Jacob Weisberg, whose unmatched bona fides as a curator of Bush family utterances extend back more than a decade. Weisberg cut his fangs on Bush pere, whose malapropisms he tracked as a lowly editorial assistant on 1992’s Bushisms: President George Herbert Walker Bush, In His Own Words. That collection quickly died in the bookstores, but since it was published shortly before Bush senior tanked in the general election, Weisberg—correctly, in my judgment—was not held directly responsible. Thus, when George W. Bush suddenly emerged a few years later, making even less sense than his father, Weisberg was uniquely positioned, like an Arabic-speaking CIA agent on September 12. He immediately volunteered his services to Michael Kinsley, his editor at Slate, offering to set up a kind of conservatory for second wave Bushisms. Kinsley, famously supportive of folk art generally and outsider prose in particular, quickly signed off on the archival feature from