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Hollywood's Sneak Attack on George W.
Timothy Noah
Posted Monday, Feb. 21, 2000, at 11:01 a.m.
The "Who's Who" column in the January-February issue of the
Washington Monthly [http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/]
contains an intriguing gossip item about a note recently sent
out from the command center of Skull & Bones, the
mysterious, allegedly powerful, and unquestionably ridiculous
secret society at Yale that George W. Bush belongs to. The
gossip item, sadly, is not available online, but here is what
the note said: In view of the political happenings in the
barbarian world, I feel compelled to remind all of the
tradition of privacy and confidentiality essential to the
well being of our Order and strongly urge stout resistance to
the seductions and blandishments of the Fourth Estate.
The Monthly translates this as "Don't tattle on W.," but
Chatterbox suspects the note may have been sent out in
response to a very specific threat to Bones' presidential
candidate: The March 31 release of a new movie called The
Skulls [http://www.theskulls.net/] ("a secret society so
powerful it can give you everything you desire ... at a
price"). The movie is obviously a takedown of Skull &
Bones: The Web site's story summary
[http://www.theskulls.net/fs_story.html] makes clear the
setting is an Ivy League college in New Haven, and the
scriptwriter, John Pogue
[http://www.theskulls.net/pogue.html], is a Yalie.
For the Bush camp, the fact that Hollywood is making an
establishment-conspiracy movie about Skull & Bones (many
of whose members, Bush père included, have ended up working
for one of Hollywood's favorite whipping boys, the CIA) is
bad enough. But check out the trailer
[http://www.theskulls.net/fs_media.html], which includes a
scene in which initiates get branded. Chatterbox, not
recalling that Skull & Bones was ever known to go after
initiates with hot pokers, queried Ron Rosenbaum, a Bush
classmate at Yale who wrote a memorable piece about Skull
& Bones two decades ago in Esquire. (It's reprinted in
his collection Travels With Dr. Death
[http://www.bibliofind.com/cgi-bin/texis.exe/s/search/search.html?dealerid=&qa
uthor=&qtitle=Travels+With+Dr.+Death&qcomments=&minp=&maxp=&daysback=at+any+da
te&SUBMIT1=SEARCH].)
"I never heard branding," Rosenbaum agreed, in connection
with Skull & Bones.
But of course many people, Rosenbaum included, have heard
about branding in connection with George W.'s youthful
exploits in another Yale organization, the Delta Kappa
Epsilon fraternity. Deke's branding rituals were attacked by
the Yale Daily News ("a degrading, sadistic and obscene
process") and then became the subject of a story in the New
York Times that quoted Yale senior and past Deke president
George W. Bush as likening the branding to "a cigarette
burn." Surely this conflation of Bones rituals and Deke
rituals constitutes a deliberate attack on George W.
It's somewhat poignant that George W. should get tagged by
Hollywood as a card-carrying member of the Bones conspiracy,
because, as Nicholas Lemann, who profiled George W. recently
in The New Yorker, points out, George W. is "much more of a
Deke than a Bonesman." Indeed, in First Son
[http://bn.bfast.com/booklink/click?sourceid=412995&ISBN=0812931394],
Bill Minutaglio's biography of George W., the author suggests
that George W.'s membership in Skull & Bones was yet
another case of the hapless and reluctant son doing daddy's
bidding. Minutaglio quotes Robert Reisner, a Deke brother of
George W.'s, recalling that on the eve of Yale's "Tap Night,"
George W. told him that he was thinking seriously about
rejecting the expected invitation to join Bones and instead
joining a less elite (and, from the sound of its name, more
party-hearty) secret society called "Gin & Tonic." But
George W. ended up choosing Skull & Bones over Gin &
Tonic after all. According to an unconfirmed story that
circulated around campus, Minutaglio writes, At 8 p.m. on Tap
Night, at the moment the bells were tolling in Harkness
Tower, there was a knock on George W.'s door at his room in
Davenport. When it opened up, his father, the U.S.
congressman, was standing outside, asking that his first son
do the right thing and join Skull and Bones--become a Good
Man. [Bones literature refers incessantly to becoming a "good
man."]Is it too late to include this scene in The Skulls?
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