Say Anything Blog

Here he goes again.

To Mark Morford, who is apparently what passes for a liberal pundit at SF Gate,what I think is the internet version of the San Francisco Chronicle, she’s all that and worse:

Wait, what? You mean docile, prudish, former librarian Laura Bush, she of the nonexistent inspiration and dull-as-dishwater personality? Yes indeed, that Laura Bush. Here was my friend, brash and funny and who spoke her mind without the slightest reservation, and who could drink and think and opine with the strongest of men, and yet she admired this ... limp wallflower? I didn’t get it. I still don’t completely get it, to this very day.

All of this comes to mind as I see, skirting across the newswires, a handful of generic photos and sidebar stories of Laura Bush out on tour recently with her twin Styrofoam peanut daughters, Jenna and Barbara, promoting a new children’s book they all apparently, and yeah right, wrote together and isn’t that sweet.

Here’s more Morford wit:

There is Laura, looking exactly as she has looked for the past eight insufferable years. Prim, a bit glassy, reserved, her hair some sort of ironclad helmet of awkward architecture, the very epitome of nice, meek, domestic Republican female, not making the slightest wave and hoping no one really notices because, well, she’s just a woman.

I’m not even going to bother quoting the rest of the very insulting gibberish this guy writes about Laura Bush. I’m no huge fan of Mrs. Bush, but I think she’s shown a certain dignity in place of the screeching harpies from the left she’s being compared to by Morford.

I have to wonder, though, just what would prompt an attack on someone that, by his own statement, is virtually innocuous, who doesn’t take stabs at anyone or ever appears to hold others in disdain - even if they deserve it. What was his motivation in mounting this attack? Part of it may be in one of his own phrases in which he describes her as a “limp wallflower”.

Based on the tone of his piece, if I had to hazard a guess I’d say that the word “limp” probably has an application here and it has more to do with Morford than with Laura Bush.