Bush's Fish Story (With Updates)

From Kos:

Bush says the highlight of his presidential career was catching a 7.5 pound perch in his lake. Except that...

The only problem is that the world's record for the largest freshwater perch caught is 4 pounds 3 ounces.

So Bush either doubled the world record, and didn't report it, or he's a liar.

Incidentally, see how three presidents answered the question, "What was the best moment of your presidency?"

Apparently, since Bush didn't have any "best moments," he had to invent one.

UPDATE: Kos readers had some good things to say about this latest scandal:

"This bolsters the case for 'imperchment'"

"Perchery: the deliberate false exaggeration of fish size"

It is being reported that Bush might have actually said "bass" but the German newspaper who interviewed him translated it wrong. I don't care about that. Al Gore never said he invented the internet, yet the right wingers and the Corporate Media ran with it. How is this any different?

UPDATE II: The White House will reportedly release the "official" transcript of the interview soon which will clear all of this up. But I don't think that will help matters much, because all this will do is remind people that Bush thinks catching a 7.5-pound fish was the highlight so far of his presidency.

In fact, there may be no way the White House can win on this one, unless the German phrase for "catching a 7.5 pound perch at my ranch" sounds remarkably like the German phrase for "toppling Saddam's statue."