| Friday, May 28, 2004 |
02:44 - Wow, he speaks in complete sentences and everything
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2004/121/51.0.html
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Newsweek, judging by last week's issue and its cover story on the Left Behind series of Armageddon novels, would have us believe that the books serve as an echo and an amplification of "the born-again President Bush's apocalyptic rhetoric". It's mostly just sort of taken for granted, by the journalists in question and by many people I know, that Bush mounts the dais every week and shouts incoherent, monosyllabic fire and brimstone to the chanting masses, waving a Bible and pounding the lectern as a heavenly choir sings and a beam of light pours in on him from a high window.
I just can't seem to reconcile that, though, with the transcripts of the things Bush actually says. Like in this Christianity Today interview (via LGF), where he answers a string of quite probing questions—on everything from faith to the 2000 elections to Abu Ghraib—with aplomb, humor, and a fully articulated noun and verb in every sentence.
There are things people could easily pick apart, such as the inevitable disagreement from people who take exception to the idea of a no-gay-marriage amendment. But you'd think that if there was one place where Bush would feel secure spouting apocalyptic proclamations, it'd be here, wouldn't it?
You'd think.
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Brian Tiemann
