Jeb Bush: political reporters are ''crack addicts''

[Octafish]

A most interesting comment, considering the kind of people with whom Jebthro has been associated.

Jeb Bush: political reporters are "crack addicts"

@MarcACaputo

Welcome to covering Jeb Bush, David Gregory.

On Sunday, the “Meet The Press” host learned that if you ask the former Florida governor a political-gossip question that attempts to pit him against a friend, he’ll parry and thrust.

Gregory: “Who’s the hottest Florida politician right now -- Is it you or [U.S. Sen.] Marco Rubio? Who are we more likely to see in the White House?”

Bush: “Man, you guys are crack addicts. You really are obsessed with all this politics.... Marco Rubio’s a great guy...”

Gregory: “You know, I’ve been called a lot of things…”

Bush: “Okay, heroin addict. Is that better?"

To call Bush’s smile icy would be too warm a description.

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http://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/2013/03/jeb-bush-political-reporters-are-crack-addicts.html

BFEE sure does love that free press thing.

[msongs]

1. the pimp calling his prostitutes a name. now that's not new for a bush family member lol nt

[Octafish]

5. Gary Webb was right: CIA Sold Dope

The guy and his family have done much "business" and "service" with the federal agency responsible for introducing the crack epidemic to the United States.

Gary Webb, 1955-2004

EXCERPT...

WHEN HECTOR BERRELLEZ SPENT HIS YEAR GOING TO MOVIES IN Washington, he knew he was finished in the DEA. One day in October 1996, a month after he retired, Hector Berrellez picked up a newspaper and read this big story about a guy named Gary Webb. Hector had lived in shadows, and talking to reporters had not been his style. As I read, I thought, This shit is true," he says now. He hadn't a doubt about what Webb was saying. He saw the reporter as doomed. Webb had hit a sensitive area, and for it he would be attacked and disbelieved. Hector knew all about the Big Dog and the Big Boy rules.

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Before he retired, Hector was summoned to Washington to brief Attorney General Janet Reno on Mexican corruption. He talked to her at length about how the very officials she was dealing with in Mexico had direct links to drug cartels. He remembers that she asked very few questions.

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But he doesn't carry a smoking gun around. The photos, the ledgers, all the stuff the cops found that morning as they hit fourteen sterile stash houses where all the occupants seemed to be expecting company, all that material went to Washington and seems to have vanished. All those reports he wrote for years while in Mexico and then later running the Camarena case, those detailed reports of how he kept stumbling into dope deals done by CIA assets, never produced any results or even a substantive response.

Hector Berrellez is kind of a freak. He is decorated; he is an official hero with a smiling Ed Meese standing next to him in an official White House photograph. He pulled twenty-four years and retired with honors. He is, at least for the moment, neither discredited nor smeared. Probably because until this moment, he's kept silent.

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He tells me a story that kind of sums up the place he finally landed in, the place that Gary Webb finally landed in. The place where you wonder if you are kind of nuts, since no one else seems to think anything is wrong. An agent he knows was deep in therapy, kind of cracking up from the undercover life. And the agent's shrink decided the guy was delusional, was living in some nutcase world of weird fantasies. So the doctor talked to Hector about his patient, about whether all the bullshit this guy was claiming was true, about dead men and women and children, strange crap like that. And he made a list of his patient's delusions, and he ticked them off to Hector. And Hector listened to them one by one and said, "Oh, that one, that's true. This one, yeah, that happened also." It went on like that. And finally, Hector could tell the shrink wondered just who was nuts--Hector, his patient, or himself.

CONTINUED...Esquire via Internet Archive:

http://web.archive.org/web/20050323092458/http://www.esquire.com/features/articles/2004/041217_mfe_webb_1.html

Excellent choice of phrase, yours, msongs!

[Katashi_itto]

15. GO BUSH!!!! YOUR MAKING ROMENY LOOK CHARISMATIC!!!

KEEP IT UP!

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

2. Jeb or Marco being called "hot" politicians?

Only in Gregory's mind, I think.

[Octafish]

7. The guy wants to be invited to the dance, come 2016.

I'm sure his COMCASTIC employer feels the reporter is totally objective about his coverage of the rabid right.

Meanwhile, Don Siegelman rots his life away in prison and fewer and fewer remember he's even there.

[asjr]

3. Gregory is going to have to tell his former dance partner

about this. Rove will be right on it!.

[Octafish]

9. Wonder if the name ''Jim Hatfield'' rings any bells?

Hatfield was a researcher and writer who penned “Fortunate Son,” an unauthorized biography of George W Bush that included allegations of cocaine use, planted by Karl Rove, who knew that Hatfield, an ex-con would be discredited. The last thing Hatfield wrote “Why Would Osama Want to Kill His Ex-Business Partner?” that detailed bin Laden threatening to crash a plane loaded with explosives into the G-8 summit in Genoa Italy in July 2001. Bush slept offshore aboard a US warship and the meeting was guarded by SAMs. After publishing the work, Hatfield died, another convenient “suicide.”

