Who Put the Fetus in the Fetus Jar?

In his recent book, which should have been called Derision Points, because it is page after page of mockably untrue nonsense (admission – I haven’t read it.  However, plenty of columnists have printed excerpts, with examples of provably, easily provably false statements).  In that book, he recounts one incident where his mother, Barbara Bush, the one who looks like the old guy on the box of Quaker Oats, showed him a jar which contained a fetus, the result of her miscarriage.

Now, he said that this was important in shaping his anti-abortion views, but he also said that he included the story as an example of the particularly close relationship he had with his mother.  You know who else had a particularly close relationship with their mother?

See What I Mean?

Norman Bates, that’s who.

So, I wrote a blog about that, a couple of weeks ago, but it disappeared.  Really.  I’m still not sure if this was some sort of an internet glitch or if the evil powers that watch over everything we print and say and check to make sure we’re wearing clean underwear before we get onto an airplane put the kibosh on it, but I’ll be watching this one to see what happens.

Now, in a way, after the 1st admission, I was willing to give Murderin’ George a slight benefit of the doubt.  He drove her to the hospital.  The doctors probably left her with the fetus to dispose of as she wished.  So, she showed it to him.  It’s a bit weird, but that’s it.  You’ve got a fetus in a jar, your teenage son is standing there, you can show it to him or not show it to him and either way, other people could label you strange.  It’s an awkward, unusual situation.

But now it get’s weirder.  Barbara, in an interview with Larry King, a conservatives’ best friend, said the story didn’t quite happen the way George reported it.  “It’s not like we had it on display in the library,” she said.  And she didn’t  put it in the jar, or show it to George.  “Paula put it in the jar,” she said.  I guess Paula was one of the domestic help.

First, that makes the story a whole lot tackier.  This means they had the fetus hanging around for awhile, instead of disposing it in some respectful way, either a backyard burial or maybe calling a funeral home to come take it away.  They may still have it.  This means that they expected quite a bit of their servants.  And this means either that George conflated his memory of one of the servants with his mother, so the incident didn’t really have much of an impact on him at all, or that somebody is lying.

It might be Barbara, it might be George.  It wouldn’t surprise me, either way.