Is video of Bush mocking Karla Faye Tucker available / 'culture of life'

[NAO]

Is video footage of Bush mocking Karla Faye Tucker pleading for her life as Bush is about to order her execution available?

I think it would make a nice little 30-second spot to juxtapose that footage with Bush crowing about the 'culture of life'.

Would any network even run that? Well, regardless, I suspect that if someone made it, it would circulate very widely and very rapidly across the Internets.

[Dookus]

1. I don't think there was every any video of it...

it was a print report by Tucker Carlson.

[Up2Late]

3. No, he did it at a news conference, on "the TV"

Behind a podium.

I saw it back around the time * was thinking of running for President.:evilgrin:

[Dookus]

4. ok...

if you say so. But the only thing I ever saw on it was a magazine article by Tucker Carlson.

[tuvor]

5. That's what I heard, too.

Maybe an audio tape?

[hlthe2b]

14. ditto... Now, I think that Tucker was interviewed and recreated the

whole episode--maybe on Larry King? this sort of rings a bell. But, the original article was by Tucker Carlson in Talk Magazine (I believe) based on an interview he did with the little shithead.

[NAO]

6. I remember reading an account of someone who saw it

it was a relatively major author, in a book on Bush.

The person described the expression of twisted sadistic pleasure on Bush's face as he mocked the condemned woman, and they also noted the look of distress on the host's face as Bush was mocking Tucker. I think the TV host was a woman.

I'll see if I can find that reference...

[MidwestTransplant]

7. I don't think you are correct.

He did it in a private sit down interview with Tucker Carlson. Tucker Carlson reported it in some magazine.

[Up2Late]

8. NO, he may have talked (and lied) about it then...

...but it made the National, Evening News (CNN, NBC or CBS) I never watched any others. I think I saw it on 60 minutes (in 1998 most likely) too.

This WAS a big deal! A Governor, Mocking the first Woman since 1976, about to be executed. That is news worthy.

It's not something that KKKarl is going to let freely circulate on the web. But it is in someones archive.

[Nothing Without Hope]

2. I suggest you ask DU video capture guru dzika. It's a long shot, but

he might know if it exists and if so, where. I've only seen it in print, as described by a witness and don't know if it was filmed.

Good idea to build a video showing the neocons' REAL concept of a "culture of life."

Here's the DU thread that discussed a "neocon culture of life" list from Alternet:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=1704571
Thread title: Alternet: "The Culture of Life" Top Ten

A video would be far more viscerally gripping.

[leftofthedial]

9. I distinctly recall seeing video of it

His pursed lips, the smirk, the mocking, squeaky little voice.

He is an utterly despicable piece of excrement.

[NAO]

10. If it exists, IT MUST BE FOUND, and WIDELY CIRCULATED

KKKarl Rove can squirm and squeal like a pig as the file spreads around the world and causes his idiot-project to be seen for the sadistic monster that he is.

OK, in addition to some "Culture of Life" footage, I think we ought to put some Abu Ghraib footage in there too. There is a real relationship between those events, and the common thread is the sadistic nature of GWB, playing out in events.

[Up2Late]

11. Here, I knew I had seen it on "60 Minutes", no video yet though

<http://www.americanatheist.org/columns/ontar2-15-00.html>

It's about mid way down the page.

"In an unusual move, Pat Robertson took up Karla Faye’s cause and pleaded for clemency. He used his “700 Club” program to profile Tucker’s newfound religiosity, and suggested that “no purpose” would be served by executing the diminutive 38 year old woman. It made national headlines. Robertson even defended his call for clemency on programs like '60 Minutes.'"

[Up2Late]

12. Here's how crazy it got: World: Americas Cheers and prayers greet Tucker's

World: Americas Cheers and prayers greet Tucker's death

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Crowds waiting for the execution of Karla Faye Tucker grew throughout the day. By the time she was taken to the death chamber, there were about 300 people outside the jail in Huntsville, Texas. Some had come to demand mercy. They carried placards with messages such as "Execution is not the solution" and "Jesus was a victim of the death penalty". Others had come to insist the State deliver justice in the form of a lethal injection. The two sides shouted at each other, but police kept them separated. From time to time, announcements were made to the crowd to explain what was happening.

When it became clear that legal efforts to prevent the execution had failed, a large cheer went up from those who had wanted Tucker to pay for her crimes. An even bigger roar greeted news of her death shortly after 6:45pm local time. Tucker's supporters could be heard gently singing.

The area in front of the building was illuminated by the arc lights of television crews from all over the world, reporting on the final hours of the double axe murderer. It was partly the novelty of executing a woman - there were only 49 among 3,365 US death row inmates nationwide as of January 1- which attracted all the reporters and photographers to descend on Huntsville. "We're hoping for a miracle here, if Karla Faye Tucker is to live," said a visibly moved journalist for France 2 television in a live report in front of the prison.

Much had also been made of the born-again Christian who had repented for her crimes. This brought pleas for mercy from Pope John Paul II and TV evangelist Pat Robertson. But to the majority of Texans who support the death penalty, the case of Karla Faye Tucker was no different to 144 death row inmates executed in the Lone Star State in the past two decades. In their view, she got what she deserved.

[Piperay]

13. This site has a still

but I don't know if it was from the interview where he imitated Tucker or just another time when he was looking like an ass.

http://www.ccadp.org/bushkills.htm