Posted on 04/06/2006 5:25:43 PM PDT by Kaslin
In his new book about first lady Laura Bush, author Ronald Kessler shreds claims by biographer Kitty Kelley about Laura’s marijuana use.
In her book "The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty” – published during President Bush’s re-election campaign – Kelley wrote that while at Southern Methodist University, Laura had been known "as a go-to girl for dime bags of marijuana. ‘She not only smoked dope,’ said Robert Nash, a supposed friend of many in Laura’s SMU class, ‘but she sold dope.’”
But Kessler – whose biography "Laura Bush: An Intimate Portrait of the First Lady," shot up to No. 29 on the Amazon.com list of best-sellers within days of its publication – found there’s likely not a dime’s worth of truth in the allegation.
"If she was the go-to, I missed that,” Laura’s sorority sister Pamela Nelson told Kessler. "She was the go-to for a lot of things that were uplifting.”
Kessler learned that when a reporter for the Wall Street Journal tracked down Nash, he said he didn’t know any of Laura’s college classmates and said he had told Kelley he’d heard a rumor about Laura selling drugs.
"She is taking a kernel of cocktail chatter that was ill-advised and stupid on my part, and she has blown it up,” Nash said. And Nash told the New York Times that in his conversation with Kelley he had merely acknowledged the existence of a rumor, Kessler found.
Kelley also wrote that after Laura and George W. Bush married, they attended "heavy pot-smoking parties” with one of Laura sorority sisters, Jane Purucker Clarke, and her boyfriend Sandy Koufax, the Hall of Fame pitcher, on the island of Tortola.
But according to Kessler, Clarke calls that report a lie. And Pamela Nelson said that when the Bushes visited Clarke on Tortola, Clarke hadn’t met Koufax and was married to artist John Clem Clarke.
Kitty Kelley never let facts get in the way of a good smear campaign.
Katie is gonna finish her career at the Today show with a 3-day marathon interview with this author, right?
right????
Laura Bush is a genuine lady. That's something that Kitty Kelley never was, isn't now and never will be.
Funny that the method liberals use to smear someone is to claim that the person basically acted like one of them.
Kitty Kelly should be interviewed about this terrible reporting. One can only hope Kessler is asked about this outrageous reporting by Kelly and tells all the truth.
Hell will freeze over before she finishes the interview
Exactly.
Kitty is the go to girl for the Democrat politics of personal destruction campaigns. Didn't she do a similar hatchet job on Nancy reagan?
Kitty Kelly is nothing more than a malicious gossip masquerading as a serious biographer. Her work belongs in The National Enquirer.
She sure will --
Katie: "How does it feeeel Miss Kelley, to be the latest victim of the White House smear machine? Have they started attacking your patriotism yet?"
I agree with your first point, but must respectfully disagree with your second one. The standards at The National Enquirer are much too high for the likes of her. The New York Times or The Los Angeles Times maybe... ;-)
LOL! Does FR still have "quote of the day"? If so, that should be it!
LOL!!!
You beat me to it. The National Enquirer has much higher standards for accuracy and research than Kitty Litter Kelley does. In fact, a muckraking reporter with integrity, George Carpozi Jr., got fed up with her giving tabloid reporters a bad name (and imagine how bad you have to be to do that!) and wrote a wonderfully vicious but well-sourced bio of her called "Poison Pen." Turns out her own life is much sleazier than the phony tales she peddles about celebrities. You can find it at the library or get it from Amazon for under $4. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1569801126/qid=1144375858/sr=1-8/ref=sr_1_8/002-3599515-0673623?s=books&v=glance&n=283155
Laura...selling dime bags of pot??? Righhhhhht! LOL
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