Thursday, May 13. 2004
People are beginning to wonder...
Remember my fun with the word Hagiography? It seems more people are beginning to take note of Karen Hughes' obsession with her boss. In a Salon.com article One Minute From Abnormal (subscription or ad), James C. Moore says:
Which explains the contents of the book, and Hughes' willingness to say some pretty outrageous things.
Some choice quotes from the article:
Actually, Hughes had become unsettlingly close to her boss long before journalism or outsiders began to take note. In fact, her worst critics have accused the presidential counselor of living almost vicariously through Bush. His goals and political ideology have been so inculcated into Hughes' consciousness that she may no longer be able discern between her own thinking and the president's. This undoubtedly is an odd characterization to make of two of the world's most powerful adults. There is, however, no shortage of evidence to prompt the speculation.
Which explains the contents of the book, and Hughes' willingness to say some pretty outrageous things.
Some choice quotes from the article:
I cannot avoid concluding that there is something almost pathological about her almost born-again devotion to Bush. [...] Whatever reality she, Rove and Bush choose to manufacture, Hughes believes in it more than the reality of any and all contradictory external information. And God help any journalist or analyst whose interpretation or reportage of facts varies with her version of events.
[Frank Bruini of the NY Times] had been worn out by the message discipline of the High Prophet, the nickname Bush had given her as a derivative of her married name of Karen Parfitt Hughes."
[From Tucker Carlson, conservative pundit] : "I've obviously been lied to a lot by campaign operatives, but the striking thing about the way she lied was she knew I knew she was lying, and she did it anyway. There is no word in English that captures that. It almost crosses over from bravado into mental illness."
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