E! Online Reports Bush Drinking and Marriage Troubles Rumors

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E! Online Reports Bush Drinking and Marriage Troubles Rumors
Posted by Jon Ponder | Apr. 20, 2007, 7:22 am

Ted Casablanca, the former gossip columnist for Premiere Magazine who now writes for E! online, is reporting rumors that circulated on supermarket tabloids, at BuzzFlash and here at Pensito Review months ago — Pres. Bush is drinking again and Laura has moved out:

Is there trouble at the White House between Dubya and first lady Laura Bush? I hear someone’s headed for a hotel, could she already be there? Hmmm…

“She’s staying at the Hay-Adams. I don’t know how many people know…but it’s probably not many.”

That’s my Desk DeeCee, hard at busybody work, informing me further of what this column has more than hinted at before: that the U.S. Chief of Grief, George W. Bush, has a wife (by the name of Laura, ‘course) who’s so damn put out by the teetotaling Texan’s return to drinking that she had to get outta the White House. Woo-hoo! That be first-class First Lady dish there, my darlin’ goss lovers!

“She just couldn’t take it anymore,” whispered a former White House staffer who remains superclose to Miz Bush. “She’s had it.”

http://www.pensitoreview.com/2007/04/20/e-online-reports-bush-marriage-trouble/

[ingac70]

1. Laura hasn't been in the news much lately.....

They used to show stuff on her all the time.

Hmmmm.....

[bmbmd]

33. You can see an in-depth interview with LB

on the Golf Channel-Sunday at nine eastern. For a preview try

www.golfchannel.com

[Reverend_Smitty]

2. I usually don't put a lot of faith in gossip columns but...

honestly how far fetched is it? I could totally see this happening, I noticed the other day at the VT memorial, Bush was slurring

[Cleita]

13. If the Bush loving press is even saying this, it's probably

far worse.

[roguevalley]

47. check out the Globe and the National enquirer. they are ahead of

the curve half the time and the National enquirer always vets their stories with lawyers here in the USA. We can but hope.

[lligrd]

3. If His Drinking Is The Only Thing Getting To Mrs. Dumya

she is as bad as he is.

[SammyWinstonJack]

39. No shit! nt

[jazzjunkysue]

51. Exactly. The drinking is nothing compaired to being a total asshole.

[MonkeyFunk]

4. I think it's nonsense...

do you really believe the press would NOT report his drinking? Helen Thomas wouldn't? David Gregor wouldn't?

It would be the biggest story of his presidency, given the sensationalist nature of the media today. And for some reason nobody wants to touch it? It could make a journalist's career.

[Cobalt-60]

7. Headline: Dubya did not drink today

[Phredicles]

8. Yes, I absolutely believe the mainstream press would not report

the Dear Leader's drinking. The way they cover for him is astonishing. Have they ever once asked what Jeff Gannon was doing at the White House all those times? Talk about a story made for sensationlism mongers...

[depakid]

15. Agreed completely

However, that doesn't mean I believe this story....;-)

[MonkeyFunk]

25. Maybe because

there never really was much of a story there.

They DID ask questions. They just didn't lead to anything dramatic, like the charges often put forward here.

I don't believe the entire Washington press corps would hide the fact that Bush was drinking heavily.

[calimary]

53. They would if they didn't want their credentials yanked.

They'll all tow the line because kkkarl rove and cheney and his minions still walk the earth, still have phones available to them to call the network brass or the corporate owners and lean on 'em to keep the peons downstairs in the press corps in line.

A mortal sin among these people would be to do something that winds up denying them their precious "access." They'll sell their souls for "access." Exhibit A: bob woodward. I rest my case.

[nadinbrzezinski]

19. Hmm that is why the Main Stream media told us about

reagan's Alzheimers in a timely manner

No, there are soem things they don't tell you. That Alzheimers case is one of them

How about Kennedy's extensive use of pain medications (for his very valid back problems) they also told you about them, right? WRONG, on both counts.

They kept that info away from the American people

[MonkeyFunk]

26. I don't know that Reagan

was actually diagnosed during his presidency. But there certainly was plenty of speculation about his mental faculties, and if the press KNEW he had been diagnosed with alzheimers, I don't think they would've sat on it.

You can't compare JFK to now - times are very different.

[Frank Cannon]

32. If it wasn't formerly diagnosed during his presidency...

people around him knew that there was something seriously wrong with him. I remember one world leader at the time said he was shocked at how during a meeting, Reagan would read almost every single thing he said off of note cards. Even simple things like, "What do you think, Bob?"

