Other Crap

This is funny, David Letterman versus the White House. On Monday, Letterman showed a clip of a kid yawning, fidgeting, and looking at his watch while standing behind the President during a fund-raising speech. The White House responded first that the kid was edited into the speech, then later said that maybe the kid was there, but surely not standing where he was depicted in the tape. On Tuesday, Letterman points out that both of those replies were, plain and simple, "100% lies". Both Letterman clips can be found at this link. What's scary is

• (1) that the White House would bother with such silly crap at all instead of chuckling and moving on. Of course kids think George Bush and John Kerry are a couple of boring twits. I think we know that all kids everywhere are entranced by the sheer mesmerism of Ralph Nader.
• (2) that the White House would not only care, but would tell such blatant lies without even checking the facts first. Force of habit, I guess. This point, of course, assumes that Letterman is not kidding.