Typical Bush event audience member
-Today's WTF?-
A snippet from Reuter's press digest for Turkey gives us this, from Turkey's Hurriyet newspaper, "God saves 3,000 people at the wedding ceremony of President Abdullah Gul's daughter. The paper says the roof of the building where the ceremony took place could have collapsed."
So it could've collapsed -- presumably because of heavy rains in the region -- but it didn't, so God saved them... Or something... I guess...
In related news, God saved me today when a meteor didn't land on my head, when my stove didn't explode, and when I wasn't hit by a car crossing the street. Praised be Merciful God. (Reuters)
-More WTF?-
The New York Times is reporting that the White House is scheduling more and more events with friendly, pre-screened audiences as his numbers slip farther and farther in the polls.
Wait, did I say "friendly?" I meant "fawningly sycophantic."
At a recent event, one audience member praised Bush "on your steadfastness and your faith." Another said, "Thank you for being my president for the last seven years."
It's not surprising that the White House would try to make Bush seem one helluva lot more popular than he is. No, what's surprising is that you can still fill a hall in the US with people who are not only willing, but eager to kiss his ass. You wouldn't think there were that many people who've just awakened from a 6 or 7 year coma in any given region at any given time. (NYT)
-[Icky] headline of the day-
"Michelle Malkin Quits O'Reilly After Nasty Three-Way." Yeah, I posted it yesterday, but this headline put the image of a Malkin/O'Reilly/Rivera three-way in my head and I ain't gonna suffer alone... (NYMag)
