April 23, 2008, - 12:32 pm
“Slightly Tyrone-ish”: More Inanity From the Bush Women
By Debbie Schlussel
Despite blind support from far too many conservatives, President Bush–as we know–went out of his way to pursue liberal policies from gazillion dollar spending on failed public schools to amnesty for illegal aliens to the bloated farm bill subsidies for big corporate farms. Throughout, despite his pandering to liberal constituencies, they never voted or supported him, which is why he now has the lowest approval rating of any American president in the last 70 years (when approval ratings were first taken).
The same goes for his liberal immediate family members–with his wife pandering to the inner city crowd (and the Islamist crowd in the Gulf) and his daughter Jenna pandering to the AIDS and UN crowd.
Now, here’s yet another story we can file under the category, “T Minus 8 Months for the Bushies”–another story we can put in the category of “Inanity From the Mouths of (Bush) Babes.”
Jenna Bush: Self-Styled “New Anne Frank” Now “Slightly Tyrone-ish”
When we last saw Jenna Bush, she was comparing herself to Holocaust victim Anne Frank and pushing a book with a teen, unwed mother with AIDS as its heroine.
Now, she and Mommy Bush–whom we last saw donning a hijab in the Saudi Arabia and again in Saudi Arabia–are pushing a book aimed at kids. The main character is a decidedly non-minority-named “Tyrone Brown.” (What–the name, “Lakisha,” wasn’t available?) Nothing objectionable there (other than the deliberate sterotype name). But then there’s this stupidity which Mommy and Daughter Bush uttered at press interviews, pushing the book:
“Jenna’s slightly Tyrone-ish,” said Laura Bush . . . . “We realized in writing that actually ‘she’ is the Tyrone.”
Yep, she looks like a Tyrone to me, too. But not very Lakisha-ish.
Jenna Bush also wants people to know that she liked Maurice Sendak’s “In the Night Kitchen,” because she wanted to be naked like the main character, Mickey, who dived naked into a milk bottle.
Yup, she sure sounds like Anne Frank to me. Or “Tyrone-ish” . . . whatever the heck that means.
It’s a good thing this administration is coming to the end. I really can’t imagine “Vote For Bush–His Daughter’s ‘Slightly Tyrone-ish'” working as a campaign slogan.
Maurice Sendak, I don’t think you have to worry about these new kids’ book “authors” stealing any market share.
Maybe the alcohol has totally jumbled up her mind, such as it is. I also think these nutty comments on the part of the Bush women tell us something about Bush, just like Jeremiah Wright’s long association with Hussein tells us somethng about BO.
c f on April 23, 2008 at 2:32 pm