At last nights’ white house press breifing, spokesman Ari Fleischer waxed indignant when a journalist asked him about reports that the US has been attempting to buy international support for it’s war resolution before the UN. In response, the room full of seasoned journalists broke up laughing. The breifing ended.

If you watch through to the break up of the breifing in this c-span coverage, (fast forward to about minute 28 to see Ari’s stand up bit), you can distinctly hear one of the media members joking that Ari was “laughed off the stage”.

In related news, can somebody please reverse engineer the Real Video protocol and release a hacked viewer that isn’t essentially one big bloated peice of spyware?