Amy Goodman interviewing JH Hatfield of "Fortunate Son" fame

[Terwilliger]

From an interview done before he "committed suicide"

www.kpfa.org 94.1 in the Bay Area

Democracy Now has daily archives by 3pm EDT at www.democracynow.org

[Abe Linkman]

1. Amy didn't ask him a key question

Does anyone know if it has been established that there was even such a thing known as "Community Service" in 1972? I never heard about that alternative to being locked up, until much more recently (1980's).

[CatWoman]

2. It's pretty good

watching from the DemocracyNow archives.

[grasswire]

3. kick kick kick

Don't miss this one, people!!

Lots of juicy info about George and drugs!

[grasswire]

4. kick one more time

...for the night crowd

[grasswire]

5. maybe this thread needs....

......a sexier title.

[ParanoidPat]

6. Just starting on Santa Cruz Comcast cable channel 26

:evilgrin:

[htuttle]

7. Just started on Madison Charter Cable channel 4 (WYOU) too!

Wild. Amy is doing the headlines on a webcam that is streaming from somewhere (MA?), and the studio cam is pointed at the RealPlayer window.

[Stephanie]

8. they also have a transcript up

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/11/1447218

excerpt:

J. H. HATFIELD: Oh the drug question. Well that’s the $64 question that we raise in the afterword of the book. We say that George W. Bush was arrested in 1972 for possession of cocaine and his father got it fixed and he did community service at Project Pool a minority mentoring program, tough area in Houston for 1 year 14:46

AMY GOODMAN: Now how do you know he got arrested for cocaine?

J. H. HATFIELD: Because we have three sources in the book. Three confidential sources but nevertheless they’re close friends of Bush, they’ve been close friends for many years, all the way back to when he was a boy. And there were also sources that I used consistently through the book and other stuff that they’ve told me about was corroborated by secondary and third sources.

AMY GOODMAN: And what exactly did they say?

J. H. HATFIELD: Basically, essentially, the same thing each one of them. And I was very careful not to lead the other one on, and say “ok here’s the story here’s what the other person told me”. I would ask is it true about the cocaine in 1972 and they would tell me the story.

AMY GOODMAN: And what’s the story that they told you?

J. H. HATFIELD: That he was picked up. That he was taken to jail. He called his father of course. His father at the time was UN ambassador. There is some conflicting stories I have on whether he was actually in town in Houston at time or whether he was in New York. But the truth is, what they all say is that he contacted the judge that was gonna handle the case and he said look “I’m a benefactor of Project Pool, I support them. I’ll make sure George W does his time there in community service,’” and the judge let him out of there. And that’s where he spent the next year. 15:59

[Sterling]

9. Sander Hicks the publisher of this book is a 9-11 skeptic

we have an interview with him in SGTV's Osama is a Bush episode at http://globalfreepress.com/

[htuttle]

10. Sander was on-camera with Hatfield for the interview on DN

I don't think he said anything, however. He was just sitting there.

:)