The Illustrated Bush/Koizumi Graceland Tour

Yeah, while you guys were rebuilding your devastated cities and salvaging your national dignity, we were pretty much doing this. (AP)

It’s Friday. We don’t want to think, you don’t want to read. So we’re gonna take advantage of our AP images subscription to give you some suitable-for-framing pictures of the weirdest Presidential photo-op we’ve seen in some time.

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Gossip Roundup: Parasites on Parasites

• Names & Faces: Tourism officials in Tupelo, Miss., the birthplace of Elvis Presley, are hoping to get Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and President Bush to swing by Tupelo after their visit to Graceland on Friday… A new novel by Thomas Pynchon will be released in December. [WP]
• Lloyd Grove’s Lowdown: Malcolm Gladwell cheerleads for the MSM, derides bloggers as “parasites.” [NYDN]
• Rush & Molloy: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger gave an interview to the National Enquirer after the tabloid threatened to write about an alleged tryst between him and Brigitte Nielsen. [NYDN]

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