Mr. Bush Meets The Press: - Eric Alterman

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Mr. Bush Meets The Press:  I received this document, demonstrating the factual gap between President Bush’s claims on “Meet the Press” and the historical record, at 2:16 pm on Sunday afternoon, which shows you how serious the Center for American Progress is about countering the deceptive claims of the far-right (in this case represented by President Bush) within the confines of the 24 hour news cycle. 

Now do an experiment and see which of the major news accounts ignored the salient facts evidenced in this report.  They all got the e-mail, and so if they ignored its well-documented claims, that means they chose to misinform deliberately —or to allow President Bush to misinform deliberately— their readers and viewers.  They did so, no doubt, either because they were afraid to correct the president or because they took refuge in the rules of “objective journalism” which, after all, is agnostic about the truth or veracity of the official personage quoted.  (Just ask Joe McCarthy.)  My sense is that these rules are among the Bush/Cheney administration’s bestest friends.  Anyway, let me know what you can find.

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