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Readers, we've had fun with Inerrant Boy's time management skills before—things like He can find an hour to exercise every day, but couldn't find an hour to spend with the 9/11 commmission. But it isn't just hours, it's minutes:

For the White House, the most devastating segment of "Fahrenheit 9/11" may be the video of a befuddled-looking President Bush staying put for nearly seven minutes at a Florida elementary school on the morning of Sept. 11, continuing to read a copy of "My Pet Goat" to schoolchildren even after an aide has told him that a second plane has struck the twin towers. Mr. Bush's slow, hesitant reaction to the disastrous news has never been a secret. But seeing the actual footage, with the minutes ticking by, may prove more damaging to the White House than all the statistics in the world.
(via Pulitzer-light, not-the-Los Angeles Times)

Incidentally, I don't buy the line that it would have been really bad if the kids he was reading to started crying, or something. Heck, these guys owned the SCLM at that point, so the footage probably never would have been shown. And it makes no sense to me to put image over substance—the substance, in this case, doing whatever needed to be done to protect the nation.

Readers, seven minutes can seem like a really long time. What can you do in seven minutes?