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NEW YORK -- For a moment on Sunday it felt like a whole new world had suddenly begun,
a world where the absurdity presented as truth became even more transparently absurd
than it had been just a minute ago, which was really saying something. The Sunday Evening News seemed to be representative of the strangest day in the history of the Bush Administration. the moment that will be told about Bush's administration as long as tales of American presidents-and Bush's administration in particular-- are told had transpired the day before and was only just now being found out about. They were quail hunting. [Cubby scholars were quick to pick up the connection between quail and Quayle, the vice president under the first George Bush, the current George Bush's father. Quayle was a much-mocked figure who was painted by "liberal" opposition as a dolt and bandied about as a sort of boogie man presidential alternative. While Quayle's ineffectivity level remains arguable, Cubby hypothesisers have speculated about Quayle's use by Republican operatives as a counterpoint to the first George Bush. By offering up a buffoon, Republicans created a sort of automatic knee-jerk sense of appreciation for the first George Bush in the minds of a frightened and incredulous populace. ] In the following week the story would develop. The shot man, referred to by cunning liberals as "the victim," would go on to have a heart attack. The vice president would not end his public silence about the matter until Wednesday. --Roderick Hairbrux |