Lies

Okay I have been spending some of my time reading Al Franken's book "Lies, and the lying liars who tell them". Here is a snippet from page 50, concerning dubya's drunk driving arrest.

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The drunk driving thing uncaged a whole zoo full of lyin'. Here's a good one from Bush spokeswoman Karen Hughes, fielding reporters' questions minutes after the announcement of Bush's unfortunate past as a drunk driver. I've added numbers to Karen's response for easy reference.

QUESTION: Do you know why he was stopped, karen? Was he driving erratically or anything?

1 KAREN HUGHES: I believe they-I don't know exactly, no I
2 don't know. There was no-there was no incident-
3 there's-I don't know exactly. There was some discussion
4 that he appeared to have been driving too slow--too slowly.

The real answer? Bush was arrested because he drove into a hedge. Thats what the arresting officer, Calvin Bridges, a former Kennebunkport policeman, told Portland, Maine's Fox-51 reporter Erin Fehlau the day the story broke. According to Fehlau, Bridges said that "he spotted Bush driving erratically...[and] says Bush ran off the road into some hedges.

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Thats great! I never knew the truth, that shrub ran into a hedge!