Michelle Kosinski yesterday accused Bush of staging his video conference with the troops in Iraq.

She, in turn, found herself, er, up a creek. (Via OTB)

In an apparent effort to draw attention to herself, in yesterday’s segment she turned up in hip waders, standing thigh-deep in the flood waters.

Taking her act one step further, this morning she appeared on a suburban street . . . paddling a canoe. There was one small problem. Just as the segment came on the air, two men waded in front of Kosinki . . . and the water barely covered their shoe tops! That’s right, Kosinski’s canoe was in no more than four to six inches of water!

An embarrassed Kosinski claimed the water was deeper down the street but that her producers didn’t want to let her go there for fear she’d drift away. But Katie and Matt, perhaps peeved by her attempted scene-stealing, couldn’t resist ribbing her.

Matt: “Are these holy men, perhaps walking on top of the water?”

“Gee, is your oar hitting ground, Michelle?” inquired Katie, as she and Matt dissolved into laughter.

Moral of the story: people in canoes in a few inches of water shouldn’t throw video-stunt stones.

Man, that’s funny. (As usual, Ian has the video, though it looks like Drudge might have killed his server. Quite a way to congratulate him on his one year blogoversary, which I think was yesterday.)

UPDATE: Incidentally, Sgt Ron Long was at the press conference that was allegedly “staged.” Read what he has to say. (Via MM)

And Kevin really likes this quote: “It’s not like we were trying to pass it off as something it wasn’t”