Opinion (Rosa Brooks): The Dubya Vinci code

I COULD MAKE nothing of it until I got to the bit about Baby Einstein.

I had understood at once, of course, that the State of the Union address was a coded text. With my extensive knowledge of cryptology — gleaned from tireless study of "The Da Vinci Code" — I knew it had to be in code, hiding some deeper meaning beneath the gibberish on the surface!

Superficially, the State of the Union address was a mass of empty platitudes, with no clear structure or arguments. Hope, success, victory, my fellow Americans … our enemies … evil….

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