Advance Workers For Bush Impersonated Reporters.

Source: Washington Post

First, we have a President impersonating as a leader.

Now we have Secret Service agents pretended to be Fox News journalists.

In all this pretending, I ask, "Who's running the show up there?"

The White House said yesterday that it will discipline two government employees who masqueraded as journalists this month while scouting locations for a presidential visit to the Gulf Coast.

A Mississippi couple whose home was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina said two men who later identified themselves as Secret Service agents pretended to be Fox News journalists when surveying their neighborhood in advance of a March 8 visit from President Bush.

The men arrived on March 3 at the site of the beachfront home that Jerry and Elaine Akins are rebuilding in Gautier, Miss., Elaine Akins said in a telephone interview yesterday.

"They didn't show any cards or anything," Akins said. "They just came up and said they were with the media, and then they said they were with Fox. They just talked to us and asked us about rebuilding our house. Then, after everything was over with, they approached us and they were laughing, and they said: 'You know, we really weren't with Fox. We're government, Secret Service men.'"

Ken Lisaius, a White House spokesman, said the employees were out of bounds.

"This incident has been brought to our attention, and this is clearly not appropriate, nor is it part of our standard operating procedures," he said. "The individuals involved will be verbally reprimanded."

Yeah right, I truly believe this. Just like you hold Karl Rove accountable for deliberately breaking the law?

I'm not holding my breath waiting for the Bush kiddies in the White House to do the right thing for once. I honestly don't think they know how, anyway.

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