Did Floyd Landis just have his "Dixie Chicks" moment?*

*(Or, if you prefer, his Charles Barkley moment?)

This morning I watched the time-shifted replay as Floyd Landis won the Tour de France, the third American to do so.

Lance Armstrong, who won the Tour the last seven years in a row, accepted an invitation last year to ride with fellow Texan George "Crash" Bush at his Crawford faux ranch. Those of us who admired Lance's achievement wrote off the ride-with-Bush thing as something that heads of huge charity foundations do for the good of the order, although it was a pretty depressing sight.

This year, Landis got a congratulatory call from Bush and an invitation to the White House.

Seems unlikely that he'll get an invitation to go cycling with the Peddler in Chief, though, and not just because Landis is from Pennsylvania. Courtesy of Josh Marshall, here's a moment from an interview Landis gave on Thursday following his amazing recovery from his dreadful performance the day before:

We pick it up as Landis' cell phone begins ringing:

Reporter: Is that Bush?

Landis (laughing): I doubt it. I'll hang up.

(Video clip of the interview is available here, although it's only viewable in IE and Netscape--apparently VeloNews hasn't caught up with the open-source movement.)

Probably for the best if Landis doesn't get the royal invitation; Bush probably thinks maillot jaune  is French for "outhouse," anyway.