Posted on 10/18/2002 12:24:49 AM PDT by windchime
For Immediate ReleaseThursday, October 17, 2002
McBride’s Story About Vicious Remarks Challenged by Veteran Washington Post Reporter
Tallahassee -- McBride’s story about vicious remarks challenged by veteran Washington Post reporter. The veteran Washington Post reporter who yesterday broke the story about Bill McBride’s refusal to repudiate the recent vicious comments made by one of his supporters against Gov. Jeb Bush and his family, today challenged McBride’s assertion that he did not know about the remarks when he was asked for comment about them.
The Post yesterday reported that just prior to McBride joining as an in-studio guest on Victor Curry’s Miami radio program, Curry verbally assaulted the Governor and his family, at one point saying that the Bush family and the bin Laden family were business “‘partners’ seeking to profit from war.” Curry went on to say of the Bush family, “These people are on a neo-Nazi, right-wing mission against the American people.” He concluded calling the Bush administration a “Godless, wicked regime.” McBride later refused to repudiate Curry’s remarks, saying he had not heard them and was unaware of them.
But David Von Drehle, the well-respected national correspondent from the Post who wrote the story, told the Miami Herald today that, contrary to McBride’s claim that he was unaware, McBride was in fact read each of the remarks before asked for comment, and still failed to condemn them.
Today’s Herald reports, “Von Drehle, a veteran national correspondent who interviewed McBride in a car shortly after the radio appearance, said Wednesday he specifically read each of Curry’s remarks to McBride, offering the candidate ample opportunity to respond. ‘I read each of them to him, and his answer was the one I quoted in the story,’ Von Drehle said.”
“It’s bad enough that Bill McBride would sit by and let one of his supporters make such vicious and personal attacks against Gov. Bush and his family,” stated Bush-Brogan Communications Director Todd Harris. “But to then distort the truth about it, pretending he was unaware of the remarks when asked to comment, makes the whole thing all the worse. Bill McBride has shown once again that he does not have the political courage to stand up to his supporters, even when he knows they are wrong. He still has not repudiated Curry for his remarks, nor has he called on Curry to apologize for them.”
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