Given that the Idol format is used in many countries around the world, each branded with their respective national names (i.e., Canadian Idol, Indonesian Idol, etc.) and using a similar format, how does the argument fly that a British export is not just quintessentially American, but quintessentially Bushian? Maybe you've got it backwards, and Bush is simply the quintessential leader of the cultural moment, of Idol-age America.









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