First Book, First Look
Is Drinker-Turned-Writer Jenna Bush Maybe-Racist?
The New Yorker's Ben McGrath on first daughter Jenna Bush's new book:
She has a weakness for dubious ethnic analogies: "His eyes were wild, like those of the pumas that lived in the jungles," and "A nurse wrapped Beatriz in a blanket—like a burrito."
Fair enough, but then again, it's hard to really blame a girl whose father once said, "I heard somebody say, 'Where's (Nelson) Mandela?' Well, Mandela's dead. Because Saddam killed all the Mandelas."*
*Spoiler: Nelson Mandela's still alive.
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Bush gave the response in answer to a questioner asking where is the Nelson Mandela of Iraq. The answer was meant to indicate that the native heroes who might have saved Iraq were murdered by Saddam's government.
It's tres chic to be snide about Bush but Bush Derangement Syndrome is merely stupid.