Friday, May 13, 2005

Bush's Pastoral Bike Ride

Salon has a nice follow-up discussing media coverage of Bush's pastoral bike ride during the Cessna-induced emergency in our nation's capitol (see my initial thoughts).

New and intriguing factoid: The two Secret Service agents who were out jogging with the President knew about the emergency and did not tell him. Thus the subject of Scott McClellan's passive construction - a determination was made that the threat posed no danger to the President - is revealed to be... those two agents!

It's almost enough to make you wonder if they jog around with "I'm with Stupid" T-shirts on.

1 comment:

Steve said...

Also, what I thought was an interesting point brought up was that they felt that Bush wouldn't care that HIS OWN WIFE was being evacuated to a safe area.

This would lead one to believe that George doesn't love his wife.