How is our president like OJ? Read on...

I heard this one on the radio this morning, and I let out a whoop when I heard Bill Press mention it. I like Press, but he is a liberal radio talk show host, so I wanted to verify it.

This whopper involves White House Press Secretary Dana Perino (above) answering a question about Osama bin Laden:

Q: As far as Osama bin Laden and our national security is concerned, he has issued another tape and warning Europe and it may affect the United States. And also, yesterday Senator Obama called on the President to bring Osama bin Laden, who is in Pakistan. Does he think he's still alive, Osama bin Laden?

MS. PERINO: I would put it this way. The intelligence community analyzed the tape. They do believe that that was his voice. So that would mean that for all things - for all that we know, that he is still alive. And the President has a very aggressive hunt on for Osama bin Laden. [Emphasis Mine] And I think in the tape, what Osama bin Laden was trying to do is to suggest that he stands for all Muslims, and I think that if you look at the facts across the board, especially what's happening in Al-Anbar province and across Iraq, that Arabs are starting to turn against them, and that is of huge strategic significance in the global war on terror.

That is quite simply the funniest, most ridiculous thing I've heard come out of a White House press secretary's mouth in a long, long time. It gets even funnier when one listens to Bush's comments about bin Laden a few years ago:

All you have to do is watch the first 1:45 to get the point. Looks like Dana's credibility fall down and go boom. But, what should we expect? This is the same Dana Perino who didn't know what the Cuban Missile Crisis was in an interview last December, too.

Don't get me wrong - I think every reasonable American and member of the press expects and even tolerates a certain amount of b.s. coming out of the mouth of any press secretary, under any president, but this takes it to a whole new level.

When I read "Bush," "aggressive hunt," and "Osama bin Laden," all in one sentence, it made me think of OJ. Yes, that OJ; you know, the one who has hired private detectives to conduct a thorough investigation and to aggressively look for Nicole Brown Simpson's killer(s). (At left is OJ, hot on the trail of his ex-wife's killers - they must have been grounds keepers or something.)

Maybe Bush and OJ could golf together - by the 18th, they could have the Simpson killers and bin Laden, all in jail.