The luxury of laughter

POSTED BY LauraFries.com IN Uncategorized @ March 25, 2004 - 11:36 pm

NYTimes: “Laughter filled the room Wednesday night at the annual dinner for radio and television correspondents when President Bush displayed a photograph showing him down on his hands and knees looking under furniture in his office and saying, ‘Those weapons of mass destruction have got to be somewhere!’ … Claire Buchan, a White House spokeswoman, said Mr. Bush was not making light of the war in Iraq, but engaging in self-deprecating humor, as is the custom at such dinners. ‘There’s no question about the president’s seriousness about this issue,’ she said … Ms. Buchan noted that Mr. Bush’s appearance included ‘a very moving moment’ in which he ‘expressed his appreciation’ to American soldiers fighting abroad. The slide show ended by showing soldiers in Afghanistan at the site where pieces of the World Trade Center were buried.”