Woman files 2002 sexual assault suit against Bush; dies one year later of gunshot wound to the head

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Story here and here.

So why do we hear nothing about this? Anyone can allege anything, and there are lots of crazy people, so perhaps stories like this are inappropriate. Of course, the media ran with such stories during the Clinton admin but not now. Perhaps because they were more consistent with Clinton's image (character? Maybe they were true.) Perhaps because the media is really conservative. More likely because the moderate-to-liberal element in the media was cowed by conservative bullying. But someone who files a lawsuit seems more credible than someone who doesn't (Kathleen Willey, for instance).

― g@bbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 13:04 (twenty-two years ago)

It's funny how tenaciously the right clung to the story of Vince Foster yet there's been no mention of this.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 13:08 (twenty-two years ago)

WTF?!!

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 13:12 (twenty-two years ago)

If this had happened in the UK there is NO WAY the media would've been kept quiet about this story, regardless of whether it was a Labour or Tory PM involved.

Is the story credible?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 13:13 (twenty-two years ago)

That is the thing, I can't find the story on any legitimate news site.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 13:16 (twenty-two years ago)

I like this headline:

Bush had an abortion .

― Kerry (dymaxia), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 13:57 (twenty-two years ago)

It never appeared on a "legitimate news site." Or at least, a major one. A story about the suit appeared in a local Texas paper, linked at the first site above.

I'm not predisposed to believe it, and others who have paid more attention say it's not necessarily credible. I'm just wondering why the media didn't run with it when they ran with similar allegations against Clinton. Maybe because there was more than one back then. Maybe the media learned their lesson, and it was Democrats' bad luck that they learned at the expense of a Democratic president.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 14:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, and now that I've actually read this stuff, it seems completely non-credible.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 14:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Maybe the media learned their lesson, and it was Democrats' bad luck that they learned at the expense of a Democratic president.

i'd say that it was more than 'bad luck' -- unless bad luck has evolved into a confluence of events that involves millions of dollars being thrown at investigations.

― maura (maura), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 15:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Events like this are not as uncommon as you think.
There was a story bubbling around for two weeks back in 1989 about George Bush Sr having an affair. The story lunged back into the news and was quickly supressed when the backlash against the Clinton impeachment gained momentum.
But my two personal favorite stories of (post-Nixon-era) evil in the presidency go something like this.
1) Brett Kimberlin, Dan Quayle's pet pot-smoking buddy was thrown into solitary confinement for revealing that Quayle regularly bought dope from him.
Even though he has not yet been charged with a crime, he ended up spending a couple years in jail.
2) The second story is too complex to put in a 1 paragraph blurb. You'll just have to Google for the name "Danny Casolaro"

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Thursday, 1 April 2004 17:44 (twenty-two years ago)

three years pass...

http://noliberty.com/bandar-bush.jpg

― gershy, Friday, 17 August 2007 03:16 (eighteen years ago)

The GHWB story is true, actually - verified by friends working in White House at the time.

― suzy, Friday, 17 August 2007 11:36 (eighteen years ago)

I have also heard verification of the GHWB story from family friends in DC who are probably credible.

― Hurting 2, Friday, 17 August 2007 13:43 (eighteen years ago)

Margie Schoedinger has her own Myspace now: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=105281063

Totally WTF.

― James Mitchell, Friday, 17 August 2007 14:03 (eighteen years ago)

the jennifer fitzgerald stuff is 100% credible-

To certain friends, Nancy had peddled the story of 'George and his girlfriend' that had been told to her about the evening of March 18, 1981, when some of 'the group' were having dinner at Lion d'Or in Washington, D.C. 'Suddenly there was a great commotion,' recalled one of the five dinner guests, 'as the security men accompanying the Secretary of State [Alexander Haig] and the Attorney General [Willian French Smith] converged on our table. They started jabbering into their walkie-talkies, and then whispered to Haig and Smith, who both jumped up and left the restaurant. The two men returned about forty-five minutes later, laughing their heads off. They said they had had to bail out George Bush, who'd been in a traffic accident with his girlfriend. Bush had not wanted the incident to appear on the police blotter, so he had his security men contact Haig and Smith. They took care of things for him, and then came back to dinner.

― and what, Friday, 17 August 2007 14:15 (eighteen years ago)

Schoedinger had accused Bush of rape and other sexual crimes against both her and her husband

Sounds like a mentally ill person. As much as I hate Bush, I don't think this is big news. Delusional people are known to make fantastical claims. Is it news? No.

― Beth Parker, Friday, 17 August 2007 14:46 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, the Schoedinger thing, otoh, does NOT sound credible

― Hurting 2, Friday, 17 August 2007 14:49 (eighteen years ago)

scrodonger

― bobby bedelia, Friday, 17 August 2007 14:52 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, the Schoedinger thing, otoh, does NOT sound credible

Neither did the Vince Foster conspiracy theories.

― libcrypt, Friday, 17 August 2007 15:07 (eighteen years ago)

I wasn't going to mention the name of she who was bumpin' uglies with GHWB but at the time, friend sent me card with name on and told me to keep it in a safe place.

― suzy, Friday, 17 August 2007 15:09 (eighteen years ago)

Vancouver?

― onimo, Friday, 17 August 2007 15:11 (eighteen years ago)

all yall acting like hw's piece on the side is some kinda super mega top secret ish know that spy did a cover story on it in 1992 rite?

― and what, Friday, 17 August 2007 15:15 (eighteen years ago)

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