-->BUSH OFFERS SATELLITE PHOTOS PROVING ECONOMY IS RECOVERING
(The Daily Wipe) 05/01/2003

Aerial Evidence Shows Man Being Hired at Wal-Mart, President Asserts

In an effort to make his case to the American people that the economy is, in fact, recovering, President Bush held a White House press conference today to show recently declassified satellite photos of a man being hired at Wal-Mart.

While the satellite images were somewhat fuzzy, the photos appeared to show a man walking out of a suburban Wal-Mart with what the President described as “employment papers” in his hands.

“Based on these photos, it is clear that our economic plan is working,” the President said, gesturing at the photo with a big pointer. “This is the smoking gun we’ve been looking for.”

While the President claimed that the satellite photos helped “connect the dots” between his Administration’s tax cuts and a recovering economy, some Democrats in
Congress said that the President’s proof fell somewhat short of what had been promised.

“For this to be a true smoking gun, I would like to see a satellite photo of a man getting a tax cut and then getting a job, all in the same photo,” said Senator Tom Daschle (D-S.D.).

More bad news for Mr. Bush came later today, when satellite photo expert Dr. Donovan Mason of the Brookings Institution said that the papers in the man’s hand were not employment papers at all but were, in fact, “walking papers.”

“What we have here is a photo of a man who has just been fired,” Dr. Mason said.

By the end of the morning, the White House had downgraded the smoking gun from smoking to non-smoking.

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