Date: 2008-06-10 21:15 (UTC)
I will never, ever forget an interview I read in Marie Claire when George W. Bush was running for President the first time. The interviewer asked him his opinion on the Taliban, and no joke, he replied, "I don't watch HBO." He thought it was a TV show. She explained that it was a regime in Afghanistan that systematically oppresses women, and he was like, "Oh."

He sure learned about them fast on September 11. I remember being dumbfounded, though, when he was all, "We have to invade Afghanistan because the Taliban is our biggest enemy," and all I could think about was, "You'd never even heard of them this time last year. A reporter for a fashion magazine had to tell you who they are."
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