Jun. 5th, 2003

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Totological: tautological via Bush. For example, during that cracked-out press conference with Bush and Blair that they only aired on CNN at 6 in the morning and never reran, where it looked like Bush was on some TV crack, and was completely getting confused in some insane metaphor of the ten fingers (that he was also trying to perform in the moment) and Blair looked like he wanted to die, and in response to some (obviously foreign) correspondent asking Bush what it meant that the UN would have a vital role in the reconstruction of Iraq (i guess we all know what that meant now, huh?), and Bush replied "When we say a vital role, we mean a vital role. We mean what we say, and so we say what we mean, and when we say a vital role, that's exactly what we mean, a role that will be vital" (if I am misquoting here, believe me, i am erring on the side of lucidity). That was a Totology. Anyway, "Totological" is a Bushism on account of the wrongspelling due to the kind of confused cultural dyslexia that seems to be his default communicative model, but it's also, like "Toto, we're not in Kansas anymore. We're in Texas. And that's why yee-haw is our foreign policy now."

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