Via
Peking Duck, news of
yet another chapter in the
sad ongoing saga of a White House crumbling beneath the weight of its own lunacy: threatened legal action against
The Onion for use of the presidential seal, particularly on the page for accessing the publication's occasional parody of The Weasel's radio addresses:
You might have thought that the White House had enough on its plate late last month, what with its search for a new Supreme Court nominee, the continuing war in Iraq and the C.I.A. leak investigation. But it found time to add another item to its agenda -- stopping The Onion, the satirical newspaper, from using the presidential seal.
[...]
"It has come to my attention that The Onion is using the presidential seal on its Web site," Grant M. Dixton, associate counsel to the president, wrote to The Onion on Sept. 28. (At the time, Mr. Dixton's office was also helping Mr. Bush find a Supreme Court nominee; days later his boss, Harriet E. Miers, was nominated.)
Citing the United States Code, Mr. Dixton wrote that the seal "is not to be used in connection with commercial ventures or products in any way that suggests presidential support or endorsement." Exceptions may be made, he noted, but The Onion had never applied for such an exception.
I remain an optimist. Eventually, it
will sink in on even the misAdministration's most ardent supporters: If this is the kind of bizarre decision The Current Gang Who Couldn't Shoot Straight make on such trivial matters, why should anyone think the absurdity of their decisions on
big issues (war, economy, taxes, on and on) hasn't been simply scaled up?
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