Larry Beinhart: Short Shots #4: Dispatches from the War on Stupidity

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Short Shots #4: Dispatches from the War on Stupidity
by Larry Beinhart | Apr 10 2007 - 1:35pm


Do not refer to the George Bush Library as a library.

A library is a repository of records and a resource for scholarship.

The Bush institution has no intention whatsoever of being a library.

It is intended to be a propaganda mill. And it will be one.

Keep in mind that Bush has done more than any other president in history to hide records and to keep people from getting at them. Not just his own, but his father's and Reagan's. He is the enemy of libraries, of research and of scholarship. This institution will be used to keep presidential papers from real scholars, historians and researchers.

Bush's goal is to raise $500,000,000 (five hundred million) for his memorial to himself.

Where could $500,000,000 possibly go? Part of it will pay for lawyers to keep real scholars out of the records. The bulk of it will go to paid political hacks who will churn out papers and books that will rewrite reality. Just as the Bush White House has done his entire administration.

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George W Bush was the worst president ever. He lived in a feedback loop of the lies his administration fed to the press. He listened to his own propaganda and believed it. He made all his decisions based on it and refused to accept any information that didn't fit his preconceived notions. Instead of a library he's constructing a lie-brary. What could be more fitting.

So Bush can have everything he needs in the afterlife--good way to recycle Bushbots, so they don't come back to haunt future administrations.