# Bush Divorce **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 21, 2007, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-divorce/388846 "2007-01-21T16:53:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2007, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-divorce/388846/21 "2007-01-22T22:25:51Z")
> [@norinew](#): > > Meanwhile, the guy who owns WWN seems to think the whole thing is kind of a hoot and freely admits he’ll put anything in his paper that people call to report. I’m pretty sure that there is a ‘satire’ disclaimer somewhere in the paper itself. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-divorce/388846/22 "2007-01-23T00:36:36Z")
[QUOTE=Shodan] Didn’t Gary Hart’s monkey business get outed by one of them? [/QUOTE] Wrong again. The Miami Herald. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-divorce/388846/23 "2007-01-23T00:39:31Z")
[QUOTE=tomndebb] C’mon. Condi has a lot more class than that. (I mean, sure, she’ll shill her soul for the power jobs he gives her, but actually having a romance with it. . . ?) [/QUOTE] She’s called him her “husband” before. The National Enquirer, ftr, was the one that lost a huge libel case to Carol Burnett after “reporting” her having a drunken tantrum in a restaurant. Maybe they’ve been “reasonably accurate” _since_? ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-divorce/388846/24 "2007-01-23T01:11:48Z")
[QUOTE=ElvisL1ves] Wrong again. The Miami Herald. [/QUOTE] Not so much. > [@](#): > > It all began in 1987 when Gary Hart was derailed as front-runner for the 1988 Democratic nomination for President of the United States. As many people remember, he challenged the press to follow him if they didn’t believe his denials of extramarital activity. (“If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They’d be very bored,” he said). Most people believe that it was The Miami Herald, which staked him out and discovered his overnight motel dalliance with party girl Donna Rice, that broke the story. The Herald did what it said it did, and ran the account in a May 10, 1987, article titled “The Gary Hart Story: How It Happened.” But the Enquirer is also widely credited with providing the definitive evidence of the accusations: their photographers caught him philandering. The tabloid sent photographers to Hart’s Washington townhouse, where they snapped shots of him and his mistress, and down to Miami, where they shot a photo of the 29-year-old model sitting on Hart’s lap alongside the headline “Gary Hart Asked Me to Marry Him.” (The Enquirer paid a friend of Rice’s $25,000 for the picture.) [Cite.](http://www.thenyrm.com/000656.html) Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-divorce/388846/25 "2007-01-23T01:59:45Z")
The “outing” (\*your \* word) was by the Herald on May 2, 1988. The Enquirer didn’t get photos until May 5. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-divorce/388846/26 "2007-01-23T02:17:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Miami Herald, which staked him out and discovered his overnight motel dalliance with party girl Donna Rice, that broke the story. The Herald did what it said it did, and ran the account in a **May 10, 1987** , article titled “The Gary Hart Story: How It Happened.” Bolding added. > [@](#): > > Two reporters from the Miami Herald had staked out his residence and observed an attractive young woman coming out of Hart’s Washington, D.C., townhouse on the evening of May 2. The Herald published the story on Sunday, May 3, the same day Hart’s dare appeared in print, and the scandal spread rapidly through the national media. Hart and his allies attacked the Herald for rushing the story into print, claiming that it had unfairly judged the situation without finding out the true facts. Hart claimed that the reporters had not watched both entrances to his home and could not have seen when the young woman entered and left the building. The Miami Herald reporter had flown to Washington, D.C. on the same flight as the woman, identified as Donna Rice. Hart was dogged with questions regarding his views on marital infidelity. In public, his wife, Lee, supported him, claiming the relationship with the young woman was innocent.[4] [Cite.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Hart) > [@](#): > > The Herald obtained photographs of Hart aboard the Monkey Business with then-29-year-old model Donna Rice, sitting in over-50 year-old Hart’s lap. The photographs were subsequently published in the National Enquirer. On May 8, 1987, a week after the Donna Rice story broke, Hart dropped out of the race. So, as mentioned, the photos published in the National Enquirer “outed” Hart as a liar as well as an adulterer. _:shrugs:_ As you seem fairly desperate to find something where you are not as wrong as usual, it seems cruel to deny you whatever scraps you can scrape from all this. So I will leave you to it. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-divorce/388846/27 "2007-01-23T02:32:48Z")
[Cite](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Hart#1988_presidential_campaign_and_the_Donna_Rice_affair). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-divorce/388846.md?page=1)