Just for the record, George W. Bush is still a terrible, tragically deluded human being

If you and I were to try and pick the single worst moment of the Bush administration, then we’d have our work cut out for us. September 11 would obviously be a major contender, but what about the decision to go into Iraq under false pretenses? Or any one of the many decisions that led the country into its worst economic crisis since the Great Depression? Or the dubious election that set the whole thing in motion in the first place?

And let’s not forget about Hurricane Katrina. The man himself certainly hasn’t; in his upcoming memoir, Bush reportedly claims that Katrina “represented an all-time low” in his presidency.

Well, not Katrina itself. Just the part where Kanye West called him a racist on national television. That, for Bush, was the lowest moment in his career as president.

To be fair, I’ve always felt that Kanye missed the mark when he said “George Bush doesn’t care about black people.” It would have been simpler, and far more accurate, to say that he doesn’t care about other people.

After all, it’s not like he’s a racist. I mean, he’s a privileged, arrogant, willfully ignorant asshole who’s greatest tragedy as a human being is that he will never comprehend the full extent to which human history would have been better off if his very existence had never stained the face of the earth. But it’s not like he’s a racist.

Matt Lauer, God love him, took the time in a recent interview to try and explain to Bush why the American people might be less than sympathetic about the Kanye situation:

“I wonder if some people are going to read that,” he said, “now that you’ve written it, and they might give you some heat for that. And the reason is this-”

“Don’t care,” Bush interrupted.

“Well, here’s the reason,” Lauer persisted. “You’re not saying that the worst moment in your presidency was watching the misery in Louisiana. You’re saying it was when someone insulted you because of that.”

“No,” Bush contends, “and I also make it clear that the misery in Louisiana affected me deeply as well. There’s a lot of tough moments in the book. And it was a disgusting moment, pure and simple.”

So there you go, right? The misery in Louisiana also affected him deeply, in addition to the Kanye thing. So let’s all give the guy a break and not even crack the obvious joke about a man of Bush’s intellectual level claiming that a book has “a lot of tough moments.”

It’s the knee-jerk “Don’t care” that really drives it home, you know? What a pathetic excuse for a man, let alone a former world leader.

Anyway, if you like, you can watch the video of Kanye’s nationally televised tirade. If nothing else, it’s a journey back to a time when Kanye actually made a lot of sense – and when seeing Mike Myers in way over his head was actually a novel experience.

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