BEFORE THEY REPEAL THE STATUTE OF LIBERTY!

Yesterday’s TODAY:

MATT LAUER: Ken Salazar is the U.S. Secretary of the Interior. Mr. Secretary, what a pleasure to be in this location with you. It’s nice to see you.

KEN SALAZAR: It’s good to be here.

LAUER: This location, for the most part, has been closed to the public ever since the attacks of 9-11, and you have a special announcement to make today. Why don’t you make it?

SALAZAR: I do Matt. This Statue of Liberty really is about hope and optimism for America. It’s also about jobs that come with tourism all over this country. And it’s about President Obama’s agenda.

And so today we’re announcing that on the 4th of July, we will open up the crown of the Statue of Liberty, here in New York and New Jersey, to the entire people in America in a way that we’ll be able to manage the crowds to come into this space.

LAUER: Thank you, Mr. Secretary. And anytime your administration wants to use our NBC microphones to make a self-serving message, we’re your doormat to the American people.

SALAZAR: Uh…thank you, Matt.

LAUER: Kiss me.

SALAZAR: …what?

LAUER: Kiss me. Now.

SALAZAR: …Security!

Okay, okay–it was too good to check.

Finkleblog:

I would have thought that presidents are meant to mold their agenda to reflect the meaning and inspiration of our founding documents and symbols of freedom. But no, it’s apparently the other way around. Those symbols are really about Pres. Obama.

Behold His works!

This just in–from “60 Seconds Over Tokyo Rose” by Cap’n “Ace” Biden, Man o’ War:

“There she was, just like Leon Panetta said; the giant statue of Saddam, right in the middle of the harbor.

For some reason, this statue of Hussein had him holding up a torch in one hand and a book in the other. He was also wearing a dress–but, hey, I don’t judge.

I reached down for the the joystick, but decided I’d better fly the plane instead. I eased off the throttle of the stolen Air Force One jumbo jet. Oh, how they laughed at me when I told them I refused to take public transit because of the swine flu. But who’s laughing now?

Besides, mass transit is something we Democrats force on the little people–like all those little people I could see beneath me on the streets, scurrying in sheer terror as I began my first strafing run.

Suddenly, all the alarm bells went off, like a Kennedy trying to disable the car’s Breathalyzer ignition interlock. There was a bogey on my tail!

The F-16 buzzed by my cockpit. I couldn’t make out his face, but I’d recognize that maniacal laugh anywhere. It was Colin Powell, obviously sent by powerful people in Washington to stop me from speaking directly to the American people.

But which powerful person in Washington could possibly want to get rid of me?

Yes! That’s it! It must be …Dick Cheney!”

As with Cap’n “Ace” Biden, it all makes sense now.

Scare Force One was sent to terrorize New Yorkers in conjunction with Interior’s Statue of Liberty opening.

FoxNews has forced the White House to release one publicity photo, even though, by definition, publicity photos are for the public.

In the midst of recession, the White House charged taxpayers $328,000.00 for one self-serving photograph.

Note to White House: Wal-Mart photo department–one print is only a dime!

And keep Joe off the joystick, would ya’?