I just saw a clip, and Poppy looks as tired and old as I've ever seen him.
Larry King is interrogating Poppy over the Bob Woodward book, and poppy appears to be having a stroke at one point.
It looks to be some delicious television watching, so fire up the DVR's, TIVO's, VCR's, et al.
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LARRY KING, CNN ANCHOR: How about when you're -- like in the Woodward book, they quote you as not liking Condoleezza Rice, or you didn't think she was up to par.
GEORGE H.W. BUSH, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: Well, if that's a quote, it's a lie. I can't make it any more clearer than that. I like Condoleezza Rice. She worked for me. I have great respect for Condoleezza. But I can't believe Woodward -- I haven't read the book -- that he actually said I said that.
KING: I think someone says you said it. I don't have it in front of me now. But it's quoted as saying you didn't think she was equal to the task.
BUSH: Well, that's crazy. I talked to her yesterday, I guess there were some hurt feelings, the day before she went to this trip.
KING: She was hurt?
BUSH: Well -- she called me and said don't -- there's something in this book.
KING: That's what it is.
BUSH: But she didn't say what it was, that I didn't like her. She said there's remarks in there attributed to you. I don't believe it. And I said, well, I don't know what they are.
KING: The passage from the book is "even the president's father had confided that he was unhappy with Rice. 'Condi is a disappointment, isn't she?... She's not up to the job.'"
KING: Brent Scowcroft is quoted in the Woodward book, in "State of Denial" as describing you -- this is now Brent describing you as "anguished" and "tormented" by the Iraq war and its aftermath.
BUSH: Is that a question? Or...
KING: Yes.
BUSH: And what's the question?
KING: Were you anguished and tormented?
BUSH: No, not anguished and tormented.
KING: So the quote by Brent is either Brent's wrong...
BUSH: Well, it's the quote by Brent, because I've heard, before I came down here where it talks about, you know, talks about that David Thoran (ph) said to somebody, you know, it's all kind of secondhand. I don't think Woodward is quoting. I don't know. I haven't read the book.
KING: But you haven't talked to Brent about it?
BUSH: No.
Lie, Lie, Lie Poppy!