PICTURES of Matt Lauer playing Golf with President Bush 1

[Cheswick2.0]

http://www.fieldturf.com/index.cfm?pageView=readFeature&featureID=11

please e-mail matt, tell him how lousy his journalist integrity is for using the white house spokesman as a source to refute Kelly and tell him he is a liar. Even if they were just putting.

[e-mail]

[Dem Agog]

1. How can we trust a "journalist"...

He lies about sports... what else is he going to lie about?

[Cheswick2.0]

3. lying as a reporter is never appropriate

[merbex]

2. Cheswick,you are amazing!

Email that to Today!!

[Cheswick2.0]

6. I am looking for the e-mail address and having no luck

[Dem Agog]

9. [e-mail]

[e-mail] should do it. Someone else may have a better address though. I just emailed them and told them that if I wanted a state-run news organization I'd have moved to Cuba, or perhaps Hitler's Nazi Germany.

[Cheswick2.0]

20. thank you for the address and

for e-mailing them

[Paradise]

30. i love it! :) n/t

[kispoko]

4. heh

i just found that too and put it in another post (took maybe 20 seconds), and while interesting, if it's all she's got, it's pretty weak.....


however, given that it took so little time to come up with that, i'm willing to bet there's certainly something more to be found. i'll bet he's played, for instance, in a tournament with him.

[Cheswick2.0]

10. it's not weak..... in the pursuit of his job of journalist one big facile

lie popped right out of his mouth like nothing.

[kispoko]

22. no, it is pretty weak

but it was also misleading of lauer to categorically deny it..... if this is all there is, weak as it may be, he should've clarified it himself, 'cause she does have a point all the same.


what i'm saying too is, don't rest on this alone. if i found that in 20 seconds, i'll bet anything there's something else there to be found in 20 minutes. so don't sit on this


and for fuck's sake, please, don't anyone take that picture of the context of the interview and the fine details, you'll slowly become the freepers we despise by pulling that shit.

[Cheswick2.0]

25. Excuse me?

what the hell is your point? Matt not only did a lousy job of being a jounalist, he lied doing it. What exactly is your problem? If yuou think something else in the interview should be focused on and exposed, please get to it.

[speedoo]

5. So Matt lied.

Stupid shit. I'd love to see this explode in his smarmy face.

[canuckybee]

8. naaa...he will say he never actually "played" and get away with it

they always do.

[speedoo]

15. The point is, they were cozy.

Lauer can say whatever he wishes. Hey Matt, this putting green gift for Poppy is hardly newsworthy, so that won't fly as an excuse.

[merbex]

11. Let's not let him get away with saying

That he hasn't played 18 holes with him either.

You put a club in your hand and someone else has a club in their hand and they are standing on a golf facility

YOU'RE PLAYING GOLF WITH THAT PERSON

[liberal_in_GA]

13. Right--

and if it wasn't a conflict of interest--ie., if he was interviewing Poppy while playing golf--he should have just said so. The fact that he demurred says everything you need to know.

[bklyncowgirl]

7. Beautiful. n/t

[Warpy]

12. HAHAHAHAH!!

That picture with Lauer in the middle explains a lot: short man syndrome. No wonder he looks like a Jack Russell terrier when he does one of his hostile interviews, jump up and yap, jump up and yap.

Kelly probably shouldn't have made a big deal over "playing golf with BushI" when it was only a pohto op turned into putting demonstration. It's like the right wing crowing that Clinton was a golfing buddy of Ken Lay, when it was one round of golf and over a dozen CEOs and more a photo op than a friendly game.

It's still nice to know a picture of the event, with BushI and Lauer both wielding golf clubs is out there, applying yet more egg to Lauer's face. Thanks for posting.

[Cheswick2.0]

27. she didn't make a big deal out of him playing with bush

she mentioned it in passing. It was pretty funny to find that picture with in about two mintues.

I wonder if we searched on his investments and contributions what we might find.

[Raven]

14. Wait a minute folks! Lauer didn't lie...

The article posted here says Lauer was doing an interview with Bush Sr. and the old fart challenged him to a putting contest. That is not what Kelley implied on the Today Show this morning...she said something like "I know you play golf with GHWB". That is more than a bit of a stretch and that is the kind of thing that really annoys me about Kelley's books.

