Kitty Kelly Smear Pre-Emptively Collapses

Kitty Kelly isn’t due to headline three consecutive days of NBC’s Today Show until next week, and already her star witness is calling her a liar.

President Bush's former sister-in-law denied yesterday that she had given author Kitty Kelley any information about allegations of past drug use by Bush.

Sharon Bush is quoted in Kelley's forthcoming book about the Bush family as making one of the allegations, and Kelley's editor said in an interview Tuesday that she had provided "confirmation" for the information.

But Sharon Bush, who is divorced from the President's brother Neil, said in a statement: "I categorically deny that I ever told Kitty Kelley that George W. Bush used cocaine at Camp David or that I ever saw him use cocaine at Camp David. When Kitty Kelley raised drug use at Camp David, I responded by saying something along the lines of, 'Who would say such a thing?'"

"Although there have been tensions between me and various members of the Bush family, I cannot allow this falsehood to go unchallenged."

Kelly’s publisher, Doubleday, was quick to – you guessed it – call Sharon Bush a liar in its insistence that Kelly’s libelous quotes of her in the book are the God’s honest truth.

Sounds like the tabloid version of a road runner cartoon.