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The Byron York Show

George W. Bush Slip of The Tongue

The Byron York Show

Radio America

News Commentary, News, Politics

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Former President George W. Bush has been known for making mistakes while giving speeches and he has always taken criticism lightly. But after a recent speech at the George W. Bush Institue where he said Iraq in place of Ukraine, his words are under far more scrutiny.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to another edition of the Byron York Show, the No Chit Chit Podcast.

0:09.9

We'd like to get right into it.

0:11.6

What we're going to get into today is a figure not of the present but from the past.

0:17.3

George W. Bush and something you might call the world's worst slip of the tongue.

0:26.9

There have been many, many gaps spoken by many politicians.

0:32.8

This could be the world's worst slip of the tongue.

0:37.4

Bush gave a speech on Wednesday at the Bush Center at SMU in Dallas, Southern Methodist

0:44.4

University in Dallas.

0:45.9

Bush has a big presidential center there.

0:49.2

They do a lot of events and things like that.

0:52.2

So this one was called Elections, a more perfect union, and it was about the value

0:58.1

of free and fair elections in the world.

0:59.9

It featured a cast of prominent people, Condoleezza Rice, the former Secretary of State, under

1:07.5

George W. Bush, Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, Nathan Cheranski, the former Soviet dissident,

1:16.2

John Meacham, the historian and journalist.

1:21.0

And so a bunch of prominent people talking about elections at the Bush Center, the George

1:27.3

W. Bush Center at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, okay.

1:32.3

So a couple of hours into the event, Bush himself makes some brief remarks and they were

1:39.8

intended to support legitimate elections around the globe.

1:45.1

Now, where the slip of the tongue came in was this, in a passage in which Bush meant

1:51.1

to condemn the, quote, holy, unjustified and brutal invasion of Ukraine.

1:59.0

He instead said the holy, unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq, okay.

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