Cult worship

Glenn Greenwald wrote yesterday about elements on the right wing who decry the “cult worship” afforded Barack Obama by his supporters while conveniently forgetting their own puerile idolatry:

Listening to this objection from the right-wing movement is the ultimate irony. There has not been a political figure in a long, long time who was revered, worshiped and transformed into a grotesque Icon of Transcendent Greatness the way the Commander-in-Chief, George W. Bush, has been. For years and years, the Right sustained itself as little more than a glorified Cult of Personality around the Great, Conquering War Hero.

Indeed, the elevation of Bush to Superhero-in Chief has been all but officially sanctioned, as made evident by an entertaining bit of agitprop created by the Republican National Committee during the Great Social Security Wars. While you won’t find it now on the RNC site - the GOP has removed it for the sake of currency, or perhaps out of sheer embarrassment - the memory of the Interwebs is long indeed.

What’s that up in the sky? It’s a bird! It’s plane! No…

…it’s Super Bush!

That is literally made of awe-some.

More documentation of excess reverence for The Decider at Greenwald’s site.