ATL Caption Contest: Mr. Easter Bunny, White House Counsel Fred Fielding
Here's a photo of President Bush and his White House Counsel -- Fred Fielding, former senior partner at Wiley Rein (fka Wiley Rein & Fielding), dressed up as the Easter Bunny -- at the White House Easter Egg Roll earlier this week:

Quips our tipster: "One can only hope Fielding isn't splitting hares. Or giving hare-brained advice."
Okay, you're groaning. Think you can do better? Then enter the ATL caption contest. Same rules as before:
We welcome your suggested alternative captions, in the comments. Assuming sufficient response, we'll take our favorites, incorporate them into a poll, and hold a caption contest.
We doubt we'll receive as many submissions as we did for our last caption contest. But we're going to limit the entries this time: we're closing the comments if and when we hit the 100-comment mark. So if you'd like to enter the contest, don't delay. Thanks.
Update (2 PM): Okay, we'll let it get up to 200 comments. We especially appreciate suggested captions that are in some way law-related. What makes this picture relevant to ATL is the fact that the man in the bunny suit is President Bush's chief lawyer (and a former name partner of a leading D.C. law firm).
If we just wanted to post a random, funny photo of the president with the Easter bunny, we would have used this one.
Update (4:50 PM): You seem to be having a lot of fun with this, so we will keep the comments open indefinitely. But in picking the finalists, we will focus on comments that have a connection to the legal profession (as opposed to comments that are more politically oriented or simply random).
Update (3/31/08): Thanks for all the excellent entries. The comments section is now closed.
The rabbit behind the man: White House counsel Fred Fielding [Washington Post]
Bush Hugging Bunny [Wonkette]

No stranger to subverting the rules, Bush obtains inside information on the location of an Easter egg containing the $3 trillion he'll need to pay for his Iraq War.
Your tipster should be shot for making either of those "jokes."
first
Bunny: "No Sir, none of the eggs contain Iranian nukes..."
Bush: [garbled nonsense]
Bunny: "Emphatically, I am NOT working for Tehran, but I'll tender my resignation to Cheney when out of the suit."
George Dubbya Bush can barely contain his delight as the Easter Bunny reaches low in his own "egg hunt".
In need of strategic and tactical planning, the White House brings back Karl Rove to assist with the Easter Egg Roll.
"Heh, hey Dick, get a load this here big-ass bunny."
please fix the crappy response from vizu.com. Pages on this site never stop trying to load because they get hung up waiting for that money-grubbing service site.
"And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives! You don't want the truth because deep down in places you don't talk about at parties...you want me on that wall."
"I left a firm with over $4 million in PPP to do THIS???"
"The Easter bunny telling Pres. Bush that Iraq has WMD"
More people believe in the ability of a rabbit to lay an egg than believe in the ability of the president to solve long division.
"Things I don't believe in."
Mr. Bush welcomed the President of Easter Island to the White House, much to the confusion of the children and media in attendance for the annual South Lawn Egg Hunt.
Rabbit - "Sorry to disappoint you Mr. President, but someone lied to you: the dollar bills are rolled up ONLY to fit in the eggs, and THAT's just fake snow powder we put on the hedges."
"In an attempt to show bipartisanship, President Bush poses with Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi"
"The Easter Bunny, secretly a deadly assassin in the employ of Al Quaeda, sneaks up on our courageous leader"
The first rule of makeup is: You can never have too much purple eyeliner.
It's just a harmless little bunny, is it? Run away, run away, run away!
If you don't get the Monty Python reference, see:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCI18qAoKq4
At midnight on October 2 a Tangent Universe branches off the Primary Universe around the time when Georgie is called out of his bedroom by Fred, immediately before the appearance of the Artifact, the faulty jet engine. The inherently unstable Tangent Universe will collapse in just over 28 days and take the Primary Universe with it if not corrected. Closing the Tangent Universe is the duty of the Living Receiver, Georgie, who wields certain supernatural powers to help him in the task.
The Mad Hatter and the March Hare discuss the legality of waterboarding the Dormouse.
Bush and Peter Cottontail, hopping down the bunny trail. Hippity-hoppity, tax stimulus checks are on the way. Bringing ever husband and wife a hand out we'll be paying for for life. Free money to make you forget about deficits, war, and strife.
"One of these people is smarter than a slow adult. The other is the president of the United States."
