Jan. 24, 2006 - President George W. Bush found himself embroiled in controversy today with the publication of five photos showing him and disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff totally naked.
The photos, published yesterday in Payboy, a magazine devoted to nude pictures of disgraced lobbyists, appeared to fly in the face of the president's claims that he had never met Abramoff. The five photos, which appear to have been taken on five different occasions, show the two naked men smiling and shaking hands. "The fact that they are smiling and shaking hands proves that they know each other," said Davis Logsdon, the magazine's photo editor.
At the White House, the president's top advisers were working overtime to limit the political havoc that the nude photos could wreak. At a press briefing this morning, White House spokesman Scott McClellan spoke dismissively of the controversy, calling the brouhaha over the naked photos "a tempest in a teapot."
McClellan said, "These naked pictures of the president and Jack Abramoff are nothing out of the ordinary. In the course of his daily schedule, the president poses nude with dozens of dignitaries."
McClellan said that the American people "would have no problem believing" that Bush posed naked with Abramoff on five different occasions without actually knowing who he was. "Our polls show that the American people think that most of the time the president is in the Oval Office, he does not know what he is doing," he said.
Elsewhere, Ford Motor Co. announced that it was cutting 30,000 jobs, including Job One.
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