This is funny. The administration certainly knows how to piss people off. We've never seen such incompetence in our history. This is truly the gang who couldn't shoot straight.
ABC News' Jon Garcia Reports: It's not often that a White House press briefing book gets world attention, but the book issued for the 2008 G8 Summit certainly grabbed headlines today when the Italian press discovered that a biography included of their Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, described him as "one of the most controversial leaders in the history of a country known for governmental corruption and vice" and "a political dilettante who gained his high office only through the use of his considerable influence on the national media."
The Italian media outcry elicited a rare White House apology. In a written statement, WH spokesman Tony Fratto said, "We apologize to Italy and to the Prime Minister for this very unfortunate mistake … The sentiments expressed in the biography do not represent the views of President Bush, the American government, or the American people."
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