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Karen Hughes once said she'd never heard George W. Bush utter a profanity.

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In an interview with Salon in 2003 — which is to say, sometime after George W. Bush called Adam Clymer a “major league asshole” and vowed to “fuck Saddam” but before Bush said that Hezbollah needs to “stop doing this shit” — Tucker Carlson said that Karen Hughes once told him that “she’d never heard Bush use a profanity ever.”

By Tim Grieve

Tim Grieve is a senior writer and the author of Salon's War Room blog.

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