A Chinese cameraman (R) attempts to muffle a protester as she screams

slogans during remarks by Chinese President Hu Jintao at a welcoming hosted

by U.S. President George W. Bush on the South Lawn of the White House

April 20, 2006. The protester was later taken away by uniformed

secret service during the event. Photo/Jason Reed

A Secret Service officer covers the mouth of Wenyi Wang,

 47, as she is escorted from the camera stand after she disrupted

the speech of Chinese President Hu Jintao. Photo/Charles Dharapak)

"Chinese President Hu Jintao will also be visiting the White House. China's president meets America's president. President Hu meets President Huh." --Jay Leno

But as protocol breaches go, it's hard to top the heckling of a foreign leader at the White House. Explaining the incident -- the first disruption at the executive mansion in recent memory -- White House and Secret Service officials said she was "a legitimate journalist" and that there was nothing suspicious in her background. In other words: Who knew?

Hu did. The Chinese had warned the White House to be careful about who was admitted to the ceremony. To no avail: They granted a one-day pass to Wang Wenyi of the Falun Gong publication Epoch Times. A quick Nexis search shows that in 2001, she slipped through a security cordon in Malta protecting Jiang (she had been denied media credentials) and got into an argument with him.
 

" The Bush administration says they want to declare all golf course water hazards as protected wetlands. It's part of their plan to save restricted country clubs." --David Letterman

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Rock-The-Voter News

On April 17, nationally syndicated radio host Michael Savage called for "kill[ing] 100 million" Muslims and referred to the woman who alleged she was raped by members of Duke University's lacrosse team as a "drunken slut stripping whore."

On his radio show, Savage told listeners that "intelligent people, wealthy people ... are very depressed by the weakness that America is showing to these psychotics in the Muslim world. They say, 'Oh, there's a billion of them.' " Savage continued: "I said, 'So, kill 100 million of them, then there'd be 900 million of them.' I mean ... would you rather us die than them?"

“While in the United States, the President of China plans to make the rounds of Wal-Mart stores doing inventory.”-- Jay Leno

What Will Valerie Plame Wear?

Will Valerie Plame be the talk of this year's White House Correspondents Dinner? E&P has confirmed that she is slated to attend this year's gala, along with her husband Joseph Wilson and several other notable non-journalist guests, such as Alex Trebek and Ben Rothlisberger, according to organizers

"During a Pentagon briefing, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said we're making progress and we're very close to capturing some high ranking officials. Unfortunately they are all retired U.S. generals." --Jay Leno

Military historian Richard Kohn described in the Naval War College Review the treatment of President Bill Clinton:

"The newly elected president was publicly insulted by service people (including a two-star general) in print and in person. So ugly was the behavior that commanders had to remind their subordinates of their constitutional and legal obligations not to speak derogatorily of the civilian leadership; the Air Force chief of staff felt obliged to remind his senior commanders 'about core values, including the principle of a chain of command that runs from the president right down to our newest airman.' Nothing like this had ever occurred in American history."

The cause was Clinton's own draft-evasion record and his proposal, done without study or consultation, to remove the ban on open homosexual service. But another cause was the increasing propensity since the Vietnam War for officers to belong to the Republican Party, according to Kohn.

Kohn has become convinced that civilian control has "diminished to the point where it could alter the character of American government and undermine national defense."
 

"In true McClellan style, he then neither confirmed nor denied reports of a White House leak that instructed him not to let the door hit him in the ass on the way out.--Jon Stewart on the resignation of White House Press Aide, Scott McCellan

The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.-- Steven Wright