Source: www.theatlantic.com - Monday, April 06, 2015
Jeb Bush with his wife Columba in 2002 (Reuters) The parsimonious explanation of Jeb Bush’s self-identification as “Hispanic” on a 2009 voter form is the explanation he offered himself: a simple My mistake! Don’t think I’ve fooled anyone! RT @JebBushJr LOL - come on dad, think you checked the wrong box #HonoraryLatino — Jeb Bush (@JebBush) April 6, 2015 ">slip of the pen, a clerical error whose only effect was to skew a government statistic by many zeros past the decimal point. Another ridiculous non-story, right? Well, maybe not quite. Reporters who spend a lot of time with candidates often accumulate impressions of those candidates that they cannot convey within the norms and conventions of political reporting. You can’t just assert that a candidate is unintelligent, or a habitual liar, or casual with taxpayer money, or a phony consciously building a false image of themselves for political advantage. And oftentimes the proofs of those impressions are tedious, or complicated, or furiously denied by the campaigns’ publicists. And then a story will materialize that’s unimportant in itself—and maybe even exaggerated or unfair—yet which somehow enables the public to see what the reporter sees: Sarah Palin mangling the details of Paul Revere’s ride, Hillary Clinton’s little fib that she carried only one email device, Chris Christie overstepping guidelines on hotel costs, John Edwards’ $400 haircut. Do you remember the details of the
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Jeb Bush with his wife Columba in 2002 (Reuters) The parsimonious explanation of Jeb Bush’s self-identification as “Hispanic” on a 2009 voter form is the explanation he offered himself: a simple My mistake! Don’t think I’ve fooled anyone! RT @JebBushJr LOL - come on dad, think you checked the wrong box #HonoraryLatino — Jeb Bush (@JebBush) April 6, 2015 ">slip of the pen, a clerical error whose only effect was to skew a government statistic by many zeros past the decimal point. Another ridiculous non-story, right? Well, maybe not quite. Reporters who spend a lot of time with candidates often accumulate impressions of those candidates that they cannot convey within the norms and conventions of political reporting. You can’t just assert that a candidate is unintelligent, or a habitual liar, or casual with taxpayer money, or a phony consciously building a false image of themselves for political advantage. And oftentimes the proofs of those impressions are tedious, or complicated, or furiously denied by the campaigns’ publicists. And then a story will materialize that’s unimportant in itself—and maybe even exaggerated or unfair—yet which somehow enables the public to see what the reporter sees: Sarah Palin mangling the details of Paul Revere’s ride, Hillary Clinton’s little fib that she carried only one email device, Chris Christie overstepping guidelines on hotel costs, John Edwards’ $400 haircut. Do you remember the details of the
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