Our naked emperor

Tom Shales in the Washington Post:

"Not his favorite venue" was how Paula Zahn of CNN described Bush's attitude toward news conferences. He's had only 12 since taking office, and this was only the third to air live in prime time. One reporter even asked Bush if what we had here was a failure to communicate. Had he not clearly articulated his intentions to the American people? "Gosh, I don't know," Bush said in what seemed an unguarded, honest moment.

Bush similarly struggled, a few minutes earlier, to cite the single biggest mistake of his presidency. He looked baffled and incredulous. "I'm sure something will pop into my head here," he said, noting the intense "pressure" of holding a news conference on TV. Of course people watching throughout the country expect a president to be able to handle that kind of pressure without blinking, based on the assumption that this is one of the milder forms of pressure that come with the office.

Following the news conference, there have been some hits here at Brian Flemming's Weblog from Google searches like this one.

I just searched Google News for "president bush news conference." Top result:

No foolin'. Click here to see bigger version.

UPDATE: You may already know about President Bush's nose job and previous drunkard-esque behavior.