NYT: Cashmere and Kevlar? Bulge Affair Has Tailor Miffed

[truthpusher]

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/08/politics/campaign/08letter.html

November 8, 2004
WHITE HOUSE LETTER
Cashmere and Kevlar? Bulge Affair Has Tailor Miffed
By ELISABETH BUMILLER

WASHINGTON

Now that the election is over, there remains a piece of unfinished business: Whatever was that strange bulge in the back of President Bush's suit jacket that was visible during the three debates?

In an effort to find out, it seemed like a good idea to drop in on Georges de Paris, the longtime presidential tailor who got dragged into the bulge mystery when White House officials maligned him for what they called shoddy work.

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Ken Mehlman, the Bush campaign manager, went even further and said on NBC's "Meet the Press" that "the gentleman responsible for the tailoring of that suit is no longer working for his administration."

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Mr. de Paris, 70, had been visited a few weeks earlier by The Hill, a weekly newspaper that covers Congress, and had told the reporter seeking to solve the bulge mystery that the protuberance was nothing more than a natural pucker that occurs when a man's jacket is pulled taut against his back. The Internet quickly deemed Mr. de Paris's assertion nonsense, and by last Thursday, so had The Hill. Citing sources in the Secret Service, The Hill reported that the bulge was the outline of a bulletproof vest.

lots more: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/08/politics/campaign/08letter.html

[robbedvoter]

1. Fingering cashmere - freedom suits?

Mr. de Paris, who came to the United States from Marseilles in 1960 and now has voluminous white hair that reaches his shoulders, said that Mr. Bush liked to finger the English cashmeres and wools that Mr. de Paris brought over to the White House for approval, and that the president instantly knew what he liked. "He knows very much the quality, madame," Mr. de Paris said.

[NVMojo]

2. unfinished business!!!! What about those explosives missing?

[tngledwebb]

3. Another very interesting

BS story from the NYT hack Bushlickingmiller, which conclusively debunks INTERNET Conspiracy Theorists, ( they're the MOST crazy type of all because they are so easily fooled by the stuff they find on the net, like the NYT, for example), and, judging by the photo, shows that the White House folks aren't as homophobic as they pretend.
Or else Shrub's mom's gotten really good with a needle and thread.

[yardwork]

4. I wonder how many "values voters" know that the president's tailor

is French, has long white hair, and is named de Paris?

[Moderator]

5. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=968597