CAR SCARE; PRESIDENT BUSH IN MISSISSIPPI

Drudge Report ^ | 1/01/03 | Matt Drudge

[GWB00]

Update from Drudge:

"A car penetrated the security perimeter around the arena where President Bush was speaking Saturday and rammed the building. Authorities swarmed the vehicle... AUTHORITIES SHOT OUT THE TIRES; CRASHED INTO LOADING DOCK OF ARENA...

[I got the rope]

No news on TV or radio yet.

[lelio]

Here's his headline:

A car penetrated the security perimeter around the arena where President Bush was speaking Saturday and rammed the building. Authorities swarmed the vehicle...

[BullDog108]

FOX News is mentioning it now.

[Catspaw]

From what I could gather from MSNBC, a car/vehicle drove into a wall where the president was speaking. He's aboard Air Force One now.

[jackbill]

There was a woman and three kids in the car.

[Eldorado431]

You done good ty. I am waiting for report on Fox. Nothing yet.

[Brian Mosely]

Fox News just said it was a woman and 3 kids.

[Dengar01]

Tony Snow just said what happened. Sounds like some crazy woman with her kids rammed her car into a loading dock. Seems like President Bush wasn't in any danger from her.

[TomGuy]

Tony Snow/FoxNews: Woman with 3 kids in the car apparently ran thru barrier.

{Remember a week or so ago, a woman in a car ran through security and approached AF 1 before the GWB motorcade arrived.)

Accidents? Coincidence?

[Lunatic Fringe]

I cant imagine it being much of an attempt if he rammed his car into an arena... probably just a whacko peace activist.

[Iowa Granny]

ABC News/Radio has reported a car jumped the curb near GWB's motorcade. Perp is in custody and all is well. This reported 20 minutes ago. I have not heard updates. FNC was running a tape of Financial News.

Radio is focusing on football Saturday. Nothing but updates.

I see Tony Snow is live now, discussing CA fires, perhaps we'll get some additional info soon.

[StriperSniper]

Lady with 3 kids in the car slow speed rammed a loading dock not even close to GWB, per Tony Snow.

[dighton]

Car Rams Miss. Arena During Bush Speech

"Fewer than five minutes after the car crashed at a slow speed into a loading dock area at the arena, Bush's motorcade left for his next stop, in Paducah, Ky."

[StatesEnemy]

There was a woman and three kids in the car.

Yes, but there was another car that approached from a grassy knoll.

[JusPasenThru]

Any bets on her religious affiliation?

[DollyCali]

Thanks for post. I don't know how to start a thread. so you impress me.

Glad GWB is okay.

woman & three kids .. here sounds like a bad driver.. in Iraq well, we all know

[God luvs America]

Its' on Yahoo; AP report:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=2&u=/ap/20031101/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_motorcade

SOUTHAVEN, Miss. - A car penetrated the security perimeter around the arena where President Bush (news - web sites) was speaking Saturday and rammed the building. Authorities swarmed the vehicle.


Bush was not hurt and no shots were fired from or at the car, White House spokesman Trent Duffy said. It was not immediately clear if Bush had gotten into his limousine at the time of the incident.

The president's motorcade was still parked at the DeSoto Civic Center, and Bush was preparing to leave the arena where he had given the first of four campaign speeches scheduled for Saturday.

Fewer than five minutes after the car crashed at a slow speed into a loading dock area at the arena, Bush's motorcade left for his next stop, in Paducah, Ky.

"There was a vehicle that did crash into the side of the building," Duffy said, though it was "not close" to the president's car.

Bush's day planner in the South included appearances in Desoto County and Gulfport, two GOP strongholds on either end of Mississippi, to lend support to former Republican National Committee (news - web sites) Chairman Haley Barbour, who is trying to unseat Democratic Gov. Ronnie Musgrove.

"I'm proud to stand with this man," Bush said.

"He's proud of this state, and that's the kind of governor you need — somebody who relates to people from all walks of life," said Bush, who was greeted by supporters who chanted "Four more years! Four more years!"

Thousands of people jammed to the rafters the sports arena where the rally was held. Along the front rows, audience members screamed their support for Bush and Barbour through plexiglass boards left over from a hockey game.

Barbour walked to the edge of the stage and said Bush was in Mississippi to pay off an IOU, reminding the crowd — and Bush — that he had supported Bush's gubernatorial campaigns and his presidential run in 2000.

Bush's Texas twang got thicker as he addressed the Mississippi crowd.

"He's reaching out," he said, talking about Barbour. "He understands his job is to represent everybody when he gets to be the governor in three days."

The president is fond of saying, "The political season will come in its own time." Saturday seemed to usher it in officially: Bush's day of campaigning, door-to-door, was be 13 1/2 hours.

In Kentucky, the president was to visit Paducah and London to lend support to Rep. Ernie Fletcher, considered the Republicans' best chance in years to capture governor's office it hasn't won since 1967.

Victory for both candidates on Tuesday would raise the number of Republican governors to 29, including California Gov.-elect Arnold Schwarzenegger (news - web sites), to the Democrats' 21.

Musgrove countered Bush's visit by promoting his candidacy in the Democrats' weekly radio address Saturday.

"Our leaders need to vigorously go about the business of uplifting our economy, creating jobs, improving education for our children, making prescription drugs more affordable and fighting for our troops," the Mississippi governor said.

"And they need to fight for these things as hard as they fight on the campaign trail."

[Consort]

...Is Matt overreacting?

[xrp]

Ah, once again Drudge jumps the gun and becomes more and more sensationalist. Thank goodness for Free Republic.