Bush auditions for SNL: For those of you who missed it, the President cast himself in his own skit about missing Weapons in Iraq. During the annual dinner of the Radio and Television News Correspondents Association, the President showed pictures of himself looking behind pieces of furniture and said, "Those weapons of mass destruction have got to be somewhere ... nope, no weapons over there ... maybe under here?" prompting outrage from anyone with a sense of taste and decorum. Verbal Jazz knows there are a few things that one does not joke about: weight (how clever can a "fat joke" be, really?), race ("All BLANK people sure are stupid, huh?" is the essence of racist jokes), and reasons for going to war that are false, deceptive and misleading. Bush was really hoping he could get a guest hosting stint on SNL and was displaying some of the humor he would hope to bring to the show.

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