White House: No cover-up of Bush's flub

[journalist3072]

Posted on Thu, Sep. 27, 2007

White House: No cover-up of Bush's flub
By BEN FELLER
Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON --The White House has been setting the record a little too straight.

Anyone reading the official transcript of Bush's statement on education Wednesday would see that he said "children do learn."

Except that's not what he said.

Bush flubbed the line and said "childrens do learn" - a particularly embarrassing gaffe given that he was surrounded by young students and talking about the importance of education. It also harkened back to another infamous misstatement, when Bush rhetorically asked "Is our children learning?"

On Thursday, press secretary Dana Perino said the White House never meant to clean up Bush's language after the fact.


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Perino said no one in Bush's press operation had ordered the stenographers office to fix Bush's slip-up in the transcript.

She did, however, order that the transcript be amended later so that it would accurately include the president's mistake.

Sure enough, it now reads "childrens (sic) do learn."

Source: http://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/politics/story/153187.html

[supernova]

1. That's the proper way to do it.

(sic)

[bear425]

4. Yes, (sic)

(sic) (sic)

Although, only once will do.

[madeline_con]

2. Would that DUH-bya did likewise. n/t

[RufusTFirefly]

3. Yup. President (sic) Bush n/t

[O.M.B.inOhio]

10. LOL! Groucho would've been proud.

Marx/Dumont '08!

[RufusTFirefly]

14. How about Hackenbush/Upjohn instead?

The Upjohn part might succeed in hoodwinking Big Pharma.

[Oeditpus Rex]

16. Wagstaff/Huxley

"I'm Professor Wagstaff of Huxley College."

"That means nothing to me."

"Well, it means nothing to me, either. I'll try it again: I'm Professor Huxley of Wagstaff College."

"Well, you didn't stay at the other college very long."

[L. Coyote]

11. You got my vote.

:rofl:

[tomreedtoon]

5. If it's good enough for Chef McElroy, it's good enough for Dubya!

I'm waiting for him to greet a group of children "you 'dorable li'l crackers."

[piesRsquare]

6. "Children(s) do learn"

Wow. How profound. :puke:

[Bobbieo]

8. How could anyone in their right mind vote for George W. Bush for ANYTHING?

It was the 2000 "Bushisms" that did it for me.

[L. Coyote]

12. And, he just had that realization, all by himself. NOT. Speechwriter found this gem!

[originalpckelly]

7. Is our Dana Perino full of shit?

Dana Perinos is full of shit.

[in_cog_ni_to]

9. Oh, bull. Is Mandela still dead? I wonder if THAT remained in the transcript? I also

noticed that that IDIOTIC remark wasn't all over the news that day OR the next. The Corporate whores just ignored it. At least I didn't see it anywhere, but I heard it played on every Air America show.

[Eric J in MN]

13. Since Bush took office, the stenographers have been editing the official transcript...

...ending decades of stenographers accurately recording what the president said.

That's not a coincidence.

It's part of the Bush Administration indifference to the truth.

[DaveJ]

15. Here's the clip

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-3FSUafZqk

He really does not care about education.

[Disturbed]

17. "White House never meant to clean up Bush's language."

She is such a freakin' liar.

It was done on purpose & changed when they got busted, as usual for the Busholini Regime.

Why is the Pres. still in office when it is a fact that he violated the FISA Law ( A Felony) 32 times?