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If there was any doubt in your mind that Bush has no class, taste, 
sensitivity, respect, or intelligence...


Bush Pokes Some Fun During Media Dinner
By SIOBHAN McDONOUGH 

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush poked fun at his staff, his Democratic 
challenger and himself Wednesday night at a black-tie dinner where he 
hobnobbed with the news media. 

Bush put on a slide show, calling it the ``White House Election-Year Album'' 
at the Radio and Television Correspondents' Association 60th annual dinner, 
showing himself and his staff in some decidedly unflattering poses. 




 
There was Bush looking under furniture in a fruitless, frustrating search. 
``Those weapons of mass destruction have got to be somewhere,'' he said. 

There was Vice President Dick Cheney, a frequent butt of gentle Bush ribbing, 
holding his fingers a few inches apart. Bush said, ``Whenever you ask him a 
question, he replies, 'Let's see what my little friend says.''' 


And there was Bush again, in an odd contortion in front of his national 
security adviser, Condoleezza Rice. He said he was trying to explain to her 
the foreign policy of Democratic challenger John Kerry. 


Bush showed himself playing cards on Air Force One and cracked that he was on 
his way to an international summit and using a special deck to help him bone 
up on the names of the leaders he was about to meet. 


His slide show segued into a somber ending, showing a group of special forces 
troops in Afghanistan at the site where they buried a piece of the fallen 
World Trade Center in commemoration of the dead from Sept. 11. 


The late NBC News reporter David Bloom, who died in April from an apparent 
blood clot while covering the Iraq war, was remembered. His wife, Melanie, 
talked of her husband's passion for journalism. 


About 1,500 guests attended the dinner. 


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