Friday, October 20, 2017

Ditto


[F]ormer presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama reminded us last week that there is nothing normal about this moment.

[...]

As Bush put it, “We have seen our discourse degraded by casual cruelty."

  WaPo
[I]n response to Carlson asking him for his impressions regarding Karla Faye's interview on the Larry King show, prior to her execution   [...]

"He (Larry King) asked her real difficult questions, like, `What would you say to Governor Bush?'"

"What was her answer?" I (Tucker Carlson) wonder.

"`Please,' Bush whimpers, his lips pursed in mock desperation, `don't kill me.'"

[...]

As it turns out, the Larry King-Karla Tucker exchange Bush recounted never took place, at least not on television. During her interview with King, however, Tucker did imply that Bush was succumbing to election-year pressure from pro-death penalty voters. Apparently Bush never forgot it. He has a long memory for slights.

(Emphasis mine.)

Interesting huh? Did Bush have a mistaken memory about the interview, sparked by his anger with Karla Faye? Or was his recollection to Tucker Carlson a complete fabrication, because he didn't want to admit to "pressure from pro-death penalty voters?"

It seems perfectly logical to me that, in George Bush's sick little narcissistic mind, he'd rather be perceived as a cruel, mocking bully than as someone too cowardly to go against the will of the voters.

  Daily Kos

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