Bush pardons moonshining 'Deliverance' actor

[im10ashus]

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- By granting absolution to a convicted moonshiner, George W. Bush also earned the unique distinction of becoming the first president to pardon a cast member of the 1972 Academy Award-nominated movie "Deliverance."

Randall Leece Deal of Clayton, Georgia, had a small role in the film about four Atlanta businessmen who have unpleasant encounters with locals during a North Georgia canoe trip.

For the last 16 years, Deal, 66, has worked at the Rabun County Sheriff's Department, a far cry from his life in the early 1960s when he was convicted on two counts of violating liquor laws and one count of conspiring to violate liquor laws.

The crimes are commonly known as moonshining and Deal still disputes the conspiracy charge.

"That really wasn't true," he said. "But anyway, that's what they charged us with."

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/08/18/bush.pardon/index.html

[YDogg]

1. That's about bush's speed. LOL

[Annces]

2. Those actors were the real deal

That was a great movie, though I saw it at too young an age.

[etherealtruth]

8. I saw it at way too young an age as well ...

It was the sanitized for TV version ... I truly beleive I was scarred by that film.

[Annces]

10. I know what you mean

I was scarred by a couple of movies.

[AX10]

3. What crime did Charlie Daniels commit, besides his music?

[MrCoffee]

6. The Devil Went Down to Georgia is a good song.

[madokie]

7. thats my ring tone

other than that cd can kiss my donkey ass

[AX10]

13. He's a horrible person.

He is in the same lowly league as the swiftboaters when he asked, "What has John Kerry done for the troops?"

[never_get_over_it]

4. He's just practicing

there will be a lot of pardoning to do before they are DONE...

[im10ashus]

5. Oh yeah.

He's starting at the bottom of the ladder and working his way up to Scooter Libby.

[maxsolomon]

9. preznit boosh, you gots a real purdy mouth

WTF

[Octafish]

11. That's Bush's line. He's got a thing for guys named ''Scott.''

This is true:

Bush prefers our pretty boy to his pretty boy

by Jane Taber
Toronto Globe and Mail

This is the tale of the two Scotts -- one American, the other Canadian. One is dark-haired, the other blond. Both are 35 and both work for the most powerful men in their respective countries.

SNIP...

Mr. Bush wandered over during Mr. Reid's chat with the Prime Minister. Mr. Reid introduced himself and shook hands with Mr. Bush.

"Well, what do you do for this guy?" the President asked as he pointed to the Prime Minister.

"Well, you know, sir, I can't really say," Mr. Reid said. "It's not that I don't want to. It's just that, you know, I don't really know from day to day."

This is true. Mr. Reid handles a number of files and performs a number of different duties, depending on the issue and the day.

The President chuckled. "Well, you got a pretty face," he told the surprised Mr. Reid. He wasn't done. "You got a pretty face," he said again. "You're a good-looking guy. Better looking than my Scott anyway."

CONTINUED...

DIM. DRUNK. WARMONGER.

[WinkyDink]

12. Hmm... rape and manslaughter are merely "unpleasant encounters".

Here's hoping the reporter was striving for understatement.

[kiahzero]

14. It's male rape.

It's apparently quite the laughing matter, from what you hear about it in the media.