21 september 2009

Innenfor Bush's hvite hus

Matt Latimer var taleskriver i Det hvite hus under George W. Bush og har nå skrevet boken Speech-less: Tales of a White House Survivor om erfaringer og episoder fra jobben. Og det er ganske mange artige kuriosa, melder The Huffington Post (via John Erik Riley). Et eksempel:

For a commencement address at Furman University in spring 2008, Ed Gillespie wanted to insert a few lines condemning gay marriage. Bush called the speech too "condemnatory" and said, "I'm not going to tell some gay kid in the audience that he can't get married."

Men det var vel den talen han endte opp med likevel.
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