Slate's one-trick pony, Jacob Weisberg, author of their "Bushisms" feature has stuck his foot in it again.
"I'm honored to shake the hand of a brave Iraqi citizen who had his hand cut off by Saddam Hussein."—Washington, D.C., May 25, 2004
As Eugene Volokh notes, and anyone who had been following the story would know, the "hand" the president was going to shake was actually a high-tech prostheses. This is supposed to make the president sound stupid? Nope, it just makes Jacob Weisberg look stupid.
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