Letters to the Editor
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Unscripted? I'm not convinced
Maybe Bush really was as good as the reports say answering spontaneous questions from random members of his audience, but forgive me if I am deeply distrustful of everything that this super-scripted White House does in public.
If you look at the transcript, you'll see that the president took exactly five questions. Of those, two were from self-confessed supporters of his. Two were of a nature that you could say they came from the opposition. And one pretty much straddled the line in the middle. What are the chances of that happening with just random picks from the crowd, huh?
Of course, maybe it's just that Republicans are remarkably lucky when it comes to games of chance. Bob Ney, after all, managed to win $34,000 on a $100 bet in two hands of a card game at a ritzy London casino a British avation executive had introduced him to...