http://www.huffingtonpost.com/justin-frank/bushkat_b_6967.html
Tom Cruise and George W. Bush have more in common than a talent for acting and a distrust of psychiatry. The most stunning thing they have in common is their need for handlers, so they don't open their mouths and make public fools of themselves. This summer, they both jumped the couch.
As a few Hollywood insiders knew, Cruise's impulsive outbursts were there waiting to happen, but for the tender and iron-fisted ministrations of his longtime publicist, Pat Kingsley. Perhaps Kingsley did her job so well that Cruise came to believe that he didn't need her, and replaced her with Lee Anne DeVette, whose credentials are that she is his sister, and a fellow Scientologist. Those who'd been wondering all these years why Kingsley so fiercely guarded her charge finally have an answer: he had a keeper because he needed one.
Bush has also been under control, for years, by his doting and vigilant publicist, Karl Rove. But in this case, it was the agent who fired the client. Rove has been too preoccupied with the investigation into his wrongdoing in the Valerie Plame case to pay attention to the antics of his wild and crazy charge.
As a consequence, Bush joked about partying in New Orleans on the same day he visited the devastated Gulf Coast and hugged a few sanitized poor people for the cameras. Perhaps he'll hop on Oprah's couch this week to declare his undying love for oyster po' boys and Dixieland jazz. Maybe later, he'll criticize New Oeleans native Harry Connick, Jr. for visiting the Superdome as a way of alleviating his post-hurricane depression. And, he's already hired his mother -- who never allowed her son to do live TV interviews when he was Governor -- to run interference with the media.
Tom Cruise is a sideshow. George W. Bush is a disaster. It's the nation's bad luck that FEMA is too busy to tend to the real cause of our federal emergency.
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