Walter C. Uhler writes:"Whenever I hear President Bush tell another lie (or read that he has told another lie) I'm reminded of the Liar-in-Chief's former professor at the Harvard Business School, Yoshi Tsurumi, and his spot-on recollection of this president's punk past. According to Professor Tsurumi, Bush 'showed pathological lying habits and was in denial when challenged on his prejudices and biases. He would even deny saying something he just said 30 seconds ago. He was famous for that. Students jumped on him; I challenged him.' [Mary Jacoby, 'The Dunce,' Salon.com, 16 September 2004]
Tsurumi concluded: 'Behind his smile and his smirk...he was a very insecure, cunning and vengeful guy.' 'He was just badly brought up, with no discipline, and no compassion.' [Ibid] In conservative Lebanon, Pennsylvania, where I grew up during the 1950s and 1960s, such people were called 'punks.'
Perhaps, it's fair to say that the world would be a much better and safer place if America's mainstream news media had challenged Bush as much as Professor Tsurumi and his classmates did...."
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