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...shattered record and abysmal approval ratings who's now ignored or avoided by even his fellow Republicans, might seem way too easy a task for Stone. Historians have for years placed Bush at the bottom of presidential rankings, and The Daily Show, considering his legacy, chillingly guessed that Dubya is aiming to be not only our worst President but also our last...
...first we get hints that Stone is up to his nifty old tricks. It's a hazing session of Yale's Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, where the forced guzzling of whiskey is the gentleman scholar's equivalent of waterboarding. The other pledges are frightened, but Dubya (Josh Brolin, who's game but not great) impresses his brothers by not only rattling off their names but also appending a goofy nickname to each. In two lightning strokes, W. provides a reference point for the Bush Administration's interrogation techniques of terrorist suspects and imagines an early example of Bush's frat...
...running mate was a nod to the religious right and to frustrated Hillary supporters, to be sure. But more than that, it was a concession to the contingent of American voters, growing in size and volume, who want a leader who looks, sounds and thinks like them. Of course, Dubya was no different: That erstwhile Ivy Leaguer knew to play up his adoptive Texan roots for this very reason. And his electoral success in 2004 explains how ‘narrative’ has hijacked the race in 2008. But it seems this time the stakes have been raised...
...least a dozen plays about Iraq - and many others more broadly about the Middle East - have been staged in London over the last four years. A few of them, like The Madness of George Dubya and A Weapons Inspector Calls, both cheekily satirizing the Blair-Bush axis, have successfully made the transfer from fringe to West End hits...
...fact that Bush sometimes curses may seem irrelevant, but the "community standard" is one of the most important factors in legally determining indecency. What's good for Dubya, the court ruled, is good for the debutante. And while the ruling immediately applied to "fleeting" profanities, it could have broad implications for the FCC's ability to limit naughty talk on broadcast TV and radio in general...