Ummm.... is this what they call irony? Or is it black potted-ness?

From Time:

If the press was so free in the U.S., Putin asked, then why had those reporters at CBS lost their jobs? Bush was openmouthed. "Putin thought we'd fired Dan Rather," says a senior Administration official. "It was like something out of 1984." The Russians did not let the matter drop. Later, during the leaders' joint press conference, one of the questioners Putin called on asked Bush about the very same firings, a coincidence the White House assumed had been orchestrated. [emphasis mine]

Interesting, and the White House would know about orchestrated questions during press conferences, so they must be right...