Open Thread

“You fucking son of a bitch. I saw what you wrote. We’re not going to forget this.”

-George W. Bush to writer and editor Al Hunt, 1986.

From back when he still read things, and made clear sense.

Al Hunt is married to CNN newscaster Judy Woodruff. In April 1986, while the couple was eating at a Dallas restaurant with their 4-year-old son, a very pissed-off George W. Bush stormed over to their table and unloaded on Hunt: “You fucking son of a bitch. I saw what you wrote. We’re not going to forget this.” (Hunt’s transgression was having predicted in the Wall Street Journal that Jack Kemp would win the 1988 Republican nomination instead of Vice President George H.W. Bush).

Author: BooMan

Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.