Earlier today, President Bush said it was “disgraceful” that the news media (i.e., the New York Times, LA Times & Wall Street Journal) disclosed his secret CIA program to illegally wiretap millions of financial records at the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (”SWIFT”) to search for terrorist suspects.  Likewise, last week, Bush said it was “disgraceful” for Democrats to call for troop withdrawals in Iraq even though Bush was, simultaneously, conducting secret discussions with the Pentagon to do exactly that.  Likewise, several months ago, Bush said it was “disgraceful” that the news media disclosed his secret NSA program to illegally wiretap tens of thousands of American phone conversations.  Likewise, two years ago, Bush said it was “disgraceful” for Cindy Sheehan and others to protest Bush’s invasion of Iraq even though Bush knew (or should have known) his invasion was completely based on fraud.

Do you see a pattern here?  Whenever Bush labels other peoples’ behavior as “disgraceful,” the facts indicate that other peoples’ behavior is entirely appropriate, and that Bush’s own behavior is disgraceful.  Bush is apparently unable to perceive his own faults on a conscious level, but he can’t stop his subconscious mind from perceiving them and resenting them; thus, he projects his faults onto other people so that he can freely criticize his faults without it reflecting badly on himself.

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