Tuesday, September 14, 2004

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Remember, Bush Is Stupid

The Boston Globe knows why Bush misspeaks himself, he's suffering from a type of dimentia:

So why does Bush sound stupid? One doctor thinks he shows signs of "presenile dementia," or an early onset of Alzheimer's disease.
This summer, Joseph Price, a self-described "country doctor" in Carsonville, Mich., was reading a long article in The Atlantic about Bush's speaking style. Author James Fallows alluded to Bush's malapropisms and to speculation that Bush had a learning disorder or dyslexia. But those conditions generally manifest themselves in childhood. Furthermore, Fallows wrote, "through his forties Bush was perfectly articulate."
Dr. Price's children happened to have given him a daily tear-off calendar of "Bushisms" for Christmas. "They are horrible, but they are also diagnostic," Price says. When he read that Bush had spoken clearly and performed well while debating Texas politician Ann Richards in 1994, Price thought: "My God, the only way you can explain that is by being Alzheimer's."


Emphasis mine. A "self-described country doctor" diagnosed Bush from an Atlantic article and a tear off calendar. He must be a genius. This is pure and simply the lowest I've seen the media go (this week at least). Bush is stupid, the mainstream media has made that perfectly clear. Now they say it's Alzheimer's? Pathetic. Yes, this article has a true specialist who refutes the "country doctor", but why was this article even written?

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