George W. Bush Slip of The Tongue
The Byron York Show
Radio America
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2022
⏱️ 12 minutes
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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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