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Speech-less: Tales of a White House Survivor
- Crown
- 2009-09-22
- 10962Rank
- $26.00
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Matt Latimer was a speech writer for Bush and Rumsfield. The first third of the book is a very dull recounting of his early life. After that he covers pathetic anecdotes and tales from his days in the Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld administration. Latimer has a typically egocentric Republican world view. He can witness events like the the war and bloodshed in Iraq, a mismanaged Afghan war, the onslaught of hurricane Katrina, or the financial melt down and does not once consider the suffering of people affected by these tragedies spawned by, ignored, or made worse by his boss and the rubber stamp Republican Congress. As a self centered narcissist he instead whines incessantly about the fools he works with and contemplates how he can get more out of life for himself. He has the emotional and intellectual inclinations of an immature 13 year old. His references for life come from TV shows or movies, not history, philosophy or literature. Don't speech writers have some deeper understanding of life than network television? As the country and the Republican party sink into the morass Latimer never once considers that the intensely partisan, tax cutting, deregulating, fear mongering, war starting mentality that the GOP has sworn by might be a source for the profusion of crises and calamities. He must instead assume that things just fall apart for no reason, and it was just bad luck the sociopathic halfwit George W. Bush managed to rise to the top of the party, and wind up as President.
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