Color Coordinated Cathedral

I usually scoff at "journalists" who waste air time or print space commenting on how politicians and their wives are attired. Tell me about the substance but lose the superficial shit! I would shout at the boob on the tube. So it was with some irony that I found myself noticing how well the color of the President's shirt coordinated with the lighting on the church in the background. Ignorant of the facts, I found myself assuming that some flunky ran out, or flew to a nearby city to buy a shirt that matched the powder blue illumination on the church. The shirt puffed out the way new dress shirts do the first time you wear them. The shirt also seemed to be a size or two too big for the prez, reinforcing my impression of a hasty acquisition.
But a comment on Washington Week shed a new light on the whole thing for me. I forget which female reporter it was (maybe the Raddatz woman from ABC) informed us that the lights were brought in specially for the speech, as was the power to light them up. Not only were the colors coordinated by the White House propaganda machine, they went to a lot of trouble to make that church visible in the background. The pretty picture that the Prez presented was aimed at the gullible American masses who take comfort in the soothing colors, the link to religion, and Bush's newfound awareness of the charitable part of Christianity. But the people who were affected by the hurricane were left without power, electrical or political, after Mr. Bush and his crew left.