Synonyms

From the New York Times Website:

_{Jim Watson/AFP -- Getty ImagesPresident Bush, appearing before a friendly audience (emphasis added) in Falls Church, Va., wrapped up his 60-day promotional campaign for Social Security reform.}

An exercise in understatement.

"Friendly" is certainly a fair way to describe the audience at a typical Social Security Road Show appearance.

If I were the caption writer, I might choose something a bit more descriptive and, frankly, accurate. "Hand picked" comes to mind. "Rabidly partisan," would be another good one. "Purged of any and all dissent;" "loyalist;" "unthinking;" "sycophantic;" There are tons of really good adjectives to describe a pack of Bush supporters. "Friendly" will do, though.