The Whitehouse is angry with The Onion

[MorganGrayson]

Originally Posted by Dale_Ryan

Well, the president's seal does not necessarily represent Bush's personality; it represents and office. They cango on with their business but I think it's just fair not to include the seal.

Dale...that's a fine point that a lot forget. The "Presidential Seal" in no way represents Bush's personality (or lack thereof, as some would say.) It is indeed the symbol of "the office." The "President" is not a person. The President is the Office. At the moment, the Office is occupied by W.

However, we have laws in this country (or used to, anyway) that protect newspapers, columnists, satirists, etc.

From a political standpoint, with all that's going on, or not going on that should be, in this country, I at least would have thought saner heads would have said "maybe we don't want to sweat the small stuff right now and look like bigger assholes than we already do. Perhaps we might also want to consider not drawing attention to a satirist that eveyone in the country hasn't hear of...but immediately will if we bitch about the use of the Seal."