[lbo-talk] Condi's slip

[snitilicious at tampabay.rr.com]

At 12:30 PM 4/19/2004, Doug Henwood wrote:
>New York Magazine - April 26, 2004
>
>Political Conversation: Condi's Slip
>
>A pressing issue of dinner-party etiquette is vexing Washington, according 
>to a story now making the D.C. rounds: How should you react when your 
>guest, in this case national-security adviser Condoleezza Rice, makes a 
>poignant faux pas? At a recent dinner party hosted by New York Times D.C. 
>bureau chief Philip Taubman and his wife, Times reporter Felicity 
>Barringer, and attended by Arthur Sulzberger Jr., Maureen Dowd, Steven 
>Weisman, and Elisabeth Bumiller, Rice was reportedly overheard saying, "As 
>I was telling my husb-" and then stopping herself abruptly, before saying, 
>"As I was telling President Bush." Jaws dropped, but a guest says the slip 
>by the unmarried politician, who spends weekends with the president and 
>his wife, seemed more psychologically telling than incriminating. Nobody 
>thinks Bush and Rice are actually an item. A National Security Council 
>spokesman laughed and said, "No comment."

HA! I've been saying forever that she's blowing bush!

Kelley