Dogfight over videos of White House pup

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in time for next month's holidays, this dogfight is far from over.

Last year's "Barney Reloaded," which the White House modestly describes as a "holiday blockbuster video" that's "rich with drama and humor," features Bush, his chief of staff Andrew Card, and political adviser Karl Rove hamming it up on camera. What passes for a plot goes like this: Barney is charged with decorating the White House for Christmas, and when he decides to play instead, is gently scolded by the grownups.

"I know you've been out here a long time, because you've got snow everywhere," the president says in one scene. "You've got snow here on your leg--I mean, you need to be working and all you want to do is play ball, is all you want to do."

Orr said the highly anticipated but still-untitled sequel to "Barney Reloaded" is still in the planning stages. Complicating the production schedule is the expected arrival in the next few weeks of a new canine star: Miss Beazley. She will succeed Spot, an English springer spaniel who died in February.

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