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Friday, October 07, 2005
It's what (blank) would've wanted me to do
Ever notice that when someone is absent -- dead, incapacitated, or otherwise unavailable -- the phrase "It's what some schmo would've wanted me to do" becomes oh-so-popular?
Grandma Phyllis is gone now, but I've got football tickets. Guess I'll have to miss the funeral to go to the game. After all, it's what she would've wanted me to do.
The corollary to this is terrorist manifesto. We do whatever it is the terrorists don't want us to do.
We can't cancel tonight's punk rock tribute to key-tar bands. After all, that's what the terrorists want us to do. They hate our freedom to enjoy up-tempo, heavily distorted covers of ELO tunes.
And so on. Point is, obviously, the power of projection. We know what we want to do -- go to the football game, listen to Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, watch Arrested Development, blow the utility budget on a new bong -- then we justify indulging our desires by seeking refuge behind someone else's desire.
This only works, of course, if the someone else isn't available.
When I read this stuff, I can't help thinking about W going fishing during Bar's funeral:
A senior White House official has denied that the US president, George Bush, said God ordered him to invade Afghanistan and Iraq.
...In the BBC film, a former Palestinian foreign minister, Nabil Shaath, says that Mr Bush told a Palestinian delegation in 2003 that God spoke to him and said: "George, go and fight these terrorists in Afghanistan" and also "George, go and end the tyranny in Iraq".
During a White House press briefing, Mr McClellan said: "No, that's absurd. He's never made such comments."
...However, he said he had checked into the claims and "I stand by what I just said".
I like the last part, too. You're recall McClellan check with Rove and Libby a couple of years ago and assured us all that they had nothing to do with the Plame leak. I wonder how long this denial will remain operable?
