Bush looked ridiculous. He looks like an ape anyway, but he was making ape movements of the kind seen in King Louie’s dance in Disney’s Jungle Book, making him look even more like an ape. He banged on the bongos without asking permission.
And yet, for the first time in my entire life (and almost certainly the last) I warmed to the man. Why, because this is a man who whatever he does, says or thinks, always looks like a cretin. But I genuinely believe that for the first time in his life, on this occasion he actually realised he looked stupid. And he carried on anyway. That little splinter of self-effacement, that shard of self-knowledge, carved from the American Redwood Trunk of his idiocy, improved him one infinitessimal iota in my eyes.
Bush looked ridiculous. He looks like an ape anyway, but he was making ape movements of the kind seen in King Louie’s dance in Disney’s Jungle Book, making him look even more like an ape. He banged on the bongos without asking permission.
And yet, for the first time in my entire life (and almost certainly the last) I warmed to the man. Why, because this is a man who whatever he does, says or thinks, always looks like a cretin. But I genuinely believe that for the first time in his life, on this occasion he actually realised he looked stupid. And he carried on anyway. That little splinter of self-effacement, that shard of self-knowledge, carved from the American Redwood Trunk of his idiocy, improved him one infinitessimal iota in my eyes.
Normal life will resume soon.
I know what you mean and – to an extent – I agree.
The bloke’s a frat boy.
And there’s nothing wrong with that.
Unless you can start a global thermonuclear war without having to ask anyone else’s permission.