Mandela "Bushwhacked" Off At Press Briefing

"The Day George Bush Killed Off Nelson Mandela" from the UK Daily Mail reports that President Bush, in a meeting with the press, said former South African President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Nelson Mandela was dead, setting off great concern that Bush was privy to information that the rest of the world wasn't - when in fact, Mandela is alive.  This was another Bushism that didn't exactly help the point he was trying to make. 

"I heard somebody say, 'Where's Mandela?'" said Mr Bush.

"Well, Mandela's dead because Saddam Hussein killed all the Mandelas," he added, to the general bemusement of the White House press corps.

The South African authorities were besieged with calls after Mr Bush's speech, which was carried live by TV news networks.

Many viewers feared the country's first black president and Nobel Peace Prize winner had died.