Here Kitty, Kitty (ABC News/Note's analysis of Kitty Kelley's book) [must read]

ABC News/Note ^ | 9/13/04

[Cableguy]

We have plowed through Kitty Kelley's 700+ pages of gossip and history about the Bushes — "The Family," and all we can say is — we are pretty confident that this will not affect the outcome of the election.

Busy as Dan Bartlett is, he probably should have used the time he spent trying to browbeat Neal Shapiro into keeping Ms. Kelley off of NBC playing with his new babies.

On Today today, Kelley appeared at 7:30, and Matt Lauer made the segment much more about the author's credibility than about her charges — sort of begging the question about why have her on once, let alone three days.

Then, right after that, Sharon Bush was on, and she repeated her denial that she made any statements serving as Kelley's second source for the marquee allegations in the book.

Masquerading as serious history of three generations of Bushes, "The Family" is mostly an excuse to use background and a few on-the-record quotes to dredge up all the allegations of sex, drugs, and poor behavior that have swirled around the clan for years.

The allegations by President Bush's ex-sister-in-law Sharon involving her on-the-record-but-since-retracted claims of drug use at Camp David (that made up the bulk of the pre-publication publicity) are clearly the item in the tome most likely to spark controversy and perhaps force the president to re-engage on his young and irresponsible days.

As you know, the president has never ruled out EVER using illegal drugs (only that he hasn't used them recently), but we find it hard to believe that this book will suddenly force him to address the charges. Matt Lauer says that Bartlett over the weekend engaged enough to deny the Camp David allegations.

Oddly (or perhaps not) Sharon Bush's alleged charges are contained in the author's note at the front of the book. Regarding the National Guard, both the circumstances of his service and allegations that attempts were made to sanitize his file before he ran for president, there is nothing new in here — although Bill Burkett (a player in the CBS controversy) makes a cameo.

The tone of the book is negative almost uniformly.

Some of the highlights:

p. 263: 43 gets really mad at someone at Yale who throws a football at him, and he throws it back REALLY hard.

p. 302: Marylouise Oates (a/k/a Mrs. Bob Shrum) is quoted as saying: "The Ellis family and the Bush family have had serious problems with booze. I remember when John Ellis called to say he couldn't come to my wedding because he was going to Hazelden. He was taking Antabuse and still drinking then … I'll bet George W. went to Hazelden, too, but I can't prove it. 448: A Howard Fineman quote!!!

p. 452: Claims that 41 lied about his war record to make it seem more impressive for political use (How Kerry-like!!)

p. 525: Barbara Bush cancels an interview with Deborah Orin.

p. 542: The character of Karl Rove is introduced.

p. 550:-1 The notion is floated that 43 is protected during his runs for public office from personal allegations by a "Rent-a-Spooks" operation resulting from his father's days as head of the CIA. (Note Note: we aren't kidding.)

p. 624: Ann Compton and the words "went down the bunny hole" appear for the first and last time in the book. (And Compton is misquoted; she actually said "rabbit.")

[Pete]

p. 263: 43 gets really mad at someone at Yale who throws a football at him, and he throws it back REALLY hard.

That's it! I am changing my vote.

[rhombus]

p. 263: 43 gets really mad at someone at Yale who throws a football at him, and he throws it back REALLY hard.

Don't mess with Texas or the US of A. Voting for Bush? Damn straight.

[Mach9]

Sounds like some of the MSM are getting just a teensy bit more careful about their "journalism."

[nikos1121]

I think this lays to rest the rumor that the book contained reference to the Killion memos as has been reported in this forum the last few days.

nick

[Shermy]

I watched it. When Kitty was getting defensive she said something like "I didn't say she witnessed the use of cocaine"

Which raised my eyebrows. Then how would she know? I'd like to see a transcript of that interview.

[atomicpossum]

p. 452: Claims that 41 lied about his war record to make it seem more impressive for political use (How Kerry-like!!)

Okay, that puts it out of orbit right there. Bush Sr.'s military record is pretty widely-known, well-documented, and several orders of magnitude above John "Sealed Records" Kerry.

[niobe527]

aren't you supposed to throw it HARD?

[pepsionice]

Interview transcripts....hmmmm. I'm sure she can produce them....lets task Larry King to ask for them in exchange for letting her on his show (he didn't want her...but never said why). Here is Larry's chance...make her pop up the transcripts so the bloggers can do their job. I'm sure we can take them apart like we did Dan's memo.

[JLS]

Yep the C^BS scandle could not have come at a better time to blow the Kitty Kelly book out of the water. I guess that is more proof it was Karl Rove behind those memos?

[RippleFire]

bump

[Peace Is Coming]

Exactly. Sounds to me like that book has some lies in it.

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[olde north church]

I prefer a president who can throw a football hard as opposed to the MSM type who throw like girley-men.

[upchuck]

Geepers! I just don't know what to do. Memos, tell-all books, who knows what else... sKerry just looks better and better to me.

[marktuoni]

p. 263: 43 gets really mad at someone at Yale who throws a football at him, and he throws it back REALLY hard.

[Lizavetta]

He was taking Antabuse and still drinking then

How is this possible? Antabuse makes you violently horribly sick if you drink.

[Rutles4Ever]

Snore....

[Ciexyz]

George threw a football REALLY HARD at someone at Yale? How disgustingly MACHO! (tee hee)

[Ciexyz]

Er, I'm fuzzy on the phrase "went down the bunny hole" (maybe I don't really want to know.)