Word has been going around in some quarters of the Left that yesterday, as Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama suffered the ravages of Hurricane Katrina, George W. Bush played golf. “The president went golfing at the El Mirage Golf Course yesterday while the people were literally suffering,” Air America Radio host Randi Rhodes said today. “The president decided that the best use of his time would be to go golfing.” The message, of course, was that Bush is so callous and so removed from reality that he went out for a bit of fun on the course while disaster struck the nation. The only problem is, according to the White House, the president didn’t play golf yesterday. He took part in a Medicare event at the Pueblo El Mirage RV Resort and Country Club in El Mirage, Arizona — during which he made some remarks about the hurricane — but there was no golf.
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Byron York is a former White House correspondent for National Review.
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