[kairos12]

4. Cocaine Problem--that would be his brother

[Octafish]

10. Project P.U.L.L.

Now why would Bush Family Evil Empire prince George W Bush have to do "community service"? People who are convicted of minor criminal offenses get "community service" sentences. According to Jim Hatfield, the sentence resulted from a cocaine violation. Interesting: In Texas, most people get prison time for drug violations.

Here's a recent article on the subject. As with most things Bush, it's full of contradictions. Bush says he did the service as a leader working out of the goodness of his heart:

Former workers dispute Bush's pull in Project P.U.L.L.

By Meg Laughlin
Knight Ridder Newspapers

HOUSTON - President Bush often has cited his work in 1973 with a now-defunct inner-city program for troubled teens as the source for his belief in "compassionate conservatism."

SNIP...

"We didn't know what kind of trouble he'd been in, only that he'd done something that required him to put in the time," said Althia Turner, White's administrative assistant.

"John said he was doing a favor for George's father because an arrangement had to be made for the son to be there," said Willie Frazier, also a former player for the Houston Oilers and a P.U.L.L. summer volunteer in 1973.

Fred Maura, a close friend of White, refers to Bush as "43," for 43rd president, and his father as "41," for the 41st president.

"John didn't say what kind of trouble 43 was in - just that he had done something and he (John) made a deal to take him in as a favor to 41 to get some funding," Maura said.

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http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/9990590.htm

More good stuff on the subject:

George W. Bush, Cocaine and Community Service

By Xymphora
Saturday, February 14, 2004

What is the 'Rosetta stone' in the mystery of Bush's questionable military career, the fact that will explain all the anomalies and obfuscations? It seems certain, despite what the Bush bootlickers will say, that Bush disappeared from his military service and did not have leave to do so. He simply didn't show up, and levers from on high were pulled to make sure this wasn't a problem for him and that the most incriminating evidence was laundered from his military files. Even at that early date, Bush and those around him knew he was destined for one of those parasite careers leaching off public funds, and a dishonorable discharge would have adversely affected his ability to leach. But why didn't he show up when and where he was supposed to? The requirements weren't that onerous, and it appears he liked to fly. The only answer can be that it was the drugs, particularly the massive consumption of cocaine that would have shown up on his drug test in his medical examination. But why was he so concerned about this? Cocaine consumption would have barred him from flying, but his connections would still have ensured that he did not suffer the normal consequences, and being barred from flying wouldn't be a problem if you didn't intend to fly anyway. Somehow more levers would have been pulled, and he would have received his honorable discharge, with his earning abilities not damaged in any way. The answer probably lies in the exchange between Helen Thomas and Scott McClellan as set out in Talking Points Memo, which concerns allegations that Bush had to do community service in Houston in the early 1970's, probably because of a conviction for possession of cocaine. Anybody else would have gone to jail, but his dad managed again to pull some strings with the judge to get Bush off with a bit of charity work. Note how incredibly nervous and evasive McClellan is, and how Thomas holds on like a shark (every other 'journalist' in the room could have asked the same questions as Helen Thomas did, but lacked the integrity and/or competence to do so). Also note how the White House is releasing, albeit grudgingly and in a manner that evidences guilt, all the military records. Rove is on his game here. By holding back the military records he has made the military records the issue, and has has managed to divert the media from the real issue, which is the community service. If those legal files ever get out, showing that Bush was convicted of a serious drug offence, his political career will be finished. The real reason that Bush went AWOL was that he couldn't afford to take a drug test. The real reason he couldn't afford to take a drug test was that it would have been a condition of his sentencing that he remain clean. If word of the failed drug test had filtered back to the court, he would have gone to jail. His fear of the criminal legal consequences is why he went AWOL, and that's why the community service is the key to understanding what is going on here. By concentrating on the military records, the media is walking right into Rove's trap.

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[Initech]

6. So telling the truth somehow equals being a crack addict? Right....

[KharmaTrain]

8. Jebbie's Right...

...as much as I regret to post this...broken clock et al. I'll bet Stretch's eye were bug-eyed when he asked the question...figgetting on his seat in anticipation of some "dish". That's what makes up a majority of what we know of as "political reporting" these days. It's a real life "Survivor" where fames and fates rise and fall on how the others on the beltway island think of you. The more "dish" you give 'em the more they want...withdraw the "dish" and they start convulsing verbally. It's a lot more fun to speculate and play horse race than ask a serious question...but that's not Stretch's job...he is one of many looking for the hottest "dish"...

[llmart]

11. Well, he would know crack addicts.....

since his daughter's one.

[kiranon]

12. Jeb seems to be sabotaging his own campaign for the Presidency.

Perhaps Jeb doesn't want to run and his family is pressuring him to run. This is his way of getting out of the whole thing.

[City Lights]

13. Quit whining, Jebbula.

Nothing grates on my nerves more than a spoiled, rich brat constantly whining. Shut the fuck up already, Jebbula.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

14. Jeb Bush is auditioning to become the Don Rickles of politics