Brian Beutler has a theory:
"George Bush befriends Alberto Gonzales years ago and starts calling him "Al" (you know... in that semi-Texan drawl he's so loathed in the north east for faking). Time passes until one day, in the presence of refined company, George Bush is forced to refer to his friend by his full name. Except that by now he's entirely forgotten which Hispanic name starting with the letters "Al" actually belongs to Gonzales. He does a bit of eeny meeny miny moe and settles on Alfredo. He's wrong. Everybody laughs at George Bush, including George Bush. And from that moment forward the man who would one day become America's worst president refers as "Fredo" to the man who would one day desecrate the office of Attorney General."So he didn't really name him after the biggest wuss in the history of American cinema?
Reminds me of my old theory that the reason Bush's "16 words" included "Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa," was because if the speech had included "Niger" instead of "Africa," Bush might have mis-read and said, uh, a different word that sounds sort of like "Niger."
Posted by Stephen Silver at August 28, 2007 05:18 PM