In her latest Op-Ed in the New York Times, Maureen Dowd covers Will Ferrell’s “W” on Broadway. The gist of Dowd’s article is the sense of sympathy extended to President Bush, in Will Ferrell’s play, here is an excerpt from Dowd’s article in which she quotes Adam McKay:
“He’s so clearly a neglected 13-year-old that there’s something really kind of heartbreaking about him,” McKay said, calling him “a good-time Charlie” who was “just used his whole life to front questionable business endeavors, and in a way that’s what his presidency was.
“He doesn’t have Cheney’s cartoonish need for power and greed that’s so off the charts you don’t even understand how Cheney got that way. W. may have some awareness, deep down inside, sort of like a petulant teenager who just flunked the trig quiz and knows he screwed up. I think Cheney not only knows but is delighted with everything he did, as is Rumsfeld.”
It’s true that there may be some exoneration of President Bush by the media and public, certainly as Bush’s Presidency ran down the clock there appeared sympathy, from the press. Why might this be the case and what impact, if any it will have on Bush’s legacy?
