From The New York Observer, hey, hey we're the Manques! People say we manque around! The imitative triumph of giddy second-raters can be addictive and definitive! So what if you’re not great—you can always pretend. From Vanity Fair, The Simple Life, White House Edition: From the slapstick genius of his China trip to his spitball contests with the press, Bush has the makings of a major reality-TV star. With some image tweaking, James Wolcott proposes, a 24-hour "Prez Channel" could turn the administration's dismal ratings around; and the Man in the Irony Mask: Stephen Colbert has zinged the cultural establishment with his faux-news hit, rarely breaking out of egomaniacal character. A review of I Am America (And So Can You!) by Stephen Colbert (and more and more).
