Portillo on Phillips on Bush
Michael Portillo is normally at pains to be nice to everyone but if even he, it would seem has his limits. Here he is losing it reviewing Kevin Phillips (no relation to Watford's finest)'s "biography" of the Bushes:
Then there's history of a different kind. Painstaking research has failed to reveal whether a Bush ancestor, George Walker, was acquainted with Joseph Stalin, Leon Trotsky or Heinrich Himmler, but undaunted by such a gap in our knowledge Phillips happily trumpets that even if Walker didn't know them, "he certainly had plenty of friends who did".
Which I think is rather encouraging. It is one of the phenomena of our age that the left has simply given up trying to make an argument. Just about all they seem to do is to indulge in character assassination, not even (as this case illustrates) very good character assassination.
They're finished and they know it.
Trackbacks
Tenuous
I'm not a Portillista, but his review of Kevin Phillips's book on the Bush family looks worth a read:Then there's history of a different kind. Painstaking research has failed to reveal whether a Bush ancestor, George Walker, was acquainted with...
au currant: politics, media & lowbrow culture on February 16, 2004
Comments