Late Night Humor from White House Briefing--Froomkin --WaPo

[Demeter]

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From Jon Stewart on "The Daily Show": "There comes a point in every president's career when he has to reassure the people that he isn't the thing that everybody thinks that they are. Richard Nixon famously said 'I am not a crook.' Bill Clinton assured us 'I did not have sex with that woman.'

"What point does this president have to clear up?"

Stewart then played a clip of Bush saying: "Nobody likes to see innocent people die."

Stewart also played this clip from the press conference:

Bush: "You know, I've heard this theory about everything was just fine until we arrived, and kind of 'we're going to stir up the hornet's nest' theory. It just doesn't hold water, as far as I'm concerned. The terrorists attacked us and killed 3,000 of our citizens before we started the freedom agenda in the Middle East."

Cox News Service reporter Ken Herman: "What did Iraq have to do with that?"

Bush: "What did Iraq have to do with what?"

Herman: "The attack on the World Trade Center?"

Bush: "Nothing."

Stewart's coda: "So why did you bring it up?"

[Olney Blue]

1. Brilliant!

[whistle]

2. "So why did you bring it up?" should have been the question that

....Cox News Service reporter Ken Herman should have fired back at Dubya immediately.:wtf: Where are the Dan Rathers of today? :yoiks:

[Surya Gayatri]

3. Oh, Gawd, if only

those "press-gagglers" could think on their feet and riposte with such wit.

Of course, The Chimp controls the agenda by calling (or not) on favorable reporters--but if they're too confrontational & make him look even more stupid, they'll be ignored at the next press party. SG