The Mad Hatter and the March Hare discuss the legality of waterboarding the Dormouse.
Waterboarding the Dormouse was supposed to be a hyperlink to this: http://www.fromoldbooks.org/LewisCaroll-AliceInWonderland/pages/alice_07c/#details. In case that doesnt come out in the comment, its also the link in my name for this comment.
George: Why do you wear that stupid bunny suit?
Bunny: Why do you wear that stupid man suit?
Like most of the other members of the administration, it appears that the White House Counsel/Easter Bunny is a mouth breather.
The storm is coming, Frank says / A storm that will swallow the children / And I will deliver them from the kingdom of pain / I will deliver the children back the their doorsteps / And send the monsters back to the underground / I'll send them back to a place where no-one else can see them / Except for me / Because I am George W. Bush.
Two White House Employees - one hides eggs, the other lays them.
Bugs Bunny sports his new disguise to once again befuddle Elmer Fudd.
Not to be confused with the deep throat seder bunny Elliot Spitzer hired last year!
"Gosh darnit! I can't go anywhere without some joker trying to impersonate me!"
"Mr. President, I wanted to let you know that I put the last of those White House e-mails down the rabbit hole."
Still unable to find Osama Bin Laden, Bush offers the people of the United States the Easter Bunny and the toothfairy (not pictured).
Shocked, the slightly graying Easter Bunny realizes that he forgot to put a flag pin on his lapel.
President Bush, astonished that it's finally happened, gasps to the crowd, "So now you can see him too???"
"Stop looking at me SWAN---wait, it's a RABBIT---WTF???"
Fearing his cover will be blown by liberal cries of "science" and "facts", the Easter Bunny prepares to ask President Bush to decry rumors of his imaginary existence as "just a theory."
"Come on, now! There are some foreign dignitaries that even I won't hold hands with."
"...a grin without a brain! It's the most curious thing I ever saw in all my life!"
Sir, please take your blue pill now.
Bunny: "You want me to put my head where?!?"
Mr. Bush forgets to wear pants again, as the aghast Easter Bunny looks on.
Bunny thinking to himself: "Mmm Mmm ... nice arse, I'd love to tap that"
I believe that the first comment should win.
"Psst. I hear you hide eggs. Can you hide WMDs?"
Come with me and you'll be
In a world of pure imagination.
Take a look and you'll see
Into your imagination.
We'll begin with a spin
Traveling in the world of my creation.
What we'll see will defy
Explanation.
If you want to view paradise
Simply look around and view it.
Anything you want to, do it.
Wanta change the world?
There's nothing to it!
There is no life I know
To compare with pure imagination.
Living there you'll be free
If you truly wish to be!
BUNNY: Iran poses a grave and imminent threat to the security of this nation.
BUSH: The Almighty himself has informed me that Iran poses a grave and imminent threat to the security of this nation.
End it now. 1:05(2) cannot be topped.
1:27(3) - Thanks
Best 5 so far:
1:29(1)
1:06
1:21
1:11(2)
1:01(1)
People posting dialogue between Bush and the rabbit:
It doesn't fit with the picture, they aren't even looking at each other. Come up with something else.
Not Pictured: Vice President Dick Cheney loading 12 Gauge Mossberg Pump
It's too long, but thank you Willy Wonka.
When the men on the chess board
get up and tell you where to go
And you just had some kind of mushroom
And your mind is moving slow
Go ask Alice
I think she'll know
Klerk, I like your 1:11 submission: "The Mad Hatter and the March Hare discuss the legality of waterboarding the Dormouse."
Lat -- you avoided me at lunch time today, but don't think I won't be waiting for you by the bike rack after school, ready to stomp all over you.
1:34 - The critic, engaging in the destructive task of negation, adds not even a fraction the value of the most insipid prose.
Seeing the Easter Bunny, Bush runs for cover out of fear that Cheney and a gun might be nearby.
White House insiders go to great lengths to ensure that the President does not find out the truth about Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny, lest it impede his ability to lead our Nation in these tumultuous times.
Once he had explained why Americans should be proud of our efforts in Iraq, and the crowd began to cheer, the bunny snuck up on him, holding the carrot low. It was so strange; you could almost see the fury in the frozen blue eyes; the bunny's hands were shaking. I totally knew he was going to strike, but then I woke up.
Former Latham partner, implicated in billing fraud (as reported just now on WSJ Law Blog), appears in bunny suit with President Bush.
