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Mockery is also used to create confusion. Each of the books on Bushisms published during the 2000 and 2004 election campaigns was a subtle blend of gaffes and digs. The gaffes were just verbatim transcripts of the sort of error any politician makes when replying too quickly to a reporter's question. "One of my concerns is that the health care not be as good as it can possibly be." (Obviously by ''not be'' he meant ''is not'') There is no reason to collect and show these for one politician while never showing the same kind of error made by another politician, unless you are trying to make the '''false point''' that your candidate is infallible and your opponent is incompetent. The digs were grammatically correct statements of fact, which the author of the book simply disagree with. The point of including them among the malapropisms and slips of the tongue is to insinuate that these statements were indications of incompetence. Actually, they only reveal the prejudice of the author.

Mockery is also used to create confusion. Each of the books on Bushisms published during the 2000 and 2004 election campaigns was a subtle blend of gaffes and digs. The gaffes were just verbatim transcripts of the sort of error any politician makes when replying too quickly to a reporter's question. "One of my concerns is that the health care not be as good as it can possibly be." (Obviously by ''not be'' he meant ''is not'') There is no reason to collect and show these for one politician while never showing the same kind of error made by another politician, unless you are trying to make the '''false point''' that your candidate is infallible and your opponent is incompetent. The digs were grammatically correct statements of fact, which the author of the book simply disagree with. The point of including them among the malapropisms and slips of the tongue is to insinuate that these statements were indications of incompetence. Actually, they only reveal the prejudice of the author.