Bartiromo and Senator MoJoe
October 24th, 2006President Bush is a guy capable of making the most innocent of questions into a revealing glimpse at his soul.
In a CNBC interview with Maria Bartiromo, Bush was asked a question on many of our minds: “I’m curious, have you ever Googled anybody? Do you use Google?”
According to CNBC’s unofficial transcript, he replied: “Occasionally. One of the things I’ve used on the Google is to pull up maps. It’s very interesting to see that. I forgot the name of the program, but you get the satellite and you can — like, I kind of like to look at the ranch on Google, reminds me of where I want to be sometimes. Yeah, I do it some.” He added: “I tend not to email or — not only tend not to email, I don’t email, because of the different record requests that can happen to a president. I don’t want to receive emails because, you know, there’s no telling what somebody’s email may — it would show up as, you know, a part of some kind of a story, and I wouldn’t be able to say, `Well, I didn’t read the email.’ `But I sent it to your address, how can you say you didn’t?’ So, in other words, I’m very cautious about emailing.”
I’ve read words to this effect before — that he doesn’t email because it leaves a papertrail — but it’s surreal to hear it from his mouth. I guess he isn’t being too secretive about being secretive anymore. He must figure, “Sometimes you’ve got to say, What the hell.” I’m glad he’s finally being straight with the American public!
Woke up this morning to find this in my inbox, and I enjoyed it. It’s nice to see Joe Lieberman fire back, and I think you should give it a read, Dear Reader. It’s always nice when a man who has been harassed defends himself.