When President Bush “coaches” soldiers for a Q&A session, it leads.

When FEMA “fakes” a press conference, it leads.

When the communist front-runner a.k.a. Her Thighness plants questions for herself…well, I doubt we’ll hear much about this.

It’s said that politics is show business for ugly people. Everyone should realize that a certain amount of preparation always goes into making these events look and feel a certain way. Why else do these candidates go out and hire all these PR people? Nobody, especially those in the press who report these campaigns and know exactly what goes on before the lens cap comes off, should act all shocked when we periodically get a peek backstage. I’m not saying that political theater is a good thing. I only wish that whenever the “objective” press felt the urge to pull back the curtains a little bit, like Toto in the Emerald City, they would occasionally pick someone other than their ideological opponents to expose.

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