[silverojo]

20. Rethink this, please:

<<And for some reason nobody wants to touch it? It could make a journalist's career.>>

It could also make the end of his/her life. Not too many people are willing to stand up to B*$hCo....

[MonkeyFunk]

23. Oh

I also think people who thnk Bush has people murdered for annoying him are paranoid.

[aquart]

49. That would be me then.

[mwb970]

27. What are you saying? They would cover it up.

If our media found out that the Twerp was hitting the sauce, they would fall all over themselves ignoring it and failing to report it. There are so many "big stories" about this administration (9/11 anyone?) that the press will simply not touch. Their mission is apparently to protect Bush and Cheney as much as possible. Why, I have no idea.

[MonkeyFunk]

28. This isn't a complicated story

like 9/11.

It's a simple binary thing - either he's drinking or he isn't.

You think Helen Thomas would keep it a secret? Why?

Now... it may be possible that he IS drinking. I doubt it, but it's possible. but if he is, it is not common knowledge among the White House press.

[Frank Cannon]

34. I think in the interest of national security, even Helen Thomas...

won't touch the story that the President is completely drunk off his ass almost every single day.

The fact that no one in the MSM will even ASK THE QUESTION is grounds for me to be suspicious, especially when full-blown alcoholism is a simple and obvious explanation for every aspect of his bizarre behavior.

[MonkeyFunk]

35. If I were a big-name reporter

I'd tell the President we were running the story in two days time, unless he resigned for health reasons.

THAT'S how you protect national security.

[Frank Cannon]

46. Oh, I agree wholeheartedly

But who in our White House press corps has the effrontery to do that? Their very jobs exist "at the pleasure of the White House". So who's going to ask the very simple (and necessary) question, "Have you been drinking?" Please watch the video of Bush's latest speech in Ohio and tell me that you don't think he's on something. There's just no possible way that you could think he's substance-free.

[MonkeyFunk]

48. Helen Thomas would

[nadinbrzezinski]

60. No she would't, for the same reason

she did not ask the Kennedy WH or the reagan WHI

Her generation those things were private.

So no, she would not

[WinkyDink]

43. Journalists have much bigger bosses than their editors. And maybe this news IS DG's ace in the hole.

[saracat]

45. David Gregory? You jest? He has been totally kissing Bush's butt lately!

Someone stole his cojones big time! He would NOT report Bush drinking!

[Ilsa]

57. I bet the "enemy media" never gets close enough to * to know

anything about it. His handlers only let friendlies close to him. I wonder about people who meet and greet him at social functions for Rethuglicans and if they'd talk if they noticed drunkeness.

[itsrobert]

5. She's probably getting a tummy tuck

and the fat suck out of her thighs.

[illinoisprogressive]

6. don't trust the gossip of E but, it's soooooo fun to think it might be true!

[MS Liberal]

9. I know it is not true.

If it was true Dick would have had him removed so he could officially sit in the big chair.

[WinkyDink]

44. You're joking, right? Dick ALREADY sits there; he doesn't need the title.

[PDJane]

10. She was hanging on to him, too........

Which she rarely does in public.

Do I think he could be drinking again?

Oh, hell yes. We're back to that bunch of sychophants hiding the fact of George's criminality, sadism, lack of manners and class.......of course, they'd hide it.

[phaseolus]

14. He never stopped.

Friend of mine used to work in an Austin TX restaurant when he was governor, and she'd serve him bourbon in one of those little red plastic tumblers so it looked like soda. This was after he made a big public fuss about Jesus helping him be a teetotaler...

[MelissaB]

30. That's not surprising.

Thanks for the story.

[hughee99]

11. How would anyone at E! know?

was he "clubbing with gal-pals Lindsey Lohan, Paris Hilton and Britney Spears"?

[earthlover]

12. all the credibility of supermarket tabloids...

So what is the scoop here? A supermarket tabloid tells a story some would like to believe. Any news about bigfoot? Any dirt on celebrities? Is Princess Diane really alive and boozing it up? I think that was in the same issue....

[nadinbrzezinski]

18. They have broken some stories from time to time

the whole Jennifer Flowers bit, first exploded in the Enquirer

that is the only reason I pay attnetion to them on the way out

Or as the men in black used to put it... that is where the real news is (not in a newsie sense whatsoever, rather cultural)

[earthlover]

36. i think we need to see some evidence

BEFORE we spread rumors. If we spread rumors and it turns out to be false, it is US who looks like a fool. I know it would be 1) believable, 2) ironic, 3) serves-him-right, 4) damaging-to-Bush, 5) etc if these rumors were true. But if we spread them and it turns out that the rumors were unsubstantiated except for a newspaper tabloid, WE are the ones who look like idiots, and all this would do for Bush would get him sympathy for being unfairly attacked for something he didn't do.