Matt Lauer didn't do an interview this morning (or yesterday), he conducted a cross examination and he should be called on that...but the golf stuff is really lame.

[merbex]

17. It's not lame

He's questioning her integrity- because of his denial when there are pictures of him PLAYING GOLF with 41- his integrity is now in question

Putting contest,chipping contest,driving contest it all equals playing golf with someone

[hexola]

23. I have a golf club in my hand...look at me I'm "playing golf"

Just chipped a put accros the rug...If only 41 was here...

[Cheswick2.0]

28. It is not lame and please don't be a board nanny

he lied about a stupid little detail he didn't need to lie about.

[liberalnurse]

48. You are Great Cheswick......

You need not defend yourself....we regulars know this.....there is troll behavior on this board .....:yourock:

[canuckybee]

16. Sorry.....They are not at a golf facility

they are on a putting green outside the Bush home, and it is right after an interview Lauer had done. Not the same as playing golf with someone at all.

[merbex]

21. I totally disagree

Anytime you play an aspect of the game of golf- putting, chipping, driving vs. someone else you are playing golf with someone

If you merely had the opportunity to have a putting contest with Tiger Woods you played golf with Tiger Woods

At least in my book

[Cheswick2.0]

29. bull

playing golf is playing golf. It was a stupid little lie to cover his partisanship.

[SpaceCatMeetsMars]

18. Matt Lauer LOVES Bush Sr. almost as much as Paula Zahn does

I remember seeing him interview Bush Sr. at the opening of his presidential library and Matt was so gushy and effusive that even the old man was looking at him like he thought he was weird.

Matt conveniently forgot what he said though, because Matt asked Bush if he regretted not getting Saddam and Bush said, no, they would have gotten bogged down in a quagmire and had too many soldiers killed if they had went into Baghdad. He said, "Would you like to be the one that had to tell all those parents that their kids were dead?"

Well his criminal son found a way around that, just ignore them, with the media's help!

[Snellius]

26. Weird that Lauer never repeated his denial

Lauer was emphatic "I did not play golf with him" but he never repeated his denial. It was almost an aside. Kelley would not shot off such a pointed barb without a few more arrows in her quiver.

[IndianaGreen]

47. I think that Paula Zahn's admiration for Poppy Bush is more than just

intellectual. I suspect they had a fling.

[Cheswick2.0]

19. My e-mail

Dear NBC Today Show,


Some one needs to send Matt Lauer back to journalist school. How do you use the words of the white house spokesman to refute facts? You know they have very little interest in facts. How do you demand with a straight face that some one prove a negative? When did Matt Lauer stop beating his wife?
The fact is that there is no proof that bush fulfilled his duties in the TANG and there should be plenty of proof. There are huge holes in his record and plenty of witnesses who say he did not show up.
I would like to see you prove that he did fulfill his duties and I would like to see you do it with solid journalistic standards. So far Kitty Kelly looks like a much better journalist than Lauer and Matt’s partisan-slip is showing.

<name address and phone>


PS, please see http://www.fieldturf.com/index.cfm?pageView=readFeature...

[in_cog_ni_to]

24. I don't care if he was "just" golfing during an interview,

he STILL played golf with the chimp. He lied. Period. Since when does TWISTING the truth matter? It doesn't matter to him, it doesn't matter to me. I emailed him a very "friendly" note....NOT! email him! Let him know we can twist facts too.

[mbali]

33. Then why did he say anything . . . he should have just kept his mouth shut

He can parse it if he wants, but it's pretty lame -

Sort of like not having "sexual relations with that woman."

Yes, I stood on a putting green with him and we both had golf clubs in our hands and we both hit the golf ball around, but I DIDN'T ACTUALLY PLAY GOLF WITH HIM!"

