"spodosaurus" <spodosaurus@_yahoo_.com> wrote
Quoted message said:http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/02/01/iraq.hostage/index.html
Follow up:
STATE OF THE UNION DELIVERED BY PLASTIC ACTION DOLL
New Jersey Toy Seller Spots Hoax
In an elaborate hoax perpetrated on millions of Americans, last night's
State of the Union address was delivered not by President George W. Bush but
instead by a plastic action doll, the White House confirmed today.
The trickery might have gone completely unnoticed had it not been for Roland
Celenza, a New Jersey toy store owner who was watching the speech and
identified the figure at the podium as the George W. Bush Elite Force
AviatorT, a popular item released after Mr. Bush's famous landing on the
aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln on May 1, 2003.
"I was sitting there looking at the TV and I practically fell out of my
chair," said Mr. Celenza, who owns the Toy Explosion store in Teaneck. "I
said to my wife, that's not the president, that's a toy."
The Elite Force AviatorT, dressed in civilian clothes instead of its
customary flight suit, emphasized Social Security in the speech, which was
interrupted by partisan applause dozens of times.
On Capitol Hill today, congressional Republicans such as Senate Majority
Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn) refused to criticize the White House's decision
to use a plastic action doll to deliver such an important speech, saying
only, "That toy hit it out of the park."
But to some voters, like Jessica Hartenson of Lansing, Michigan, the hoax
was not a cause for celebration: "If I had wanted to see an inanimate object
up there, I would've voted for Kerry."
Elsewhere, in the last quarter Google's profits rose 700 percent, while
Google image searches of Tara Reid rose 700,000 percent.
http://www.borowitzreport.com/archive_rpt.asp?rec=1059&srch=
