Bush tapes,"I did cocaine" ABC with george steph

[gizmo1979]

Lead story.I didn't catch the name of the man who taped him but he was from Bush 1.

[NYCGirl]

1. And is that a surprise to you? NT

[gizmo1979]

2. Nope just reporting what was said

he has never mentioned a word on his drug use.

[TrueAmerican]

3. Is the complete quote.

Or has it been edited?

[Democrats_win]

4. Link to AOL, mentioned cocaine, it may be much ado about nothing

http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20050219222709990001

snip:

As George W. Bush was first moving onto the national political stage, he often turned for advice to an old friend who secretly taped some of their private conversations, creating a rare record of the future president as a politician and a personality.

In the last several weeks, that friend, Doug Wead, an author and former aide to Mr. Bush's father, disclosed the tapes' existence to a reporter and played about a dozen of them....

Cocaine:
Mr. Bush, who has acknowledged a drinking problem years ago, told Mr. Wead on the tapes that he could withstand scrutiny of his past. He said it involved nothing more than "just, you know, wild behavior." He worried, though, that allegations of cocaine use would surface in the campaign, and he blamed his opponents for stirring rumors. "If nobody shows up, there's no story," he told Mr. Wead, "and if somebody shows up, it is going to be made up." But when Mr. Wead said that Mr. Bush had in the past publicly denied using cocaine, Mr. Bush replied, "I haven't denied anything."

[robbedvoter]

5. Wow! Soon, Unfortunate Son will come to light!

Who gives a * about cocaine today? Delay any info long enough and it's worth crap. Enough crap to put off actually burning news - delayed for later irrelevance. The Rove MO.

[cornermouse]

6. Probably Wead.

A diversion.

[Jacobin]

7. What will we tell the children?

[ochazuke]

8. funny

clinton reference?

[candy331]

9. Smart throw sold some old news out the media wouldn't cover

and should have to change the topic of discussion from Gannon. Shows they are complicit, why didn't they run this 700 times when it was newsworthy?