Denying Reality

Michael Parenti has a book called Inventing Reality, The Politics of News Media. It's a little old, but not entirely out of date.

It's in light of remembering some of that volume that I came across the transcript of the Bush/Allawi Q and A with the press. Bush doesn't so much invent reality as he denies it. To the dauphin, Iraq not the mess that anyone with three or four functioning brain cells could see, but instead, a country that's just a scouche away from opening a Wal-Mart Super Center. Hmmm.

I think it's times like this that make folks wonder if young George has fallen off the wagon.