Hand-picked? What makes you think Bush’s audiences are hand-picked?

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From today’s LAT, in an article headlined Unscripted Moment Over "Brokeback":

The audience applauded, even though it was not clear what Bush meant.

That’s the sort of thing you do for a baby making its first words, not the President of the United States.

Then again, things are pretty far gone if the Chimpalissimo even having one unscripted public moment is itself a headline.

UPDATE: Ten minutes later, still enjoying it.  Man, what a revealing sentence, about pretty much everything in the last few years.

The audience applauded, even though it was not clear what Bush meant.

If I were a teenager forming a band, that would be my band’s new name.  I think that’ll have to be the site’s new slogan when I get time.  Maybe some T-shirts, too.  Man.

I won’t have time for the next week or so — book frenzy, third draft, has arrived — so things will be a little thin here again for a bit.  But

The audience applauded, even though it was not clear what Bush meant.

is gonna make me smile every time I think about it for a good while.