March 19, 2004
No Takers
Four weeks ago, "Doonesbury" creator Garry Trudeau announced in his cartoon strip the "Bush Guard Service" contest: "We're offering $10,000 cash to any witness who can definitively corroborate Mr. Bush's claim" that three decades before he became President, he served in the Alabama National Guard. "So if you served with Mr. Bush - even if only in the officers' club - we want to hear from you right now! Why? So we can put this trash story to rest and get back to the real issues." Well, it turns out that no credible witness has come forward to claim the prize, so this week Trudeau mailed a personal check for $10,000 to the USO.
(via Wonkette)
Of course, it's always possible that this is just proof of how successful Bush's FMA support was at diverting media attention away from the increasingly hostile questions into his service record. As soon as he came out in favor of a discrimination amendment, we stopped hearing anything from the mainstream news media about his spotty National Guard record. O, would that we were blessed with a media able to report more than one story at a time!