President Obama: We Can't Release Photos of Bin Laden Lest We Be Perceived as Doing the Icky Shuffle on Bin Laden's Body

Stunningly, the Obama administration has reversed course and decided not to release photographs of Osama Bin Laden's corpse. And the President used a handsome gridiron analogy to get his point across.

Via White House press secretary Jay Carney, Obama lectures that we “don’t need to spike footballs” and echoed GOP Rep. Rogers’ line that OBL is not a “trophy.”

RennaW hits the nail on the head in her rejoinder to Obama’s admonishment about spiking footballs: “Said the guy who said ‘I won’…and spent $150 million on [his] inauguration.”

Oh, and stupidity isn't limited to just one side of the aisle.

Rep. Mike Rogers, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, says the picture could inflame anti-U.S. sentiments around the world and hamper intelligence cooperation with the United States. He says conspiracy theorists won’t be persuaded no matter what the U.S. does.

Let me get this straight, Mr. Rogers -- if that is your real name -- releasing the Bin Laden death photos could inflame anti-U.S. sentiment to the point where extremists could fly planes into buildings, killing thousands of innocent civilians?

Really?

Release the damn photos already. Appeasement of extremism breeds extremism. Killing terrorists dissuades terrorists.

Release the damn photos. The gorier, the better.