The Bush Dyslexicon: Observations on a National Disorder

“A particularly astute analysis of the television coverage of the campaign, the election, and the political aftermath.”― Newsday The Bush Dyslexicon is a raucously funny ride―whether it’s Bush envisioning “a foreign-handed foreign policy” or Miller skewering vociferous cultural conservatives like William Bennett and Lynne Cheney for their silence on Bush’s particular “West Texas version of Ebonics.” But there is also a strong undercurrent of outrage. Only because our elections have become so dependent on television and its emphatic emptiness, says Miller, could a man of such sublime and complacent ignorance assume the highest office in the land.