One more little gem from Mugger from a New Yorker piece. The piece is not available online as yet, but here's Ken Auletta discussing it.

Auletta led with the months-old scoop that the president doesn’t spend much time reading daily newspapers. He writes: "‘How do you then know what the public thinks?’ a reporter asked, according to Bush aides and reporters who heard the exchange. And Bush replied, ‘You’re making a huge assumption–that you represent what the public thinks.’"

That must have looked as fat as beachball coming over the plate to Bush.