I know this appeared in a tiny Memphis newpaper back in Feb. '04. I caught the link on Michael Moore.com. When I looked for it again just a couple days later I could not find it and had to use my history to go back and read it again. Feb. '04 was a different time. The time is now. Email this story to all media outlets. I can find no contact info for USA Today staff, especially Dave Moniz. Someone bring this to his attention.
From the Memphis Flyer:
http://www.memphisflyer.com/content.asp?ID=2837&onthefl... “THERE’S NO WAY WE WOULDN’T HAVE NOTICED a strange rooster in the henhouse, especially since we were looking for him,” insists Mintz
“I talked to one of my buddies the other day and asked if he could remember Bush at drill at any time, and he said, ‘Naw, ol’ George wasn’t there. And he wasn’t at the Pit, either.’”
The “Pit” was The Snake Pit, a nearby bistro where the squadron’s pilots would gather for frequent after-hours revelry. And the buddy was Bishop, then a lieutenant at Dannelly and now a pilot for Kalitta, a charter airline that in recent months has been flying war materiel into the Iraq Theater of Operations
“I never saw hide nor hair of Mr. Bush,” confirms Bishop. . "In fact," he quips, mindful of the current political frame of reference, "I saw more of Al Sharpton at the base than I did of George W. Bush."
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