Slate staff writer Ruth Graham doesn’t want anyone to “spend” their “emotional energy” on the late former President George H. W. Bush’s service dog, Sully,…
Slate staff writer Ruth Graham doesn’t want anyone to “spend” their “emotional energy” on the late former President George H. W. Bush’s service dog, Sully, and she wrote an entire article stating just that.
The day after a picture posted by Bush spokesman Jim McGrath of Sully lying in front of his master’s casket went viral on social media, Graham posted an article to Slate titled, “Don’t Spend Your Emotional Energy on Sully H. W. Bush.” It even helpfully included the subheader: “He’s a service dog who had been with the president for six months, not his lifelong companion.”
Mission complete. #Remembering41 pic.twitter.com/rXdyXAS4lk
— Jim McGrath (@jgm41) December 3,2018
Graham began her piece by comparing Sully to his human namesake, the pilot – Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger – who famously landed his troubled airplane in the Hudson River in 2009.
“Almost 10 years later, a dog named for the pilot has become a beloved ‘hero’ in his own right, and he did it for something much simpler: lying down.” (RELATED: Slate Claims Trump Doesn’t Use Computers — Prove Themselves Wrong With Just One Tweet)
Former President George H. W. Bush’s service dog Sully is seen at a departure ceremony during which the former president’s casket was put on the Special Air Mission 41 plane at Ellington Field Joint Reserve Base in Houston, Texas, U.
