Did bush mock a woman on death row?

[southernleftylady]

anyone got a "credible" source to this (read a source that isn't a bush bashing site ;) )
thanks :)

[Shoeempress]

1. Yes Karla Faye Tucker, a born again believer. Don't recall the

source.

[oasis]

2. Google: Carla Faye Tucker. or Karla Faye Tucker

[salin]

3. In an interview with (conservative) Tucker Carlson

Can't recall where it was printed - but Carlson describes it. Try google with 'Tucker Carlson Bush Carla Faye Tucker' (or maybe it is Karla). You should at least find references to the original article.

[tishaLA]

5. It was in Talk magazine

The first issue IIRC.

[NWHarkness]

4. Google Carla Faye Tucker

I'm sure you'll find sources.

[spooked911]

6. No doubt about it-- it happened. He's an ass.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

7. I have a link

http://www.commondreams.org/views/102500-101.htm

Bush, remember, has gloated about the death penalty in more than just the presidential debates. He is the same Bush who last year ridiculed death row inmate Karla Faye Tucker, whining in mock exaggeration in an interview that Tucker begged, ''Please don't kill me.'' Bush, who has made his Christianity part of his resume, mocked Tucker even though she said she had found Christ.


I'm sure there are MANY more, this is just one I had on hand.

[pretzel4gore]

16. billy graham, falwel, even robertson pleaded for her!

bush thought a white woman given mercy might affect his future; the tucker crime occurred in '73, 23 years before her execution....bush later stayed henry lee lucas's execution, the only execution bush stayed...the guy's a tapeworm in the bowels of america

[Botany]

8. This help?

But the most revealing moment of the 2000 pre-election campaign came over a year later, in August of 1999, during an interview with conservative columnist Tucker Carlson who was on assignment for Talk Magazine. While talking about the death penalty, Bush volunteered that he had watched Karla's nationally televised Prison interview on Larry King. He claimed that King had asked Karla what she would like to say to Governor Bush. Carlson then asked Bush what she had said. "`Please,' Bush whimpers, his lips pursed in mock desperation, `don't kill me.'"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

9. Tucker Carlson. Talk Magazine, September 1999

http://www.dangerouscitizen.com/Photo+Gallery/568.aspx

http://www.dangerouscitizen.com/Photo+Gallery/47.jpg

"`Please,' Bush whimpers, his lips pursed in mock desperation, `don't kill me.'" -Talk Magazine, Sept. 1999

From: "Devil May Care" by Tucker Carlson, Talk Magazine, September 1999, p. 106

"Bush's brand of forthright tough-guy populism can be appealing, and it has played well in Texas. Yet occasionally there are flashes of meanness visible beneath it. While driving back from the speech later that day, Bush mentions Karla Faye Tucker, a double murderer who was executed in Texas last year. In the weeks before the execution, Bush says, Bianca Jagger and a number of other protesters came to Austin to demand clemency for Tucker. 'Did you meet with any of them?' I ask.

Bush whips around and stares at me. 'No, I didn't meet with any of them,' he snaps, as though I've just asked the dumbest, most offensive question ever posed. 'I didn't meet with Larry King either when he came down for it. I watched his interview with , though. He asked her real difficult questions, like 'What would you say to Governor Bush?' 'What was her answer?' I wonder. 'Please,' Bush whimpers, his lips pursed in mock desperation, 'don't kill me.' I must look shocked -- ridiculing the pleas of a condemned prisoner who has since been executed seems odd and cruel, even for someone as militantly anticrime as Bush -- because he immediately stops smirking.

'It's tough stuff,' Bush says, suddenly somber, 'but my job is to enforce the law.' As it turns out, the Larry King-Karla Faye Tucker exchange Bush recounted never took place, at least not on television. During her interview with King, however, Tucker did imply that Bush was succumbing to election-year pressure from pro-death penalty voters. Apparently Bush never forgot it. He has a long memory for slights." (Carlson, Talk, 9/99)

[Bluebear]

10. "Boo hoo hoo please don't kill me," lips pursed in mock despair

Published on Wednesday, October 25, 2000 in the Boston Globe
Bush's Death Factory
by Derrick Z. Jackson

GEORGE W. BUSH'S dogged denial of factory defects in the death machinery of Texas invites memories of Lyndon Johnson telling us how we were defoliating the North Vietnamese into target range. In the beginning, one could charitably concede that the two men were merely bullheaded souls, filled with false pride and false missions, trying to persuade us we needed to slaughter some criminals or a whole nation into submission.

Johnson's stubbornness became massacres and suicide battles abroad and dead students at home. Bush's pathological denials have exploded into a time line that makes it easy to depict him, in the political sense, as a serial killer, indiscriminately dispensing with the despised and chuckling over their bodies.

Bush, remember, has gloated about the death penalty in more than just the presidential debates. He is the same Bush who last year ridiculed death row inmate Karla Faye Tucker, whining in mock exaggeration in an interview that Tucker begged, ''Please don't kill me.'' Bush, who has made his Christianity part of his resume, mocked Tucker even though she said she had found Christ.

http://www.commondreams.org/views/102500-101.htm

[no_hypocrisy]

11. Karla Faye Tucker. Convicted axe murderer but born again Christian.

On death row. When * was governor of Texas, he had the power to stop her from being executed, but didn't. During an interview after she was executed, the writer asked * what he thought her last words were and * in a bad shrill falsetto (reminiscent of The Fly, answered, "Please don't kill me!"

That's it. Interview was in the Talk Magazine. Even Gary Bauer didn't appreciate *'s humor here.

http://www.ccadp.org/bushkills.htm

[DIKB]

12. Shouldn't this

have caused an uproar in the christian community ? Especially seeing as how they believe in "Forgiveness" and in "God's Judgement." Oh well, Lying Liars and Hypocritical Hypocrites.

[Bark Bark Bark]

14. It Should

...just like the "one-finger salute," which is on VIDEO and widely available across teh Internets, should.

But like you wrote--they already know Li'l Dubbie's a complete turd, and that the administration is pure evil. They're assuming both will serve their own evils well.

One cannot support this administration and claim to be a faithful, practicing Christian. The proof of this is in their own little black book.

[TyeDye75]

13. Yes he did

and if you where ever in any doubt as too how much of an emotionless, moronic asshole Bush is, just Google Karla Faye Tucker and you'll find out.

[Clark2008]

15. Also, Pope John Paul called Shrub, personally, to ask him to

spare Tucker.
Obviously, the fundie gov wasn't kissing up to the Papacy at that time.
:eyes:

[Hubert Flottz]

17. Bush used chemical agents on his own people in Texas!

"Evil Doers"(Dictators and Despots)are all alike!