REPORTER: At the Annapolis Summit, you used your influence to get Saudi Arabia to the table, but i wonder now if you will use your influence to do something about the Saudi rape case that has gotten so much internation attention.

what goes through your mind when you hear about a 19 year old saudi woman getting gangraped by seven men and basically a Saudi court blames the victim and sentenced her to 200 lashes?

You spoke to King Abdullah by telephone the last couple weeks, did you press him on this case, and if so what did you say?

And if not, are you giving him a pass?

[Bush's initial reaction to the question about gangrape and injustice.]

[The Bush thing seriouses up its face, because cameras are on.]

"My first thoughts, ah, were these: What happens if this happened to my daughter?"

[Bush imagines.]

"How would i react? And um, I would have been, um, I would have been, I'd have, ah, I'd have been very emotional, of course.* I'd have been angry at those who, ah, committed the crime. and i'd be angry at the state that didn't support the victim. and our feelings were expressed by Dana Perino. From the podium."

Q: But did you press King Abdullah about it personally?

BUSH: Ah, I talked to King Abdullah about the Middle Eastern Peace, I , uh, don't remember if that subject came up.

Q: But is that important to you? Why wouldn't you bring it, at that level, bring it up personally to King Abdullah?

BUSH reacts:

—CNN video, here

Let's keep the true nature of the Bush-thing in our minds as he talks to a television camera tonight. Let's remember him mocking the soon-to-be electrocuted as they plead for life. Let's remember his idea of the vast suffering and pain and injury and sorrow that is his trademark accomplishment—the Iraq invasion and occupation—is that it is but a spindly and inconsequential punctuation mark in the great annals of his legacy. Let's remember this thing standing before us is the same thing that took great joy in blowing up frogs with firecrackers and that never outgrew the sick glee. Let us write down and remember that this creature only stutters and stammers when asked to experience genuing compassion or empathy, but gets very determined and juiced up when discussing and envisioning death and war and rape. Let's remember that this visionary has introduced an age of eternal terror and fear and war.

This "bush"-entity is the sickest being I've been forced to witness for a very long time. But I don't think its story is over. No, I think we're barely into the third act. And I'm watching this one all the way through.

Just not the State of the Union. Not watching that piece of smegmavision. As the Decider has said, you just shouldn't pay attention to every little aberration on ya screen.

*Bush talking about how if his daughters were gangraped (complete with the fake-thoughtful expression) he would be very "emotional" "of course" reminds me SO much of American Psycho, where the madness of the character really comes through because Bret Easton Ellis has the narrator try to emptily convince himself that he is real, that he does have feelings. After you watch him gut a homeless person for no reason.

Happy memories: another sunny moment for The Deciderer.