The Guardian runs a silly piece by John Mullan on Bush's decision to read Camus.
All this is disturbing proof that George W is not the weird being that we had all liked to suppose. A few months ago, Camus' novel came top in a poll conducted for G2 among male Guardian-reading types, who were asked what book had most influenced them. The Outsider beat off JD Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye and Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five to claim the distinction of the book most likely to have changed their lives. Oh dear. Perhaps, chaps, George is one of us.
Let's see. This is the Guardian, which today runs a typical David Hirst column, which is summed up like all the others as "I hate Israel and they should all die." It also has a piece by John Harris with praise for the CND, of all people (and some "I have Israel" bigotry thrown in). This is the stuff of Guardian readers. Perhaps Bush is simply trying to get a better grip on the threat within, a mix of active supporters of terrorism and the kind of people who think Neville Chamberlain's performance at Munich was a role model.Posted by sjostrom on August 17, 2006 08:30 AM
