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Posted on 09/09/2004 8:09:50 AM PDT by kattracks
The big bombshell promised by Kitty Kelley in her scorching anti-Bush book "The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty," has prematurely imploded, with a key witness behind the book's central charge now denying Kelley's version of her account."I categorically deny that I ever told Kitty Kelley that George W. Bush used cocaine at Camp David or that I ever saw him use cocaine at Camp David," ex-Bush sister-in-law Sharon Bush said in a statement issued yesterday, according to the Washington Post. Instead, said the one-time Bush family insider, "When Kitty Kelley raised drug use at Camp David, I responded by saying something along the lines of, 'Who would say such a thing?'"
The recantation of the book's central charge has flummoxed media outlets that were planning a mega roll-out for the anti-Bush screed.
When contacted by NewsMax Thursday morning, a spokesman for NBC's "Today Show," which had planned to showcase Kelley's book for three straight mornings in a row next week, couldn't say whether Sharon's statement would change their plans.
Newsweek magazine had already rejected an offer to excerpt the Kelley book because the Bush ex was the sole source of Kelley's big bombshell, with lead reporter Howard Fineman complaining Tuesday that the cocaine story was "un-checkable and an otherwise un-witnessable allegation. So if that's the best she's got, that's why we took a pass on it."
Despite the Sharon Bush debacle, Kelley's publisher is so far hanging tough.
"Doubleday stands fully behind the accuracy of Ms. Kelley's reporting and believes that everything she attributes to Sharon Bush in her book is an accurate account of their discussions," Associate Publisher Suzanne Herz told the Post. "Ms. Kelley met with Sharon Bush over the course of a four-hour lunch on April 1, 2003, at the Chelsea Bistro in Manhattan."
Still, industry insiders are wary of a repeat of the publishing disaster that transpired the last time a book claimed Bush was a coke user.
In 1999, St. Martin's Press was forced to recall 90,000 copies of "Fortunate Son," which alleged that then candidate George W. Bush had been arrested on a cocaine charge in 1972.
Only after the book hit stores did St. Martin's learn that the author of "Son," J.H. Hatfield, had served five years in jail in connection with a conspiracy to commit murder. The Bush book debacle is believed to have contributed to Hatfield's 2001 suicide by drug overdose.
Your post is worthy of your screen name!
The way the article reads, I get the impression the staff are trying to figure out if there's enough salvageable material in the book, weighed against the Sharon Bush disclaimer, to have Kelley on air and treat the Sharon Bush stuff as "unfortunate."
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"If Kitty displeases Hillary, she may be found in Fort Marcy Park..."
Just as long as she gets there.
You know what we could also do. ROTFLMAO!!!We could film her in a BSDM video with a Frankenkerry (Lantern Face) look alike and give her a little of her own medicine.
Heheheheheheh. The left is always in back-up, defensive mode lately. Don't you think someday they would get smart enought to realize that it is important to check out the facts of ALL stories, whether or not they like their political consequences?
(Apparently. . .they. . .just. . .aren't. . .that. . .swift. . .)
Instead, the left just keeps sticking its fingers in its ears and humming annoying to prevent themselves from learning the truth, LOLOL!
Or tell her to ask Katherine Willey (sp?) about the way the Democrat intimidation specialists operate. Ms Willey is probably still afraid to leave her house after the Dem intimidation squad terrorized her for months on end 6 or 7 years ago.
Attention: Susan Estrich.
That says it all...anybody reading this bee-ahhhtch fer "news" deserves to live in ignorance...MUD
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I think she needs the help of Bill's charisma to have even a marginal chance of winning.
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Recant may not be the right word, since she says she never told this Beech Bush was using drugs in the first place, but I'll take it!When contacted by NewsMax Thursday morning, a spokesman for NBC's "Today Show," which had planned to showcase Kelley's book for three straight mornings in a row next week, couldn't say whether Sharon's statement would change their plans.
I hope they scrub this. THREE DAM* DAYS!?!?!? No agenda or bias here, huh ???
YUP! The today show with Al Queda couric will have three straight days. Wonder how many days they will carry the rebuttals? ZERO.
A lie told often enough eventually becomes the truth for the sheeple.
Okay, Sharon. Start the law suit.
ZERO rebuttal time is right.The MSM is incredible in its' bias. And so many
knock FOX News "Fair & Balanced". I like FOX.
I wonder if the "Today Show" would be willing to showcase the SwiftVet's book for three days in a row?
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