Posted on 02/23/2005 12:47:47 PM PST by Not gonna take it anymore
WASHINGTON - An old friend of President Bush who secretly recorded their private conversations and released them to the media said he has regrets and is turning the tapes over to Bush.
Doug Wead allowed journalists to hear and broadcast the tapes in the past week as he promoted his new book on presidential parents. But he said he canceled plans to be on "Hardball" on MSNBC Tuesday night to talk about his regrets because "it would only add to the distraction I have caused to the president's important and historic work."
"Contrary to a statement that I made to the New York Times, I have come to realize that personal relationships are more important than history," Wead wrote in a letter to the show's host, Chris Matthews, that MSNBC released to the public on Wednesday. "I am asking my attorney to direct any future proceeds from the book to charity and to find the best way to vet these tapes and get them back to the president to whom they belong. History can wait."
On the tapes, recorded over the course of the two years before Bush became the Republican presidential nominee, Bush discusses strategy for his presidential run and appears to acknowledge past drug use. He says he will refuse to answer questions about using LSD, cocaine and marijuana because "I don't want any kid doing what I tried to do 30 years ago."
The White House said Bush did not dispute the content of the tapes. The president's aides brushed off repeated questions about them during his tour of Europe this week by saying Bush considered them casual conversations "with someone he thought was a friend."
It would not be a big deal at all if he would have waited till Bush was out of office. He is absolutely stupid for allowing the marijuana quote get out because he should have known that he was going against what example Bush wanted to present since he became clean.
CLINTON, KENNEDY, LIBS, JACKASSES: "We need a independent council to seize these tapes so that we may see if a crime was committed" or "Was Wead pressured by the BUSH Administration to forfeit the tapes and suppress the truth from the American Public?"
Contrary to a statement that I made to the New York Times, I have come to realize that personal relationships are more important than history
Translation: I have made my money and will now try and scrounge out some guilty feelings from those who hate me.
I hope this is true!
Wead not only gets the prize for being the dumbest, lowest and since he canceled his appearance on "Spitball" today, the most cowardly POS this side of Iraq!
Semper Fi,
Kelly
I think he is "regretful" all the way to the bank.
I'm sure the media will be as critical of Wead as they were of linda Tripp for recording private conversations. (sarc)
Replace Clinton with Dean. Hillary! is still trying this whole "low-profile-and-pretend-to-be-a-Republican" thing.
Pretty ironic given that the "author's" name is "Wead."
Seems Wead has turned to weasel before he REALLY regrets secretly taping Bush.
I don't think Wead's comments hurt President Bush appreciably. His actions prolly hurt himself more. Sometimes, once bread has been cast upon the water, it only muddies the water to try gathering it back up...
I know some Freepers emailed Wead. I wasn't one of them but I surely had some choice words about him.
BBL
I agree. The tape didn't reveal anything about President that we didn't know already.
I think I had professors called wead. lol
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