Bush explains why he wouldn’t talk about his young-and-foolish days on the campaign trail

[spillthebeans]

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Has anyone the full clip?

Take, for instance, the matter of Douglas Wead, the evangelical author who secretly taped conservations with then–Texas governor Bush in the late 1990s. Stewart played a tape of Bush telling Wead why he wouldn’t talk about his young-and-foolish days on the campaign trail: he didn’t want a kid to be able to say, "Hey, Daddy, President Bush tried marijuana, I think I will." Much hooting, as Stewart snickered and made fun of the way Bush said "Hey, Daddy." Next we heard Bush saying that he would not discriminate against gays if he became president. "I like this guy on tape," Stewart said. "Why did this guy" — he pointed to a photo of Bush in ’98 — "get replaced by this guy" — the photo changed to a picture of Bush delivering his recent State of the Union speech. "I like the tape guy. The tape guy seems nice. That guy — not so nice."

But if Stewart was put off by Bush, he seemed equally offended by Wead, whom he described as "following in the footsteps of Linda Tripp." He played a clip of Wead telling CNN’s Anderson Cooper why he had decided to turn the tapes over to Bush and to stop doing interviews.

Wead: "I would rather be a good man with mediocre book sales than a mediocre man with big book sales."

Stewart: "Would you settle for douche bag with a library card?"

It was the sort of thing you could almost imagine Bill O’Reilly saying. Only he wouldn’t have laughed.

http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/top/features/documents/04509218.asp



There is probably no copy of this tape on the internets, or is there one ?

Perhaps a more authentic and confessional George W. Bush can be found in another story that did not get nearly as much attention. In early October, 2004, I interviewed Mickey Herskowitz, a professional ghostwriter who is also a longtime friend of the Bush family. Herskowitz, unlike Wead, actually did sign a contract with George W. Bush to write his pre-presidential biography, “A Charge to Keep,” and had churned out a majority of chapters before being removed from the project by Bush staffers for including too many candid comments by the candidate. These came from taped interviews, the gist of which were later shared with me, in a conversation that I taped.

Among the revelatory comments that Herskowitz claimed Bush made:


Bush told Herskowitz back in 1999 that he hoped to invade Iraq if elected president, because it would gain him “political capital” and the benefits of being seen as a “commander in chief.”

Bush blithely admitted to Herskowitz that he had failed to fulfill any of his Vietnam-era National Guard obligations during a half-year in Alabama and had stopped flying for good. These admissions stand in stark contrast to the repeated public assertions later made both by Bush and White House spokesmen that he had in fact served in Alabama and that he continued to fly until his discharge

http://www.gnn.tv/articles/1175/Controversial_Secret_Tapes_Reveal_Shocker_Bush_Actually_a_Great_Guy

[sam sarrha]

1. and the same goes for smoke'n Poles..

[indepat]

2. Every evasion or lie is for the greater glory of God, greater service to mankind

:D

[spillthebeans]

3. yep and the lie gets extra treatment

I'll probably say it three more times. See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda G.W.Bush