White House Hangs Up on Tina's Talk (washingtonpost.com) White House communications director Dan Bartlett, calling the use of models to satirize the Bush teenagers "disrespectful," said yesterday that Talk "has openly opposed and even mocked the first family's desire to keep the lives of their daughters private, and have decided not only to report on it but go to great lengths to distort it. It gives us plenty of concern and reason not to participate in the type of so-called reporting they are conducting."

Disrespectful? This is the United States, alleged land of the free, etc. Respect is the last thing we're supposed to have for our leaders. I appreciate the desire to let Jenna and Barbara have a relatively normal life, but a parody is different from spying on the girls. The reaction of the White House is definitely that this is a case of lese-majeste. I guess that's what happens when you become the country's head because you picked the right father.