`Please,' Bush whimpers...lips pursed in mock desperation `don't kill me'

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`Please,' Bush whimpers...lips pursed in mock desperation `don't kill me'

Edited on Thu Mar-24-05 04:52 PM by Stephanie

Culture of Life?

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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 (Tucker), 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.'

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

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

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Republican presidential candidate Gary Bauer criticized Gov. George W. Bush Tuesday for making fun of an executed Texas woman in an interview Bush gave to Talk magazine.

"I think it is nothing short of unbelievable that the governor of a major state running for president thought it was acceptable to mock a woman he decided to put to death," Bauer said of Bush.

Bush is portrayed in Talk as ridiculing pickax killer Karla Faye Tucker of Houston for an interview she did with CNN broadcaster Larry King shortly before she was executed last year. Just before her execution date, Tucker appealed for clemency on the grounds that she had become a born-again Christian.

" `Please,' Bush whimpers, his lips pursed in mock desperation, `don't kill me,' "

- Excerpts from The Houston Chronicle August 10, 1999

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

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According to recent reports, George W. Bush does a mean impression of Dr. Evil, the campy villain from the Austin Powers movies. Now it turns out that Bush can do a (not so) nice Karla Faye Tucker, too. Last year, Texas executed Tucker, a double murderer who became a Christian on death row and whose pleas for clemency gained national attention. Bush apparently hasn't yet forgiven her for the resulting bad PR. In discussing the case with reporter Tucker Carlson for Talk magazine, Bush mimics the late Karla Faye begging for mercy: "'Please,' Bush whimpers, his lips pursed in mock desperation, 'don't kill me.'" Bush makes much of his own religious conversion, but apparently Christian mercy doesn't keep him from holding a grudge against a woman whose death warrant he signed. More of this, and people may stop believing Bush's impression of a compassionate conservative.

In the same interview, Bush is asked whether abortions have gone up or down while he's been governor: "I don't know, probably down. Not because of anything we've done, though." Oh. Is it too much to ask that Bush at least feign interest in the question? Or is imitating a committed pro- lifer too far outside his range?

- National Review, August 30, 1999

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_16_51/ai_55432922

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