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Tuesday, August 24, 2004

Relax:

Some people are concerned that some news outlets are mischaracterizing Bush's statements on Monday. Bush didn't condemn the Swift Boat ad, but headlines and some stories say that he did. (Bush would only go so far as to condemn all 527 ads.)

People who think Bush's bad character is exposed by his failure to specifically condemn the Swifties, don't like the inaccurate reporting (e.g. Josh Marshall). But the more important idea to get out there is that the Swifties are making false and libelous charges.

Get that out, and we can deal with Bush's character later.

posted by Quiddity at 8/24/2004 02:20:00 PM

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But he did condemn them:

QUESTION: When you say that you want to stop all...
BUSH: All of them.
QUESTION: So, I mean...
BUSH: That means that ad, every other ad.

And then they retracted the condemnation:

Q So can we assume that he's also denouncing the content of the ads?
MR. McCLELLAN: You've heard what he said -- he condemns all of the ads, Deb.

By Anonymous, at 8/24/2004 7:28 PM