The prodigy du jour is Teresa Heinz-Kerry’s misstatement that Laura Bush had never held a real job, painting a picture of the First Lady as a pampered dilettante. Various Bush surrogates have indignantly criticized a Kerry campaign that will say anything for political advantage. This tempest in a teapot has a lot more legs than I would have given it credit for—it lead off GMA’s news coverage this morning.
The story doesn’t particularly interest me and I don’t have much to contribute to it.
However, your definition for the day is Freudian projection:
“Attributing one’s own undesirable traits to other people or agencies, e.g., an aggressive man accuses other people of being hostile.”
Very interesting insight. I think there’s some truth to that term, Freudian projection. It certainly seems to work when applied to George W. Bush.