posted 04-22-2004 08:01 PM            

LOOKS LIKE ABC IS TAKING A TIP FROM GEORGE ORWELL's 1984 WHERE "THE MINISTRY OF TRUTH" RE-WRITES and "EDITS" HISTORY.

Barbara Bush: "Why should we hear about body bags? Why should I waste my beautiful mind"; abcnews.go.com scrubbed
Posted by: Admin on Thursday, April 22, 2004 - 03:01 AM GMT


Yes, this is news is a year old -- but I'm just now hearing about it because I had tried to give up blogging for Lent in 2003.

According to the transcript of the March 18, 2003 Good Morning America show (note that transcripts.tv is linked to from the bottom of the Good Morning America homepage):

DIANE SAWYER, ABC NEWS: (OC) You said that, that Mrs. Bush at one point had said to the two of you, don't watch too much TV. You may be watching too much TV.

FORMER FIRST LADY BARBARA BUSH, UNITED STATES: No question.

DIANE SAWYER, ABC NEWS: (OC) You do watch?

FORMER FIRST LADY BARBARA BUSH, UNITED STATES: I watch none. He sits and listens and I read books, because I know perfectly well that, don't take offense, that 90 percent of what I hear on television is supposition, when we're talking about the news. And he's not, not as understanding of my pettiness about that. But why should we hear about body bags, and deaths, and how many, what day it's gonna happen, and how many this or what do you suppose? Or, I mean, it's, it's not relevant. So, why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that. And watch him suffer.

This part of the interview is not mentioned in the sanitized Good Morning America web page overview of the March 18, 2003 segment with the senior Bush's.

Link:
http://www.underreported.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=
News&file=article&sid=1288&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0