Bush Gets Stoned by the World Media

[NVMojo]

Basically, the smirk admits to inhaling and the overseas press gets the joke!!

Thursday, February 24, 2005; 6:00 AM

President Bush all but admits to illicit drug use for the first time.

Overseas it's the stuff of headlines. At home, the U.S. press has generally downplayed the story.


The divergent coverage of Bush's apparent drug use is a textbook study in the difference between the international online media and their American counterparts. On the issue of youthful illicit drug use, most U.S. news editors -- liberal, conservative or other -- defer to Bush in a way that their foreign counterparts do not.

The New York Times broke the Bush marijuana story Friday in a front-page report on Doug Wead, a Christian activist who has published a book based in part on conversations with Bush that Wead secretly recorded in 1998 and 1999. On Wead's tapes, whose authenticity the White House does not dispute, Bush came close to admitting he had smoked marijuana and avoided answering a question about whether he had used cocaine.

"I wouldn't answer the marijuana questions. You know why? Because I don't want some little kid doing what I tried," Bush said.

On a question about cocaine, Bush replied, "Rather than saying no ... I think it's time for someone to draw the line and look people in the eye and say, you know, 'I'm not going to participate in ugly rumors about me and blame my opponents,' and hold the line. Stand up for a system that will not allow this kind of crap to go on,'" according to a transcript excerpt posted on ABC's "Good Morning America" Web site.

Since Bush has never acknowledged using drugs, the international media played up the marijuana angle.

more...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A48042-2005Feb23?language=printer

[rodeodance]

1. funny ones also

......A few foreign sites offered more light-hearted headlines. "Bush's own 'smoking gun'," said the South Africa broadcast outlet, News24. The Economic Times of India sounded less than shocked: "Oh boy! George may have puffed on marijuana" was their headline.......

[NVMojo]

2. yeah, that is too funny. Chimp is a stupid idiot too.

[sendero]

3. " Because I don't want some little kid doing what I tried," Bush said."

What he "tried". I suspect he "tried" it for several years. What a spin.

[mwb970]

4. Well, he had to make sure he didn't like it! (n/t)

[Spirochete]

6. hehe

" Because I don't want some little kid doing what I tried," Bush said."

"You mean smoking marijuana, Mr. President?"

"Naw, I didn't just try that, I succeeded. I meant trying to stick the roach clip all the way up my nose."

[dbt]

5. I would not feel so alone

EVERYbody must get stoned!

:smoke: