Bush Presses Putin: I Said Yes My Love Yes
We're so bored we actually live-blogged Bush & Putin's press conference:
·Oooh, Bush really is in some place called Bratislava!
·CNN might want to work on this whole thing called "translating" when the Ruskie dude talks. The Fox dude is translating like a Siberian labor-camp worker with a gun held to his head.
·Today's topic: something about putting away their missles?
·Hey, what's CNN WH correspondent John King doing there asking questions? I've never seen him without the WH backdrop. And why is he wearing clothes? Will he never get nekkid?
·Bush declares his love for Putin: "When he says yes he means yes." It's a sexy breakthrough in diplomatic relations! And clearly they like to cuddle: "Yes meant yes when we talked about values that we share," says George.
·And so on: they share the values of yes meaning yes! It's great that they have that in common.
·"It seems you have nothing to disagree about," says (kinda hot!) foreign journalist who hijacks the whole conference. Where's he from, the Bratislava Daily Shopper? (Difference between foreign press and U.S.: they don't wear suits.) Also: Russia calling the U.S. on private activities being monitored? That's a little hard to believe.
·Putin: "I'd like to support my American counterpart." Ahem.
·Bush makes barely intelligible joke about John King and monarchies, loose train of thought, starts thinking about raisin pudding or something, trails off.
·Bush on the press: "Nice bunch of folks." We're way off script here people. Bush: "A society is one where there's an active press corps." Yeah, one. Or maybe two.
·Putin: "I'm not the minister of propaganda." Yeah, that's a totally different cabinet position.
·Afterwards, anchors are left to find news from this event, yet are utterly unable.—C.S.