Isn't He Dead Yet?

A disgusting little piece from Michael Kinsley. This article is so grotesque, I hardly know where to begin. Some lowlights :

- Bill Clinton's innumerable lies are given all of one paragraph. President George W. Bush's "lies" are given eight. This, even though Clinton was in office a full eight years, and was impeached by the Congress for, among other things, lying under oath, while GW has been in office little over a year and enjoys the unprecedented trust and admiration of the American people.

- The so-called "lies" of GW's subordinates are attributed to him.

- Kinsley insinuates that President Bush is a ninny countless times, though he was smart enough to humiliate Al "master-debater" Gore in three consecutive presidential debates and win the election.

- Kinsley gives himself away as the hard-core leftist he is when he sides with the dictatorial Castro- and Saddam-loving Hugo Chavez over President Bush, even commenting that Chavez was elected more democratically than GW. Strangely, Kinsley neglects to mention the unsuccessful coup attempt Chavez led a decade ago, or the peaceful protestors he ordered shot at a little over a week ago, or his silencing of the media.

These are just the major horrors of his brief column. One must certainly give Mr. Kinsley some credit : He has a real knack for filling such a small space with such a mammoth amount of shit.