WH lies again about how "Niger/Uranium" fable got in SOTU speech

[Liberal_Andy]

In March, they said '...As for the State of the Union address, a White House spokesman said, "all presidential speeches are fully vetted by the White House staff and relevant U.S. government agencies for factual correctness."'

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9011-2003Mar22.html

In today's Washington Post, the White House says, "...that at the time of the State of the Union speech, there was no organized system at the White House to vet intelligence, and the informal system that was followed did not work in the case of that speech. The White House has since established procedures for handling intelligence in presidential speeches by including a CIA officer in the speechwriting process."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25935-2003Dec23.html

Do they take us for rubes?

Rubes with no memory?

[w13rd0]

1. Yes, they do...

...what would be good is for someone to get the two quotes from the whitehouse website, in screenshots and fullpage saves, and put them side by side.

[Papa]

2. There were also some pictures at the white house website

showing bush, our great leader, going over the SOTU address "line by line" or some such nonsense.

Too bad most people don't rely on their own brain, they rely on the media to tell them what's important and not important. As long as Bush has the "left wing" media in his back pocket, it's obvious they will say and do anything they like.

If the media didn't make him crash and burn after uttering the UNSPINNALBE words "what's the difference?", you know damn well what's in store for us election 2004. We haven't seen anything yet.

[Liberal_Andy]

3. kick

:kick:

[RBHam]

4. Orwell wrote the script...

Rove but follows...

Some genius, all he has to do is put into action the advice of such noble, eminent thinkers as Machiavelli, Goebbels and Atwater.

The 'dumbing down' of America has been achieved, and the neo-conservative vultures who now control the reins of power know it, and will use it. over and over again, as long as they can get away with it.