Kudos to the
Drudge Report
for tracking this one.
On Friday (9/3/04),
the Associated Press covered a President Bush campaign stop in West
Allis, Wisconsin. At the event, Bush informed the large crowd that
President Bill Clinton had been suddenly hospitalized. Bush added, "He
is in our thoughts and prayers. We send him our best wishes for a swift
and speedy recovery." However, an AP story about the event reported,
Bush's audience of thousands in West Allis, Wis., booed.
Bush did nothing to stop them.
What?! The
crowd booed bad news about Clinton? It turned out: No, it did not.
A few hours later, the AP
issued a
retraction. It then released a lame
"corrected" version of its story, in which the line cited
earlier was replaced with,
The crowd reacted with applause and with some "ooohs,"
apparently surprised by the news that Clinton was ill.
Why the retraction and
then the correction? Because
an
audio clip from the actual event (<-- listen!) clearly shows there was
no such booing at all!
Again. Here
is yet more evidence of the pro-Kerry bias in the
mainstream media.
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By the way, here is how
the Los Angeles Times reported events the next day (Saturday
September 4, 2004, p. A30):
Both President Bush and Kerry offered Clinton their best
wishes Friday.
"We just received news that President Clinton has been
hospitalized in New York," Bush said as a hush fell
over an otherwise raucous crowd in West Allis, Wis.
"He is in our thoughts and prayers. We send him our best
wishes for a swift and speedy recovery."
Bush also called Clinton from Air Force One to wish him
well, White House spokeswoman Claire Buchan said.
Kerry began a rally in Newark, Ohio, Friday afternoon by
telling the thousands gathered on the courthouse lawn that
Clinton was in the hospital.
"He's going to be fine," Kerry reassured them. "Every single
one of us wants to extend to him our best wishes, our
prayers and our thoughts. I want you all to let a cheer out
… that he can hear all the way to New York."
With that, the crowd broke into extended whoops,
cheers and applause.
Let's get this straight.
the Kerry crowd "broke into extended whoops, cheers and applause," but
the Bush audience ... they, uh ... well, they ... umm ...
Puh-leeze.
[** Update: Saturday, September 11, 2004
** ... As reported in a
WorldNetDaily article, the AP is not releasing the name of the
reporter who wrote the bogus report.]
TheMediaReport.com says ... Expect the
pro-Kerry fervor and bias to reach epic proportions in the final two
months.