Lewis "SCOOTER (?)" Libby

November 4, 2005 4:40 PM

How did Lewis Libby get the nickname "Scooter"?

Not being sarcastic or funny, I'd really like to know.

posted by SweetJesus to Law & Government (9 answers total)

sit down, kids, and let Auntie Google tell you a story...
posted by scody at 4:43 PM on November 4, 2005

I am being sarcastic and funny. here ya go. mild NSFW
posted by hortense at 5:02 PM on November 4, 2005

You know, I wonder whether that's not it. I don't know that I buy the "zooming around the crib" story.

But what do I know.


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Ha!

posted by metaculpa at 5:05 PM on November 4, 2005

Best answer: When covering the story one of the first things the BBC did was clear up the nickname.
posted by fire&wings at 5:09 PM on November 4, 2005

Response by poster: I'm not sure I buy it either, but until someone links and tells me otherwise, it's all I've got.
posted by SweetJesus at 6:01 PM on November 4, 2005

Best answer: The BBC article is correct but not complete; Libby's father gave him the nickname as an infant because he scooted around his crib and as a comparison to Phil Rizzuto of the Yankees.
posted by lambchop1 at 6:39 PM on November 4, 2005

It's a pretty common preppy nickname, by the way. I've known several Scooters.
posted by ikkyu2 at 6:41 PM on November 4, 2005

The real story: A bout of intestinal worms that went untreated for a summer when he was a kid.
posted by Good Brain at 9:17 AM on November 5, 2005

Piggy-back question now that the above question has been answered: why would anyone over 13 want to be called Scooter?
posted by deborah at 2:17 PM on November 5, 2005