Remember the flap over the centerpiece turkey that aWol hoisted for his 2.5 hour photo-op in Baghdad? I know, it seems so long ago... something so small was stagemanaged by Rove to ensure the best possible photographs got back to Bush's sleeping public.
I remembered this incident this morning while listening to NPR on the way to work. Seems Bush has decided to rescind steel tariffs just a month after they were ruled illegal by the WTO. It would seem a simple enough matter to rescind the tariffs and let the country know that it was done with the best interests of the entire country in mind - and then lay out those reasons and interests, right?
Wrong.
Poor Scott Card gets sent out to the press pool with (supposedly) aWol's words on paper; the tariffs were rescinded because they'd done their stated purpose and now all is well with the steel industry. Thank you very much, vote for me in Ohio!
This administration has to put some kind of spin on everything they do. No statement can contain the complete truth. No utterance can be taken at face value. Not the small turkey, nor the large.
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