[Cartooner]

43. He coulda said, "Just putting around". . .

. . . "but what the Whitehouse has asked me to do is to deBUNKER, so I don't mind lying a little." :-)

[onecent]

31. done

[mbali]

32. And press reports . . .

New York Daily News, May 26, 2004:

Lauer & ex-Prez Bush link up on golf course

Matt Lauer put his golfing skills to good use this week. Monday, the "Today" show host played golf with former President George Bush, and later interviewed him about his son, and his 80th birthday. The two met in Kennebunkport, Maine, where Bush has a summer house. During the chat, which will air this morning (7-9 a.m.), Bush touches on reading bad stories about his son, his own legacy and plans for his June 12 birthday.

[Cheswick2.0]

38. good find

sounds like a golf game with a puff piece thrown in.

[DancingBear]

34. From a golfer - here's the lowdown

I'm really sorry folks, but if you engage someone in a putting contest you are NOT, repeat, NOT, playing golf with someone.

I drive to the golf course, and I have a 12 noon tee time with three other players. I get there early, and see another friend on the practice putting green. While waiting for an ACTUAL game of golf to begin at 12 noon, I engage in a putting contest with this friend.

I DID NOT play golf with him. To say I did is ludicrous.

If Kelley has more info, then she should bring it out. Perhaps she has actual records/eyewitnesses, etc. If so, I'll agree with her. But the attempts here on DU to make this "playing golf" thing work are just plain silly.

This is no way gets Lauer off the hook, BTW. He has shown himself to be another apologist for Bush, turning his blind eyes away from the horror that Bush is and instead "focusing" on anyone who dares question the Reich.

But ix-nay on the golf thing - OK?

[Connie_Corleone]

36. Thanks for saying this.

There are much bigger things to discuss and debate about than whether Lauer played golf with Bush I or not.

[Cheswick2.0]

40. so get to discussing

put your post where your post is.

[Connie_Corleone]

46. Is it your pattern

to get testy with people who disagree with you?

:eyes:

[Cheswick2.0]

39. they did play golf

from one golfer to another. She didn't make a big deal of it, he didn't have to lie. You are making a bigger deal about it than she did.
Matt made a mistake, why did he feel he needed to lie about something so petty?

[DancingBear]

44. No, not really

Actually, I've only contributed one (now 2) posts to the thread. :)

All I'm saying is he didn't "play golf" with Bush I. Was he there kissing his ass? Yep. Is he a Bush apologist? Yep.

Did he lie to Kelley? Debateable - sorry. I think it was more Lauer trying to pretend he is a journalist by attempting to remain chaste.

Now if Kelley had said "Why Matt, I know you're quite fond of Bush senior - you're both golfers, aren't you? As a matter of fact I found pictures of the two of you putting on Mr. bush's practice green. That WAS you, wasn't it Matt?" and Lauer tried to weasel out of it then we got somethin'.

[okieinpain]

52. exactly. he could have said it was an interview, not a game of

golf. but oh no, he has to make her look bad and denies it altogether.

[merbex]

41. Then you and I play two different games

You are splitting hairs I feel.

IMHO,as a golfer when you are putting /chipping/driving or even PRACTISING you are playing golf because all of that is an aspect of the game.

Because what else is it -tennis?

[DancingBear]

49. Yep, I think we're in semantics land

Although the difference between practising and playing must be noted.

I guess I consider playing golf, well, actually playing golf. :)

[in_cog_ni_to]

35. nevermind

[Connie_Corleone]

37. Those ARE pictures of Poppy Bush.

[GOPAgainstGW]

42. Kitty Kelley was just on Today Show. She's was Great - Real Pro!

Very skilled and sharp individual. Bush has met his fricking match with this women!! She will be on Hardball tonight with Chris Matthews and The Today again tomorrow.

I/we look forward to meeting Kitty when she comes to Texas next week to promote her book, in all major Texas cities. - NKR

Kitty Kelley Videos -"Today Show with Mutt Lauer" http://video.msn.com/video/p.htm
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[IndianaGreen]

45. A home putting green is not a golf course

Get real! Kitty Kelley is the same person that accused Reagan of date rape in her much panned book about the reagans.. I wouldn't use her as a campaign spokesperson. Kitty is as reliable as the National Enquirer or NY Post.

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[Texas_Dem]

50. Matt said tomorrow he was going to read

letters and emails received from viewers. Maybe we should all give him an earful and see how much of that he reads. I know I am going to call him out.

[UTUSN]

51. Let's. I'm on my way. n/t