http://www.fark.com/politics/

We should compare insults sometime…I’m still getting them from when my Meghan diary was linked on Fark :o)

OR BETTER YET JUST BEAM HIM UP SCOTTIE

A couple of stories higher in Sat’s front page, Dan Perrrin writes the story that just made me decide I’m taking my son to see the movie today.

Paramount could just say that they had sent over a training film.

And now you do the same to your favorite pictures of The Leader.

Now put your pants back on and shoo.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C03E2DA1E3DF934A35750C0A9639C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all

“So as a lot of people know, [George W. Bush] watches first-run films in the White House movie theater, a cushy 40-seat room on the ground floor near the entrance to the East Wing. The theater has been updated over the years, but its most extensive renovation came during the made-for-Hollywood presidency of Ronald Reagan, when the major studios of the time — Disney, Universal, Fox, Paramount, Columbia, MGM and Warner Brothers — put up $150,000 to make sure the president watched their wares in an environment as cosseted as the screening room of an entertainment mogul.

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“Laura Bush sees more movies than does her husband, including the best-picture Oscar winner, ”Million Dollar Baby,” which she watched in the White House theater with friends on a recent weekday afternoon.

“The movies are sent overnight directly from the studios, in 35-millimeter film format, as soon as the White House requests them. The system was set up many presidencies ago by Jack Valenti, the adviser to President Lyndon B. Johnson and the recently retired president of the Motion Picture Association of America. “

This is another example of a larger point: that this is the most incompetently run administration since at least Kennedy’s, and maybe even since Roosevelt’s. The Air Force One incident, the swine flu overreaction, endangering the financial sector with stress tests, and on and on. I said many times during the campaign that executive experience matters… let’s hope he’s too incompenet to implement his Maoist agenda, at least.

A private screening of the film?

Priceless.

All Presidents use the White House theater; for security reasons, for making political statements, and because they like to watch movies. By the way, Bush invited Teddy K. to the White House in February of 2001 to watch “Thirteen Days” and that too was covered in the press. Maybe Obama will invite Rush over to watch the film and cigars afterward or something :).

This movie request as a source of outrage, not so much for me.

The issue is that the news got released to the press as if to say “hey look, Obama is just one of you, he likes the same movies you like”.

I”m sure GWB watched a movie or two in the theater. He may even have asked for a screening of a new movie. We don’t know…and why? Probably because it wasn’t something the WH felt the need to leak to the press.

It would cost much more to have his family take over a local cinema for a screening. Let’s take the high road on this one