So, today was the last day for the White House briefing room before it undergoes a 9-month-long renovation. President Bush showed up -- along with a gaggle of former press secretaries from both parties -- and answered a couple of questions. Unfortunately for the media, ABC News' Sam Donaldson was in attendence and he came up with this beaut:

Q Mr. President, should Mel Gibson be forgiven?

Yep. The Middle East is on fire. Iran is thumbing its nose at the U.N. North Korea is launching rockets. There's an election just a couple months off and the best they can come up with is Mel Gibson?

Journalism. Wound. Self-inflicted.