"...as your counsel, I recommend the other left...."
Let's be serious . . . if someone tried to take a picture of myself with President Bush, I'd put on a disguise, too.
doh. typo - that second semicolon should be a period/new sentence in my 1:43 post.
(the lengths we go to stave off actual work.)
Shhhh... Be Vewy Quiet!
Typical day for the Bush Administration.
President Bush fails to realize that finding the Easter Bunny does not make WMDs in Iraq any less of a fairytale.
Easter Bunny? I thought that was Dana Perino!
Little did the President know, his 1978 LSD trip would soon come back to haunt him
All references to Donnie Darko should be worth extra points.
Having never mustered the heart to admit the truth to their son, once again Barbara and George Sr. talked White House Counsel, Fred Fielding, into dawning a bunny suit on Easter morning to keep their son's childhood belief alive. No stranger to fulfilling such roles, a humiliated Fielding later groaned, "All I can say is thank god he finally stopped losing teeth."
"Dude, I can't believe you told me this was a costume party!"
Cosplay Accomplished!
"The Puppet-Master is always watching his minions."
If you can get them to believe in me, WMDs can't be a great leap.
Yeah, well, nobody wants to be the guy that told the POTUS there is no Easter Bunny and Cheney said that if I play along I'll get a Supreme Court nomination. Hey, whatever happened with that Harriet woman?
I dressed up in this bunny suit and all I got was a feature on ATL.
I agree with 1:49(3)
Bushisms 2008: "Strategery - the bunny could be . . . my decoy!"
Yes, Mr. President, in a recent poll, more high school students could identify who I am.
Dudes at my teach-in used to drop acid and wear three piece suits all the time. Everyone was totally chill about it.
Easter Bunny: "Um, Mr. President, Sir? Did you remind Mr. Vice President Cheney that it's not rabbit season?"
You're doin a heck-of-a-job, Easter Bunny
Does this eye shadow make me look like a slut?
Bunny: Nice Ass.
Okay, so it is OVER now b/c 1:58(1) just wrote the funniest thing ever.
Mistaking the 43rd President of the United States for an ordinary garden carrot, Boobs the Strabismus-Inflicted Bucktooth Bunny seized upon the affable George W. Bush with a furor unrivaled by previous man-sized rabbits.
or
It was only a matter of time before the President's likeness to a taproot caught up with him.
or
"Hey G-dub. Is that a carrot in your pocket or are you just a dumbass?"
GW: "See America? I told you that WMDs were real! Just like the Tooth Fairy, Santa Claus, and the Easter Bunny!"
After ignoring the rule of law for seven years, President Bush finally found a use for the White House Counsel.
President Bush with longtime friend and confidante Harvey on Tuesday. The six-foot tall imaginary rabbit, an expert in defense policy, is perhaps best-known for his instrumental role in advising the President during preparation for the Iraq War.
lol at 1:18(2). I'd could actually see him saying that.
1:58(1) is definitely the best so far. Go ahead and delete all the comments before it and see if anyone can top it.
1:05(2) wins hands down
alternatively i suggest:
The President finally reveals the administration official that had been feeding him false intelligence on WMDs
Apparently they wanted someone scarier than Harriet Miers for the post.
Bunny: "Presidente! You wanna mas cocaina?"
President: "Si, bunny. Si, mucho. heh."
Yup, 1:58(1) takes the cake. The vast majority of the others are ridiculously stupid.
"Shhhhhhhh, be vewy vewy quiet; I'm hunting wabbits, heheheheheheh,"
Maybe this This White House counsel can be confirmed to SCOTUS.
Donnie: Why do you wear that stupid bunny suit?
Frank: Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?
"Hey Laura! Is it me, or does Karl Rove just keep getting fatter?"
Please stop. With the exception of 1:58(1), you should all be ashamed of yourselves. If only you could give "Easter Bunny" a nickname like "Brownie" - kinda difficult though.
Caption: President Bush feels right at home in Wonderland.
How is 1:58(2) so brilliant? Bush isn't even looking at the rabbit. There is no conversation between them.
[scolding camera with wagging finger] ... "I did not have sexual relations with that rabbit ... the Easter Bunny"
Good to see 1:58 re-posting praise for his quip in subsequent comments
Together: 28 days... 6 hours... 42 minutes... 12 seconds. That... is when we... invade... Iran.
But where did I hide the Constitution?
don't close yet - I'm working on it
2:13 - it was me posting praise for 1:58(1) and I'm not the original poster. Don't hate just cuz your post isn't getting any praise.
And if you go chasing rabbits
And you know you're going to fall
Tell 'em a waterboard-ed Qaeda-pillar
Has given you the call
Recall Alberto when he was just small
"President Bush with the newest member mascot of the U. of Penn State at the inauguration of its sixth law school campus."
2:11(2):
You've never spoken to a single person without looking at him? Are you an idiot? Ever sleep in a bunk bed and have a conversation with the person in the other bunk?
God this Bunny is creepy. I wonder if my lawyer could get a restraining order for me.
Tired of hiding in a burkha, Osama bin Laden tries on a new disguise.
"President Bush introduced the Easter Bunny to a group of pre-selected, hard-core conservative Republican children."
President Bush, flanked by the latest intern from Regent.
Fred Fielding, tired of the President ignoring his legal advice and trampling the Constitution, attempts to sway the President under the guise of Hip-Hop, the freindly neighborhood bunny.
President Bush attends Easter Day ceremonies with White House Counsel Fred Fielding dressed as the Easter Bunny. Not pictured, former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales attended the event as Holiday Armadillo.
Fred Fielding, tired of the President ignoring his legal advice and trampling the Constitution, attempts to sway the President under the guise of Hip-Hop, the freindly neighborhood bunny.
Rabbit: What do you mean you won't pay for paralegal filing? Where you goin' b*t&h?
A fictional creature cynically designed to provide seemingly harmless amusement to easily deceived children, based on a bizarre interpretation of Christanity and logic. Seen here with the Easter Bunny (r).
"President Bush introduced the Easter Bunny to a group of pre-selected, hard-core conservative Republican children."
"Someone please tell me that's not a wombat behind me."
Rabbit: What do you mean you won't pay for paralegal filing? Where you goin' b*t&h?
"On Easter Sunday, President Bush participated in a reenactment of Jesus' Resurrection as he has always envisioned it."
the donnie darko quote wins.
game over.
Rabbit: What do you mean you won't pay for paralegal filing? Where you goin' b*t&h?
2:02, 2:06, and 2:11 = 1:58.
Really, if 1:58 is the best that anyone could do, then "tipster" should just win.
I guess that answers the question of whether its better to get a JD or an MBA.
LOL at 2:31
2:28(1) should definitely be in the running...and no, it's not my post.
As Mr. Fielding asks President Bush to be introduced to the children as "Fred Bunny, Esq., White House Counsel," President Bush is momentarily - and justifiably - distracted by the appearance of the stunning Projects Manager from the National Press Foundation.
Yeah, let's talk about Kash a little. I think she is the Maria Bartiromo of Web 2.0. Smarter, quicker, and better-looking.
In the Rose Garden: With the unexpected retirement of Justice Breyer, President Bush moved quickly to nominate Hon. Br'er (6th Cir.) to the Supreme Court and asked Congress to quickly confirm his nominee, stating "A nomination had to be made. I'm the nominator, and I've nominated Judge Br'er to the bench so that childrens of all faiths can join in celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ."
Kash = plain
Maria Bartiromo = uniquely sexy
White House Counsel Fred Fielding demonstrates a proposed new "coercive interrogation technique" for President Bush.
Bush talking to Santa Claus--"I told you the Easter Bunny was real."
We're late! We're late! For a very important date!
2:45 - long but very good.
Kash = clever cutie
Maria = bigmouth BJQ
"President Bush, shortly after revealing that his affair with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in 2001 produced son, Joshua (pictured right)."
Because Pinocchio as White House counsel just wouldn't work
1:50 FTW.
Last Sunday President Bush revealed a new cabinet post sorely needed by his administration, Secretary of Fairy Tales.
Bushy cotton-tail isn't just an Elliot Spitzer joke anymore
Hahaha. 2:28 is awesome.
Fielding: Does this vest make me look gay?
"No, Fred, I don't think you understood me correctly. I asked for a _snow bunny_, not the easter bunny. Now go change out of that costume and help me roll up these dollar bills."
2:55 - there are four 2:28s, none of which are awesome
the winner is very clearly 12:54(3), a beacon of originality and genius
2:48 - So Maria is better?
How about the FIRST donnie darko quote wins?
In the final days of his presidency, Bush has teamed up with our Ally, the Madhatter, and both vow to prove the validity