Saturday, February 18, 2006
NY Times catches Bush telling the truth
Whatever happened to "the facts, just the facts"?...
On the PowerLine blog: "The Times Makes It Up, Catches Bush Telling the Truth"
"That was just a misleading headline. But Lipton made an outright misrepresentation just a few paragraphs later. In its original version, which I assume appeared in print this morning, his article said:
'But the alert did not seem to register. Even the next morning, President Bush, on vacation in Texas, was feeling relieved that New Orleans had 'dodged the bullet,' he later recalled."
"Only Bush was not on vacation in Texas. Lipton just made that part up. Actually, on the morning of August 30 he was in California, meeting with soldiers who were wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan. So the Times has done a sub silentio correction. The article now reads:
'But the alert did not seem to register. Even the next morning, President Bush was feeling relieved that New Orleans had 'dodged the bullet,' he later recalled."
"Just another hit-and-run by the Times."