I'm ditching Movable Type in favor of WordPress, so this blog is moving once again:
http://www.studioglyphic.com/blog/
Please update your links, bookmarks, and RSS Feedreaders. All comments have been disabled.
http://www.studioglyphic.com/blog/
Please update your links, bookmarks, and RSS Feedreaders. All comments have been disabled.
« Atrios takes on Zell Miller | Main | Give 'em hell, Howard »
May 17, 2004
Josh Marshall on Bush's clarity
Talking Points Memo is a good read, and specializes in focusing on the White House and the goings-on in DC. Here's Marshall's take on a book excerpt that describes Bush's news reading habits:
What strikes me about this isn't the stuff about the First Lady or the skimming of articles. It's that, at least from his self-presentation, the president seems to see his news reading largely, if not entirely, as an exercise in detecting liberal media bias. That, and he seems to see shielding himself from opposing viewpoints as a key to maintaining what he calls a "clear outlook" and what Sammon refers to as being an "optimistic leader".
Spot on.
I guess we can all relate to this, can't we?
How 'frustrating' it is to have to listen to "somebody's false opinion or somebody's characterization, which simply isn't true" (i.e., information that contradicts our assumptions and viewpoints)?
It (i.e., critical thinking) really gets in the way of having a "clear outlook", right?
Posted by glyphic at May 17, 2004 02:27 AM