Bush, the "innocent victim," replies "I don't know" re: docs and DNC

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

Horseshit level: ELEVATED.

"Bush Reviews Disputed Guard Documents"

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/bush_guard_records



In his first public comment on the CBS documents controversy, the president told The Union Leader of Manchester, N.H., "There are a lot of questions about the documents, and they need to be answered."

In the telephone interview published Saturday, Bush replied "I don't know" to a question whether the White House had evidence that either the campaign of Democratic rival John Kerry (news - web sites) or the Democratic Party were involved in releasing the disputed papers.

A White House spokesman said Saturday that Bush himself looked at the papers when CBS first said it had obtained them early this month. The memos, said to have been written by Bush's late squadron commander, Lt. Col. Jerry B. Killian, indicated Killian had felt pressured to sugarcoat Bush's performance, and the future president ignored instructions to take a physical.

The president's communications director, Dan Bartlett, "showed the president the documents provided by CBS that allegedly came from Col. Killian's personal files," said spokesman Brian Besanceney. "The president had no recollection of ever seeing the documents previously."

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. You sure the horseshit alert is not to the RED level

I mean elevated does not quite cut it

[cheshire]

4. I think the horseshit has blown the meter up

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. Again, they miss the point

doesn't matter about the so called memos. (Which, since they were CYA, Bush would never have seen) What matters is whether or not Bush fulfilled his duty, whether he did get preferential treatment. And of course he knows the answers to those questions.

[elperromagico]

5. They're so busy talking about the trees that they're ignoring the forest.

This is cracker jack reporting at its best, my friend. :eyes:

[mikehiggins]

3. Ohmigawd! They're lying!

Who would have expected that?

[fugue]

6. Could somebody clarify something for me?

I could've sworn that right after CBS released its documents, there was a report that the White House had released the same documents from its files.

Does anyone else remember that?

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. I vaguely remember somethimg along those lines

a search of archives may be in order.. (is in order)

[grasswire]

8. CBS sent the documents to the WH

They were reviewed there. The WH sent them to reporters.

[kentuck]

9. who me ?

I know nothin'.... Yeah, some people call it bullshit, some call it lying.

[JohnnyRingo]

10. He can't seem to remember anyone he served with in Alabama, either.

Must have been the drugs, I don't remember much from the early 70's either.

Maybe the whole base was on drugs....Yeah! That's it! ..They were ALL on drugs and no one remembers 1972.

But he served honorably......... as he recalls.