After Ellen DeGeneres was spotted socializing with former President George W. Bush at a Dallas Cowboys game on Sunday, a slew of critics had a few important reminders about the optics of normalizing the 43rd president. Namely, that Bush is a president who led the country to war on a false premise, left poor black communities in New Orleans to drown, and more or less prepared the political and cultural soils for the Republican Party that would give us the Trump administration.
DeGeneres has, in the days since, attempted to turn this controversy into a half-baked meditation on acceptance, using hermonologue Tuesday to say that she and Bush are friends, and that their friendship is a testament to the value of kindness.
this socializing may seem harmless, it’s actually part of a broader narrative that’s helped Bush regain some semblance of power and nostalgia in the years since he stepped down.On her show, DeGeneres explained that she and her wife Portia de Rossi were invited to the game by Charlotte Jones, the daughter of Cowboys owner Jerry Jones.
“During the game, they showed a shot of me and George laughing together, and so people were upset,” she continued. “They thought, Why is a gay Hollywood liberal sitting next to a conservative Republican president?” DeGeneres highlighted one tweet she said she “loved” which read, “Ellen and George Bush together makes me have faith in America again.” The audience roared with applause and DeGeneres joined them, nodding: “DeGeneres argued that her friendship with Bush is actually a core part of her personal ethos, which she laid out for the audience:
I’m friends with George Bush. In fact, I’m friends with a lot of people who don’t share the same beliefs that I have. We’re all different, and I think that we’ve forgotten that OK that we’re all different... Just because I don’t agree with someone on everything doesn’t mean I’m not going to be friends with them. When I say be kind to one another, I don’t mean only the people that think the same way that you do, I mean be kind to everyone.
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