I wish media would stop portraying people or ideas in positions of prominence as "idiotic," or "insane," or what-have-you. All that does is drive political age

I wish media would stop portraying people or ideas in positions of prominence as "idiotic," or "insane," or what-have-you. All that does is drive political agendas by dividing people into us and them groups, while discouraging productive dialog. That said, I wonder why, if Bush was as intelligent as this guy claims, he made so many catastrophically bad decisions. Does high intelligence not correlate with the ability to make intelligent decisions? I'm sure Kahneman would have an interesting analysis.