A REAL DUD

QUESTIONS NOW RISE whether George Bush was serious about bombing Al Jazeera.  The two sources cited in the Daily Mirror story offered opposing views.  One says Bush was "humorous, not serious," while the other said, "Bush was deadly serious."  Black humor is not a source of laughter for the source of the leak who was arrested for violating Britain’s Official Secrets Act. What a joke!  The British have threatened a legal gag on newspapers that reveal yet more.  The White House finds no humor in any of this. There will be no ha, ha in high places once the clown in chief has left the stage.

THE WASHINGTON POST has the latest rip.

In Washington, a senior diplomat said the Bush remark as recounted in the newspaper "sounds like one of the president's one-liners that is meant as a joke." But, the diplomat said, "it was foolish for someone to write it down, and now it will be a story for days."

HA, HA IS where you hear it these days. Was Bush’s joke a dud?  Was the interpretation of what he meant a dud?  If it was a “joke” as the diplomat says and it was foolish for someone to put it down on paper, why don’t people point out it was foolish for Bush to make the joke in the first place?  That’s why this “foolish” bit will be a story for days.    Bush is not to blame.  He just needs better comedy writers. 

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BOMB AL JAZEERA? Not a bad idea!  Who didn’t want to?

BUT SERIOUSLY, FOLKS [The Next Hurrah] But when it comes to a President with no credibility, any rumor, sourced gossip or other story that enforces the current narrative is likely to get play.
And you thought you had heard every conspiracy theory ever conceived? Just wait. And the scary part is one or two of them will turn out to be true.

PLUS eRobin at Factesque wonders. Also: right place, wrong time.  Regrets?  I've had a few. Kurtz in the WaPo: I'm sorry, it just doesn't add up