Hey, MEDIA - do we have to EVERYTHING around here?!

[mbali]

Family Draft News: Ft. Worth Star-Telegram's Montgomery reports Bush's eldest son, George W. Bush, "stayed out of the draft through student deferments and service in the reserves." Bush's three other sons were too young to serve at the time. George W., 46, received deferments while a Yale undergrad; after graduating in '68, he joined a jet-fighter unit in the TX National Guard. George W. noted his unit "rotated pilots to Vietnam": "When you're flying a fighter airplane, that's not exactly cushy service." On Clinton: "The issue isn't whether Mr. Clinton went into the military. The issue is why he would not tell the truth" (9/24).

The Hotline, September 25, 1992

Standing up to his father might have been part of George W.'s struggle during those years to figure out how to be his own George Bush. He applied to and was rejected by the University of Texas School of Law. He worked for less than a year at a Houston agribusiness company--"A dull coat-and-tie job," he says--and then he worked for a year in an anti-poverty program. On weekends, he flew F-102 fighter jets for the Texas Air National Guard (his father, of course, had flown a bomber in World War II). It has been reported that Bush mysteriously got ahead of a long waiting list to get into the Guard. When I ask him if he tried to avoid the draft, he grins and says, "Hell, no. Do you think I'm going to admit that? You are out of your mind. Let me give you the political answer, Mr. Reporter"--and then he tells me he wasn't dodging anything. He says he even asked to be put on an alert program that could have sent him on a three-month rotation to Vietnam, but he was never called.

Texas Monthly, May 1994

Question for the press: If I can find this stuff with a cursory search, why can't YOU? And why aren't you asking about it?

[wurzel]

1. Maybe the media just doesn't want to know.

[blondeatlast]

2. It boggles the mind--I provide reference services,

and it just ain't that hard to dig this stuff up.

Kee-ripes.