Jim Lindgren has a great post today on Slate's Bushism of the Day feature:
You would think that George W. Bush would make enough verbal gaffes that a journalist wouldn't have to try to trick his readers into thinking that Bush is more inarticulate than he is. But Slate, under the direction of Jacob Weisberg, must come up with a Bushism of the Day to feed their feature and the cash cow of calendars and other merchandise catering to Bush-loathers. Eugene [Volokh] has been insightfully covering these over the last year or so.
Accordingly, on days when Bush has made no real mistakes, Slate must squeeze quotations of context or pretend that informal, off-the-cuff speech should look on the page like edited prose.
As they say, go read the whole thing.
