Cheney and the Goat Devil - Dowd

[groovedaddy]

I was dubious about Will Ferrell doing his Bush impersonation one more time on Broadway. As we lurch through the disasters bequeathed by W. — the economy tanking, 17,000 more troops going to Afghanistan, Chrysler pleading for a total of $9 billion — would audiences still laugh at Ferrell’s lovable fool of a president?

I was wrong. The audience for the Sunday matinee of “You’re Welcome America. A Final Night with George W Bush” howled in delight.

I asked Adam McKay, the former head writer of “Saturday Night Live” who directed and co-wrote the show with Ferrell, why people respond this way to one of the worst presidents ever.

“He’s so clearly a neglected 13-year-old that there’s something really kind of heartbreaking about him,” McKay said, calling him “a good-time Charlie” who was “just used his whole life to front questionable business endeavors, and in a way that’s what his presidency was.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/18/opinion/18dowd.html?th&emc=th

[Captain Hilts]

1. Dowd was instrumental in putting Bush in the White House. nt

[bobthedrummer]

2. Reminds me of "Springtime for Hitler", a real laugh riot...

[The Wizard]

3. You mean Springtime for "you know who?"

Funniest concept for failure ever.