Posted by Andrew Zajac at 6:26 p.m. CST
A public relations newswire thoughtfully strung together a list of 62 professors, consultants, authors and other ‘expert’ types to instantly parse and analyze tonight’s State of the Union speech for frantic, deadline-scraping reporters. This entrant stood out for contrarian candor:
WILLIAM GROVER, political scientist at SAINT MICHAEL’S COLLEGE and author of “The President as Prisoner”: “The 2006 State of the Union requires a presidential spectacle beyond the gravest fears of Orwell. The president needs to achieve a stratospheric level of deception and willful neglect of the obvious sufficient to avoid the stark reality of how tattered our democracy has become. To even turn on the TV set will require something approaching an act of depravity, necessitating as it would a measure of complicity with moral and political decay that should make all Americans shudder. Do something patriotic; don’t watch. Instead, read the Constitution.”
