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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums1992 George H.W. Bush (keep in mind when CNN fluffs him Sunday)
An on-the-record quote from 1992:
Reporter Sarah McClendon: "What will the people do if they ever find out the truth about Iraq-gate and Iran contra?
George H.W. Bush: "Sarah, if the American people ever find out what we have done, they will chase us down the streets and lynch us."
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1992 George H.W. Bush (keep in mind when CNN fluffs him Sunday) (Original Post)
grasswire
Jun 2014
OP
I still wonder about the rumors of his being involved with JFK Assassination.
whathehell
Jun 2014
#7
And he was running the CIA in the early Seventies, so he probably played some role
Ken Burch
Jun 2014
#9
Xipe Totec
(43,888 posts)1. Fluffers. There is no better definition for them. nt
Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)2. I remember that interview. He knows what they are and admits it. nt
Kablooie
(18,605 posts)3. I still wonder about the rumors of them passing around underage kids.
Nothing was ever proven of course but it stuck in my mind.
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)4. Uh...which "them", exactly?
Our troops? The cabinet? Bush and Quayle?
Kablooie
(18,605 posts)6. Parties held by the superich. HW was specifically mentioned.
whathehell
(29,026 posts)7. I still wonder about the rumors of his being involved with JFK Assassination.
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)9. And he was running the CIA in the early Seventies, so he probably played some role
in the overthrow of Allende.
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)5. NOBODY wants the mental image of "Number 41" getting "fluffed"
grasswire
(50,130 posts)8. especially by Blitzer, eh? nt
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)10. The entire family is scum.
UTUSN
(70,641 posts)11. Biggest fluffer of all: Jonathan KARL - every time he hosts This Week he has Jeb Crow Shrub
or some other B.F.E.E. topic to gush over, besides that last year on Father's Day he featured Poppy, making him out to be Our Father of the Nation. He makes Brit HUME look like a piker in the B.F.E.E. consigliere category (sorry for mixing the Italian and WASP mafias here).
Another Poppy outraged quote, when reporters questioned him about Neil's S&L, Jeb Crow's Medicare scams, and Shrub's whatever: "My boys have a RIGHT to make a living!1"
grasswire
(50,130 posts)12. remember how he used to get all teary....
....when someone would criticize them, and then Bar would step in all huffy, and then H.W. would blame the huff on her?
Ghouls.