01/04/2007 03:05 am ET Updated May 25, 2011. SNIP...
The Bush Cocaine Chronicles: Complicity and Cover-up
By John Seery
Fox News Reporter Kirian Chetry blurted out what she assumed was common knowledge among the media cognoscenti: that George W. Bush had used cocaine in his past and yet had politically survived the exposure of that (criminal) indiscretion. Her on-air colleagues scrambled to “correct” the record: no, no, no, the cocaine accusations against Bush have never been proven beyond a doubt—so let’s quickly shift the conversation away from Bush’s drug past and instead bring up, for one more go around, Bill Clinton’s admitted marijuana use alongside the recent revelation about Barack Obama’s Let’s blow some smoke in Bill’s direction, he never inhaled, ha, ha, ha.
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On one part of this story, Bush’s record is perfectly clear: in every political campaign he has ever waged, he has skillfully evaded “the cocaine question,” probably in much the same way that he avoided appearing for his drug test while serving in the National Guard. We’ve seen this character defect of his more recently: namely, all the lies and evasions and slipperiness that have contributed to, and culminated in the calamity that is the Iraq War. But Bush’s character defect was there all along to see for anyone who wanted to take a good look at it. The U.S. press corps evidently decided, however, simply to look the other way.
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