I love this story because it sounds so much like a parable.
David Letterman found this video clip of a tired child of some rich Republican investing in the Bush candidacy. He's just a kid and he didn't care a whit for Bush's long speech:
Bush Invigorates America's Youth
It is amusing and it would have ended at that if the Whitehouse hadn't done a very stupid thing. They called CNN and said that the Letterman show had edited the kid into the video. CNN then did a stupid thing and dutifully reported that without checking with Letterman. So, Letterman got pissed and told CNN to correct themselves. Then, the Whitehouse did a stupid thing and said the child wasn't standing in that spot but had been edited there. CNN, how embarrasing, dutifully reported that new story without checking with Letterman.
Not surprisingly, Letterman was doubly PO'd after the second round of lying and decided to take aim at the Bush Whitehouse on-air. Here is the result:
Letterman defends himself
The moral of this particular parable is..."Two wrongs don't make a right."
I like the way Letterman got back at CNN and Bush. All he did was state the facts.
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