GEORGE BUSH PAID FOR AN ILLEGAL ABORTION

[AnIndependentTexan]

http://www.bigmagic.com/pages/blackj/column108a.html

LARRY FLYNT SAYS:
GEORGE BUSH PAID FOR AN ILLEGAL ABORTION

Q: The first thing in your book that everyone is going to jump on is your claim that young George W. Bush paid for his girlfriend's illegal abortion.

A: You can't stay with a story this long and not believe in it. In 2000, I got a call from a lawyer in Houston. He told me that his client, "Susan," could prove that George W. Bush arranged for his girlfriend to have an abortion back in the early 1970s. Her boyfriend at the time, "Clyde," was pals with Bush and set up the procedure. We checked up and found that indeed "Clyde" was responsible for keeping Bush out of trouble. Bush had knocked up a girl named "Rayette." We talked to the doctor that performed the abortion. We felt we really had a blockbuster story, but about two months before we were going to break the story, "Susan" disappeared. We finally found her. She was living in a half-million-dollar home in Corpus Christi, Texas. Before that she was living in a small apartment working for $13,000 a year as a cocktail waitress. I'm not saying Bush bought her off, but I'm confident that one or more of his cronies did. The only thing that interested me in this story is---I'm pro-choice, but to have a guy who is running on a pro-life platform ... and this procedure was committed in 1971, two years before Roe vs. Wade, which would have made it a crime.

I went to two members of the national press (during the 2000 presidential campaign) and said, "Look. I don't have anyone out on the stump. You guys do. At least ask Bush the question." You know what? They refused to. One of them had the nerve to tell me that the election was too close. "We don't want to be the ones to tip it in any direction." I thought, that gives you a really great feeling about the press.

[LostInAnomie]

1. It is more helpful if the excerpt actually has some of the story...

... not just the autobiography of Larry Flynt.

[Mabus]

2. Here's the pertinent part.

Okay, last Q & A is included because I agree with it.

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Q: The first thing in your book that everyone is going to jump on is your claim that young George W. Bush paid for his girlfriend's illegal abortion.

A: You can't stay with a story this long and not believe in it. In 2000, I got a call from a lawyer in Houston. He told me that his client, "Susan," could prove that George W. Bush arranged for his girlfriend to have an abortion back in the early 1970s. Her boyfriend at the time, "Clyde," was pals with Bush and set up the procedure. We checked up and found that indeed "Clyde" was responsible for keeping Bush out of trouble. Bush had knocked up a girl named "Rayette." We talked to the doctor that performed the abortion. We felt we really had a blockbuster story, but about two months before we were going to break the story, "Susan" disappeared. We finally found her. She was living in a half-million-dollar home in Corpus Christi, Texas. Before that she was living in a small apartment working for $13,000 a year as a cocktail waitress. I'm not saying Bush bought her off, but I'm confident that one or more of his cronies did. The only thing that interested me in this story is---I'm pro-choice, but to have a guy who is running on a pro-life platform ... and this procedure was committed in 1971, two years before Roe vs. Wade, which would have made it a crime.

I went to two members of the national press (during the 2000 presidential campaign) and said, "Look. I don't have anyone out on the stump. You guys do. At least ask Bush the question." You know what? They refused to. One of them had the nerve to tell me that the election was too close. "We don't want to be the ones to tip it in any direction." I thought, that gives you a really great feeling about the press.

Q: Ann Coulter once told me, "Liberals have turned hypocrisy into the only sin." Maybe Christian Americans have sympathy for hypocrites because everyone but the pope in Rome and Jimmy Carter are guilty of minor, if not major, sins.

A: I'll put it in a non-biblical context by simply saying anytime you take a public position contrary to the way you live your personal life, that's hypocrisy, and you're fair game.

Q: You ran against Reagan in 1983. How do you feel now that he's dead?

A: It couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.

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[Wickerman]

3. Great interview

Q: You mention Ann Coulter several times in your book. Did she really have an affair with Bob Guccione?

A: Bob Guccione Jr., who was the publisher of Spin magazine. And she was dating him. I find it hard to believe that any man could screw Ann Coulter, but they were having an affair.

[npincus]

8. I hope he gave her the clap

that would explain why she's twisted and bitter

[shelley806]

4. So why are they waiting again, just before this close election?

Makes no sense.

[Debi]

6. Because it doesn't matter what George Bush did 30 years ago

John Kerry threw away his ribbons...or John Kerry 'faked' his Purple Heart...or John Kerry owns an SUV...or John Kerry gets $1,000 haircuts.

Don't want to piss the White House off...may lose your seat in the press pool and have to do some real reporting

[highplainsdem]

5. More details on this can be found at

http://www.democrats.com/display.cfm?id=159

[wurzel]

7. The Media doesn't want to tip the election? That's a new one!

[Sean Reynolds]

9. I actually remember hearing this story in 2000.....

So it's been around a long time.

[soothsayer]

10. I wish George Sr had gotten an abortion for babs instead

[ComerPerro]

11. I'm sorry, but this won't even matter. At all.

The right loves Bush so much that they don't give a shit about his lies, his hypocracy, or his very questionable past.

Hell, even having an abortion doesn't matter to the "pro-life" crowd, as long as you are one of them.

I remember reading a year and a half ago, just as the war was starting, about this "pro-life" group that was claiming that people who were against the war were just people trying to push their "pro abortion agenda". Turns out that the woman organizing this movement, in the name of fetuses everywhere, openly admited in the article, without shame or embarassment, that she had had three abortions herself!

Republicans don't care that Bush was an alcoholic until he was 45 (and still might be), they don't care that Bush claimed he would run this country like a business yet failed at every business venture he had ever tried, and so they certainly wouldn't care if Bush had encouraged his girlfriends to get one, two, or even ten abortions. Its all a "youthful indiscrestion".

Hypocracy does not offend your average Republican. Neither does lying right to their faces. All that matters is that you talk the talk. Someone else can do the walking for you.