Scott McClellan:The Cocaine Question

[SaveOurSovereignty]

Run time: 08:08 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4heeX-NFEYo   Posted on YouTube: May 31, 2008 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: May 31, 2008 By DU Member: SaveOurSovereignty Views on DU: 1441

 

[Jemmons]

1. Wow - this is the most damaging story for BushCo ever

I dont care if this is essentially soap-opera stuff, its more damaging for Bush and the GOP than Plamgate, the political sacking of prosecutors and Cheney shooting old men.

[gordianot]

2. Typical Media reporting, CNN is clueless.

At the end of the day Bush history will record Bush not as a typical politician but as a Criminal. The News media outlets would be wise to destroy copies of their reporting, this will really be embarrassing when future generations scrutinize media collusion with the Bush administration. We can only hope.

[timtom]

3. K & R

Very revealing stuff.

I don't know Candy Crowley at all (I stay away from MSM) but I recall her being vilified here at DU. I must conclude that she is a RW shill. But in this video she seems to back-pedal significantly, almost supporting McClellan's position. That back-pedalling is significant to me. In the words of another post somewhere, no one has called Scotty a liar.

[thecrow]

4. She was the "democratic party reporter" for CNN for 2004

for the Kerry camp and boy, was she unsupportive of Kerry.
Superficial and never smiled. I think they picked her because she
presented on camera so badly. It was just another CNN rw shilling thing.

Now... back to the video...

[Lorien]

6. I had never seen her before either. Not your typical perky size 0

talking head-but every bit as vapid. Very odd.

[pipi_k]

8. and yet another....

Dana Bash

It always seemed like she was having spasms of ecstasy while she trashed the Democrats.

I'm sure I invented some really nasty names for her in my imagination over the past 6 years or so.

[Lorien]

5. OMG. I haven't watched CNN since the 2000 election. What a pathetic

format: have a guest on, interview the guest, then get a group of your idiot drinking buddies together to "analyze" what you've just interviewed the guest about??? What, just in case your audience is mentally handicapped or not paying attention in the least? "he's just a pol" No, he's a fucking LIAR and a cokehead. Geez.

[ryanmuegge]

7. They tell you what to think.

They've been telling people if they're white and female they can't vote for Obama, and if they're black they can't vote for Clinton. That's just an example. Telling people what to think masquerades as analysis. They try to shape the outcome.

[beac]

9. Anyboby else noticing that McClellan's speech pattern is quite different

from when he was on the podium at the White House?

He seems relaxed and self-assured and speaks clearly.

His voice sounds stronger and less "babyish".

Perhaps it's the lack of the strain from trying to spin, spin, spin all the time.

[sce56]

10. Intersting to note there is one comment listed on YouTube but I could not see it nor would it

accept my post! Anyway all of this is old news ignored by the MSM or jacking careers of real efforts to report like Dan Rathers!

DESERTER

THE STORY OF GEORGE W. BUSH AFTER HE QUIT THE TEXAS AIR NATIONAL GUARD





SUMMARY



An examination of the Bush military files within the context of US Statutory Law, Department of Defense regulations, and Air Force policies and procedures of that era lead to a single conclusion: George W. Bush was considered a deserter by the United States Air Force.



After Bush quit TXANG, he still had nine months of his six-year military commitment left to serve. As a result, Bush became a member of the Air Force Reserves and was transferred to the authority of the Air Reserve Personnel Center (ARPC) in Denver, Colorado. Because this was supposed to be a temporary assignment, ARPC had to review Bush’s records to determine where he should ultimately be assigned. That examination would have led to three conclusions: That Bush had “failed to satisfactorily participate” as defined by United States law and Air Force policy, that TXANG could not account for Bush’s actions for an entire year, and that Bush’s medical records were not up to date. Regardless of what actions ARPC contemplated when reviewing Bush’s records, all options required that Bush be certified as physically fit to serve, or as unfit to serve. ARPC thus had to order Bush to get a physical examination, for which Bush did not show up. ARPC then designated Bush as AWOL and a “non-locatee” (i.e. a deserter) who had failed to satisfactorily participate in TXANG, and certified him for immediate induction through his local draft board. Once the Houston draft board got wind of the situation, strings were pulled; and documents were generated which directly contradict Air Force policy, and which were inconsistent with the rest of the records released by the White House.






Book: Bush was arrested for cocaine in 1972
Texas author J.H. Hatfield claims the Republican front-runner did community service at a Houston center.

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By Salon Staff

Oct. 18, 1999 | A new book by Texas author J.H. Hatfield claims that George W. Bush was arrested for cocaine possession in 1972, but had his record expunged with help from his family's political connections. In an afterword to his book "Fortunate Son: George W. Bush and the Making of an American President" (St. Martin's), Hatfield says he took a second look at the Bush cocaine allegations after a story in Salon reporting allegations that Bush did community service for the crime at the Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center in Houston's Third Ward.

The center's executive director, Madgelean Bush (no relation to George W. Bush), had told Salon News and others that Bush did not do community service there, and the Bush campaign likewise denied the allegation. But the Texas governor had admitted to working at Houston's Project P.U.L.L. in 1972, and Hatfield says he began to wonder if that was actually the community service sentence. Hatfield says he confirmed those suspicions with three sources close to the Bush family he had cultivated while writing his biography, which publishes Wednesday.



http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1999/10/18/cocaine/

Fortunate Son:
The Rise of George W. Bush & The Next Generation of Politics
By J.H. Hatfield


Bush's campaign denied Hatfield's allegation Monday.

By contrast, "First Son: George W. Bush and the Family Dynasty," by Dallas Morning News reporter Bill Minutaglio, says George Bush Sr. referred his son to Project P.U.L.L. after an incident in which George W. drove drunk with his younger brother Marvin in the car.

But Hatfield quotes "a high-ranking advisor to Bush" who confirmed that Bush was arrested for cocaine possession in Houston in 1972, and had the record expunged by a judge who was "a fellow Republican and elected official" who helped Bush get off "with a little community service at a minority youth center instead of having to pick cotton on a Texas prison farm."

Hatfield quotes a former Yale classmate who told him: "George W. was arrested for possession of cocaine in 1972, but due to his father's connections, the entire record was expunged by a state judge whom the older Bush helped get elected. It was one of those 'behind closed doors in the judges' chambers' kind of thing between the old man and one of his Texas cronies who owed him a favor ... There's only a handful of us that know the truth.