IN THE BUNKER TONIGHT

THE LATEST POLL numbers are in [story].  The way this White House responds, you would think Eva Braun just told Hitler the war could still be won on May 1, 1945.  May Godwin strike me dead, an odor from the bunker wafts from the Weisse Haus um White House.  Captain, there are icebergs ahead.  Social Security, Katrina, Iraq and now Miers?  Damn the icebergs.  It's full speed ahead.

CRASH! Previously accused of staging photo op events, a day after the disastrous Today show interview meltdown, the White House stages a "conversation with the troops." [story] [White House transcript] PLUS [Press Briefing: McClellan's Woeful Wiggling]
 

THE HERETIK ASKS how sad and pathetic is this?  NTodd says: 

If there was one thing we used to be able to count on, it was the stagecraft.  I guess not only is Bush hitting the sauce, but so's Rove and the rest of the gang. I would cheer about that if it didn't mean this nation's sinking further into the depths of hell.

BLONDESENSE LIZ picks up on the vicious vibe: 

It seemed so staged and so bogus that it made me ill and very squeamish. It also made me feel rather hopeless because today's so called "media" would even air this nazi-esque propaganda.

MOVING THE SCRIPT ALONG [Think Progress] Pentagon communications aide Allison Barber “insisted the questions were not rehearsed. The military had been told ahead of time only about topics the president might want to talk about, not specific questions. ‘We just knew broad themes,’ Barber said.” Yet reporters could clearly hear White House handlers, including Barber herself, prepping the troopsfor President Bush’s photo-op 

THE FIRST INTERACTION between Bush and the troops, who turned out to be mostly officers seems studied by the way.

Bush:  . . . . By the way, you're in Tikrit, as I understand it, as well. It's kind of an interesting place to be. It's Saddam's old stomping grounds.

CAPTAIN KENNEDY: Good morning, Mr. President, from Tikrit. I'm Captain Brent Kennedy. To my right is Sergeant Major Akeel from the 5th Iraqi Army Division. We're working together here with the Iraqis in Task Force Liberty for the upcoming referendum. We're surging an operation, called Operation Saratoga, that includes the securing of over 1,250 polling sites. We're working right alongside with the Iraqis as they lead the way in securing these sites.

SURGING, alongside, securing.  Script accomplished.

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[Denim-Blue]

Don't forget what may be the biggest iceburg of all - H5N1.