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Friday Night Surprise, Thursday Edition: Bush to Attend Opening Ceremony
Since Saturday is the lowest circulation day for Newspapers and the least-watched day for cable and network news, some low-level White House flunky senior White House aide once came up with the brilliant idea of releasing bad or unwanted news on a Friday evening, preferably after the final broadcast of the half-hour-geriatric-product-infomercials charmingly nicknamed “evening news.” This is not, sadly, something that can be blamed on the Bush Administration, as the Clinton White House used to do it as well.
Today, in the intertube era, there are far too many sharp eyes around for the White House to get away with such a move. That’s why it took your humble correspondent only 28 hours to notice the following announcement, released on a Thursday night to take advantage of the three day weekend:
In China, the President looks forward to seeing President Hu and other senior Chinese leaders for discussions on a wide range of issues including the way ahead on North Korean denuclearization. The President and Mrs. Bush will attend the Opening Ceremonies of the Summer Olympic Games on August 8.
Approximately forty-one months ago, our fearless President took the oath of office a second time and used his inaugural address to state boldly that “From the day of our Founding, we have proclaimed that every man and woman on this earth has rights, and dignity, and matchless value….except, of course, the Tibetans, the Uighurs, human rights advocates, Falun Gong practicioners, Christians, and anyone else who gets in the way of my jackbooted rights-crushing pals the ChiComs — you know, the guys who loaned us that nifty little torture manual.”
Okay, I made up that last part. That’s not what our President believes — it’s merely the consequence of his actions.
But hey, the Chinese can’t be all bad — they have Segways too! Maybe the President can join the new synchronized Segway team elite anti-terrorist unit set up by the Chinese government to crush dissent defeat terrorists.
Oh wait, he fell off that Segway, didn’t he? Maybe not.
Photo credits: L: China News Agency. R: Reuters via depresident.com
