ABC News: White House Advance Team Staged Applause for Bush Speech

AmericaBlog has the story:

ABC's Terry Moran just reported that the only time Bush got applause was in the middle of his speech when a White House advance team member started clapping all on their own in order to cajole the soldiers into clapping, which they dutifully did.

So even the applause was fake

Why, oh why, am I not surprised?