Of Golf and the Man
Reported by Marie Therese - June 24, 2004 -
At 5:35 PM ET John Gibson, interviews Presidential Medal of Honor recipient, Arnold Palmer.
GIBSON: We're lookin' at a picture of you and him together. He looks very relaxed. He looks happy to see you. Now this is a guy that's under a lot of pressure lately ... Did you detect, in your speaking to him there, the pressure he's under lately?
Palmer answers that the President is, indeed, under a lot of pressure.
Gibson tries again.
GIBSON: Melding the question of pressure and golf, if you don't mind, is golf a game which would relax a President under terrific pressure or just make his day all the more frustrating?
Palmer doesn't really answer the question, but makes some generic comments about how one doesn't relax before a big tournament.
GIBSON: What kind of golf does President Bush play - relaxed or pressure?PALMER: Oh, I think he enjoys his golf ... I don't think he's getting out on the golf course very much right now, but I'm sure that he would like to, after some of this pressure is over.
Comment: Golf? Why golf?
Could it be Fahrenheit 9/11?
Clips from the movie, used in the advertising, depict the President on golf junkets. Could Gibson be running interference, trying to soften the impact of the movie, which portrays the President as golfing goof-off?
When he asks Palmer to assure the viewers that the President is in full control of his faculties, is Gibson trying to assure FOX viewers that rumors of Bush's mood swings are highly exaggerated?
Inquiring minds want to know ....
