Pandering and Libby Lewis Libby Confusion

PANDERING, LAURA BUSH-STYLE? After the First Lady submitted to a softball interview about “at-risk youth” last week with White House radio correspondent April Ryan, President Bush‘s wife invited Ryan up to the family quarters for an hour-long tour. Since then, Ryan – who hugged Mrs. Bush when the tour was over – has been singing the First Lady’s praises on the black-oriented, 450-station American Urban Radio Network. Was Laura trying to shore up African-American support in a time of trouble? “I don’t think so,” Ryan said.