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August 22, 2005

Tongue-twister

In the Aug. 22 New Yorker, Hendrick Hertzberg takes a rip at President Bush's statement that intelligent design should be taught in public schools. I’m a member of the choir Hertzberg is preaching to, but I doubt his Menckenesque scorn will persuade anyone who isn’t.

What intrigued me was his decision to quote Bush word-for-word on the subject. On Aug. 1, the president had a roundtable with Texas reporters in which he was asked whether both evolution and intelligent design should be taught in public schools:

Bush: “I think – as I said, harking back to my days as my governor – both you and Herman are doing a fine job of dragging me back to the past. Then, I said that, first of all, that decision should be made by local school districts, but I felt like both sides ought to be properly taught.”

Reporter: “Both sides should be properly taught?”

Bush: “Yes, people – so people can understand what the debate is about.”

Reporter: “So the answer accepts the validity of intelligent design as an alternative to evolution?”

Bush: “I think that part of education is to expose people to different schools of thought, and I’m not suggesting – you’re asking me whether or not people ought to be exposed to different ideas, and the answer is yes.”

Of course, the president is quoted all the time. But the tendency in journalism is to use bits and pieces of speech, helping any speaker say what he means without sounding as fumbling as most of us do from time to time.

The Associated Press story on this exchange quoted Bush this way: “I think that part of education is to expose people to different schools of thought. You’re asking me whether or not people ought to be exposed to different ideas, the answer is yes.”

In the actual exchange, the president first misspeaks, saying, “harking back to my days as my governor.” In the final answer, he seems to realize mid-sentence that he wants to evade the actual question – are intelligent design and evolution both valid scientific theories? – yet give a definitive response. The result is a convoluted statement.

So was Hertzberg being unfair in quoting Bush verbatim?

I don’t think so. He’s writing an opinion piece, not a news story. And how Bush said what he said is important here. This is a politician groping to please a particular constituency, not a man giving an honest, thoughtful answer.

Posted by Mike Pride at August 22, 2005 05:52 PM

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