Bush was no "badass" pilot-He backed away after screwing up-Interestingly, he couldn't land a plane

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9. some details are missing

Those old-timers who were members of salon.com's Table Talk message boards had the AWOL story down prior to the Boston Globe printing it.

An IOWA pig farmer who was a Table Talk member had requested copies of Bush's TANG records, and received them. Citizen-researchers in a group worked on the puzzle. We discovered the discrepancies and parsed out the story. Bush had gone AWOL from his post of duty in wartime.

Members of that Table Talk group spent massive effort trying to get the national press to break this story. Hundreds of phone calls, e-mails, personal visits were made to try to get the MSM to report that George W. Bush had been AWOL and the proof was available. We could never break through the curtain. It was heartbreaking.

Finally the Boston Globe printed a story.

On the Friday before the election, Senator Bob Kerrey snapped to the import of this story. The Republican candidate for president had gone AWOL in wartime. Kerrey called a press conference to ask George W. Bush to explain his military record.

Before the press conference could be held, an obscure FOX affiliate broke a story about an old DUI in Maine -- a Bush DUI. I will always believe that Karl Rove had that story in his pocket, and pulled it at just the right moment.

The Kerrey press conference about Bush AWOL was blown out of the news by the Bush DUI story. Convenient.

The new details in this Texas Monthly story are interesting.