I would like to take this opportunity to apologise to you lot over the pond on behalf of us normal Brits.
Sorry we still have this ridiculous monarchy.
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Again, let me say that I don't want to diss the Royal Wedding. It was truly a great wedding. Nobody but nobody does weddings like the British. Nobody does funerals like the Vatican and nobody does weddings like the British. It's your unique talent, so celebrate it with pride.
And what is America's special talent? That would be taking few simple facts and stretching them into three weeks of 24/7 "news" coverage. Nobody does that better than we Americans do.
And so for weeks before the wedding we had the wedding. "We interrupt our regularly-scheduled special continuous coverage of the lead-up to the Royal Wedding to bring you the latest breaking bulletin: New rumors have emerged about Kate's dress!!!! And now for complete coverage of these latest rumors, we go live via satellite to our special Dress Rumor Reporter in London...." Oh my goodness... And then there was the actual wedding, of course. And for days and days after that all we had was post-wedding coverage. The entire nation was on the verge of, "if I hear one more psychoanalysis of one more hat, I'm going to kill someone!" And the obvious next direction was to look more closely at this whole Elton John thing... not a good idea. A national crisis was brewing. Bold action was needed.
The Pope tried to break this terrible cycle. Unfortunately, he didn't die so we could have one of those epic Vatican Funerals. Instead, he just beatified John Paul II. It wasn't enough.
We tried killing off one of Gadhafi's kids, but that's been done before. Yawn.
It's not really the Brits' fault. Y'all had a nice wedding. You wore some nice hats (nobody but nobody does ladies' hats like the British). And now you're over it. It's not your fault that the American media, like an American Pitt Bull Terrier, had locked its jaws on the thing and was now busy doing what it does best.
After the Pope failed, the President did the right thing... and thank goodness for it. Today, we have enjoyed a day blissfully free of guest list updates. Instead of spending another divisive day arguing over which kiss was better, we spend the day unified in our celebration of one success.
Mission Accomplished, Mr. President.
Oh.... and killing that Bin Laden guy was a good bonus. Nice work on that too.