April 24, 2004

The Washington Post has picked up on Condi's "My husb ... President Bush" faux pas
by Liza Sabater

Wild Rice (washingtonpost.com)

Wild Rice By Al Kamen Friday, April 23, 2004; Page A21

There's continuing buzz over a comment national security adviser Condoleezza Rice made at what was apparently an off-the-record Washington power dinner with New York Times Publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. and other Timespeople at the home of Washington bureau chief Philip Taubman.

Rice, according to an account in this week's New York magazine, at one point said: "As I was telling my husb . . . " then stopped and said, "As I was telling President Bush. . ."

Eyebrows jumped; jaws dropped. There was a slight pause in the chatter. But we're also thinking that while the first phrase was correctly reported, there's a possibility the second one did not immediately follow. In which case, it's not at all clear whom or what Rice, who is single, may have been talking about.

Some speculate she may have a husband hidden somewhere or in her past. Our best guess is she had started to say, "As I was telling my Hezbollah friends," and then stopped, not wanting reporters to know she has dealings with members of a terrorist group.

Meanwhile, Taubman is said to be much put out over the publicity and has ordered everyone to clam up. Imagine, a dinner with 10 reporters and someone leaked. We are shocked! Shocked!

The people at the The New York Times are cowards for putting a ban on this. And here I thought the Washington Post was a Republican leaning paper. I guess not!

Echoed at Slate: Trial and Terror By Sam Schechner

Posted by Liza Sabater in Media, Politics, Race, Sex, War
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