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Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 02:57:05 +0200 (CEST)

Manoj Kasichainula wrote;
>http://www.snopes.com/quotes/bush.htm
>
>Claim:   President George W. Bush proclaimed, "The problem with
>the French is that they don't have a word for entrepreneur."
>
>Status:   False.

Status: Crap.


>Lloyd Grove of The Washington Post was unable to reach Baroness
>Williams to gain her confirmation of the tale, but he did
>receive a call from Alastair Campbell, Blair's director of
>communications and strategy. "I can tell you that the prime
>minister never heard George Bush say that, and he certainly
>never told Shirley Williams that President Bush did say it,"
>Campbell told The Post. "If she put this in a speech, it must
>have been a joke."

So some guy failed to reach the source, but instead got spin doctor to
deny it.  Wot, is he thick enough to expect official confirmation
that, yes, Blair is going around casting aspersions on Bush???

It's an amusing anecdote, I don't know if it's true or not, but certainly
nothing here supports the authoritative sounding conclusion "Status: False".


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