Today in History

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2008/04/20080430-5.html

Q Me? How does the President intend to commemorate "Mission Accomplished" after five years of death and destruction?

MS. PERINO: What you're referring to is the banner that ran -- that was aboard the ship five years ago. President Bush --

Q I'm talking about the anniversary tomorrow.

MS. PERINO: Yes, I get -- no, I understand. That's the anniversary of when that banner flew on that ship. President Bush is well aware that the banner should have been much more specific and said "mission accomplished for these sailors who are on this ship on their mission." And we have certainly paid a price for not being more specific on that banner. And I recognize that the media is going to play this up again tomorrow, as they do every single year.

D'oh! So, that's what that banner was for! They just meant that particular ship and their particular mission! Ooooh I see, it's much clearer now. I can't imagine how that could have been understood any other way...

Ya, I mean since the President of The United States had just landed on the deck in a warplane and was walking around in a flightsuit, in the biggest PR stunt since a caveman invented fire and and scared all the other cavemen half to death... Ya, easy to see the misunderstanding, especially since at the time the President also gave a stirring speech under the banner telling us exactly what it was all about.

There's a main qualification to be a press secretary; can you say something absolutely redicuous and act like it's perfectly reasonable?