That’s Mr. Bubble to you: Maureen Dowd captures the very bubble-iciousness of our president’s abject unawareness that he’s cut off from the real world:
“This says you’re in a bubble,” [NBC News anchor Brian Williams] told W. “You have a very small circle of advisers now. Is that true? Do you feel in a bubble?”
“No, I don’t feel in a bubble,” Bubble Boy replied, unable to see the bubble because he’s in it. “I feel like I’m getting really good advice from very capable people and that people from all walks of life have informed me and informed those who advise me.” He added, “I’m very aware of what’s going on.”
He swiftly contradicted himself by admitting that “this is the first time I’m seeing this magazine” – his version of his dad’s Newsweek “Wimp Factor” cover – and that he doesn’t read newsmagazines…
Brian struggled to learn whether W. read anything except one-page memos. Talking about his mom, Bubble Boy returned to the idea of the bubble: “If I’m in a bubble, well, if there is such thing as a bubble, she’s the one who can penetrate it.”
“I’ll tell the guys at Newsweek,” the anchor said impishly.
“Is that who put the bubble story?” W. asked. First he didn’t know about it, and now he’s forgotten it already? That’s the alluring, memory-cleansing beauty of the bubble.
The bubble is inside his head…Nothing there.