Wednesday, January 2, 2008

Bush caught lying about 9/11



EDIT: This one's kinda tricky, and doesn't really prove anything. Recent studies have shown that every time we remember something, our brain deletes the old memory, and effectively restores it as a new memory. In short, our memory of anything is only as good as our most recent memory of that thing. To be fair, regardless of his culpability in 9/11, it (the WTC disaster) probably comes up almost daily in his professional life. At this point, he's running on a memory of a memory of a memory of etc. The fact that it was spoken only a couple months after 9/11 suggests he's either stupid (which most of us accept) or he was being slimy (which is part and parcel of being the President). In retrospect, I probably shouldn't have put this one up on the blog - it's false dichotomy actually undermines my positions a little. It's rarely smart to chalk up to conspiracy things which can logically be explained away with incompetence. Bush has that (incompetence) in abundance.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

This one does not prove a conspiracy. I mean Bush has a mosquito fart and a dead watch battery running the operations inside his head. He probably just moved his lips before the fart could form coherent words.

rbbergstrom said...

Bravo - and a very good point.