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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (3098)	8/16/1999 12:03:00 AM
From: Catfish	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Michelle, You are ignorant and love it. This is from your previous post regarding Bush: There is a bunch of evidence and third parties that say he did... so its not like this is coming from out of the blue... cocaine is an illegal substance and the president is the head of the war on drugs is he not? You are not the least bit concerned that we NOW have a coke head in the White House? He is a proven liar, or do you refuse to believe that? Do you believe that his brother was convicted and sentenced?

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (3098)	8/16/1999 3:06:00 PM
From: Catfish	Respond to of 769670

Washington Post Briefed on Clinton Cocaine Charge newsmax.com Thursday August 12, 10:42 AM The Washington Post's Howard Kurtz has been fully briefed on what Gennifer Flowers had to say Friday about President Clinton and cocaine. Inside Cover contacted Kurtz Wednesday morning to share Flowers' recorded account of Clinton's cocaine use, after the Post writer ignored the issue in a lengthy screed about completely unsubstantiated rumors that George W. Bush had used the drug. On Wednesday, the Post writer seemed to be trying to legitimize the unsourced Bush rumors with a report headlined, "Drug Use: A Campaign Issue in the Making." Despite Kurtz's inability to produce a single account from anyone saying that they'd either seen or heard of Bush using cocaine, Post editors felt Kurtz's story was newsworthy enough to warrant prime-time exposure on page A02. Kurtz's report echoed around the globe, with, for instance, the London Times offering a thinly disguised rewrite in its Thursday editions. The Post's subheadline offered this self-serving explanation for pursuing a story backed by no serious investigative reporting: "Bush Silence on Cocaine Query Feeds Media Quest for Answer." Kurtz noted that his very own newspaper gave the Bush cocaine story a big push when two Post interviewers pressed the candidate on the question last month. Since then, the GOP favorite has been asked the "C" question twice on television, declining to answer both times. Though the topic has been in play for little more than a month, the press has now queried Bush directly on the as yet unfounded charge more frequently than President Clinton has been challenged on the "R" question. That is: Why won't Clinton personally deny Juanita Broaddrick's compelling on-the-record account, backed by sworn FBI testimony and corroborated by multiple witnesses, that he raped her years ago in Arkansas? After two tries, the press has simply stopped asking. The Washington Post, along with the rest of the mainstream media, has assiduously avoided asking Clinton the "C" question, despite published accounts from four people who claim to have either seen him use cocaine or report circumstances where Clinton's use of the drug was plainly obvious. A fifth person, former Little Rock drug dealer Sharline Wilson, gave her sworn eyewitness account of Clinton's cocaine use to a federal grand jury in 1990. Kurtz wrote, "An admission of having tried cocaine, the focus of major federal anti-drug initiatives and much inner-city violence, could be more problematic" than a confession about using marijuana. The president has admitted to illegal marijuana use in England, after first telling reporters who asked about drugs, "I've never broken the laws of my country." After Clinton's classic marijuana obfuscation, mainstream reporters dropped further inquiries about his drug use. In a bit of unintended irony, the Post writer noted, "Questions about the personal lives of candidates ... are often triggered by specific allegations, such as when Gennifer Flowers charged in 1992 that she had a long-running affair with candidate Bill Clinton." What about Flowers' specific allegation, just delivered on Friday, regarding Clinton's cocaine use? Hasn't that news reached the Washington Post yet? Inside Cover played the following tape-recorded exchange into Kurtz's answering machine Wednesday morning: INSIDE COVER: Ms. Flowers, Sally Perdue says that Bill Clinton used drugs in her presence, specifically cocaine. Did you ever see Bill Clinton use drugs in your presence? FLOWERS: Yes. He smoked marijuana in my presence and offered me the opportunity to snort cocaine if I wanted to. I wasn't into that. Bill clearly let me know that he did cocaine. And I know people that knew he did cocaine. He did tell me that when he would use a substantial amount of cocaine that his head would itch so badly that he would become self-conscious at parties where he was doing this -- because all he wanted to do while people were talking to him is stand around and scratch his head. A copy of Inside Cover's report, Gennifer Flowers: 'Clinton Offered Me Cocaine' was faxed to the Post reporter's office after the call. Is the Washington Post -- along with the rest of the press -- afraid to cover cocaine allegations about Bill Clinton? Ask Richard Bey, the TV talk show host who interviewed Flowers years ago. After Flowers' appearance on Sean Hannity's New York radio show (where the longtime Clinton paramour answered our "C" question), Bey called in and told the host that Flowers dropped the Clinton coke bombshell on his program back in 1993. The next day, according to Bey, network execs canceled his highly rated show. Posted for discussion and educational purposes only. Not for commercial use.