Bush Meltdown During Televised Speech Trumped By Lewis The Cat?

George W. Bush had a near nervous breakdown on live TV yesterday, but a cat in Connecticut is deemed much more newsworthy? It's a world gone mad.



Lewis, the Fairfield cat slapped with a
restraining order, has been confined
inside his High Street home since
December of last year.
(Brian A. Pounds/Connecticut Post)

Nation obsessed with tale of the cat
Fairfield feline under house arrest now media celebrity

By ANDREW BROPHY

Lewis, the Fairfield cat slapped with a restraining order, has been confined inside his High Street home since December of last year. (Brian A. Pounds/Connecticut Post)
FAIRFIELD — Elizabeth Oberhand, who lives next door to Lewis, the cat with a mountain lion's reputation, can't believe the media frenzy that has catapulted the so-called ferocious feline to international notoriety.

"It was on CNN this morning. It's ridiculous," Oberhand said Wednesday of Lewis' supposed reign of terror in a Holland Hill neighborhood. "The Associated Press probably got it on the wire and everybody ate it up."

Ruth Cisero, owner of the black-and-white, long-haired cat, said she was deluged with 120 phone calls from media outlets Tuesday after the story first appeared in the Connecticut Post, and another 80 called Wednesday, including the British Broadcasting Corp.

The Connecticut Post Web site with the story has received thousands of hits and e-mails from across the country have been flooding in to reporters.

Meanwhile, the president looked like this yesterday...




... And he ranted about how his daddy "fought the Japanese!"

Naturally, corporate media crickets chirped.

Read all about the president's meltdown tomorrow morning in my weekly column, The Blog Box, above the virtual fold at Democratic Underground.Com.

And leave Lewis alone. He's just doing what cats would normally do if we didn't insist they behave like humans.


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