“This is all off the record, right?”

This is how you start a news story:

Credit Ford Motor Co. CEO Alan Mulally with saving the leader of the free world from self-immolation.

Mulally told journalists at the New York auto show that he intervened to prevent President Bush from plugging an electrical cord into the hydrogen tank of Ford’s hydrogen-electric plug-in hybrid at the White House last week. [...]

I can’t help thinking that the newly sworn in President Cheney’s first act would have been to declare that a link had been found between the Ford hybrid and the current regime in Tehran…

[Via Oliver Willis]