Friday, February 20, 2004
It's the cocaine, stupid
A footnote to that last post. A reader at 9/11 Citizens Watch leaves the following comment:
1.) I must have totally forgotten that Hatfield "was found dead in a hotel room on July 18, 2001, an apparent 'suicide'." What a weird end (or not?) to a weird story.
2.) Has it been obvious to everyone else all along that the reason Bush "failed to report for his Texas Air National Guard medical exam/drug test" was that he was snorting coke at the time and would obviously have been caught by a blood test? Is anyone raising this issue, or is the cocaine thing still beyond-the-pale illegal-abortion-caliber taboo?
Update. Puto Estupido comments:
posted by Blicero : 2/20/2004 02:37:00 AM
Sadly, James Hatfield, the author of this last story, was found dead in a hotel room on July 18, 2001, an apparent 'suicide'. Hatfield was also the author of 'Fortunate Son', in which he accused Bush of hiding a three-decade-old cocaine arrest. As a side note, reporter Helen Thomas and others are starting to question whether the community service Bush performed in Houston in the early1970s was somehow related to this, which would also explain why Bush failed to report for his Texas Air National Guard medical exam/drug test. A positive test for cocaine would have done more than grounded Bush - it might have sent him to prison.Two things occur to me.
1.) I must have totally forgotten that Hatfield "was found dead in a hotel room on July 18, 2001, an apparent 'suicide'." What a weird end (or not?) to a weird story.
2.) Has it been obvious to everyone else all along that the reason Bush "failed to report for his Texas Air National Guard medical exam/drug test" was that he was snorting coke at the time and would obviously have been caught by a blood test? Is anyone raising this issue, or is the cocaine thing still beyond-the-pale illegal-abortion-caliber taboo?
Update. Puto Estupido comments:
A pair of filmmakers made a documentary that follows the whole Hatfield saga from beginning to end that is reportedly really good -- I haven't seen it, but you can watch the trailer here:
http://www.hornsandhalos.com/
posted by Blicero : 2/20/2004 02:37:00 AM
