Hey lighten up, it was just another stupid speech

My apologies if you heard Jon Stewart already do this (the biggest drawback of being cableless is not seeing The Daily Show until it's online)--but here's the first graph of a Knight-Ridder story:

One day after President Bush vowed to reduce America's dependence on Middle East oil by cutting imports from there 75 percent by 2025, his energy secretary and national economic adviser said Wednesday that the president didn't mean it literally.

What a kidder, huh? He follows all those laugh-out-loud lines in the actual state of the union parody he delivered, with a morning-after topper. Now we see what the difference between a monarchy and a democracy is. In a democracy, the king is his own fool.