Blowhard News for Friday.

Palin: Couric, Fey, SNL profited by 'exploiting' me

Cheney: No One Saw The Financial Crisis Coming
In an interview with the AP, Dick Cheney defended the Administration's handling of the economy, despite the collapse. He said that "nobody anywhere was smart enough to figure it out," adding that Bush doesn't need to apologize because he has taken "bold,

Bush: I liberated America’s school children.

President Bush is fond of saying that he “liberated 50 million people” by taking military action in Iraq and Afghanistan. But the populations of those two foreign countries aren’t the only people that Bush claims to have liberated. In his last policy speech as President, Bush said today that No Child Left Behind has led to the “liberation” of America’s school children:
By the way, school choice was only open to rich people up until No Child Left Behind. It’s hard for a lot of parents to be able to afford to go to any other kind of school but their neighborhood school. Now, under this system, if your public school is failing, you’ll have the option of transferring to another public school or charter school. And it’s — I view that as liberation. I view that as empowerment.

During his speech yesterday, Bush also finally fixed one of his most notorious Bushisms — “Rarely is the question asked, is our children learning?” — stating, “Rarely was the question asked: Can you read? Or can you write? Or can you add and can you subtract?”