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I 2 don’t know. There was no—there was no incident— 3 there’s—I don’t know exactly. There was some discussion 4 that he appeared to have been driving too slow—too slowly. The real answer? Bush was arrested because he drove into a hedge. That’s what the arresting officer, Calvin Bridges, a former Kennebunkport policeman, told Portland, Maine’s Fox-51 reporter Erin Fehlau the day the story broke. According to Fehlau, Bridges said that “he spotted Bush driving erratically . . ” Let’s try to get into Karen’s head, shall we?
Don’t you go to hell for this stuff? ) To show just how much the media elite hates Christians, Coulter writes: For decades, The New York Times had allowed loose associations between Nazis and Christians to be made in its pages. ” . . “the church is ‘co-responsible’ for the holocaust. . ” Okay. ”) is from a 2001 book review. The Times reviewer, Paul Berman, was framing the question asked by the book he was reviewing, which was about a four-hundred-year-old play performed annually in Bavaria that portrays Jews as hateful and evil.
But more importantly, it shows the contempt she holds for her own readers. HOW TO LIE WITH FOOTNOTES #3: • CITE A SOURCE, BUT TOTALLY MISREPRESENT WHAT IT SAYS She really works this one into the ground. ” Except he didn’t. In the column, written during the anthrax scare, Rich simply criticized Ashcroft’s refusal to meet with Planned Parenthood, which has had years of experience with terrorism in the form of bombings and sniper attacks from pro-life extremists. The piece doesn’t include the words “monkeying” or “Islamic” or “Muslim,” or make any suggestion that Justice abandon its efforts against al Qaeda.