Bush's watch caper

By now you've heard about the stolen watch that wasn't. Wonder who first saw this and started the ball rolling? Was it perhaps some of those feral beasts in the UK Tony was talking about?

My off-the-bat conspiratorial guess was that someone on the left noticed it and spread it around with the intent of changing the storyline from "European crowd swarms love on Bush" to "Eurotrash steals Bush's watch". Maybe phase II was to claim Bush spiked the crowd by announcing he was handing out free watches.

But there's a problem with that. Drawing attention to the pilfered watch forces people to view the video of Bush being mobbed and adored, which is probably why leftistan here in America has seemingly yawned and moved along. Besides, playing the story requires explaining how such an inconvenient truth could possibly occur in light of our lousy world image. This surely had to hurt:

Albania issued three postage stamps with Bush's picture and the Statue of Liberty, renamed a street in front of parliament in his honor, awarded him the highest National Flag medal, and the Fushe Kruje town council declared him an honored citizen.

So, whodunit? Snow said the prez just put it in his pocket, but it clearly seemed to be there one minute and gone the next, and he looked down twice. Did the security detail pick it up and give it to the president, who THEN put it in his pocket? I smell a coverup! Someone ring the bell and alert Waxman so he can warm up the Waxmobile.

There's cause for alarm if the White House is bluffing and the timepiece later shows up on eBay. After all, this was a presidential watch--how do we know it didn't contain the secret nookular launch codes or perhaps some form of sophisticated messaging system between him and Rove, Halliburton, or special agent Hilton? Shuddering. Or perhaps an even more sinister communications device relaying orders from the real doctor evil behind Bushco, Inc.