Free Press History
We all know that politicians sometimes play fast and loose with the facts, but few are as easy to catch as the consummate storyteller Stephanie Hightower.
President Harry Truman once remarked that Richard Nixon “didn’t know the difference between the truth and a lie.” Hightower’s problem seems to be that she forgets the stories that she tells different media sources on the record. Hightower is on the record with at least three versions of the day a 14-year-old boy threw a rock at her car.
Recall on December 3 that Hightower told the Columbus Dispatch – after at least two dozen people showed up at the Columbus School Board meeting to complain about her handling of the “rock throwing” incident – that “. . . she was rattled because the rock had thudded loudly against the car window, just inches from her head.”
The Dispatch quotes Hightower as saying, “The force was such, I just knew my head was busted open.” This version of the story elicits sympathy for School Board President Hightower and helps mitigate against her admissions that she “cussed at him and tried to lunge at him [the boy],” according to the Dispatch.
President Harry Truman once remarked that Richard Nixon “didn’t know the difference between the truth and a lie.” Hightower’s problem seems to be that she forgets the stories that she tells different media sources on the record. Hightower is on the record with at least three versions of the day a 14-year-old boy threw a rock at her car.
Recall on December 3 that Hightower told the Columbus Dispatch – after at least two dozen people showed up at the Columbus School Board meeting to complain about her handling of the “rock throwing” incident – that “. . . she was rattled because the rock had thudded loudly against the car window, just inches from her head.”
The Dispatch quotes Hightower as saying, “The force was such, I just knew my head was busted open.” This version of the story elicits sympathy for School Board President Hightower and helps mitigate against her admissions that she “cussed at him and tried to lunge at him [the boy],” according to the Dispatch.