September 22, 2004

Source Denies Story of Drugs in Bush Book

A Texas man who is quoted in Kitty Kelley's new book about the Bush family as saying that the first lady, Laura Bush, smoked and sold marijuana in her college days, said on Tuesday that his remarks were taken out of context. He said he had no firsthand information about any drug-related activity by Mrs. Bush.

The man, Robert Nash, is quoted on Page 575 of Ms. Kelley's book, "The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty." Speaking of Mrs. Bush, Ms. Kelley writes: "She graduated from Southern Methodist University in 1968 and had been known in her college days as a go-to girl for dime bags of marijuana. 'She not only smoked dope,' said Robert Nash, an Austin friend of many in Laura's S.M.U. class, 'but she sold dope.'"

Yours truly is a 3-time graduate of Lady Laura's alma mater S.M.U. (I got my B.A. in '76, my M.B.A. in '79 and my M.A. in '96) and I can tell you this: the very idea of the well-brought up, clean-cut, polite and rather shy Laura Welch dealing drugs out of the Kappa Alpha Theta house at SMU is so completely ludicrous as to be totally hilarious!
Clearly, Kitty Kelley has done no research at all!
SMU is so conservative and even retarditaire as to be like a trip back in time!
When I saw the movie "Animal House" for the first time, which is set in 1962, Farber College looked like and functioned socially almost identically to SMU almost 20 years later.
If Miss Laura had been trying to peddle dime bags in the Theta house, her "sisters" would have tossed her out so fast and so viciously, she'd be begging to be arrested by campus police just to avoid the brutalities!
It just wasn't done and wasn't tolerated and Laura Welch Bush isn't the type to do it and never has been.
(Isn't it obvious?! She's a good, West Texas, Methodist girl!)
Get a grip, Dimocrats!
(The NYSlimes better watch it!
They're treading close to CBS/Dan Rather territory now by treating Kelley's dreadful tabloid book, for which not a single supposed source would go on the record when they related their atrocious gossip about the Bushes, as "news.")