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Pretzelgate: was it drink, drugs or just salty
snacks?
By David Randall
20 January 2002
President George Bush is back on the booze and fell
drunkenly off the sofa on to the White House shagpile
last Sunday. This, he would be horrified to know, is
one of the more prosaic of the theses now circulating
on the Net as the whirring minds of the world's
conspiracy theorists seek the "real" story behind
what they are now calling Pretzelgate.
Others are not sure. The idea of Dubya drinking
himself into a stupor with only his two dogs for
company is not nearly exotic enough for them. They
favour a domestic dispute, where wife Laura, perhaps
enraged by her husband's hogging of the pretzel bowl,
hits him; the official story of choking on a pretzel,
fainting and then falling on the floor being a
hastily concocted cover-up.
Meanwhile, a sceptic with medical pretensions has
been studying pictures of Bush post-Pretzel, paying
particular attention to his face and its abrasions.
Noting the "flush across the bridge of his nose" and
the "glazed expression" on his face, Cheryl Seal
concluded, "the man is on a strong anti-anxiety drug
– and a hefty dose at that".
The diligent press, having earlier got Bush's
physician on record saying that the President tested
negative for alcohol, has also cleared up the other
great unanswered question: where was Laura when the
snack attack occurred? The final White House words on
the subject were: "On the phone, in the solarium",
which, unfortunately, are sufficiently redolent of
"Cluedo" to set the conspiracists off all over again.
But, Watergate, this is not. Apart from the absence
of any trace of illegal payments through Mexican bank
accounts, or a shadowy body called the Committee to
Re-Erect The President, the affair lacks a Deep
Throat. Come to that, so, apparently, does Bush. So
it will be left to the wilder shores of the internet
to speculate. How long before someone posts the first
"14 Coincidences Between Bush and Lincoln"?
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