After re-listening to Scott’s interview with Andrew Cockburn i thought i would make a little youtube clip of the part where they discuss Bush not knowing what a neo-con was until he asked his Dad in august of 06.

RawStory: Topping Nixon, Bush disapproval soars to highest level ever recorded in Gallup poll

For the first time, George W. Bush has surpassed Richard M. Nixon in unpopularity in the Gallup Poll, receiving the highest “strongly disapprove” rating for a president in Gallup’s history.

The little noticed statistic — publicly noted on Gallup’s poll writeup — made a single headline in Google News. The story, at Editor and Publisher, was titled “GALLUP: Bush Finally Tops Nixon — In Unpopularity — As Call for Iraq Pullout Hits New Peak.”

Gallup details Bush’s falling numbers in a series of graphs that appear below. They note that Bush’s “strongly disapprove” rating is the highest Gallup has ever measured for a US president, though the category is not polled in every survey.

Where were ya’ll in 2000 and ‘04…?

Via The Other Scott Horton:

New York Times, “Branding Rite Laid to Yale University,” Nov. 8, 1967

NEW HAVEN, Nov. 7–A Yale fraternity accused by the student newspaper of burning its initiates with a brand will have its fate decided Friday by student fraternity leaders.

The fraternity, Delta Kappa Epsilon, could face the temporary closure of its house and a $1,000 fine resulting from alleged violations of rules previously passed by the Inter-Fraternity Council, which consists of Yale’s five fraternity presidents.

The charges against Delta Kappa Epsilon were made last Friday in a Yale Daily News article that accused campus fraternities of carrying on “sadistic and obscene” initiation procedures.

The charge that has caused the most controversy on the Yale campus is that Delta Kappa Epsilon applied a “hot branding iron” to the small of the back of its 40 new members in ceremonies two weeks ago. A photograph showing a scab in the shape of the Greek letter Delta, approximately a half inch wide, appeared with the article.

A former president of Delta said that the branding is done with a hot coathanger. But the former president, George Bush, a Yale senior, said that the resulting wound is “only a cigarette burn.”