World One involves the White House and it’s mouth piece, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs. In this world everything is worthy of a yuck-yuck moment and it’s perfectly acceptable to turn a press conference into something just short of a skit on Monday Night Raw. Let’s go to the tape…

MR. GIBBS: I will say this — I will say this, I don’t know if you — maybe I’ll bring this picture out here. It’s — recently, the President was playing with Reggie, I think it was in New York. Reggie is going to hate that I told this story, but I want to make sure I’m speaking directly into the camera. (Laughter.) And I think Reggie came back across the street, and the pool asked him what had happened, and he said he couldn’t say anything because I had told him he couldn’t talk to the press.

Q He said you’d kill him.

MR. GIBBS: Well, I figured out why he apparently has finally started listening to me. The President told me that he blocked several of Reggie’s shots — (laughter) — during this game, including one that was photographed by Pete Souza. There’s now a very large print of that downstairs in the West Wing that the President asked Reggie to sign. (Laughter.) And it is prominently displayed for both Reggie and, I think more importantly, the President’s enjoyment as he walks to and from meetings.

(The picture is brought out.) (Laughter.)

Q Nice picture.

Q Clearly he’s –

Q Robert, Robert, hold it up. Hold it way up.

Q I think it’s a foul. I think it’s a foul. (Laughter.)

Q What does it say?

MR. GIBBS: “Mr. President, nice block. Reggie Love.” I will say this — Reggie certainly is — I don’t think would call a foul in that play –

In World Two, you know, the real one, things are a bit different.

Honestly, we have wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, skyrocketing unemployment and a public fed up with non-answers and spin from the White House and we’re talking about pick-up basketball games?

World One: Orchestrated basketball-related stunts. World Two: A scene of desperation and poverty.

Can these folks possibly be that disconnected from life outside the beltway?

Answer: An emphatic yes…

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