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On Letterman, they regularly use footage of Osama Bin Laden speaking into a microphone and saying whatever gag works at the time--mattress sales, birthday wishes, etc. And they always end the bit with Bin Laden noting "...oh, and Death To America."

I was thinking about this while reading the latest LA Weekly. Here's the last line from Ella Taylor's squib on Horton Hears A Who: "Hang in, though, for the extravagantly operatic finale, whose plea for mutual understanding was written during the Cold War, yet ought to be graffiti’d on every door in the West Wing." Here's a line from Robert Abele's review of the John Adams mini-series: "Adams famously said, 'Facts are stubborn things.' (Which could be the title of a biography of our current president.)"

I realize they both live lives where failure to hate Bush could cause trouble, but still, dragging in by the heels these sort of mindless attacks should be an embarrassment to them and their editors. So I have a suggestion. Instead of proving their anti-Bush bona fides with the formula "here's something bad in the movie, just like Bush" or "here's something nice in the movie, unlike Bush," let me just suggest that the Weekly, and hundreds of other publications like it, append each article with "Bush Sucks" in case they're afraid we don't know where they stand.