The Fall of the House of Labor AtD.93 Republicans?

[John Bailey]

John Carvill wrote:
> Just one example: how he walks with the backs of his hands facing forwards, rather than sideways.

Bush clearly has no background in theatre since one of the most basic
gestures of clowning is precisely that backs-of-the-hands-forward
thing - a buffoonish physicality that suggests an ape-like simpleton.
It can also connote innocence, a lack of affectation, too, though...
so maybe he was schooled in performance after all. I always worried
about the caricatures of Dubya as a brainless goofball, since Not
Being Taken Seriously is a great way for a leader to get away with all
kinds of nasty stuff. Why bother with an indepth analysis and critique
of policy when you can just laugh 'what an idiot'?

(See also Adorno on the jokey showmanship of evangelists and fascist
dictators, whose over-the-top spectacles are so ridiculous that the
ideology can be conveyed so much more effectively.)

On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 10:50 PM, Mark Kohut<markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> might make your case.............the Darwinian under/overtones
> just come naturally to OBA after a particular satiric particularity then.
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> --- On Sun, 8/9/09, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
>> Subject: RE: The Fall of the House of Labor AtD.93 Republicans?
>> To: "Carvill John" <johncarvill at hotmail.com>
>> Cc: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>> Date: Sunday, August 9, 2009, 8:45 AM
>> Well, thanks.....missed
>> that............
>> I 'followed' stuff about him VERY LITTLE i was so unhappy.
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>> --- On Sun, 8/9/09, Carvill John <johncarvill at hotmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>> > From: Carvill John <johncarvill at hotmail.com>
>> > Subject: RE: The Fall of the House of Labor AtD.93
>> Republicans?
>> > To: markekohut at yahoo.com
>> > Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
>> > Date: Sunday, August 9, 2009, 8:40 AM
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>> > > I, for one, have never heard Geo Bush scored as
>> ever
>> > walking apelike.....
>> > > He, unfortunately, is fairly coordinated..jogged,
>> dirt
>> > bike....
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>> > Weird. Very weird. Right from the start of his reign,
>> Bush
>> > was widely remarked upon as having a simian gait.
>> British
>> > cartooninst, in particular, routinely depicted Bush as
>> an
>> > ape. Just one example: how he walks with the backs of
>> his
>> > hands facing forwards, rather than sideways.
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>> > http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2004/sep/16/comics.politics
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>> > HIs early classic 'Going to Yurp' is included here:
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>> > http://arts.guardian.co.uk/pictures/0,8542,1305227,00.html
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