Bush's 'candor' was scripted response to planted question [View All]

[banana republican]

President George W. Bush's highly-publicized admission of "regrets" and "moment of candor" during a joint press conference with British Prime Minister Tony Blair this past week was actually a scripted response to a planted question with a British journalist.

Capitol Hill Blue has learned that the question was among a list of "proposed questions" given to British reporters by Blair and that both the British Prime Minister and President Bush knew the question was coming and had prepared responses.

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Wolffe says Bush has to go the regret route because his other trite phrases just don't work any more.

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_8727.shtml