THE PRESIDENT NEEDS MORE BIRDS!

Barack Obama’s media advisers were quite distressed when the President travelled down to the Louisiana coastline last week to make his first on-the-spot statement about the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Their distress was caused by what they didn’t discover, rather than what they did. Despite their frantic requests, no photogenic dying oil-covered birds could be found to form a backdrop for the Presidential tirade as he weighed into BP.

And, as Tim Blair adds, Ted Turner, once seen railing against, as Turner put it, “Jesus freaks,” believes that he has suddenly heard from God himself, via the oil spill.