"A Repulsive Mix of Faux-Seriousness and Joviality"

From Pre$$titutes:

Bush Press Conference: The Usual Tragicomedy

1. He'll be his usual smarmy, smug, fidgety self.
2. He'll make at least one idiotic joke about a reporter followed by that trademark self-satisfied chuckle.
3. Most answers will devolve into some version of terror/freedom/terror...
4. Pre$$titutes will display an exceptionally well-honed skill, namely, to ask seemingly tough questions that evaporate into the mist of Bush's drivel. Follow-up questions will never hold Bush on his contradictions.
5. The atmosphere will be a repulsive mix of faux-seriousness and joviality, entirely inappropriate considering that American troops are dying in the sands of Iraq.
6. We'll be left wondering why a fake news show is harder-hitting and more revealing than a presidential press conference with a gaggle of so-called 'journalists' confronting a failed president.

I am in the middle of watching the press conference right now, and everything Pre$$titutes predicted has already occurred.