Suzanne and the Wizard of Oz

Suzanne Malveaux just delivered a surprising report in the Situation Room on CNN.  She revealed that before Bush spoke today via teleconference with selected soldiers in Iraq, in what the White House had advertised heavily beforehand as an "unscripted event", a woman had described what questions Bush would ask and suggested possible responses to the troops.

I wasn't paying attention closely to the report when I first noticed it, but I think that the woman was identified as a Pentagon employee.

What surprised me is that both Ms. Malveaux and the anchor referred to the Bush administration's preference for sucfh scripted events (a topic usually ignored by the MSM media, which barely mentioned it during last year's campaign) and that Ms. Malveaux, while tape of the "practice session" played on a split screen, said that "the curtains had been pulled back" because CNN had seen the satellite feed of those preparations.  Catch it if you can--you'll be reminded of that scene in The Wizard of Oz when the curtain was pulled aside.