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This will not stand. This will not stand, this aggression against Kuwait.

— President George H.W. Bush, 5 August 1990

In the opening scenes of The Big Lebowski, we see the dude walking around Ralph's, a convenience store, buying a pack of milk and paying with a cheque.
Behind the cashier, president George Bush sr. is seen on television, answering questions about the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. The fragment is from 5 August 1990.
Yet the cheque the Dude writes, is dated more than a year later: 11 September 1991.

So either the Dude postdated his cheque, or the fragment was a repeat.

Was that fragment routinely repeated, even over a year later? Or did the Dude postdate his cheque?

I'm asking this because of my other question, about how much time passes in the film.

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    This is discsussed on the IMDb goofs page, but the information there reads like speculation with no source.
    – GendoIkari
    Commented Aug 13, 2021 at 22:31
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    Considering the vast number of other chronological mistakes in the movie, including a scene with a 1997 calendar when the entire movie was supposed to take place during the Gulf War, I'd say it was merely another chronological goof.
    – Johnny Bones
    Commented Oct 24, 2022 at 14:11

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