When NBC News assigned Alexandra Pelosi to cover Texas Governor George W. Bush’s presidential campaign, she decided to take her video camera along. Together with a pack of fellow journalists, she is led from one phoney photo op to another, in chartered planes and buses, to feed the media machine’s insatiable appetite for US election trivia. Pelosi’s handicam footage reveals a totally different reality from that we saw on CNN, and explodes the myth of Bush as a bumbling rancher who blundered his way into office. Instead, he emerges as an astute politician highly adept at manipulating the media and managing public opinion. An eerie, intimate portrait of the man who crowned himself emperor of the free world.