Help please! Need examples/articles of BushCO rewriting history

[Stephanie]

Like when they changed the Mission Accomplished page at the WH website so the headline reads "Major" Combat Operations Ended, instead of just Combat Operations. Does anyone have a link for that?

And what about when they changed the search functions at the WH site so that you couldn't search for "Iraq" anymore? We had a lot of posts on that but I can't find an article.

Any others? Tried the Memory Hole but no search function yet. (hint, hint, George Soros!)

[zbdent]

1. One good one is the answers to "where was I when I heard"

At least three different versions of where he heard/saw about the first plane hit the tower. Including the one where he essentially claims to have seen it live, whereas the cameras weren't rolling on the towers until they were news.

[Stephanie]

2. Yeah! I wonder what his current version of that story is

I'm looking for the kind of heavy-handed propaganda they do - like switching to "weapons programs" as if that's what they were saying all along, and especially instances where they just wipe out sources of info or alter them to aid their propaganda campaign.

[central scrutinizer]

3. 1. White house vandalism

This happened the first week they were in - remember all of the missing W's on the keyboards, etc. Was later debunked by the GAO.

2. Claiming Air Force One was targeted on September 11 to hide the fact that Bush was cowering in a bunker in Omaha - later turned out to be made up.

3. Claiming that he promised during the campaign to raid social security only during war, national emergency, or disaster. This was the basis for his tasteless "trifecta" joke. But it was Gore who said this during the campaign. Bush never said it.

[ramblin_dave]

4. Andrew Card has tried to re-write history several times

Specifically to make it appear that Bush excused himself quickly from the classroom on the morning of 9/11 after Card told him of the second plane:

http://www.unansweredquestions.org/timeline/2002/msnbc090902.html

There was also an article that Card wrote on the first 9/11 anniversary that made the same attempt to re-write history.

Of course we know Bush did not excuse himself quickly, but remained seated an listened to the pet goat story.

[Lisa]

5. Bush's first election campaign ...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/campaigns/wh2000/stories/bush072999.htm


Four days before the runoff, Reese produced a copy of Bush's birth certificate and accused Bush of omitting the fact that he was born in New Haven. A Bush aide insisted it was an error of "punctuation" – not deliberate deception. The brochure had said: "Born July 6, 1946 and raised in Midland, Texas."

*note that in "Who's Who in America" Bush still doesn't list his birthplace -- though his parents and wife list theirs!

[nannygoat]

6. Here are some links, Stephanie...

http://www.ruminatethis.com/archives/001654.html

http://www.takebackthemedia.com/whitehouselies.html

http://www.2600.com/news/view/article/1803

http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/24014-1.html

http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/3105111

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/57493_means1.shtml

http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0718-06.htm

[DUreader]

7. The WhiteHouse.gov transcript of Condi subs 'inaudible' for ISI

As in Pakistani ISI, as in US officials being at a meeting with a guy

who gave the dupe/boogeyman M. Atta $100,000.

[buycitgo]

10. that's a GREAT one......nobody has ever known what I was talking about....

when I mention that one.

"ISI? what's THAT?"

"what did they have to do with anything?"

links to that would be greatly appreciated

[DUreader]

12. Sorry no link

but check

cooperativeresearch or wait a while, other duers have the links

[Stephanie]

8. Thanks everyone! All very good! Keep them coming!

This research is going into a good project a friend is working on - thanks so much for your help!

[buycitgo]

9. here's one they repeat over and over and over

Bush inherited the recession from WJC

he did NOT

by all recognized standards the recession began in March, 2001.

even though it really didn't matter when it began, as it would've happened under Gore, as well, the point is they LIE and LIE and LIE about it, in another cheap, cheesy attempt to turn every single matter of discussion in their favor.

they refuse to tell the truth, even in the smallest matters

here;s what the National Bureau of Economic Research, the "the official arbiter of recessions and expansions," had to say:

According to NBER's definition, the recession did not begin until after President Clinton left office. NBER's most recent "recession dating procedure" says, "A recession begins just after the economy reaches a peak of activity and ends as the economy reaches its trough." In other words, a recession begins as soon as the economy starts shrinking. And according to NBER, the economy peaked and started shrinking in March 2001, two months after the Bush presidency began. "The determination of a peak date in March is thus a determination that the expansion that began in March 1991 ended in March 2001 and a recession began in March." So according to NBER, the most recent recession did not start during the Clinton administration. (Nor did the expansion begin under Clinton; rather, it launched during President Bush the Father's term.)

more on this, including my favorite part...the kicker

The U.S. economy is a mighty, complex beast. And because it frequently takes a long time for economic perceptions to catch up with economic realities, politicians can exploit the idea of recession unfairly. Remember, even though the recession during the first Bush's term ended in March 1991, the perception that he wasn't sufficiently attentive to an ailing economy helped turn Bush out of office 18 months later. It can feel like a recession when an economy's growing and feel like the economy's growing when we're in a recession. That's all the more reason why people, especially presidents, should take care when throwing around such loaded terms.

The current President Bush is probably not conversant with NBER's "recession dating procedures." But it's a sure thing his economic and political advisers are. So shame on them for feeding him dishonest lines.

http://slate.msn.com/id/2076134/

have you EVER heard a pugshill, when discussing the economy, the recession in particular, NOT insist that they INHERITED the recession?

and have you EVER heard them corrected on this point?

I heard Ed Gillespie say this on Sunday, and George Stehpanopoulos just sat there, letting him get away with it. He could have called him on it, but that would be asking too much, wouldn't it?

[CBHagman]

11. McClellan repeated the "inherited recession" shtick.

Folks, the Bush White House is STILL repeating the "We inherited the recession line." I've personally heard it in the last week or so (I think it was during Scott McClellan's on-camera briefing).

Another Bush routine is CLAIMING CREDIT for things he opposed. He's done that a number of times concerning his record as governor in Texas. I seem to recall that Lou Dubose and Molly Ivins cover this in "Shrub: The Short but Happy Political Life of George W. Bush." That's worth picking up in paperback.

Amazingly, the bowing and scraping news media have frequently implied that it was Bush, not Joseph Lieberman, who first called for the creation of a Department of Homeland Security. Bush actually resisted the idea for months, then turned around and demanded that the department be created -- with provisions that would prevent employees from having the same kind of bargaining power that other government employees have. In other words, he wanted to strip potential employees of some of their power.

The administration made the differing approaches to the Department of Homeland Security a campaign issue, and of course people wouldn't have gone back and checked on who had what idea when, and what the nuances of the whole debate were. I think Max Cleland (D-GA) was literally trashed by his GOP opponent, the odious Saxby Chambliss, for having stood for a different version of Homeland Security. Cleland, a Vietnam veteran who lost three limbs in war, lost his seat in the Senate.

These people are SO (very bad word) evil.

[DUreader]

13. kick

[DUreader]

14. What was W*s verbal gaff at SOTU 2002 that Pubs edited for their ads?

?

[DUreader]

15. From Last Night "WMD related program activities"