[CLUE-Talk] Another Bush lie

[Jeff Cann]

On Wednesday 29 October 2003 9:38 pm, Don Collier wrote:
> If it comes from a top class site like mediahoresonline.com, it has to
> be true.

Sheesh - ever heard of google?

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&edition=us&q=mission+accomplished+banner+bush&btnG=Search+News

 "What (the president) said was that it was put up by the Navy, by people on 
board the ship and that was correct," his spokesman Scott McClellan said 
Wednesday.
 
 "It was an idea that was suggested by those on the ship as a way to honor the 
sailors and crew on board the USS Lincoln for accomplishing their mission."
 
He acknowledged however: "The Navy asked us to take care of the production of 
the banner."

Meaning, contrary to what Bush said previously, the White House produced the 
banner and the Navy pinned it up.

I guess not a lie but a half-truth?

It's interesting to me that only foreign news agencies quote Bush's spokesman, 
Scott McClellan.  The same quote above appears in these two daily news sites:

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world/view/54713/1/.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/10/30/wirq30.xml&sSheet=/portal/2003/10/30/ixportaltop.html

Yet, the AP story Zonker quoted on Yahoo! (and other places) does not quote 
McClellan's explanation that the Administration 'produced' the banner.

Must be that liberal media bias...