Maureen Dowd Redux

A follow up on Maureen's editorial, since there is another very good point. She writes:

[T]he stories this week are breathtaking about the lengths the White House staff had to go to in order to capture Incurious George's attention.

Newsweek reported that the reality of Katrina did not sink in for the president until days after the levees broke, turning New Orleans into a watery grave. It took a virtual intervention of his top aides to make W. watch the news about the worst natural disaster in a century. Dan Bartlett made a DVD of newscasts on the hurricane to show the president on Friday morning as he flew down to the Gulf Coast.

This is unbelievable. Here you have the leader of the free world, the guy in charge of the most powerful and richest country on the planet, who casually and proudly admits not to read newspapers or watch TV.

Now, I think that's moronic, but hey, feel free to stay ignorant. But aren't you in the least curious about knowing something about the worst natural disaster ever to hit your country?! Are you telling me that in those first few days he never even happened to just pass in front of a TV screen and casually glance at the scenes of desperation?

Don't you want to find out how what's happening and how things are going? Even just as a conversation starter for your fundraising dinners. I mean, since everybody knows what's happening down there, maybe you should at least know that something is actually going on.

Incredible. Unconscionable. That's our boy, though. That's Bush's style. Indeed.