Wednesday, October 03, 2007

When spin collides

George Bush, before a sycophantic audience (except for her) in Lancaster, Pa --

That's why I brought up the example of the S-CHIP [sic] corporation. When we cut taxes on everybody who pays taxes, we cut taxes on small businesses, too

He has therefore confused S corporations, which is part of his misleading spin for tax cuts, with S-CHIP, the program which provides health insurance to poor children.

UPDATE: An apt observation from Paul Krugman --

Mark Crispin Miller, the author of “The Bush Dyslexicon,” once made a striking observation: all of the famous Bush malapropisms — “I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family,” and so on — have involved occasions when Mr. Bush was trying to sound caring and compassionate.

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