WTF Is It Now?!?

'Top Goon' spectacle on USS Abraham Lincoln used to overshadow jobless report released the next day
'While the press was having a feeding frenzy over Bush's day of playing pilot and "commander-in-chief" aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln to a captive audience, the presstitutes somehow "overlooked" the fact that the latest stats on America's job situation were released. It turns out April layoffs had skyrocketed - up a whopping 71%, and that the jobless rate had hit the highest point in 20 years: 6.0%. That aircraft carrier stunt was nicely timed, eh?' - link (thanks to democrats.com).




Explanation for Reznit Ramjet's carrier landing altered yet AGAIN
'White House officials had said, both before and after Bush's landing in a Navy S-3B Viking jet, that he took the plane solely to avoid inconveniencing the sailors, who were returning home after a deployment of nearly 10 months. The officials said that Bush decided not to wait until the ship was in helicopter range to avoid delaying the troops' homecoming.

'But instead of the carrier being hundreds of miles offshore, as aides had said it would be, the Lincoln was only about 30 miles from the coast when Bush made his landing. Navy officers slowed and turned the ship when land became visible.

Bush wanted "to see an aircraft landing the same way that the pilots saw an aircraft landing," WH spokes-tool Ari 'the Liar' Fleischer said yesterday.

Citing Fleischer's revised explanation, Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.) wrote to the General Accounting Office to ask for a "full accounting" of the cost of the trip. - link.