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I saw a link on Boing Boing to the new Bushisms DVD and thought it sounded likely to be pretty funny, so I ordered one. I’m underwhelmed.

It is a bit unfair to pick on people for occasionally misspeaking. As anyone who has lived in a dorm room, or worked in a lab or office, in which someone kept a ‘quote board’ with everything everyone there has said that didn’t come out right knows, we all sometimes have trouble getting the words out correctly. Bush does seem to be an especially prolific source of mangled syntax and garbled words. He grew up listening to his father, after all. So often we see him leaning against the lectern in that oddly casual way he has, struggling to get some sort of thought out. Fair or not, this could be entertaining, I thought.

The problem is they seem to have about fifteen minutes of material but apparently were told that they needed to make the DVD an hour long so that people would feel they were getting a good value. There is too much time spent talking about what George tried to say. Though TV is a lousy medium for comic strips, they tediously show a few Doonesbury strips anyway. The George W. Bush Singers set a few of his stranger statements to music, but they didn’t really write songs, they just sing the same mangled W. bits over and over. Tom Smith could do far better in five minutes. Honestly, “food on your family” was pretty funny the first time, but at times this seems like the Food On Your Family DVD. I don’t think it’s worth the time or money.