Did the White House remove Idiot Son's town hall gaffe from the website?

[Proud2BAmurkin]

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/01/2005011

[greyfox]

1. Looks that way... n/t

[IronLionZion]

2. what was the gaffe?

:shrug:

[idiosyncratic]

5. He said "Same age as my mother" when the questioner hadn't

given the age of the person they were asking the question about.

It was talked about earlier . . . a search will probably bring up the threads.


Edit to add actual transcript statements:

THE PRESIDENT: Good, thanks. Well done. (Applause.) Now what about your -- introduce your mom.

MS. STONE: I would like to introduce my mom. This is my mother, Rhoda Stone. And she is grandmother of three, and originally from Helsinki, Finland, and has been here over 40 years.

THE PRESIDENT: Fantastic. Same age as my mother.

MS. STONE: Just turned 80. . . .

[Sanity Claws]

6. So she was a plant

there was a script, and Bush messed up his lines.
Another look behind the curtain.

[libbygurl]

3. Hmm, a 404-error URL with missing page comes up....n/t

[TrustingDog]

4. Still there...

---whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/01/20050111-4.html---

don't know why sometimes full links don't work here. took out the http and dubyadubyadubya

[jahyarain]

7. no the white house didn't change anything

Winston dropped it into a memory hole. and now, it never happened...

[RobertSeattle]

8. Still there - you don't have the full link

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/01/20050111-4.html

THE PRESIDENT: Good, thanks. Well done. (Applause.) Now what about your -- introduce your mom.

MS. STONE: I would like to introduce my mom. This is my mother, Rhoda Stone. And she is grandmother of three, and originally from Helsinki, Finland, and has been here over 40 years.

THE PRESIDENT: Fantastic. Same age as my mother.

MS. STONE: Just turned 80.

THE PRESIDENT: Is she still giving you instructions?

MS. STONE: Every day, and I do my best.