Digby On Bush's Comfortable Comment

Bush to a man in a wheelchair: "You look mighty comfortable"

Digby: There's an interesting simple psychology involved in such things. If someone can coerce those in a group to help him attack a single member they become his accomplices.

For instance, getting everybody in the press corps to laugh at a reporter's baldness makes those reporters part of the president's gang. And, of course, it intimidates them. If they stray, they too will be subject to that kind of public humiliation.

It's the evil fratboy theory of social relations, very primitive stuff.