The BBC has the funny (and rather pathetic) story here: “President George W. Bush tried to make a quick exit from a news conference in Beijing on Sunday — only to find himself thwarted by locked doors.” The Post (via Reuters) has it here.
Steve Soto calls it a “moment of total buffoonery”. Andrew Sullivan is more sympathetic and notes that Bush looked “shattered” on TV.
Must-see: Check out the photo montage at Eschaton. As always, Crooks and Liars has the video.
Call it a metaphor for Bush’s castrated presidency and the end of the Bush Era. Or for the U.S. occupation of Iraq.
(Also posted at The Reaction.)
UPDATE: Here’s another view on how this story is being played…
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.