Calgary embarrasses itself in Vanity Fair

Posted by Jeremy Klaszus in Politics

Remember when hordes of suits lined up outside the Telus Convention Centre to fawn over George W. Bush in March? Well, here's some of what went on inside, according to Vanity Fair writer Nancy Jo Sales:

“There’s an ideological struggle playing out,” Bush told the Calgary crowd, after his talk turned more serious. “It’s tough, man, it’s tough. Nine-eleven affected me. I saw it as clear as day. Nineteen kids following an ideologue come and murder 3,000 people—that’s a war!”

Crashing applause. No mention of cooked-up intelligence, the absence of W.M.D.’s, yellowcake uranium sales that never happened, or Saddam’s illusory connection to al-Qaeda. Bush was here to peddle his ideology, and the people were prepared to let him.

His voice rising to a zealot’s pitch, he said, “How noble it is for a nation to make sacrifices for people to be free!”

Reading this kind of makes me glad I was stuck outside in the cold covering the anti-Bush protest. 

(h/t to Kris Kotarski for the Vanity Fair link)


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