By Steve Hynd
You may remember that back at the beginning of the month, George W. Bush told Matt Lauer all about how his crazy Mom had shown him her miscarried foetus, which she kept in a jar. Well, now Barbara is blaming the housekeeper.
In an interview with CNN's Larry King that aired Monday, the former First Lady said that her son's memory may have "dimmed" because she never put her fetus in a jar.
"George discloses something very personal about you, which he says you gave him special permission to write about," noted King. "He wrote that when you once had a miscarriage, you showed him the fetus in the jar."
"Paula put it in the jar," Bush replied. "And I was shocked when she gave it to him to -- but, you know, memories dim a little bit."
Paula Rendon is the Bush family's longtime housekeeper.
Yeah, "memories dim a little" and Dubya isn't legendary for his mental acumen - but on this one I believe George. Nothing's going to stick in your memory quite like the trauma of your Mom holding up the tiny thing that might have been a younger brother or sister.
I could wax lyrical about the sociopathy this episode reveals and how such mental illnesses tend to travel in families. Or about how Babs the member of a privileged, dynastic elite blaming the poor worker who has been faithful for so many years is an elegant allegory for all that is disfunctional in the yawning gap between the super-rich and the rest of us in America today.
But, heh, I'm guessing you can fill in the gaps yourselves.
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