White House seeking a retraction from NYT: Bush was 'on vacation in Texas'
Fri Feb 10 2006 09:46:25 ET
NEW YORK TIMES? Eric Lipton today writes that President Bush was ?on vacation in Texas? on August 30th but their own reporter filed a pool report that day from San Diego where POTUS giving a speech on the War on Terror and was visiting soldiers and families of the fallen. Sources tell DRUDGE that the original story filed by Lipton did not contain the sentence about Bush being on vacation and that it was added by an editor.
The White House is seeking a retraction.
Developing...
Pool Report #2 (from August 30, 2005)
Chaos briefly reigned. After conducting an interview with the Armed Forces
Radio and Television Service at a cargo plane hangar near the previous
event, President Bush arrived at the Naval Medical Center San Diego on
schedule, and proceded to the first event, a meeting with health care
providers that was supposed to last a half hour and include a photo op at
the bottom. Instead, moments after arrival, the pool was rushed to the door
and told the photo op would take place immediately. Then, just as suddenly,
it was canceled without explanation. Minutes later ? about an hour ahead of
schedule, and equally suddenly ? the pool was rounded up and rushed back to
the motorcade for departure. It is now 11:21 AM local time and we are
heading toward the airport. More to come.
Anne Kornblut
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