Protecting their heroes

Can you imagine the BBC's coverage if it emerged that George W. Bush had mislaid the card with the codes to open the nuclear briefcase? Headline news and the source of much hilarity on the News Quiz. However whilst The Telegraph manage to report that

'For several months during Bill Clinton's administration, a former top military officer says the White House lost the card with a set of numbers for opening the briefcase containing the codes for a nuclear attack.

Gen Hugh Shelton, who was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the time, said in his new memoir, "Without Hesitation: The Odyssey of an American Warrior" that "the codes were actually missing for months. That's a big deal -- a gargantuan deal."'

On the BBC not a word about this story of Democrat President negligence.


Interestingly The Telegraph also report that:

'Former president Jimmy Carter was rumoured to have once left the '"biscuit" in a suit that was sent to the dry cleaners.'

What is it with Democrats and national security/being responsible?