Howard Kurtz, Washington Post:
President Bush’s former sister-in-law denied yesterday that she had given author Kitty Kelley any information about allegations of past drug use by Bush.
Sharon Bush is quoted in Kelley’s forthcoming book about the Bush family as making one of the allegations, and Kelley’s editor said in an interview Tuesday that she had provided “confirmation” for the information.
But Sharon Bush, who is divorced from the president’s brother Neil, said in a statement: “I categorically deny that I ever told Kitty Kelley that George W. Bush used cocaine at Camp David or that I ever saw him use cocaine at Camp David. When Kitty Kelley raised drug use at Camp David, I responded by saying something along the lines of, ‘Who would say such a thing?’
“Although there have been tensions between me and various members of the Bush family, I cannot allow this falsehood to go unchallenged.”
Notes Captain Ed,
It’s not like Sharon has an unusual love for the Bushes, either, having long been outspoken in her bitterness for her former in-laws, especially the elder George Bush and her former mother-in-law, Barbara.
Once again, it appears that Kelley simply made up some explosive gossip about the rich and powerful in order to turn a quick buck, like she’s done so often in the past. Her only named source just called Kelley a liar and a libeler, and that leaves Kelley with her usual level of named sourcing: none. Having read two of her volumes of sludge—biographies of Frank Sinatra and Nancy Reagan, neither of whom I hold any particular fondness—I can say that those who waste their time and credibility holding her charges up as a weapon will rue the loss of both in the coming days and weeks.
Well, Captain, that’s assuming those who’d hawk such pulpy crapulence had credibility remaining to begin with.
And let’s face it: were Oliver Willis a Stouffer’s french bread pizza flavor, he’d be Double Cheese and Holy Christ! I Really Have Become a Parody of Myself, Haven’t I?
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(h/t Dario)
Howdy Jeff,
Sorry to do this here, but could you e-mail me? I can’t find your contact on the web page and I need to talk to you. Nuthin bad.
Thanks
Yeah, where IS your email address? And don’t tell us Oliver ate it!
What browsers are you guys using? If you click on the Contact tab over on the right, you should get a form that has my email address filled in, as well as a link to my email address in orange and grey below that.
Got my fix.
Thank you.
You are a god.
Spending time reading Oliver Willis might mean “pulpy crapulence†is on the docket? Well then, bring on the Stouffer’s Skillet Sensations Libstyle Chicken and Lard, marinated in a savory sauce of Shut The Hell Up. Kitty Kelley must be fed!
Bwaaaahaha! Kitty’s single source of information refutes the primary charges in her book. Classic.
Meanwhile, the swiftvets claims have all been thoroughly debunked since all 254 of them didn’t personally spend every waking moment with Kerry during his 4 months in ‘Nam.
Political theater at it’s finest.
First he’s a soup, then he’s a pizza.
What next? A car?
“If Oliver Willis were a car, he’d be a Ford My Fifteen Minutes Is Nearly Up, Here’s Another Picture Of A Model.”
Somewhat off-topic, but I was hiking in the Rockies several summers ago and ran upon Oliver Willis gorging himself on honey. He was covered in the stuff, seemingly immune to the bee stings. I froze when I saw him, knowing an aroused Oliver could easily run me down and devour me as well. Fortunately, he just mumbled something about “I’ll get you, Goldstein” and I backed off slowly. The park rangers said I did the right thing by not attempting to engage him in rational debate.
I have taken to reading Willis’ site for the pure entertainmnt factor recently. When I stopped by earlier, there was a post entitled “We Want the Truth”. I checked back just recently to see what his take was on the whole forged document deal, and noticed that the “We Want the Truth” post was no longer there. Anyone else notice this?
OK, I feel stupid, its still there.
My appoligies to Oliver.
“I feel stupid, its still there. “
Bennett,
When you’re feeling stupid, you know you’re home at Ollie’s blog.
Cordially…
Ollie (Putrois?) is now blocking/deleting my trackbacks, so it is very believable that he would quietly delete evidence of his foolishness.
God what a piece of work Kitty Kelly is! I watched her on Hardball, and have never seen someone so evasive and untruthful. I was disappointed Chris Matthews was so deferential to her, but ripped apart the gal on the Swift Boat issues….I tend to think Mattews is really a Democrat trying to apear to bea mpoderate. Her lying was apparent by her inability to recall information she should have at he tip of her fingers after supposedly “working” on a book for four years!! She is nothing but a piece of Hog dung you scrape off your shoes, but idiots like my wife want to buy her books because she is supposedly is “really in the know”. My wife has no taste for politics but when it comes to undocumented gossip…well she just cannot get enough as does America. The media are so focused on tearing down our leaders, especially the Republicans, that as soon as they are eleceted they start hating them and tearing them apart with propaganda and rumor. My only hope is that when Bush is elected, they sue her for all her deliberate liabel and slander. Kitty Kelly is one screwed up lady, that is pathalogical lier and narcistic beyond measure!
My god would anybody marry her? Has she ever been married?…..I doubt it and if she did, it probably did not last very long.Talk about a scummy scumbag…Kitty Kelly is it!DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY OR TIME ON HER, DO NOT EVEN MENTION HER NAME as that is what she wants…..after the money!
/steve