They call them jabs, instead of shots, in England, which just cracks me up.
The follow up question to every single one of these adminstrators who seem perplexed about people not wanting to hear from the President of the US [i read in another article that the Montgomery county MD superintendant of schools couldn't imagine why people didn't want to hear him, but "it's a diverse country'] WOULD you be equally perplexed if people were calling to protest the airing of a msg from President Bush, or would that be TOTALLY explicable to you?