Mailer on Bush

"As I once had a character say in a novel," Norman mailer said in a Poynter Institute interview, "you can't stop a man who's never been embarrassed by himself. And that's George W. Bush. He looks upon the language as a tool. It's a good mallet and chisel to cut into the sentimental needs of the American public who come around like hound dogs to certain words like patriotism, America, flag and security. I always say that America is the real religion of this country.

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