apocryphal quotes and institutional crassness

So I got a comment on an earlier post, refuting the story about Rush Limbaugh referring to Chelsea Clinton as the “dog in the White House.” Trouble is, it’s referenced in so many places, it’s taken on the status of Bill Gates claiming that “640k [of RAM] is enough for anybody” which he didn’t say.

But this page intrigued me: a reviewer claims there is a fake transcript in circulation, and with Lexis-Nexis being somewhat restricted, it’s not easy to verify.

Of course, if the one being cited is a fake transcript, it should be no problem for someone to produce the real one . . . . . and it’s not like the one I see cited isn’t pretty damning.

Even in the fake transcript, the corpulent commentator makes repeated comments about a 12 year old girl’s physical appearance, and manages to drag in other White House kids as well. And the transcript, fake or not, clearly says that this is the third time this joke has been told (about there being a dog in the White House) and the third time that the “crew” has shown the wrong picture. Another Amazon reviewer claims that this was the show’s first season, so plainly he was scraping for material early on.