Think before you speak

There's a pretty good rule a lawyer taught me before I took the stand as an expert witness: "Think before you speak."

Someone should have told Bush that before he :

At a press conference this morning, President Bush needled Los Angeles Times reporter Peter Wallsten after he stood up to ask a question wearing sunglasses. “Are you going to ask that question with shades on?” Bush said, telling Wallsten, “I’m interested in the shade look, seriously.”

But as Wonkette first noted, and which ThinkProgress subsquently confirmed, Wallsten is legally blind. Wallsten tells us he has a rare genetic disorder called Stargardt’s Disease. The disease is a form of macular degeneration that can be slowed “by wearing UV-protective sunglasses and avoiding exposure to bright light.”

Of course, that's probably asking too much since, like the Scarecrow in the Wizard of Oz, Bush is incapable of thinking -- if he only had a brain.

Oops, sorry, the Scarecrow has tanken umbrage at that analogy.