Things Not Enough People Know

We were just having a chat, over at Huffpo, about George Bush’s book, which should be called “Screw All of You All, Those Were My Decisions, and I Agree With Them” and the subject of his decision to quit drinking came up.

Well, my little conspiracy theory on that subject (oh, I’ve got conspiracy theories – I’ve got conspiracy theories up the wazoo) is that he never actually did quit drinking.  This would explain his strange absence in the days after Katrina and, for that matter, after 9/11.  This

Check Out The Disgusted Look on his Daughter's Face, Over his Left Shoulder

would help to explain the Merkel back rub incident, the not being able to find the door incident and the choking on the pretzel incident.  The strongest piece of evidence is in some photos which were taken by the AP at the Beijing Olympics.  They showed up on some sites like Wonkette, I think they were up at Huffpo for a day or two, but the big papers, the major networks, took no notice.  Yet the photos clearly show Bush inebriated.  There are about 7 or 8 photos which give really clear evidence that he was hammered on that day, but I chose this one because I know that expression.  I drank heavily for many years and I can tell you that is the expression of someone who wants to be charming and social and jocular, but their head is spinning and they’re trying real hard not to throw up.  I can empathize with that expression.  That’s me.

So, the point is not that Bush went on a bender.  If Obama had too much to drink at a public event, I’d be surprised but not bothered.  He never made a huge deal out of how he’d given up drinking and turned to Jesus.  Also, if he got caught drinking once, he was probably drinking throughout his administration.  And that is big news.  But not a lot of people know it.

A lot of people don’t know about Building 7, either.  The images of the two towers falling on September 11th is seared into everyone’s memory, and most people, I suspect, have no visual memory of building 7 whatsoever.  It’s pretty common that when people actually watch the footage, they turn into 9/11 Truthers immediately.

A lot of people don’t know that the Beverly Hillbillies, in 1964 or thereabouts, became the first program ever to be canceled despite the fact that it had more viewers than any other program.  That was the year that advertisers got a little bit more sophisticated, and they realized that even though the Clampett’s had millions of adoring fans, those fans weren’t rich.  Poor people liked that show.  Hillbillies.  So, television began down that long slippery, slope that led to Dallas,  Beverly Hills 90210 and Paris Hilton.

I think these are things worth knowing.  That’s why I blog about them.