The Pope is visting Washington, D.C., and President Bush takes him out for an afternoon on the Potomac, cruising on the Presidential yacht, the Sequoia. They're admiring the sights when, all of a sudden, the Pope's hat (zucchetto) blows off his head and out into the water. Secret Service guys start to launch a boat, but President Bush waves them off, saying, "Wait, wait. I'll take care of this. Don't worry." Bush then steps off the yacht onto the surface of the water and walks out to the Holy Father's zucchetto, bends over picks it up, and then walks back to the yacht and climbs aboard. He hands the Pope's zucchetto back to him amid stunned silence.
The next morning, the headlines in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Atlanta Constitution, the Washington Post, the Boston Herald, the Buffalo News, the Houston Chronicle, the Milwaukee Sentinel-Journal, the Minneapolis Tribune, the Denver Post, the Albuquerque Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle all proclaim:
Bush Can't Swim!
Are we liberals really that myopic? If so, it's probably because Bush has poked his finger in our eye a few times too many.
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