Bush viewed the musical "Cats" as modern theater at its finest, Bruni writes, and openly admitted that martial artist Chuck Norris was his favorite film actor.

Cats? Chuck Norris? Oh, the humanity!

The candidate had never heard of actor Leonardo DiCaprio...

Yeah. I wish I'd never heard of him, either.

Bush, who gets generally positive treatment from Bruni in the book, nonetheless comes off in parts as a stranger to America outside his own upper-class WASP background.

JOE WILLIAMS is criticizing George Bush for not reducing himself to mindless, American pop culture. Yet, he's seemingly unaware that it is politically incorrect to use a religiously degrading term, such as WASP, to describe someone. Tsk. Tsk. Perhaps little Joey should ask the president for some advice on cultural sensitivity.