So...what is the substantiation that the tabloids used in their story to give evidence for their assertion? We need to be skeptical of the press....even when it tells stories that we would like to be true.

Of course there is irony here. Bush got us into Iraq by feeding the american public a lot of unsubstantiated things people wanted to believe....so if people believe unsubstantiated things about him it serves him right....but, then again, we don't want to stoop to his level, do we?

[WinkyDink]

42. The NE, Star , and Globe are NOT "Weekly News of the World".

PEOPLE magazine is just a glossier NE. And gossip columnists in the Daily News or NY Post are sisters under the skin as well.
How ELSE do you think you know anything at all of celebrities? MTP? Even KO uses the tabloids.
Are the tabloids INCORRECT when they write of Angelina's adoptions? No. ANS's baby's paternity? No. JFK, Jr's Caroline's drug use? No. Charles and Camilla's secret taped phone calls? No.

What the tabloids ARE, MANY times, are the vanguard of stories.

Nobody else had evidence of OJ's Bruno Magli's, not even the prosecution. The NE found the photos, though.

Re: Evidence. You don't think there are witnesses in hotels (reservations, maintenance, dining, room service), or even on the WH staff that won't dish for cash? Hahahah!

[gauguin57]

16. In every speech this week, Bush sounded either drunk or clinicallly depressed.

Extremely slow, slurred speech pattern (much moreso than usual). Looked really hangdog, like he'd lost his last friend in the world.

That's all we need ... a drunk or depressed dude with his itchy trigger finger on the button!

[nadinbrzezinski]

17. rumor moving into the mainstraem now

folks I don't wish marital hell to anybody, not even George, but the irony... oh the irony

Oh and the line used by the tabloids

It is me or Jim George (as in Jim Bean)

[lonestarnot]

21. Maybe a plan stan as little bushitler pointed out every US target

in Iraq this afternoon. She prollee reminded him of what a simpleton he is and they had a pickle pucker.

[Eurobabe]

22. Don't be trashin' Ted, he's usually pretty spot-on

Laura has been looking pretty sour these days.

[SoCalDem]

24. Nope.. the WH is plenty big enough fot them to both live there

and never see each other except when there's a photo op.. No need for her to "move out"..

[yurbud]

29. I have trouble believing they ever slept together after the Jeff Gannon story.

His kids were probably conceived the way Michael Jackson's were, with a turkey baster.

[SpiralHawk]

38. "Jeffie was my boy toy." - L. Bush, National Inquirer

"So stop insinuating otherwise..."

[annabanana]

31. Well. . It's more coverage than the Globe!

This kind of thing (true or not) was what was used to crucify Clinton. I'm not sure I approve of its being leveled at the B*sh's. . but there is some Karmic amusement...

[SpiralHawk]

37. "We can't take it anymore either." - Patriotic & Honest American citizens

Flush this corrupt republicon occultist and his corrupt republicon Skull & Bones cronies down the crap hole of history, for the sake of the United States of America.

[peekaloo]

40. "U.S. Chief of Grief" !!!

:-)

[HamdenRice]

41. Believe your eyes. Bush gets drunk

There is video of Bush drunk. The most prominent is the "very boring" wedding footage. There was also a public speech in which he was clearly drunk.

The entire found God, stopped drinking meme was just a marketing ploy.

[Madspirit]

50. Before She Married Chimpy

Pre-marriage to Chimpy, Laura was a Eugene McCarthy liberal Democrat. She even worked on his campaign. That's VERY progressive for those too young to remember Eugene McCarthy.

See what happens when you sell your soul.
Lee

[pscot]

59. McCarthy opposed the war in Viet Nam

but he was not particularly liberal in the popular sense. He was more a Pat Moynihan type.

[jazzjunkysue]

52. Have we seen the first couple together lately?

Would she get on and off Air Force 1 just for the pretense?

[calimary]

54. Of course she would. It's all about manipulating public opinion.

When she has to, I'll bet she pastes her plastic smile on and acts up a storm like a regular Katharine Hepburn. Image. PERCEPTION is everything. Even if it's nothing more than a projection on a cloud of smoke.

[jazzjunkysue]

55. Wonder how long she'll go along with the charade with Condi taking her

place at the white house?

[jazzjunkysue]

56. Save Alberto! Hurry!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=723493&mesg_id=723493

[orleans]

58. what editor in msm would run the story about a drunk bush with his finger

on the button? no one has the courage for such a thing.

(and if laura is out of the house the fuckhead probably kicked her out for smoking!)