AP has distributed a strongly positive review of Will Ferrell’s new Broadway show, You’re Welcome America. A Final Night With George W. Bush which opened February 5.
I remain skeptical, and will be interested to see it when it appears on HBO next month.
Do you think the media’s continual criticism of George W. Bush has run its course now that he’s out of office? Comment here.
Mike, I agree with your implied curse of a pox on both parties’ houses.
Lars, I think that the blame-Bush theme will indeed continue. To let it die would allow the focus to turn to President Obama’s policies and the important work of measuring their effectiveness. That cannot be allowed until the recession is over, however long that may take, at which point Obama’s policies can be credited for the recovery.
As Democratic economic policies drag us into deeper and deeper recession, the use of Bush as a scapegoat will become ever louder and more shrill. I wouldn’t be surprised if he eventually gets arrested and subjected to a show trial for high crimes and misdemeanors. Anything to avert attention from the failures of Democrat policies.
I suspect that, like children, the media and the nation will move on to other shiny baubles.
Sam:
“Do you think the media’s continual criticism of George W. Bush has run its course now that he’s out of office?”
In a word, No.
As long as the present administration and Congress continue to blame everything from “global warming” to you-name-it on George Bush, the media, in slavish devotion, will continually regurgitate the same old tired calumnies.
As I’ve said before, I believe George Bush was a calamity because a partisan and supine Congress let him exercise illegitimate imperial prerogatives. Katrina? I knew he was bad, but not even he and Congress and all six billion of us combined could produce that disaster.
Mike