Profiles cast Bush as unhip

Washington Times ^ | Tuesday, February 12, 2002 | By Jennifer Harper

[RichInOC]

"I used to be a renegade, I used to fool around...
"But I couldn't take the punishment, and had to settle down.
"Now I'm playing it real straight, and yes I cut my hair...
"You might think I'm crazy, but I don't even care
"Because I can tell what's going on--
"It's hip to be square."

--Huey Lewis and the News

[habs4ever]

Check out #13 ;-)

[rintense]

Heheheehe. Unhip... RIIIIGHHHT! Last night on the Tonight Show, a guy yelled from the audience 'Bush Rocks!'. Now, he may have been talking about Britney in a round about way, but I doubt it.

[NYCVirago]

This reminds of when Bush Sr. was president, and Lewis Lapham, the socialist editor of Harper's, would publish transcripts of Bush speaking, with all the "ums" and "uhs." Lapham thought that made Bush look like a dolt, which made Lapham feel awfully superior. Folks with any decency concluded otherwise.

I wasn't aware of that -- that's pretty tacky. It's pretty much a journalistic standard to take those items out. There are very few people, even those who are public figures, who speak perfectly enough to be quoted verbatim. Did you ever hear Hillary speak live and unedited? She uses the phrase "you know" constantly.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Hey! Ronald Reagan is Da Man!!!

[mrustow]

This reminds of when Bush Sr. was president, and Lewis Lapham, the socialist editor of Harper's, would publish transcripts of Bush speaking, with all the "ums" and "uhs." Lapham thought that made Bush look like a dolt, which made Lapham feel awfully superior. Folks with any decency concluded otherwise.

I wasn't aware of that -- that's pretty tacky. It's pretty much a journalistic standard to take those items out. There are very few people, even those who are public figures, who speak perfectly enough to be quoted verbatim. Did you ever hear Hillary speak live and unedited? She uses the phrase "you know" constantly.

Lewis Lapham considers himself a bloody aristocrat. He's a walking self-caricature of an effete snob.

Now that you mention it, I'd look pretty bad, in a verbatim transcript. I taught college for seven years, and most people who have heard me, consider me to be very well-spoken, yet it would drive me crazy, hearing all the flaws in my speech.