What is going on? Suddenly so many of my favourite people are being out flanked by high school kids. Yesterday, during a meeting that our President was having with a number of participants in the Presidential Scholar programme, he was handed a letter signed by fifty of the attendees, who are by the way the kind of kids who can get into Harvard and Yale without Daddy's help, urging that "violations of the human rights" of American detainees be stopped. There is no report of the President's response, it is possible that his earpiece wasn't working or that Karl Rove was taking a piss at the time, but later in the day White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said that the Decider(TM) told the young men and women that "the United States does not torture and that we value human rights". Ms. Perino went on to say that "the designation as a Presidential Scholar is one of the nation's highest honors for graduating high school students...the scholars travel to Washington each June for seminars, lectures and workshops". She apparently left the "and not to give the President a raft of shit" unsaid.
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